Accepted… but got waitlisted from WUSTL and rejected from Georgia Tech… depressed.
Accepted for Genetics and Genomics
Stats:
GPA: 4.2 SAT: 2090
Talked about my past with eating disorders and teaching my mom English in essays
^pretty surprised they didn’t freak out about my former eating disorders 
Accepted: Mechanical Engineering
GPA UW: 4.0
UC GPA: 4.2 (I think)
SAT: 2050 (690 CR, 650 M, 710 W)
SAT II Chem: 720
EC: Tennis Lessons 2 years, School Club Student Representative, Devil Pups program graduate, national art honors society 2 years, 13 volunteer hours
AP: 3 on chem
Senior year rigor: AP: calc bc, physics 1, art studio, gov
Accepted: Undeclared Social Sciences
SAT: 1920
GPA: 4.28
Rank: 9
APs: Bio: 3, US: 4 (self-studied)
South Asian, F
School doesn’t offer many APs, low-income school
Lots of volunteering, started a club about a passion, ASB (3 years) treasurer this year, blah blah
Essays about leadership and my growth as such
Compared to those at my school, my SAT score held me up. Compared to other applicants, it was my sub-par GPA. Not the most competitive applicant. My essays probably helped.
Accepted so far: UC Davis & Mills college
waiting for all the others
- Decision: Accepted
- SAT: 1790
- UW/UC GPA: 3.67/3.92
- Extracurriculars: Varied with tons of leadership experience
- Major: Undeclared-Life Science
- How well you think you did on your essays: They were pretty solid. I’m really proud of them.
- Other factors that affected your decision: I’m low income and I go to a high school with a really low API score. Being asian probably hurt lol
I feel so insanely lucky. My stats are so low, but I guess when put in context with my background and personal statement they were seen differently.
Other acceptances: San Diego State, UC Santa Cruz, UC San Diego
Rejections/Waitlisted: N/A
Waiting for: UC Santa Barbara, UC Irvine
Accepted: Environmental Science and Management
Also got provost award! 
UW GPA: about 3.93?
UC GPA: 4.25 I think
SAT: 1970
SAT II: 760 (Math II)
ACT: 32
Extracurriculars: Cheerleading, tutoring and other volunteer work, but nothing special and very few leadership positions
No big awards or any special recognition
Essays: not very good at all
IB Diploma Candidate
I’m 100% Japanese and I’m from Hawaii
Now that I think about it, I don’t really know how I was fortunate enough to be accepted, and moreover, to receive the award. I’m not a very competitive candidate, and there’s nothing really special that I did. My GPA is okay… I’m in the first decile at my school, but nowhere near the top. My test scores are severely low.
I’m so lucky and thankful!
Accepted: English
GPA: 4.2
ACT: 31
EC: Strong commitment (newspaper, education, politics, lacrosse)
AP: 1 four, 3 fives
Essays: wouldn’t change a thing (except for some tenses 
)
Accepted so far: Willamette, Davis / waiting on six more, privates mostly
I’m extremely stoked!! Go Aggies!
Accepted for Chemical Engineering
3.92 UW, 4.65 W
SAT: 2250
ACT: 33
Extracurriculars: Club president, team captain, etc but nothing stellar
Good essays
Probably won’t attend because I got the likely letter from UCLA and regents from UCSB. Davis is an awesome school though. Congrats to everyone who got in :^) This weekend was crazy.
I know this is a thread for Freshman applicants, but I have a question. I am a transfer students who applied for UCD Fall 2015. The website we use to check our admissions decision is MyAdmissions right? Also, I was able to sign into a MyUCDavis account and I thought those were for admitted students only? I’m still pending review apparently.
@KingOfTheClouds When decisions are posted, then the pending review status page you saw will change to whether you’ve been accepted or not.
@lollicupcatxx okay! Thank you very much!
