Berkeley admits their Regents scholarship candidates early and has them interview for the scholarship.
For a few years, UCLA notified some students that they were candidates for Regents and asked them to complete a written application with essays. They notified those students in February, but did not admit them until March.
UCLA stopped the early notification and second application a couple of years ago. Now they award Regents based on a student’s UC application.
May be there is logic behind the madness. To me, the process is still a black box mystery.
Regents is a need based scholarship correct? Meaning if you aren’t eligible for aid then you aren’t a candidate for it?
Regents is merit based. However, there is a range for how much a student receives. That range can be related to need.
** All Regents Scholars are considered for a $2,000 honorarium regardless of financial need.*
** If a Regents Scholar has additional financial needs beyond the $2,000, the scholar will be awarded a university scholarship and/or grants to cover the remainder of the scholar’s need.*
Imagine, 146,000 people apply to UCLA. sub 10% acceptance and they pick 75 students for Regent. I wish I could be a fly in that room.
I have a student who received an early notification and invite to apply for Regents in 2020. In my opinion, by that point, students are burnt out on writing essays. The Regents application came out around the same time the Alumni Assoc Scholarship application came out, so there were essays on top of essays.
Totally my opinion, but I think the early notification was an effort to keep top students engaged and focused on UCLA. It came out within a day or two of Berkeley’s early notification. In reality, the “we like you but we won’t tell you that until March” was kind of a flop.
When the students were finally admitted, it was very difficult and convoluted to find out if they got the scholarship. Several days later, a Regents rejection letter arrived in the mail. The wording in that letter was a huge turn off. It was obvious that the UCLA enrollment management department was not involved in drafting that letter.
Edit to add that this was in 2020.
The 3ft by 5ft Bruin flag is on the way, regardless you SIR’ed or not.
I think the notification to apply was around the time of admission in 2022. But I know that actual offers didn’t come until the 25th of April. I think the delay that year may have been exceptional.
For some the priority enrollment and guaranteed housing might be the biggest perk. Although those are probably a bigger issue at Cal.
Edited to add:
Existing UCLA regents scholars send personalized mail to encourage the awardees to take the offer. That seemed rather nice.
@jayku. A friends son is graduating UCLA business/econ. He has a job lined up making 200K starting. He is doing well. Has had internships during his summers. I think it’s a good major.
Thank you for confirming that. I really was concerned because students in reddit complained about this.
Still no regent news? Should I move on and dream on Alumni scholarship 
I’m wondering the same. Was told last year it was 10 days after decisions came out.
Activities and Courses you took
Can you give me the details on these programs:
Research academy sponsored by one of the UC SoMed then served as peer advisor (2 years)
Research Youth reviewer for one of the UC SoM (2 years)
Thanks
WWhat were extracurricular activities related to and non-related to the major?
My daughter was in a biomed academy and would often get opportunities thru her school. I think during COVID, they had given out virtual opportunities for the kids to learn about STEM so she signed up for it through UC Davis. After the first session, she was asked to be a peer advisor for the subsequent groups. The program advisor recommended her for this UC Davis Young Adult and Adolescent Research review board. I’m not sure what the work is exactly, but I think they read research and are asked to give input on how to design the plan in a way that would drive engagement and compliance if action steps from research was brought to life thru young adults lens. And sometimes there’s input on the design itself. Something like that. I think it’s likely available across all the UCs from what I understood.
None. My daughter’s BFF is valedictorian and has gotten Regents at other UCs, as has my daughter, so, I would assume at min, the valedictorian would’ve gotten something, but neither have heard. Either it’s late or there is a ton of even more qualified kids who were offerred, which wouldn’t surprise me.
D24 Accepted/Environmental Science
GPA: 3.75 unweighted, 4.5 weighted, 4.3 UC weighted
ELC Top 9 percent: Yes
APs/Dual Enrollment: private school that doesn’t offer APs but took AP Chem (4)
ACT: 34 (not relevant for UCs obvi)
Awards/Extracurriculars: top 10 in US in a non-recruited sport, numerous international, national and regional level championships
Results:
Accepted: UCLA, UCB, UCSD, UCSB, UCSC, UCM, University of Michigan, GWU
Waitlisted: University of Chicago, UCI, BU
Rejected: Yale, Harvard, USC, NYU, Georgetown
Hello, can the student start the housing application on the UCLA portal before submitting his SIR?
Need to SIR to access the Housing application.