UC's do not read college application essays

mom2collegekids
Fri, 11 Nov 2011 23:13:50 +0000

Lottie… questioning whether something else might be occurring is not advice.

Maybe there are laws that ensure that even the UC applicants whose stats don’t meet the magic 3.0 benchmark must ALL have their essays read. If so, I’d like to see them.

FYI… The above isn’t advice either.

If this was true, then people with high GPA and SAT and decent EC’s would not get rejected

Not necessarily.

*From talking about it with a friend’s older sibling who works for the UC system, it’s the sort of thing where the combined GPA/SAT score automatically earns you consideration (NOT the same thing as admission), and then once you qualify as a potential applicant, they sort down that pool of applicants by reading through their essays. *

Maybe, unless there is a law that states that even the ones who don’t meet the minimum GPA (or maybe the minimum req’d courses) still must have their essays read.

(oh, and this isn’t advice, either.)