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Yooo congrats!!!!!!! So happy for you!!!
2021-2022 UCLA (Geffen)
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Just got the call about an hour ago to let me know I’ll be receiving the Geffen scholarship. As someone who spent most of their life living below the federal poverty line I was stressing about how much debt I would get into during medical school. Honestly this scholarship is life changing.
Best of luck to those that have yet to hear back especially those of you that could really benefit from this scholarship.
Best of luck to those that have yet to hear back especially those of you that could really benefit from this scholarship.
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this makes me wonder something- both of you likely would have qualified for a lot of need-based aid anyway. I wonder how many Geffens are given to admitted students that would have gotten a full need-based scholarship, and how likely others are to receive merit scholarships.
I know one user posted that they spent the "majority" of their life living below poverty guidelines. That doesn't necessarily mean they are now. I spent the majority of my life that way as well, up until high school graduation. My family now definitely does not qualify me for need-based aid any longer. But the experiences of that poverty growing up does heavily impact life trajectories, which makes granting the Geffen to people who are no longer in poverty just as viable.
My understanding of merit scholarships is that they are used to convince applicants to attend UCLA over other institutions. Folks who would be eligible for need-based aid at UCLA are also eligible for aid at other schools; thus, in order to compete with said other schools, UCLA would need to offer merit scholarships. This isn't to say that Geffen recipients always have other offers, but rather that the scholarship committee recognizes them as extremely desirable and competitive applicants.
Since we're not on the scholarship committee, we don't know what led them to that conclusion. Thus, there's not a lot of value in trying to extrapolate your or anyone else's likelihood of receiving a merit scholarship. All we can do is keep our fingers crossed and congratulate @APreMed619 and @WZRD for being absolute rockstars and getting that coin 🥳🤩
Just got the call for the Geffen Scholarship. What an absolute honor. I’m really at a loss for words. This journey as a first Gen, super low-income, non-trad student has been so rough. This feels like a culmination of all of the work I’ve done not just for me, but my community.
I’m hoping everyone gets good news soon! Sending love.
I’m hoping everyone gets good news soon! Sending love.
YAAAAAYYYYYY!!!! 🎉🎈
Also got the call for the Geffen Scholarship! I hope everyone gets some good news soon as well[emoji1696]
congrats!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank y’all so much!!! I just cried on FaceTime with my mom and don’t want to work now 😂
Got the Geffen call on Friday! Congrats to everyone 🙂
Wow, it's so lovely watching dreams come true IRL on this sub lol. Congratulations to you guys!
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Also wondering about this!
Big mood...
Like, do I just bite the bullet and take out those loans? (UCLA/Drew is the dream school) or do I go elsewhere where I got a scholarship (not the dream school).
Come on Big Daddy Geffen! Lol
If it helps, I spoke with someone at Drew, and they said scholarship notifications should be going out this week
they have a ton of non-geffen scholarships too. I assume we hear back for those soon.
KanekiS1E12
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I also want to point out for anyone stressing about scholarships right now that I’m sure a decent amount of people end up having to turn down their acceptance and these big scholarships. So even if you’re not hearing the news you want right now, it may come later!
Am I the only person who hasn't heard back post-II about any decision? Lol.
Just got the call for the Geffen for CDU/UCLA. I'm beyond humbled and still processing the absolute shock of it all.
For my fellow non-trads/low-SES folks and anyone else for whom financial aid will probably be the deciding factor, I see you and I'm praying for you 💙
For my fellow non-trads/low-SES folks and anyone else for whom financial aid will probably be the deciding factor, I see you and I'm praying for you 💙
Omg congrats friend!!!! So proud of you!!!
We won’t have to fill out non-custodial waivers ever again! Lol
Thank you!!! THAT especially is a relief 😅
Congrats!!
cortinarius
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imagine applying for the global health equity track while on the waitlist and not getting accepted into ucla in the end 🙃
standingdeskfanatic
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For those on the waitlist, do you know if there's anything we should/can do about financial aid? Any documents we can submit now?
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It shows "missing documents". However, I got an email from the fin aid office confirming all my documents had been received and I have a PAL. I think the portal is behind.
Did you get your PAL through email?
Yep! Sent to the email I entered into AMCAS
Probably just the FAFSA. Maybe someone else might know more.
Are you officially on a waitlist (I thought UCLA didn't do those) or are you just calling non-acceptance a waitlist at this point.
Someone missed about 50 posts…
I think I repeatedly just made myself look like an idiot on this thread haha. I have to make sure no one at UCLA ever connects this username to me.
inoffensivepersona
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It’s all good. It’s just SDN. We all make ourselves look like idiots at some point.
sneezysleeves
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I still haven’t heard anything from UCLA post-interview and idk what I should do. Like would it be bad if I emailed admissions just asking for an expected timeline? My stress levels every Thurs/Fri are taking years off my life at this point.. I just wanna know one way or another
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DGSOM does have a history of sending acceptances in March, and I believe that is what the current student stated a few weeks back? Maybe you're in that category. That said, sending an email to admissions for an update won't hurt.
Everythingrightandfair
New Member
Hi, has anyone received more details about second look after RSVPing? Thanks!
I am in the same boat, my friend. I hope we hear some good news soon.
sneezysleeves
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Just got the R
Finally got my pre-II R. The ghost of my long dead UCLA app may now rest 👻
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Yeah but I’m having trouble doing so
Just got fixed, guess it was an IT thing.
Does anyone know if UCLA med as internal ranking? It's pass fail for pre-clinical and 4 tier grading for clinical right (or did new curriculum make it 3 tier I can't quite remember).
I don't think they have internal ranking or AOA (but I could be wrong). As of now clinical is p/f and that was due to covid. They are still deciding if clinical will go back to being tiered.
