Is UC Irvine playing some sort of cruel joke?

Applying to College
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<p>I got an email today from UCI telling me that my "admission status has changed." </p>

<p>When I logged on to my UCI account, it said "You have been admitted to UC Irvine!" and brought me to a page for admitted students with a bunch of information. It said that I had until 05/01/12 to:
"- Accept our offer of admission (SIR) and apply for housing
· Freshman Housing Guarantee deadline is May 1, NO EXCEPTIONS.
- Submit your Statement of Legal Residence (SLR)
- Decline our offer of admission"</p>

<p>Correct me if I'm wrong, but I am convinced that UC admissions don't come out until late March...?</p>

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<p>As you now know, many applicants find out earlier than the official notification dates.</p>

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<p>I wasn’t sure if this was something similar to the mix-up where some applicants were accidentally sent acceptance letters ED. I’m glad that this isn’t a mistake :)</p>

<p>I did some more researching, and do early results go out for Regents or students applying for the honors program?</p>

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<p>Actually, each UC sets its own dates for issuing decisons and Irvine has traditonally started issuing them in Feb.</p>

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<p>Same here, I was like “already?” Congratulations though because UCI is actually a decent school!</p>

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<p>djking: Just wondering, what are your stats? Is Irvine one of your safeties?</p>

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<p>Goes to a public school (812 API) in California
Gender and Ethnicity: Male, Indian
4.00 GPA (unweighted) (9-12)
4.79 GPA (weighted) (9-12)
Class rank: 1/259 (Valedictorian)</p>

<p>Test Scores:
SAT: 2210 - 680 CR, 750 M, 780 W, Essay: 11/12
ACT: Did not submit
SAT II Biology M: 790
SAT II Math L2: 760
SAT II U.S. History: 710</p>

<p>Course Rigor:
Took 4 Honors in freshman year (7 total).
Took 1 AP class (AP Biology) in sophomore year and 4 Honors courses (7 total).
Took 4 AP classes and 1 Honor’s course in junior year (6 total).</p>

<p>Senior year schedule:

  1. AP Physics C
  2. AP French Language
  3. AP English Lit.
  4. AP Statistics
  5. AP Environmental Science
  6. Econ/Govt.</p>

<p>-Only one AP course remaining in my school (AP Art)</p>

<p>-Apparently, my counselor said she’d never seen anyone like me in her 20 years of her career and that no one has taken this much course rigor (hope this carries some weight, as she said it’s in her rec.</p>

<p>AP Scores:
AP Biology (sophomore): 5
APUSH (junior): 4
AP English Lang. (junior): 5
AP Calculus AB subscore (junior): 5
AP Calculus BC (junior; not offered, so self-studied): 5
AP Chemistry (junior): 5</p>

<p>EC’s/Volunteer work:
-Volunteered at Canal Alliance for 2 years; (helping lower-class kids in education).
-Member of Youth Leadership Institute:
-Member of its Marin County Youth Commission and President of its Health Committee (3 years)
-Member of its Healthy Empowered Youth Program. (for 3 years)
-Successfully completed and honored in Toastmaster’s International Youth Leadership program. (2010 summer)
-Enrolled in summer classes from UC Berkeley in a program called Academic Talent Development Program (ATDP) for in summer of 2009.
-Member of Link Crew for 2 years (max); (helps high school freshmen to transition into high school life).
-Member of Marin Symphony Youth Orchestra for 3 years.
-Founder of Tennis Club and Cultural Diversity Club.
-Member of Varsity Tennis team (Co-captain).
-Member of California Scholarship Foundation (3 years)
-Peer Tutored kids after school in my high school
-Member of the Big Brothers Big Sisters program (2 years)
-Member of Marin Indian American Association: Member in cultural events and youth education programs. Raised Haiti earthquake relief funds. Taught Indian heritage to young children. (2 years)
-Worked as a paid intern at a Kaiser Perm. Hospital Intern for its 2010 Summer Youth Employment Program- lots of medical experience.
-Went to UC Davis COSMOS program for math and science in summer of 2011 for -Biochemistry (25% acceptance rate)
-23 Community College Credits (Have taken 1 college class per semester since beginning of the 9th grade, will again this Spring)</p>

<p>Letters of Rec:
1 Science, 1 US History, and 1 Math, and they all know me well.
Counselor Rec is really, really good.</p>

<h2>1 Supplemental Recommendation by my school principal (occurs rarely in my school)</h2>

<p>Yes, it’s a safety. Sorry for the long post, it’s a copy/paste from previous threads.</p>

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<p>where is your top choice djking99 and what is your major?</p>

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<p>Stanford is my top choice, but I probably won’t get in due to the sheer competition. I’ve applied to Johns Hopkins, Rice, Northwestern, Emory, Carnegie Mellon, and others whose acceptance rates are three to five times higher than that of Stanford. I hope I get into one of them. If I don’t, that’s totally okay; no one has to go to a top 30 school to be successful, on however one defines “success.”</p>

<p>My major is Biological Sciences (for UCI), Neuroscience, or Biology for all schools I’ve applied to.</p>

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<p>i like your thinking. and it is that thinking that will take you far. but you will probably get into stanford, and defenetly get into your backup schools.</p>

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<p>I don’t know… your APUSH score was only a 4… :)</p>

<p>Relax. You should get where ever you want.</p>