It seems far too many cases where someone with excellent stats got rejected by UCD but got accepted in UCSD. Do the UCs really talk to each other? or Do they have a mechanism to figure it out?
lil late but…
rejected for psychology!
uc gpa 3.73 sat 1850
didn’t really expect to get in but still wanted to haha
[ size=+2][ color=green][ b]Decision: Accepted (Biological Sciences)
[ b]Objective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] SAT I (breakdown): 2090 (best sitting out of 2. Math and Writing in 700s, CR in 600s)
[ *] ACT: 32 (34 Wring/English. 34 Math, 30 Reading, 29 Science) (I think lol)
[ *] SAT II: 780 Bio, 680 Math 11
[ *] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.86
[ *] UC GPA: no idea lol
[ *] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top 9% (school doesnt rank)
[ *] ELC?: nope
[ *] AP (place score in parenthesis): European History (3), Biology (4)
[ *] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[ *] Senior Year Course Load: Ap Physics 1, AP Chem, AP Gov, AP Macroeconomics, AP Calc AB, Drama, English,
[ *] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): bunch of participation/volunteering stuff. not too many. not more than 10 for sure.
[ /list][ b]Subjective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Lights Camera Action (President), Cricket Club, Chess Club
[ *] Job/Work Experience: none
[ *] Volunteer/Community service: Out-of-school Jazz band which played around the community, Hospital, School Teachers assistant (1 summer), Teacher’s assistant at Saturday School
[ *] Personal Statement: One about volunteering and parents, the other about MUSIC (jazz, specifically)
[ /list][ b]Other[ /b][ list]
[ *] Applied for Financial Aid?: yes
[ *] Intended Major: Pre-biology
[ *] State (if domestic applicant): CA
[ *] Country (if international applicant):
[ *] School Type: Alright, not awesome, but still somewhat competitive
[ *] Ethnicity: Indian
[ *] Gender: M
[ *] Income Bracket: 160K ish
[ *] Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.): none
[ /list][ b]Reflection[ /b][ list]
[ *] Strengths: GPA
[ *] Weaknesses: lack of research, good test scores, leadership/exs
[ *] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I got invited to the reception, so knew I got it. But was happy to see I got honors. My record is not bad, but not exceptional. So future applicants, its really not that hard
[ /list][ b]General Comments:[ /b] Good Luck!!
Where else I was accepted: All ucs except UCLA and UC Berkeley (haven’t come out yet). Probably going to UCSD or UCSB, but congrats to all who got in!
Rejected
SAT: 1840
UC GPA: 3.72/UW 3.70
Hooks: URM, First Generation
Track & Field and XC for 3 years
Essays: 8.5/10
In-State
Major: CLS Undeclared
Accepted: CPP, CSULB, SDSU, UCR, UCSC, UCSB, LMU
Rejected: CPSLO, UCD
Waiting: UCI, UCLA, UCB, SCU, Oxy
Accepted for Economics (Out of State)
UW GPA: 3.7, not sure about UC GPA (8 AP’s total)
SAT: 2150
ACT: 31
Hooks: None
Income Bracket: ~ 500k+
Accepted: UC Davis, UCSB, Arizona, Purdue, Ohio State, Santa Clara
Waiting on 8 others…
Hi does the admission percentage change depending on what major chosen?
See how UC Davis admits applicants:
Most applicants are admitted by College except Engineering which admits by academic department.
http://admissions.ucdavis.edu/admission/freshmen/fr_selection_process.cfm
I have never found acceptance rates by major listed anywhere but assume the most competitive majors: Engineering/CS/Biology would have the lowest acceptance rates.
Oh thank you! Well I was admitted to UCDavis majoring in biology sciences! Can’t believe it my gpa is 3.6 and my SAT score were not to great!
Accepted
SAT 1970
GPA 4.0 (out of 4.0)
International
Can someone tell me which one is better? UCD or UCSB??? I’m really confused and can’t decide between these two!