Admissions Blog

The Waiting Game?

By now all of you prospective fall 2007 freshman have submitted your online UC applications. And thus begins the waiting game--or so you might think. There are plenty of important steps to take from now to the end of March 2007 when you receive your UCLA application decision. Here's one essential step: you need to send your official SAT and/or ACT test scores directly to UCLA via the testing service so that they reach our office by January 31, 2007.

And although all you may feel like doing is playing PS3 or Wii, or maybe just staring at the twinkly holiday lights, your application is not yet complete until you have received final grades in all of your courses during this academic year. We look at whether or not our applicants maintain their level of academic performance before they come to UCLA. So keep your fingers on the keyboard, your pencils on the Scantron, and your sights set on UCLA. Just think about how beautiful the spring will be.

Justine Checks In.

Welcome to my blog! I’m Justine Schroeder, Senior Editor for UCLA Undergraduate Admissions and Relations with Schools (UARS), where I normally write and edit the print publications for prospective undergraduates. Each week, I will be blogging about an important undergraduate admissions topic, and I hope to point you in useful and intriguing ways through our Web site as you work through the application and admissions process. I will periodically invite my co-workers (he-ey, co-workers!) in Undergraduate Admissions to be guest bloggers when their expertise trumps mine. Please note that this blog represents the opinions of its writers, and not the opinion of UCLA or any its affiliates. (Whew!)

A little about me: I am an alumna of UCLA, class of 2001: I majored in psychology and minored in Italian, lived in Dykstra Hall and in Saxon Suites, ate in the residential restaurants, went to football games, worked out in the Wooden Center, studied abroad through EAP, and participated in oodles of extracurricular activities. But because I graduated five years ago, I will occasionally ask current students to guest blog about campus life.