Not to rain on anyone’s parade, but the wait list statistics for UC Santa Barbara are more grim than for UC Santa Cruz (see this post I made earlier re: UCSC wait list stats: **uc santa cruz class of 2025 discussion** - #574 by 20172021)
Here is the wait list data for UCSB from the common data sets (CDS) found on this page: http://bap.ucsb.edu/institutional.research/ (most recent data); and also on the Internet Wayback Machine: Wayback Machine (for years prior to 2020-21). (I couldn’t seem to find a one-stop-shop page with all Common Data Sets for UCSB on one page, so I had to utilize the wayback machine.) The data comes from question C2 of the CDS.
Data is listed in this order:
Common Data Set year (CDS 20XX-XX)
Number of qualified applicants offered a place on the waiting list (Off)
Number accepting a place on the waiting list (Acc)
Number of wait-listed students admitted (Adm)
Calculated % of students admitted off waiting list (% Adm)
CDS 2020-21
Off: 9,885
Acc: 6,342
Adm: 6,103
% Adm: 96% (Highest admit rate off wait list due to COVID-19.)
CDS 2019-20
Off: 8,863
Acc: 5,866
Adm: 603
% Adm: 10%
CDS 2018-19
Off: 7,856
Acc: 4,883
Adm: 14
% Adm: 0.2% (Lowest admit rate off wait list.)
CDS 2017-18
Off: 6,650
Acc: 4,000
Adm: 960
% Adm: 24%
CDS 2016-17
Off: 5,830
Acc: 3,252
Adm: 1,351
% Adm: 42%
CDS 2015-16
Off: 5,006
Acc: 2,910
Adm: 278
% Adm: 6%
CDS 2014-15
Off: 3,956
Acc: 2,332
Adm: 152
% Adm: 7%