<p>Happened to me for UCR, and I was just curious.</p>
<p>Clarification: If you get accepted on the first day decisions are posted.</p>
<p>I don’t know why it would mean anything. Alphabetical order maybe?</p>
<p>^It’s not by GPA nor is it by alphabetical order. </p>
<p>Sometimes, you can see a few tendencies, but really there’s nothing definitive and the process seems to be randomized for the most part. </p>
<p>For UCSD last cycle, the first batch appeared to have mostly social science and humanities majors and the average GPA was a little high mostly 3.6s and above. That could just be because those are the people more likely to post on college confidential though. Then it seemed like the other majors, notably biology and engineering, and all the 3.5 - 3.2 GPAs came in the later batches. </p>
<p>That said, there really is no significant trends. There are people with 3.9+ GPAs that get admitted in the latter batches and there are people with below 3.4 that get into the earlier batches so it’s not by GPA.</p>
<p>People try every year to put patterns together but there’s nothing conclusive. It doesn’t seem to be by major, GPA, time of submission of the UC app/TAU, nor alphabetically.</p>
<p>It has the most important meaning of all, it means you got in.</p>
<p>Not really. It just means you were in the first batch.</p>