I appreciate kids who put major over school. That’s the right play. Study what you want. Why go somewhere four years and not study what you want ?
Best of luck to your student wherever she lands.
That’s what I have been wondering! My daughter has multiple interests so the College of Letters & Sciences so seemed to make sense. Then she can minor in theater and/or do the Hooligans Theater club program.
She just really wanted this campus (loved her visit and her brother goes to ucla) so I suggested she apply not to TFT and instead to the general College.
Now that she was not accepted I am wondering if that was a mistake. Perhaps some programs in TFT are impossible to get and others aren’t? Espp as her interest is in nonaudition nonBFA theatre arts design
Also she juggles tons (like tons & tons of hours every week) of dance and theater and AP homework so they wasn’t much time in the week to prepare college theater portfolios as all the focus was on the main college apps and the supplements and a few theater design portfolios (Irvine & UCSD)
We had it all planned out that her first choice would be TFT and the second choice would be History but then it turned out that UCLA did not accept a back up major this year which was a surprise
But I got confused looking at acceptance rates and I do wonder if History and theater design are similar rates of acceptance?
Also she applied to nonaudition Theater Arts to lots of other UC & CSU and has been accepted at all of them. as she is interested in theater design not a musical theater BFA.
Also she is a more mellow artistic intellectual quirky type theater kid and honestly to be in a world class professional school like TFT I think intimidates her. I can see her being super happy with the Hooligans student theater program. (If she gets in off waitlist)
Bc theater can be done in productions.
Doesn’t need to be the major.
My teen has lots of interests in what to major in.
The school of TFT is world renowned and very difficult to get a spot in.
If some majors of equal interest accept at 15% and others accept at 1-3% -and- if accepted the student run theater program is totally amazing and the TFT minor then becomes available, then I think our strategy made sense.
But I’m not sure as the PIQs and ECs speak to Theater and not History.
I’m just second guessing it all now as it’s ended in Waitlist and all the Theater applications have been acceptances. But all the acceptances are not UCLA School of TFT. I do think we got mixed up, like the TV and Film are probably lower chances than Theater Arts design.
We asked her counselor and she said she thought TFT is harder than even the published acceptance numbers in that it is a self selecting group of the most talented auditioners and actors in the world
We are from a city with a more alternative and artsy theater scene- no interest in the highly competitive Hollywood theater scene
Being a part of the amazing theater club program and TFT theater design minor would be fantastic. We will see if the Waitlist pans out.
Re History major, that was the second choice major at every other UC/CSU. So for UCLA it was just flipped to History as first choice when she saw last minute that UCLA was only accepting one choice this year. Also due to more extensive TFT supplemental application process.
Accepted in state for Poli Sc.
4.0/4.5 - 12 APs (7 5’s, 5 In-progress) + DEs
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My son was accepted and has committed for the fall. He found a program he really wants to do called summer pathways that sounds similar to Cal Poly’s Q+ that his brother did and loved. Does anyone know anything about it?
will I get rescinded?
I got accepted into ucla and ucsd
however, two days ago I checked my UC application and realized i made three mistakes all by accident
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I didn’t include ap bio as senior year course, I got an A first semester
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I didn’t include ap csa as a junior year course, I got A both semesters
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I mislabeled APUSH as AP world in my junior year, when I had already taken AP world as a sophomore. I got an A in both semesters of APUSH and AP World
I correctly labeled the AP Exams I’m taking/took, I’m planning to take ap bio this spring and got 5s on both AP csa and APUSH last spring as indicated on my application.
I know it was extremely stupid of me to make these mistakes and I genuinely don’t know how it happened
So I think you need to work on focusing.
But you got in without mentioning AP Bio - so taking it isn’t going to hurt you.
You did not mention a class - AP CSA and still got in. So how is that going to hurt you?
Not sure what your third point is - but you took the class regardless - and another.
So why would you get rescinded. You did what you said - and more.
But that’s awfully sloppy. How will you be when you have truly important things in life to submit?
If you struggle with organization, you might seek professional help via a medical professional….or just someone who can help organize your thoughts.
Congrats and good luck.
No, you will not be rescinded but send an update with the corrections to admissions before submitting your final transcript.
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I see, thank you. I genuinely don’t know how it happened, all the other applications I’d done around that time (common app ea/csu) don’t have these mistakes, I think I changed my UC app for some reason last minute in confusion because of the low sleep I had submitting these applications. but regardless, it doesn’t matter.
Although the new information isn’t bad (perhaps good, even, for my Berkeley appeal) I was just a little frightened because my application wasn’t entirely accurate which I thought maybe could be grounds for being rescinded.
I noticed the UCSD application doesn’t really have an update form as does UCLA, so I submitted my situation as a question in their contact us form for undergraduate admissions (I did this for UCLA also, along with the update form). I also emailed their undergraduate office, is this sufficient?
UCLA is pretty responsive so hopefully they get back to you before May 1.
For UCSD, email admissions and explain the mistakes. UCSD admissions tends to be vague and normally will not give you an answer until they review your final transcripts if you decide to enroll.
As long as you have notified both campuses of the mistakes and now both the application and transcripts match, it should be fine. Instances where the student is rescinded have been based on not including courses with subpar grades such as multiple C’s or a D or F. In your case, you have A’s and was accepted without reporting those grades so I do not believe this will be an issue.
Lesson learned, review thoroughly before submitting and check again after submission with fresher eyes.
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they got back to me today and I wasn’t rescinded, updating for anyone in the future in a similar predicament
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As I noted up front, you didn’t not do things.
You did more rigor and didn’t inform.
Of course you weren’t going to be rescinded. That was never a possibilty.
But work on focus and best of luck.
Thank you for updating. Best of luck at UCLA.