UCLA decisions out

[Anonymous]

There are private school students who get in without APs and with less than 4.0s. I know some from last year (admitted with a 3.7 or similar from very top private). So they do seem to read some applications under a different lens than the main BUNCH. (i.e. they pull them out from being discarded by an auto GPA cut-off)
I don't know how this happens exactly.

oops. "Bunch", not bench.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:In. Loudoun County.

I forgot to mention — 3.93 weighted, 1150 SAT. 8 or 9 APs. Basic white girl.

She won’t go — attending more affordable VT instead.

This was the last one. She did very well — in everywhere she applied except Tennessee where waitlisted.

I’m sure she isn’t. Be better.

I think this is the basic white girl who also got into UVA and other prestigious schools despite the uncompetitive stats.

It’s clearly a troll trying to show there isn’t actually a bias against white kids

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In. Loudoun County.

I forgot to mention — 3.93 weighted, 1150 SAT. 8 or 9 APs. Basic white girl.

She won’t go — attending more affordable VT instead.

This was the last one. She did very well — in everywhere she applied except Tennessee where waitlisted.

I’m sure she isn’t. Be better.

I think this is the basic white girl who also got into UVA and other prestigious schools despite the uncompetitive stats.

It’s clearly a troll trying to show there isn’t actually a bias against white kids

I'm pp and there is not a bias against white kids, but that poster is definitely a troll hitting all the threads.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In. Loudoun County.

I forgot to mention — 3.93 weighted, 1150 SAT. 8 or 9 APs. Basic white girl.

She won’t go — attending more affordable VT instead.

This was the last one. She did very well — in everywhere she applied except Tennessee where waitlisted.

I’m sure she isn’t. Be better.

I think this is the basic white girl who also got into UVA and other prestigious schools despite the uncompetitive stats.

It’s clearly a troll trying to show there isn’t actually a bias against white kids

No, not trolling. And I never said UVA — she didn’t apply there.

In at:

Penn State
VT
Arizona State
UCLA
JMU
Miami University in Ohio
CNU
GMU
SUNY Geneseo

Waitlisted at Tennessee

VT, Penn State and UCLA were here reaches, obviously.

She will go VT because she got $14k in aid.

She must have had exceptional essays including the supplementals at VT because I know full well her stats aren’t top tier.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are private school students who get in without APs and with less than 4.0s. I know some from last year (admitted with a 3.7 or similar from very top private). So they do seem to read some applications under a different lens than the main BUNCH. (i.e. they pull them out from being discarded by an auto GPA cut-off)
I don't know how this happens exactly.

oops. "Bunch", not bench.

Legacy + gigantic donations

[Anonymous]

Curious, which private schools have gotten rid of APs?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In. Loudoun County.

I forgot to mention — 3.93 weighted, 1150 SAT. 8 or 9 APs. Basic white girl.

She won’t go — attending more affordable VT instead.

This was the last one. She did very well — in everywhere she applied except Tennessee where waitlisted.

I’m sure she isn’t. Be better.

I think this is the basic white girl who also got into UVA and other prestigious schools despite the uncompetitive stats.

It’s clearly a troll trying to show there isn’t actually a bias against white kids

I'm pp and there is not a bias against white kids, but that poster is definitely a troll hitting all the threads.

DP, but it's pretty astounding that just because *your* kids didn't get in, you assume anyone whose kids *did* get in is trolling - despite their "uncompetitive" stats. Perhaps this applicant had exactly what the schools were looking for - and perhaps your kid did not. Stats aren't the end-all be-all.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:in - public school 3.9

and bad SATs which weren’t considered lol

best of luck to all

How many AP classes? I think private school kids without AP classes are getting shut out because UC’s only give weighted boost to gpa for AP and IB classes if you are OOS.

Major flaw in their admissions calculus

It’s a planned flaw. They went test blind but not really. Blind to one kind of test but not another (AP) and the resultant class weighting from the GPA that AP course drives

The deeper I’ve gotten in this process, the more these idiosyncrasies actually just resembles idiocies. It’s as if the gang from South Park wrote an episode about student selection and three spaghetti at a wall

From a bottom line: private school kids in areas where AP classes have stopped (like many in DC) should be actively discouraged from applying to UCs. Yet the num-nuts in our college office do the opposite and encourage it based on 2019 and earlier success data and beyond that, since our school caps at 10 applications (you all know the one) they allow an unlimited number of UCs to count as 1 school in their 10 cap.

Plus the CA rules that limit OOS and Intl to 18 percent have kicked in. So it’s a double whammy. But Big 3 DC CCOs remain entirely focused on SLACs in outreach and approach and knowledge.

I’m not sure you are right because at least one kid from GDS got into UCLA and they were not top of the class either

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In. Loudoun County.

I forgot to mention — 3.93 weighted, 1150 SAT. 8 or 9 APs. Basic white girl.

She won’t go — attending more affordable VT instead.

This was the last one. She did very well — in everywhere she applied except Tennessee where waitlisted.

I’m sure she isn’t. Be better.

I think this is the basic white girl who also got into UVA and other prestigious schools despite the uncompetitive stats.

It’s clearly a troll trying to show there isn’t actually a bias against white kids

No, not trolling. And I never said UVA — she didn’t apply there.

