here come the conspiracies and theories brought about from impatience…
to you people who know you’re NOT going to uc santa cruz, why bother applying? i understand if you need a safety, but 95% of this board is too modest…yes a 4.0 gpa WILL guarantee you a UC at the standards of irvine, sb, davis, shoot maybe even ucla and ucb…
i say this because i’m literally on the borderline of being accepted/rejected from UCSC…i feel as though UC’s wouldnt be so impacted if people limited their decisions and controlling their modesty.
<p>If it helps any, I didn't apply to UCSC because I knew that even if I got accepted there and no other UC, I'd probably just take the Community College route.</p>
<p>I wish I'd have looked into the colleges I applied to more. I know I'm not going to go to SDSU or Cal Poly, and I'm a dick for applying to them. Same with Merced and Davis. As for UCSC... I just applied there hoping I might get a scholarship, because I'd be more than happy going there.</p>
<p>thanx prophasi...now i gotta worry about 24,999 other applicants, lol...thats exactly what im saying man, i've met people who apply just to get self-esteem when they get accepted and they kill the chances of people like me who applied to one UC.</p>
<p>it doesnt hurt anyone, that is the over applying
people have been doing it at the uc's for awhile now
roughly the percentage of people who enroll remians stable
so
they know how many spots to give out</p>
<p>It's not unfair. If UCSC wanted you, they'll accept you, period. They already take into consideration that a great pool of their applicants who are overqualified are probably just applying to UCSC as safties, and that is why they overshoot their number of acceptees with respect to the number they expect to enroll so that it all works out for them in the end (its worked every year before so no reason to change). If the number of applicants decreased, the number of acceptees would as well so in the end, its all even.</p>
<p>it works both ways.....all the kids with lower scores apply to berkeley as hopefuls and they increase their chances......it can be good or bad. i hope you get in!</p>
<p>I just don't like it when people apply to all the UC's. I mean a couple is fine, but applying to all when you are just using them as safeties...it just seems shady to me. I know UCSD is the only UC I really love, so let's say I'm a california resident, I might apply to UCSD and one of the lower UC's as a safety, but that's it.</p>
<p>It wouldn't improve or take away from anybody's chances. These UCs know what they're doing- if you're meant to get in you'll get in because everything works out in the end. It's not like the lower UCs don't assume that some of their applicant pool are only applying there as a safety. If less apply then less will get accepted (they'll overshoot their targeted number of enrollees by less than before) and then people will complain about how much more difficult it has become to get into the lower tier UCs, and the complaints will just become cyclical.</p>
<p>Many kids get into UCB or LA and not the other or UCI but not SB although the averages are very similar. While they decide on a highly quantitative basis, it's not purely quantitative. That's why it makes sense to apply to several. It's not hurting the chances of others one iota.</p>
<p>also, when people who are going to get in to UCB and LA apply to UCSC, it lowers UCSC's yield rate of admitted applicants. With a lower yield rate, UCSC can admit more applicants based on the idea that they know a huge percentage of them won't come because they're overqualified. So it all balances out...</p>