UCLA Fall 2015 Applicant - Chance Me

lbrinkop
Sun, 02 Aug 2015 15:48:21 +0000

Hello, I’m a current incoming freshman at UCLA and so I know a lot about how stressful your senior experience can
be! It’s important for you to know that nothing guarantees admission to UCLA, high test scores are a positive, but they won’t give you an easy road to acceptance. It seems like you are definitely on the right track to become a well-qualified candidate, but you need to take the ACT! If you feel that your SAT is low (especially as an OOS), you should try the ACT as you might find it easier as I did. Your extracurriculars are spot on and you seem very involved! UCLA looks for well-rounded students so that’s a definite plus for you! To be honest, I wouldn’t really bring up where you went to school, I don’t think it will help/hurt you, it just isn’t relevant for acceptance. I graduated from a high school in the Central Valley in one of the poorest counties in California, and did not bring it up in the application. You don’t want to seem like you deserve acceptance based on where you went to school. In your case, you don’t want seem elitist and deserving of acceptance because you went to a well-ranked high school. I don’t think that will go over well in a public school setting, maybe private schools though! The UC system wants to accept a wide range of students from all walks of life, so maybe talk more about yourself than the highly-ranked high school you went to! If you plan to major into the College of Letters and Sciences, then your major is NOT impacted and will not influence your acceptance/rejection decision. If you plan to apply as a nursing, engineering, or architecture major then don’t even waste your time applying to UCLA, you won’t even get waitlisted. Also, you should really consider applying to in-state schools as well. You might realize that the cost of an OOS is really too much. As a California resident, the UC system is more affordable and caters towards students across the state before any OOS students. I’m not saying you shouldn’t apply to OOS schools, just make sure you have a wide range of options to pick from. Hope this helps and good luck!