<p>Other factors determine success in college besides numbers and AP classes.</p>
<p>UW GPA: 3.77
W GPA: 4.47
UC GPA: 4.15</p>
<p>SAT: 2100 (M 730, CR 640, W 730)
SAT II: Chemistry 730, Math II 740</p>
<p>My essays were good, and I have good ECs (student government, community service clubs, sport, CSF, honor society, lots of leadership positions, etc.).</p>
<p>Haha. I saw I was waitlisted, and I didn’t believe it. I told my mom, and she did a double-take.</p>
<p>I did apply for civil engineering. I guess the major is REALLY impacted.</p>
<p>GPA: 3.3
SAT I: 1940
SAT II: 640 and 670
EC: one year of this one year of that. it was pretty lame
Essay: wrote it in two hours, didnt even get a second person to look at it. But I was very confident in it.
I got in undeclared-life sciences. I feel so lucky…</p>
<p>this thread makes me feel like trash for attending ucd. but i still love UCD! :D</p>
<p>IB kids from my school got rejected/waitlisted. Meanwhile, CP kids got in. 
I don’t know what’s up with UCD, but I love it. </p>
<p>I got in, too! Go class of 2014!</p>
<p>I was really upset I got waitlisted at Davis, but then I got into Berkeley, so who cares!!! :D</p>
<p>what are CP kids?</p>
<p>kids that take college prep classes.</p>
<p>ah, AP kids</p>
<p>AP kids are different from CP kids.</p>
<p>UCD decisions are indeed odd. So are other colleges. (also got into UCSC, UCSB, UCR. rejected at UCI, UCSD, UCLA no duh. :P)</p>
<p>got in with a 3.44 UW, 3.8 Weighted.</p>
<p>1810 SAT, 680 US History SATii, 610 Biology E/M</p>
<p>Loads of extracirriculars (sports editor in newspaper, tennis, band, asb/student gov’t, community service, etc.)</p>
<p>i’ll trade my UCD spot for a UCI spot. ;)</p>
<p>it<code>s important to realize that UC admissions are dependent to the high school. if your school has plenty of honor students, with incredible EC and outstanding grades, then it</code>s competitive for you. If your stats were in near 3.8 unweighted, and still were not qualified for ELC, its obvious your school is competitive. my school had low standards, the top 20 students are only in the range of 4.0 - 3.6 unweighted GPA. that’s pretty low for a school with over 400 students in the 2010 class. but, many of my friends with 3.3 - 3.7 gpa got into UCD. when it comes to competitiveness of an poor academic school like mine, GPA is more important than EC. however, when it comes to the harder and more rigorous schools, like CAL and stanford, everything takes into account.</p>
<p>@runnerchick</p>
<p>if you could elaborate, thank you~</p>
<p>^AP = advanced placement = where the smart kids go</p>
<p>CP = college prep = normal classes = where everyone else goes</p>
<p>Don’t be fooled by the “college prep” name, that’s just a euphemism.</p>
<p>oh, hahaha thanks for the clarification, “theReach”</p>
<p>Looking at the stats of the waitlisted students is not hard to figure out that those people are least likely to attend UCD since they’ll probably choose a higher-ranked school over UCD anyways.</p>
<p>"Looking at the stats of the waitlisted students is not hard to figure out that those people are least likely to attend UCD since they’ll probably choose a higher-ranked school over UCD anyways. "
I know some people that got waitlisted with pretty normal stats. People always like to say this and while it might be true for private schools like 15-30 USNWR trying to protect their yield…I doubt Davis would do this. I think WUSTL is the main college that does this, I think the others may be people trying to cope with the semi-rejection.</p>
<p>USNWR ?</p>
<p>just wondering what it means ;p</p>
<p>UCD acceptances are weird. i have a friend who has 4.1GPA, lots of EC’s (president of 2 clubs, sports…) 1900+SAT and got waitlisted. while my other friend with 3.4, 1400SAT and not much EC’s got accepted. i wonder how colleges choose, it seems unfair in a way.</p>
<p>USNWR = US News & World Report</p>
<p>It is the report that ranks colleges and universities each year.</p>