College rant: Rejected from UCSD =(

[brtspears2]

Whatever happened to being thankful for what you got?

<-- stuck at UCR. It doesn't get any worse ... pass the drink, please.

 

[LS20]

Originally posted by: GroundZero
dude or should i say dud?
answer me this:
why do all the punks want to go to uc schools?

because its better

 

[cjsh]

Originally posted by: weezergirl
I had a friend who was also pissed that he got rejected from UCSD but got into UCLA. Supposedly if you applied to a school that is ranked higher, you would automatically get into that school and rejected from 1 or more of any of the other UCs you had applied to since they think that you would obviously just go to the higher ranked school. That way they can offer admission to someone who truly had UCSD as their first choice. But as you have experienced, this process does not always work out.

My friend appealed but I'm not sure if he ended up getting in or not. I know he stayed at UCLA but that might be because he enjoyed it here. I went to UCLA...it's a fun school. If you prefer a quiet, more boring one than yeah...try to transfer to ucsd

It is strange. I would think UCLA is harder to get in than UCSD. When I looked the enrollment statatisitc for last year, UCLA gave admissions to 9000 out of around 40000, but UCSD gave out 17000 out of 40000. So UCSD has higher percentage. I know major plays important role in admission, but in general UCSD should be easier, I think.