Submitted end of March and received reject inform through Email today, so sad! Sent many emails and got NO reply till today(14 July 2020)

Was notified that I was waitlisted early JUNE via random email but was notified I was not coming off waitlist JULY 3. Interesting fact to note: last year I was also waitlisted but received an official "waitlist letter" via Department Chair, but this year, I was notified in JUNE by the graduate admissions board about said waitlist. I don't know if the discrepancy in letters from last year to this year was due to COVID, but whatever. Good think I accepted back in April to another program.

Finally had my decision on the portal website after checking daily like a crazy person. It was honestly a surprise as I had applied before and was wait listed then and now just straight up rejected. The rejection letter offers a contact if you have any questions on your decision which I plan to use. It's sometimes difficult to gauge what the department is looking for

Congrats to those who were accepted. Emailed the department yesterday to ask if decisions were delayed, and my application status was updated on the website today. I plan to apply again, but wow did the dept wait a long time to release decisions...

Hello, applied on April 30, never heard back from them. No updates at all. Anybody heard back from UCLA? Thank you!!!

Got the email today that I was recommended for admission to the Animation MFA. I also got accepted elsewhere for Animation with a generous scholarship, so if UCLA matches it then I will change course. If not, them's the breaks I guess!

Accepted to the M.S. in EEB specializing in Ecology and Evolution of Medicine

Still waiting to hear about my application. I can absolutely understand a delay in light of current events, but the problem is not knowing if there even is a delay. Like not knowing when I should hear back by, or at least a general time frame. The MIMG program has a late application deadline (April 1), so I am expecting it to take a bit of time. However, I haven't been able to gauge the time frame for a response, as there aren't applicants who are posting about it.

Accepted into MS program instead

TTPB: I haven't heard back either yet. Other people have told me that it's quite common for the dept to send out their acceptances and rejections as late as June. I'd imagine this is likely the case this year, especially with the covid situation going on. Good luck to you!

Had anyone heard from this program yet?? I've been waiting and sending emails and checking my status but still no decision was made and no response, no rejection email. A little worried.

Accepted from waitlist.

Emailed them to inquire about my application and then shortly after I received an email stating a decision had been reached and to check the website for the official letter. Unfortunately I was rejected, but I will be trying again next year.

Attended the visit day but have yet to receive a decision as of 5/7. Attempted to rescind my application after 4/15 since I committed elsewhere but was told decisions had been made. For future applicants, it appears that they either do not have a formal wait list system, forgot to send out rejections, and/or have some serious administrative issues. Either way it's frustrating to have received no formal information before, let alone several weeks after, 4/15.

I am part of a program that UCLA normally grants application fee waivers to and my fee waiver status has been under review since December. I recently got an email, three weeks after April 15th, to check my application status. It told me that my fee waiver was denied and that I had to pay to view my application decision. Had they done this with ample time before the decision deadline I would have no problem paying but at this point it is insulting, considering myself and others have practically been ghosted by the department. It feels they are only trying to squeeze an extra $120 out of me. Good luck to the others that applied!

I have waited on a notification for months, so I emailed the potential P.I. I had been talking to and asked if she had any insights. She said she was interested in working with me, but the departments funding and her own personal funding were limited due to COVID reasons and she wasn't able to take any grads this year like she had planned.

TTPB: Also have heard nothing from the department almost a month past the 4/15 deadline. It's completely disrespectful to treat applicants like this. I feel like they just stole my application fee, and I hope future applicants know to avoid throwing away their money and applying unless they are in touch with a POI.