Essays
Should you mention UCLA in your personal insight questions?
Why every UC campus reads the same personal insight answers, so you should write about your experiences and academic interests rather than a Why UCLA essay.
SourceBased on what we at Aristo learned from UCLA's reader program and former UC admissions readers.

The University of California uses one application for all of its campuses, so personal insight answers written with UCLA in mind are read wherever else a student applies. Students who dream of Westwood often write those answers to UCLA anyway. They mention a lab on campus, a professor, the way Royce Hall looked on a tour, and it feels like enthusiasm.
In the UC system it is a structural mistake, and an easy one to make, because few applicants stop to ask how the reading is divided or what each reader can see. The students who make it are often the most eager, and they can pay for that eagerness on campuses they would have been glad to attend.
Book a free consultation and unlock all tactics.
Book a free call