In at:

Penn State
VT
Arizona State
UCLA
JMU
Miami University in Ohio
CNU
GMU
SUNY Geneseo

Waitlisted at Tennessee

VT, Penn State and UCLA were here reaches, obviously.

She will go VT because she got $14k in aid.

She must have had exceptional essays including the supplementals at VT because I know full well her stats aren’t top tier.

What is her intended major and congrats.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are private school students who get in without APs and with less than 4.0s. I know some from last year (admitted with a 3.7 or similar from very top private). So they do seem to read some applications under a different lens than the main BUNCH. (i.e. they pull them out from being discarded by an auto GPA cut-off)
I don't know how this happens exactly.

oops. "Bunch", not bench.

Legacy + gigantic donations

Nope. The UCs don’t consider legacy.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:UCs also will only weight 2 classes per year out of 10th & 11th grade for the assessment of GPA

Since the only count grades from 10th and 11th, weighting 4 classes counts.
If you take 6 classes per year (classes like drivers Ed/pe/athletics don’t count) and weight 2 then an all student has a GPA of 4.33 while an OOS student who has no AP’s will have a GPA of 4.0. Of a student takes 5 classes per year (not including a or class) then the straight A student has a gpa of 4.4 while the non weighted one has 4.0.

And what is not well known or publicized is ucla and Berkeley actually look at uncapped weighted gpa as well. So a 11th grader with all AP or IB or dual enrollment courses could have an uncapped weighted gpa of 5.0. Compare that to a private school student whose school dropped AP’s. That student has an uncapped gpa of 4.0.

No they limit to 2 per year. There is no such thing as "uncapped" weighted for the UCs. Elsewhere, sure, but not there.

Uncapped weighted is 100% real. You really are uninformed. Just read college confidential for 2 minutes on a UC string and you will hear all about uncapped weighted Gpa.

[Anonymous]

It says clearly on the private school transcript that Advanced classes at our school are AP equivalents and my dC plans to take the AP exams for those classes-BC calc, APUSH etc so why wouldn’t UC schools count those with the GPA bump? Especially if they get 5’s on the AP exams?

As for the no testing-if they see a kid is a NMSF won’t they put two and two together about that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In. Loudoun County.

I forgot to mention — 3.93 weighted, 1150 SAT. 8 or 9 APs. Basic white girl.

She won’t go — attending more affordable VT instead.

This was the last one. She did very well — in everywhere she applied except Tennessee where waitlisted.

I’m sure she isn’t. Be better.

I think this is the basic white girl who also got into UVA and other prestigious schools despite the uncompetitive stats.

It’s clearly a troll trying to show there isn’t actually a bias against white kids

I'm pp and there is not a bias against white kids, but that poster is definitely a troll hitting all the threads.

DP, but it's pretty astounding that just because *your* kids didn't get in, you assume anyone whose kids *did* get in is trolling - despite their "uncompetitive" stats. Perhaps this applicant had exactly what the schools were looking for - and perhaps your kid did not. Stats aren't the end-all be-all.

Sure you can believe this all you want. I have no dog in this fight. Kid never applied to UCLA and other won’t either. They love football and don’t want to ride a bus an hour way to games. But, c’mon those statistics are not competitive at all for UCLA for anyone. A weighted gpa under 4.0 WITH 8 or 9 APs, which means she would have to be getting Bs in all those classes, and didn’t break a 1200. Trolling, mistype, or leaving off pertinent info, but her own mom describes her as “basic,” which seems accurate.

[Anonymous]

For those who didn't get in, take heart. It's just an overcrowded and underfunded state school. Professors are more engaged with research than students. It can be very very hard to get classes you need. (See Impacted Courses https://sa.ucla.edu/ro/Public/SOC/Search/ImpactedCoursesMasterList). There's very little advising. Many students are also local, so campus life isn't vibrant and often has unfortunate religious and racial overtones. In short, there are many other better options for the OOS price.

Yes, I agree that the palm trees and weather are lovely. If that's what matters to you, have at it.

--UCLA alum

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UCs also will only weight 2 classes per year out of 10th & 11th grade for the assessment of GPA

Since the only count grades from 10th and 11th, weighting 4 classes counts.
If you take 6 classes per year (classes like drivers Ed/pe/athletics don’t count) and weight 2 then an all student has a GPA of 4.33 while an OOS student who has no AP’s will have a GPA of 4.0. Of a student takes 5 classes per year (not including a or class) then the straight A student has a gpa of 4.4 while the non weighted one has 4.0.

And what is not well known or publicized is ucla and Berkeley actually look at uncapped weighted gpa as well. So a 11th grader with all AP or IB or dual enrollment courses could have an uncapped weighted gpa of 5.0. Compare that to a private school student whose school dropped AP’s. That student has an uncapped gpa of 4.0.

No they limit to 2 per year. There is no such thing as "uncapped" weighted for the UCs. Elsewhere, sure, but not there.

Uncapped weighted is 100% real. You really are uninformed. Just read college confidential for 2 minutes on a UC string and you will hear all about uncapped weighted Gpa.

I've read the UC site, I think I'm actually much better informed than you, who is gathering "data" from talk boards