Did You Know?

As Daniel Fogg mentioned in his blog entry, 99% of the students who applied to UCLA did so online. Applying to the UC has never been easier than it is now; one online application can be submitted to any or all of the UC campuses of the applicant's choice at once. Way back when I was applying to the UC (November 1999), we had to do everything on paper, but it was still nice to be able to fill out just one application to apply to several great universities. However, it wasn't always that easy. Journey with me if you will back to 1986. Ronald Reagan was president, Greg Lemond became the first American to win the Tour de France, and our freshman applicants probably weren't born yet. 1986 was also the first year that students were allowed to apply to multiple to UC campuses at once. Prior to 1986, students submitted applications only to their first-choice campus. If the students were not granted admission, their applications may have been forwarded to a different campus in need of applications. Otherwise, students would have had to attend universities outside of the UC system. This change in UC policy resulted in almost twice as many students applying to UCLA in 1986 than had applied in 1985. And the numbers have kept growing and growing ever since!

Comments

[Tom]

Stacy

We are here in Korea and are wondering if my daughter should have heard anything back from ucla (other uc schools have sent email with logins and such) about her fall 2007 app.

Thanks

Tom

[Stacy Redd]

Hi Tom,

Thanks for writing! Your daughter should not have heard anything from UCLA just yet. If she is applying as a freshman, she'll receive her decision in late March. If she's applying as a transfer, she'll hear from us in late April. We'll be posting useful information for international students in the next few months, so please keep checking back here!

-Stacy

[AG]

Hi,

I have applied to the UCLA School of Nursing, and did receive an email in December from the Nursing School confirming receipt of my supplemental application. That email also said that I would hear about an admission decision by April.

However, I was wondering: should I have received a UCLA login id from the UCLA Admissions Office? I have received such a login id from all other UCs that I have applied to.

Thank you!

[Stacy Redd]

Hello,

You will not receive an official logon per se, but you can visit www.admissions.ucla.edu/decision to check on your admission status at UCLA. You will need the following information to login:

Last Name

Application ID

Date of Birth

City of Birth

Hope this helps!

[Future applicant]

I understand that UCLA looks at the number of A-G courses that I have taken or plan to take through the 12th grade.

What can I do if I've finished taking the A-G courses that I'm interested in at my school? As a junior, I'm taking required PE + 5 courses (including 3 AP), but the remaining courses that I could take in my school are not UC approved. It's going to be a similar situation in my senior year. If I take a class or two this summer at a community college, that still won't count towards my A-G total.

The way it looks right now, I've got 12 A-G semester credits each in my freshman and sophomore years, and expect 10 semester credits each in my junior and senior year, giving me a total of 44 A-G semester credits. That leaves me short of the UCLA average.

How can I make my application competitive with those who are taking more A-G courses through their school?

[Stacy Redd]

Hi, thanks for writing.

Regarding the A-G requirement: it's important that you meet the minimum amount of A-G courses for UC eligibility, but there are lots of ways to stay competitive for admission besides taking a high amount of A-G courses. Taking AP, IB, Honors or community college courses is another way to stay competitive academically.

Additionally, we do understand that different high schools offer different kinds of courses, and we evaluate students within the context of the opportunities that are available to them.

[Future applicant]

Hi Stacy,

Could someone from the Admissions Office please answer my question about A-G courses, which was posted on February 26.

Thank you!

Future applicant

[Alice]

Hi, my friend said that he already got a letter from UCLA, saying that he got admitted. (I thought that we would not know until mid-late March) Has UCLA already begun sending out admission letters? I'm dying to know! :)

[Stacy Redd]

Hi Alice,

I'm not sure what letter your friend received, but it was not an official admissions notification. That letter will come directly from our office (UCLA Undergraduate Admissions and Relations with Schools) at the end of March.

Thanks for writing!
-Stacy

[Abe]

I went to the link you mentioned above: www.admissions.ucla.edu/decision

It does not provide a login area or link.

At the bottom of the page it says "†Decisions for the fall term will be sent out via regular mail and will also be available on our online decision site."

