<p>I’m going to visit UCLA pretty soon and I set up a meeting with the head professor of the environmental program they have there. I really want to make a good impression since my grades aren’t quite up to par (i’m pretty close though). So I was wondering what type of questions I could ask to give him the impression that I’m really serious about UCLA; and I really am…I’m just not really good at phrasing things…</p>
<p>sry, the prof is not an adcom</p>
<p>I don’t think visiting will do you any good.</p>
<p>speaking to a professor has no effect on your admissions decision. Also, speaking to admissions has no effect on your admissions. The only thing that affects your decision is your GPA, SAT/ACT, and your essay.</p>
<p>sorry, not professor…he’s the academic advisor…does that make a difference?</p>
<p>seriously doubt it, its a public school.</p>
<p>sorry but you’re in for a rude awakening if you’re only doing this because you think it’ll give you any advantage in an admission</p>
<p>Unfortunately no. You get in by merit.</p>
<p>jyancy:
sorry to disappoint you in any way, shape or form…but i am, by no means, visiting UCLA just to give me an advantage. i’m not that uninformed. i merely wanted to make a good impression in case i do get in.
and yahooo:
thanks</p>
<p>although i must say, i appreciate your bluntness ^.^</p>
<p>Your very welcome 
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<p>Good luck by the way. I remember how stressful it was for me last year.</p>
<p>woah…i have no idea how i missed all those other comments…but thanks for replying. =)</p>
<p>Nope… for instance, the UC application will not even accept recommendation letters. In the instance that you were applying to more specialized departments with supplementals required for admissions (example: art major, architecture, film, theatre, music…) it would help. If anything, if you want to allude to your experiences as an intellectual or someone with those particular interests, go ahead and cite your experiences then. Realize, though, it might not be the difference but will at least show interest. IMO, it’s the best you can do.</p>
<p>Showing interest wont help either, in my opinion. In fact, most likely, the person will forget about you by the end of the week. People, and esp. professors/administrators deal with thousands of people/students at UCLA everyday. Thats what sucks about the public school system…</p>
<p>Well, it certainly won’t hurt…</p>
<p>sorry… i can only infer your intentions from your original and follow-up post…</p>
<p>if you are doing this to try to make an impression, sadly myothersn is right and I wouldn’t even give it a week- you’ll most likely be forgotten by the end of that same day amongst all the things he undoubtedly has to do and all the current students he has/will meet</p>
<p>at least you can now go stress-free into your meeting w/o worrying about making any impressions regarding admissions and just talk about the subject matter</p>
<p>yeah I think those meetings are more used to gave you information and impress students that doesn’t have UCLA as their number 1 school, the people meeting you is ready to gave you information not getting information about you…</p>
<p>that’s true. and jyancy, sorry if i came off kind of rude…it was late…and my dad was nagging…not exactly the best combo if you know what i mean. -.-"</p>
<p>and thank you guys so much for telling me all this information. it was really detailed and i really appreciate it. =)</p>