As others have said…your kiddo will get accepted to college. I will say my opinion again. There are plenty of UCs where she will get accepted.
Her EA list is very top heavy, but she has a chance at those too…although some are just really reaches for many students.
Is she only applying to colleges in CA? Do you need financial aid? Are finances a consideration in this mix at all?
Why isn’t CalPoly SLO on her list?
I think you need to read Menloparkmom’s post again. Acceptance to summer programs is usually NOT a consideration when college admissions are considered…even at schools that run those programs. Simply put…the vast majority of applicants at UCI will not have participated in Cosmos. You are weighing too much in this area.
You also say your daughter went to other competitive summer programs. If, and I mean if, these are considered, don’t you think the adcoms will notice the programs she DID? Do you think they will rind down the hall and ask if she ever was denied admission to COSMOS? They don’t have that kind of time. They are going to review your daughter’s application with what IS on it…even at UCI…not what is NOT there.
What makes you think she won’t get accepted to UCD or UCSB?
Again, race cannot be used for admissions purposes. What is used is first generation status, low income and adversity situations. Many candidates to whom these apply are URM. My daughter is attending UCR even though she got into several universities with admissions in the 20% to 30% range. She has an academic scholarship which gives her certain perks and privileges on top of money. She is happy and doing great. It is a solid university.
My kid is not URM either. Was accepted at two programs at UCSD for COSMOS but was rejected from the one from UCD. Perhaps she selected a more selective COSMOS program.
But I agree she would get in to most UCs, not sure about UCLA or UCB because it depends on the program. Some programs are more competitive than others. Is USC on her list?
Thank you everyone. She was accepted to few and attended one very competitive program with less then 8% acceptance rate. All those programs were outside of California.
"The statistic for UC enrollment to UCD last year. The drastic change in acceptance by race compared to the year before. "
Every statistic for every UC campus is available on that link.
I suggest your DD apply to more colleges outside of Calif where there are fewer non white students applying. Seriously.
The UC system is set up to educate Calif students, and the reality is that whites are no longer the majority race in Calif. There is nothing you can do about that. …
COSMOS has an acceptance rate of 3 - 30% depending upon the cluster selected. A lot of students aren’t accepted. And I personally know of no one who attended one of the COSMOS programs (and I know of a ton of UC students).
Unless I’m reading this incorrectly, the OPs daughter is not a URM.
Regardless…race is not used at all in admissions at the UCs…as stated above.
I’m not sure why the OP has the anxiety she has, but I truly feel for the daughter who must be getting the drift that she might not get accepted anywhere she applies. Not a good way to start off one’s senior year in HS.
And again I ask…are finances a significant consideration? Can the family pay for all of the schools on this list?
Also always have less selective private schools on the list, I mean not the Stanford level. Every year there are kids who got accepted to a UC that they like and then the acceptance was rescinded because the UCs have very strict GPA requirement for senior year. Not so much for private schools.
She is applying to Santa Clara and USC first because both are excellent schools and secondly because she hopes to receive significant merit aid. She will not qualify for need based aid.
“I’m not sure why the OP has the anxiety she has,”
^^ I believe she looked at the 2013/ 2014 UC admissions statistics and made the assumption that race WAS a major factor in the admissions decisions.
I could be wrong…
I’m a CA parent…your DD stats are as good or better than my kids. They were accepted to both privates and UCs in CA. I’m not sure why people are telling you to look outside CA since we have lots of great schools here, the weather can’t be beat, and some kids don’t want to travel far away from home. I know lots of CA kids that don’t apply outside the state - some only apply to CSUs and UCs.
But like the others, I think you are putting too much stake in whether she was accepted into summer programs. Relax…but yes, make sure you have some safeties (my kids both applied to CSULB as the ultimate safety). You just never know what will happen.
By the way, with your DD stats if she were to apply to LMU, I’m sure that not only would she be accepted, she’d get an invitation to interview for their top scholarships (including a full ride scholarship).
Is she still applying to these? And then also UCSB, ICD, and maybe UCI?
On your other thread, you said she wanted to apply REA to Stanford, and you were pushing Caltech. So…did she decide to ditch Stanford altogether?
What are your daughter’s top choice schools…not yours…hers?
You also say that you would love for her to get merit aid as you will not be eligible for need based aid. She has excellent stats…but she isn’t going to get merit aid from Caltech or MIT.
You also say she doesn’t want to leave CA. So…why MIT?
Accepted to summer programs in earlier years and admission to college are totally different things as they obviously have different criteria. My D also got rejected from the summer engineering program at UMich in the summer after sophomore year, but got accepted to CoE with scholarship.
It is so easy to panic. But don’t. Your D will no doubt have a few great choices. I was so anxious all through my D’s senior year—it didn’t help anything and I think it probably made things worse… D had lots of rejections, but as we considered the options she did have, we realized that one of the schools that accepted her was a wonderful match. She’s been thriving there for three years now. And I now realize that if she hadn’t “gotten in anywhere”-- she still would have been the terrific person she is, and her life would have gone on in a good direction. So-- don’t panic! (Or-- panic here and show a wonderfully untroubled face to your D. How I wish I had done that.)
Race may have been used for the invites to the open house. I don’t think there’s any law about that.
Because UCs more heavily weight GPA and supposedly taken into account low-income as a factor, it may appear that race is used for admissions, but technically it isn’t.
It is very helpful, and subscribers get up-to-date information. I know UCD has a similar mailing list, and the other schools probably have something like this, too.
If you really think there is an issue, maybe ask the high school counselor for some feedback on the strength of her COSMOS application and her strength as a UC applicant. Maybe there is something she is missing or some aspect of her application (essay, etc) that was not quite up to par.
Also, UC essays do count for a lot, so definitely put time and effort into those. Too large a list of schools with lots of supplements can be really demanding, start writing drafts now for common ap, UC essays, any prompts that are published, etc. The essays can be rewritten and repurposed, but they definitely get better in each iteration.
And use FIRST to your advantage, there should be someone who knows how to use FIRST participation to get a bit of push into a STEM program.
I am thinking that open houses and likely summer programs are geared to underprivileged students, including many races and backgrounds, rural and urban, and likely not from top CA schools. Sometimes, you have to admit your kids have a lot going for them and others do not, and as you say, she had lots of other opportunities.
A FIRST participant probably wasn’t an ideal audience for a “look what STEM can do for you” type program. I think a lot of these programs really are trying to find talented but outsider students who can grow into a UC STEM program.