Can you please let me know the link to this "online decision site".

Thanks

[Marisela]

Abe,

The URL Stacy posted is correct. However, the decision site will be open once our decisions our ready, which will be in the end of March.

[Alex]

The rumor circulating about now is that UCLA posts admission decisions starting tomorrow online and the official documents come in the mail. Is this true?

Thanks,
Alex

[Anna]

I received a letter (on UCLA Arts letterhead) stating that the UCLA Academic Senate Committee on Honors, Awards and Prizes is reviewing my application for the 07-08 Regents Scholarship. I did not apply (nor was I invited) for the scholarship. Can you tell me what this is?

Thank you
Anna

[Stacy Redd]

Hi Anna-

The Regents Scholarship is not actually affiliated with our office, but you can visit the UCLA Financial Aid website to learn more: www.fao.ucla.edu/regents.htm. Here’s a quick overview about the Scholarship, from the Financial Aid Office website:

“The Regents Scholarship Program was established by the Regents of the University of California in 1962, and represents one of the highest honors awarded to a student at the University. Regents scholarship recipients are selected on the basis of demonstrated academic excellence, leadership and exceptional promise. Although the Financial Aid Office administers the Regents Scholarship Program on the UCLA campus, financial need is not used as a criterion in the selection process.”

-Stacy

[Garrett]

Earlier this year, UCLA released that they were adopting a more 'holistic' approach to reviewing their applicaitions. What exactly does this mean and to what extent does it change the process?

[Stacy Redd]

Hi Garrett,

If you would like to learn more about the new holistic admissions policy, please visit: http://www.admissions.ucla.edu/prospect/adm_fr/FrSel.htm. Here, you can learn why the policy was adopted and how it works.

-Stacy

[Garrett]

Does your admissions process require only two reviewees to review a single application and base thier responses to be either a rejection or acceptance? Or how many times are the applications reviewed until there is a final decision?

[Stacy Redd]

Hi Garrett-

Those are two very complicated questions and I will try to answer them without giving you more information than you actually want.

Regarding your first question, the Fall 2007 Admissions Policy states, "After independently reading and analyzing a file, the reader determines a comprehensive score that is the basis upon which the student is ultimately admitted or denied." So no, the readers do not give admit or deny recommendations, rather comprehensive scores which are used in making admit or deny decisions.

In response to your second question, there is no one answer, but all applications are read at least twice before an admissions decision is made.

Hope that answers your questions.

-Stacy

[Garrett]

So do you think that if I continue to drink everyday from my 'UCLA' mug for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, I MAY have a better chance in getting accepted?

[ramesh]

Hi, I received a letter from the Henry Samulei School of Engineering regarding their recommendation for my admission. In that letter, it states that I will be "receiving a formal letter of acceptance" in the near future from the office of admissions. It also says that they are able to guarantee on-campus housing.
Can someone please tell me if they have also received this letter and what it actually means?
Thanks

[janelle]

ramesh,
A lot of my friends have gotten the same letter. According to our AP Gov teacher who used to be on the admissions committee, the engineering school is allowed to save a certain number of slots in admissions for engineering students, so they have input and have chosen who they want to accept. The letter basically means "you're in." Congratulations.

Stacy, I heard a rumor that the decisions come out today at 5 pm, is that true?

[Stacy Redd]

Ramesh and Janelle:
Official UCLA admissions decisions only come from our office. While I can neither confirm nor deny any rumors as to exactly when decisions will be released, I can tell you it will be sometime soon. Good luck to all of you!
-Stacy

[Grace]

Hi Stacy
I have a question on appeals. Do we send in stuff like the newest awards we have won and something we experienced after the application or just the wrong grades, if there were any, on our application. I really REALLy want to go to UCLA...its been my dream school since 8th grade. So please help me out!!

[Stacy Redd]

Hi Grace,

I accidentally replied to your post on the "Not Admitted" thread--please go there to see my response.

-Stacy

[chris]

Stacy,

How many readers review the transfer applications? Also, if it is to an impacted program, is the application forwarded to the faculty before a decision is made? Thanks.