<p>...not befitting its status as a great university. Irvine already knows its entire slate of admits. Yet, it has adopted a peculiar approach of releasing a few dozen, perhaps a few hundred decisions every night. This process stretches from the second week of March through March end. </p>
<p>Worse, the pattern of release is not explained. Is it by the ranking of applicant's according to Irvine's evaluation system? In the absence of any official explanation, through CC statistics it is clear that Irvine began with its " Top Ten" lists of regents and Honors, then it slowly encompasses ELCs, the those with UC GPA of 4.0 + , and then those seemingly it has grudgingly deemed as worthy of admit on March 28 or March 29.... Worse, it does not tell those rejected till the very end. Why?</p>
<p>Nothing about this decision announcement process is transparent. Doesn't a public university owe its constituents, its stakeholders, its 48,000 applicants who each paid the same application fee of $ 60, an explanation? Shouldn't it treat each applicant fairly? Shouldn't it not subject a large chunk of its applicant pool to undue, prolonged agony?</p>
<p>Someone in leadership at Irvine owes the applicants and the public an explanation of why it doen't follow the excellent lead of UCSB which has in a straightforward manner announced that all 44,000 California applicants can access their decisions on line on March 16 at 3 PM. Bravo Santa Barbara! Shame on you, Irvine! Step forward and explain!</p>
<p>First, since you don't think the process is "transparent" enough, have you tried actually calling the admissions office and asking them about why decisions are being released this way?</p>
<p>Second, why do you assume the reason they're doing it isn't legitimate? There are a number of great explanations. Maybe they're short staffed. Maybe (since they were ordered to cut 500 spots for the freshman class) they're proceeding cautiously with whom they accept to avoid over enrollment. I've heard public schools may have a higher matriculation rate this year due to the economy. Maybe that's affecting their decision making, too. Who knows?</p>
<p>So it actually seems quite probable to me that Irvine doesn't know all of its admits yet.
The point is, you shouldn't assume that it's being done maliciously or even purposefully.</p>
<p>sndebrosse: I understand as a current student, you are naturally defensive. </p>
<p>UCI is no more short staffed than others -- in fact, 44,000 * $ 60 = $ 2.64 million dollars to review and post admission decisions.</p>
<p>Secondly, how are they going to avoid over enrollment by dribbling out admissions at a few hundreds a night. None of those people respond to UCI confirming their attendance. So, there is no possible "information insight" Irvine gains from dribbling out admissions.</p>
<p>Third, the lack of transparency is disrespectful to applicants who expect to be treated with fairness and be well-informed. It is no shadow over the fine UCI student body, to call the Administration to task, as Brassring, has rightly done for a shoddy, ill-explained process which puts thousands of applicants in limbo over a three week period. If there is a logical explanation, they should blast out an email or post it on their website. It defies imagination to say they don't know who they are going to admit overall. They had three uninterrupted months to do their review. And al least one source at another UC tells me that all decisions are locked in. So, why?</p>
<p>Well if there's any glimpse of hope: I got my acceptance from UCI on the very last day of March. Maybe because I lived in South Korea and they had some trouble whether to classify me as resident or not.</p>
<p>Probably has something to do with 44,000 people checking at the same time.
For 2nd Year Undergraduate Housing they couldn't even handle 1000 or so people at 6am trying to log in and submit the application. -_-</p>
<p>I got my acceptance early in March last year, but my snail mail acceptance letter came in May(!?!?!?!?!). Apparently they were extremely understaffed last year.</p>
<p>I'm sorry you have to wait, but we all do. Berkeley withholds their admissions until the end of March, at least Irvine releases some (or most) before that.</p>
<p>I would rather have to wait until the end of the month and get my admission/denial at the same time as everyone else than go through this torture... at least then I wouldnt feel incompetent when everyone else already has their admission....</p>
<p>We've now had Davis report 42,000 applicant decisions on March 12, San Diego report 47,000 decisions on March 14. Santa Barbara today with 44,000 and UCLA on Wednesday with 52,000 decisions will show it can be done on one day. </p>
<p>Irvine gets my AWARD for WORST ADMISSION DECISION ANNOUNCEMENT Process.</p>
<p>Congrats to all who decide to go to Irvine. Other than above, Irvine is a fine school.</p>
<p>It kind of annoys me too, I don't plan to go there as I have been accepted to Davis and San Diego, but there seems to be no logical reason to it. I have people from my school that have already got there's, but not me yet. And I really don't think it is by who was highest on their list because the 3 people I have talked to that got it back, the first 2 are pretty good students, but the 3rd got it back a day after them and he had a higher GPA and SAT/ACT score than at least one of the others. It also is in no way by name, one of the last names starts with a Z, then a C, then a K, I'm an H, and still no decision yet. It doesn't matter because I'm not going so whatever to them, but it'd be nice to know. And to think that if LA gets back before them it would just be insane.</p>