<p>kevintech, I’m chemistry major (obviously) GPA is 3.7. I have already taken all general chems, organic chems, calc 1,2,3. IGETC will be completed by the time of transfer. </p>
<p>Problem: I will not be taking the 3 physics class required by UCLA and my last math DE.</p>
<p>EDIT: No TAP</p>
<p>I like your GPA. It’s above last year’s admitted average [3.5]. If you at least had one physics class, I’d say yes. Did you mention you’d take it in summer?</p>
<p>A friend of mine last year got into Chemistry with all of gchem, ochem, biochem, calc 1 and 2, not 3, and no physics + TAP with a 3.6.</p>
<p>My prediction for you: admitted.</p>
<p>kevintech:</p>
<p>man you made me happy for a minute there heh. Sounds like an admission decesion!</p>
<p>I’m thinking about taking the first physics maybe this summer but the problem is that I need to update them (admissions office) about it prolly and I don’t know how that works…If you know something about it, I will appreciate your help agian bro. </p>
<p>Thanks for your prediction! It seems like I have a good chance, according to your friend’s…</p>
<p>You all need to seriously chill out.</p>
<p>ahhahaha lostincode is freaked out.</p>
<p>anyways, here you are:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=37648&page=103[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=37648&page=103</a></p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=57634&page=4[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=57634&page=4</a></p>
<p>but lostincode, i’ve seen you around (i’ve been around for awhile too, but on another account) for awhile now, this should be nothing new.</p>
<p>I Don’t See It Where Is It?!?!?!?!</p>
<p>is that a joke?</p>
<p>Looking at Blackdream’s posts, having a 4.0 and getting rejected at UCLA, but accepted at UCB and UCSD, reminds me of something. A counselor from UCB once told me that the UCs overall try to admit you to at least one of their schools from the options you checked off on the app, assuming you checked more than one.</p>
<p>That would kind of mean that the individual UCs are somehow in collusion. Anyone know of something that might indicate that-- for instance, UCB saying, “This kid got into UCR so we really don’t need to consider him”?</p>
<p>Come to think of it, I actually did NOT apply to certain UCs for that reason. It would really suck though, not to get into UCLA or UCB simply because I checked off, say, UCM or UCR.</p>
<p>This has been discussed before, but I don’t think they would go to the trouble of doing that. I have plenty of friends that were accepted to both UCLA and UCB. Many members here have said that they too have friends that were accepted at UCLA/UCB. I also frequently see people accepted at ALL UC’s.</p>
<p>I would feel confident in putting this rumor in the myth category.</p>
<p>Affirmitive action is illegal in public institutions, but hey, when they’re scoring an essay talking about all the racism and hardships one has faced as a member of the Northern Kazakhstanian community, it’s hard for a school to be unbiased considering that their aim is to increase representation of URMs!</p>
<p>Thanks, walnut!</p>
<p>UCSD: “ACT applications are currently experiencing unusually high usage.
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<p>Unfortunately, there was a very serious family issue for me this past month, and it caused me to drop one of my honors courses. This now means that I will NOT have (TAP) finished by the end of this spring. I have emailed UCLA and let them know of the situation. Does anyone know if they’ll still look at my application as a normal applicant, or am I done?</p>
<p>Wow. That is an interesting situation. Would it have made more sense to drop it after they make their decisions?</p>
<p>You have a 3.3 gpa right? Linguistics and Phil. major? That appears to be a borderline GPA where TAP would have helped. Are you planning to inform the honors coordinator at your school?</p>
<p>3.4
political science
all pre-reqs done
IGETC
good essays blah blah</p>
<p>those are my stats…</p>
<p>I spoke to my counselor and even to a UCLA rep that visits our campus, and they both said to notify UCLA immediately. I asked them the same question I’m asking here, but they both had very vague answers. “I’m not sure if they’ll still look at you” etc.</p>
<p>In the email I wrote to UCLA, I specifically mentioned exactly what happened and the circumstances for me dropping the class. It’s very personal, but I guess I don’t mind sharing here. My mom passed away three weeks ago, and so school wasn’t exactly the first thing on my mind…</p>
<p>Anyway…we’ll just have to wait and see I guess…</p>
<p>diamondprynzez said earlier that, "race can be used in admissions as a factor, as long as it’s not THE DECIDING FACTOR. "</p>
<p>That’s not true. That’s what the US supreme court decided when a man named Allan Bakke sued to gain admission to the UC Davis Medical School in 1978, but Proposition 209 was in 1996 and affected the California constitution.</p>
<p>It’s true that it’s illegal for public universities in California to consider race as a factor, but they still maintain URM percentages through other means. </p>
<p>For example, if a certain minority has a statistically lower average household income, then favoring lower income applicants would give advantage to certain ethnicities, but does not go so far as to target certain ethnicities.</p>
<p>Personally, I think affirmative action based on race is wrong. Instead, they should focus on household income and parental education, since that’s what the main argument for affirmative action really is. </p>
<p>The only valid reason for doing affirmative action solely on race would be if intelligence and academic capabilities differed by race. If that is not true, then two people in the same neighborhood, with parents possessing the same academic history, having the same income, with identical economic and social factors should not have difference chances based solely on the color of their skin.</p>
<p>Sorry about your mom Coast. :(</p>
<p>no, that’s not the Bakke decision, and it’s not what I was referring to. It was a more recent decision, in '03 involving U Mich… Gratz vs Bollinger, and Grutter vs Bollinger.</p>
<p>That involves Michigan, not California, and makes no difference on the effects of on Prop 209.</p>