UC's do not read college application essays

NCdukie
Sat, 05 Nov 2011 14:08:38 +0000

From what I’ve seen from previous UC admits, their scores/GPA’s didn’t necessarily perfectly conform as would be expected with admissions… I have to concur with fall2016 parent on this one.

Also, my cousin worked in UCLA admissions (on an ad.com) for a year, and he said essays aren’t nearly as important as ECs/GPA/Standardized Testing but they truly do matter. He even told me about some of the best and worst essays he read – so that goes to say something. I can only speak for UCLA, but I assume the same goes for other UC’s.

It seems reasonable that there are exceptions for carefully reading the essay (take an example of someone with stats far far far below the standard which would just be pointless to read the essays of).