UCLA does not do early admits. All decisions are posted in March.
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My guess is so they can put together financial aid packages with acceptance letters? Several schools my D24 applied to had EARLY scholarship deadlines… for example December 1 for Vanderbilt scholarship consideration but RD app wasn’t technically due until Jan 1 and we won’t hear either way until March.
2 years ago my son did not receive the scholarship email and we worried for months. He got in! Go Bruins.
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The logic is that alumni volunteers read the applications, starting immediately after decisions are issued in mid-March (so applications from waitlisted/rejected applicants can be discarded).
They need to make the offers of funding to selected candidates by early April (before Bruin Day), so awardees can take that into account in their SIR decision (it helped to convince my S18 who won a scholarship to pick UCLA over UCB).
There’s not enough time in that 3 week window to ask students to submit applications after admission and then get alumni together to read, shortlist and make decisions.
And it can be worth a strong applicant spending time on an application if they have something to say that will get them picked out of the pile. $6000 is not that much but it’s still 10% off instate tuition and a not terrible return per hour: 6 hours of work means even a 1% chance of winning would yield an expected $10 per hour (and that’s the average amongst all admitted students since there are 100+ scholarships to hand out). But for a weak writer with little to say, it isn’t worthwhile.
For those wondering, there are quite a number of these non-need based scholarships of several thousand dollars each at UCLA, my S was able to pick up several in addition to the Alumni scholarship, including $2500 for study in DC and $6000 for senior year as an undergraduate research scholar, and get paid $15/hour for helping on a research project. All are very competitive, as are many opportunities at UCLA, so you might think it’s worth starting now.
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When you apply, they ask if you allow them to share your info with third parties. It could be that those who didn’t receive the email opted out of sharing their information.
Submitting the application
You’ll go through a few pages asking you to confirm your academic information and whether you’d like to share your application information with certain people or groups (e.g. scholarship agencies, parents/guardians, counselors, etc.).
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Generally on which day are UCLA decisions released ?
Historically decisions have been posted the third Friday in March at 5 PM PST.
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My daughter got the scholarship email from UCLA last week. Then got one from UCSD the next day. But for UCLA she doesn’t seem to even qualify for any of the scholarships except for maybe one.
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I think this may have been answered previously but does the engineering department admit by major or is it to the whole engineering school?
Engineering admits by major.
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Does the College of Letters and Science admit by major or just the college? TIA
College of Letters and Sciences admits by College and the admit rate for 2023 was 11% for the College.
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Hello.
I found out thar scholarship application email today in junk. Can someone explain step by step? We have to go to application?
Are you the parent? If so, your student should read through the email. The instructions are in the email.
https://prospective-ugstudents-ucla.academicworks.com/opportunities/622
Your email is a bit different from us.
My son’s email came from financial aid office. And also i have my daughter’s 2 years ago.( she became waitlist , i doubt she didn’t apply?) Because she got the likely letter from other private school.
My daughter’s 2022
My son’s.
What you have is the same one we got originally.
You get the next email once you submit the two essays and officially apply for the scholarship.
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Yes. But why our content is different? It worried me. Did you get other email for applying financial aid email yesterday? They continue to send emails about academic and explore email. One more , do you write essays ?
You have to complete the scholarship application before you will get the next email.
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Thank you for letting me know. Have a nice night.
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My son received this last year. he felt that he didn’t have any additional information to share so he just added his senior year first semester grades. His GPA was already 4.89(weighted) and 3.8 unweighted, so I don’t think grades were an issue. Since he didn’t write anything further about himself and was still accepted I have no idea why they would have sent this request. Berkeley didn’t send this request, and he was accepted there as well.
Is there a reason they don’t simply state why they are sending these?
It would make a lot more sense to let the students know exactly what information they would like students to include, instead of adding to their college application anxieties.