Don’t they do that every year though @cocoonutty
Sadly, you cannot make assumptions of your waitlist chances based on the past. Last year, for the 2017/18 school year, very few were admitted off that waitlist. I saw the data from the previous year when it came out, and thought my child had a great chance at getting in. Nope. Didn’t happen. They admitted more students initially, so they admitted very few off that waitlist. I would recommend anyone on a waitlist make plans to attend a different school. Being left hanging for two or more months without a decision is one of the cruelest things about this process. Accept the spot if you want. But, don’t pin your hopes on the waitlist. Good luck!
82 percent of the people were admitted from the waitlist last year @HopefulMom17
Can you send me the link for last year’s waitlist data @HopefulMom17
@davis262736: The common dataset for 2016-2017 is the current dataset for 2017 Fall admits. The 2017-2018 dataset will not be available until around Jan/Feb 2019 for this years in-coming class. Not sure what the above poster is referring to in regards to waitlist stats for last year. If you go by just CC posts, these numbers are skewed.
I don’t know where most of my comment went, so I am deleting it.
Ok thank you @Gumbymom that makes more sense
So the people that were admitted last year are on the 2016-2017 link right? @Gumbymom
Yes
Man I wish they would show the acceptances by major.
@davis262736: Big mistake for the 2017 wait list info since it is for 2016. I had an old link with for the waitlist data tat was labeled 2017 and I did not check the actual common dataset link I sent you which was 2016-2017 but I thought it was current. UCD has not posted their waitlist data for 2017-2018 which should the most current data. I did see the information somewhere but not sure if I kept that link. Sorry for the confusion, but there were students accepted from the waitlist last year but I cannot find the #’s. Again, each year is different and since this year has been exceptionally brutal with UC admissions, no one can predict where all students will SIR. UCD has always accepted students off the waitlist, even into impacted majors such as Biology so there is always hope.
So last years data isn’t in the links you sent me? @Gumbymom
And is it a good thing that admissions have been brutal this year since less people got accepted. Will that most likely mean they will accept many people from the waitlist? @Gumbymom
@2022Fall We’ve been to Davis many times, and both of my kids have toured there. Sometimes we head to Davis just to get out of our town. The campus is VERY spread out but pretty; we like it. The atmosphere in Davis is small college town, students and bikes everywhere. Great restaurants (my favorite Thai food in the world),
Davis feels safe, artsy, liberal. Kind of granola I guess you could say, but not intense or overwhelming like Berkeley.
Older one of was admitted, but chose a different school. Youngest was waitlisted this year - Davis has been her top choice school for years so fingers crossed she is admitted from the waitlist.
Her stats:
4.24 GPA
10th in her class of nearly 500
33 ACT
1430 SAT
@momofNASAnerd do u mind telling me her major she was waitlisted for?
Here is the landing page for UC Davis’ Institutional Analysis/research, each UC has one which posts a “common data set”:https://www.sariweb.ucdavis.edu/
On the left bar are the data sets including waitlist info (section C2) for 2016, 2015, etc. @Gumbymom is right that the data for last year (2017-18) isn’t available, but for 2016-17 and 2015-16 they took quite a few students off the list but in 2014-15, they only took 12 so let’s hope the trends are in our favor this year.
Good luck to everyone!
@davis262736 Physics
@davis262736: There is no way to predict how many waitlist spots will be available until after May 1. My advice is to treat the UC Davis waitlist as a rejection and get excited about your other options. You will have to SIR to another school by May 1 anyways. If you do get accepted to UCD from the waitlist, that will just be icing on the cake.
Remember where you go for Undergrad will not define you, it is what you do with the opportunities you are given that will make you successful. “Bloom where planted”
@davis262736 I agree with Gumbymom for the most part, with one exception - you don’t have to SIR anywhere else, CC is always an option. My daughter has been admitted to other schools, but she is seriously considering doing 2 years at CC and with a TAG if she is not admitted at UC Davis.
You guys are right. I might just SIR to UC Santa Cruz and if I don’t like it I can always transfer; I i will accept UC Davis if I get in. I hope they accept a lot of people from the waitlist because they only accepted 5,900 out of 78,000 which is a near 5% acceptance rate this year!!! @momofNASAnerd @Gumbymom