Noticed that there isn’t a thread for this already! Is anyone on the UC Davis waitlist and accepting that position? Has anyone on this forum successfully gotten off the waitlist and into Davis and how did they do so?
I actually want to know them chance of getting in by being waitlist .
From 2015 Waitlist for Freshman and Transfers:
Number of qualified applicants offered a place on waiting list: 9033
Number accepting a place on the waiting list: 2733
Number of wait-listed students admitted: 2030
This is dependent on how many will SIR by May 1.
Data from 2014:
Davis 6,352 offers
2,177 opt-ins
8 admits
7 SIRs
Where did you get that info @Gumbymom ? I’d love to read the article
Not much you can do other than submitting the forum they want you to fill out and waiting until late May- early July. I knew a guy who had already gotten into UCSD but UCD was his #1 choice and simply wrote, “I love bikes” for his waitlist statement and was accepted while another wrote a ton of sentimental crap and was ultimately rejected l0l.
Like @Gumbymom said, the number of people they accept off the waitlist will depend on the number of people who were accepted choose to attend the school. If a high amount of people decide to accept their offers of admission, most likely they’ll accept very few people off the waitlist. If not, they’ll accept a high amount like they did last year(was to my understanding that they basically accepted everyone off there last year).
Ugh, I got into UCSD for Math, but I’m still confused why Davis waitlisted me.
@potatoheadhala yield protection probably
@Gumbymom, am I reading the stats correct that in 2015 74% of those who opted in were ultimately offered admission and in 2014 it was less than 1%? Are there theories on why there is such a big difference between those two years?
BTW, son applied for Mechanical Engineering and was waitlisted. He will opt in to the waitlist.
- CSU/UC GPA: 4.14
- SAT: 630 CR, 690 M, 570 W (CR+M+W = 1890)
- ACT: 28
- SAT Math II: 570
- Good extracurriculars
- Good UC essays
- His high school does not offer AP classes and does not award honors.
- Southern California resident
He thought he had about a 50-50 chance of being accepted to UCD, and I guess he was right.
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My son was waitlisted for Computer Science. . We are totally confused. SAT 2190 with 800 in math. Math 2 and Physics subject tests 800. ACT 35, GPA 4.83. Decent EC’s. Ranked #1 in his class. He’s lost hope in getting into Berkeley now which was his second choice to Davis.
That is strange @Momobear. My friend has very similar stats and he got accepted to UCSD, waitlisted at Davis. Seems to be a trend.
After viewing accepted stats it does. My son asked me why he bothered working so hard. Heartbreaking. . A life lesson though I suppose.
Davis has high standards for their waitlist this year…something you can brag about even. I feel honored to be a part of it.
@Momobear I feel the same as your son. If I don’t get into a college I desire, I might as well go for community college and save money, but then what was the point of working hard for 4 years.
@Gumbymom I think the 2014 stat for admits is 800, as opposed to 8 (checked niche.com)
@Momobear: Each UC campus reviews each applicant independently and has different criteria in which to base their decisions. Essays and EC’s are subjective and each school is trying to find students that “fit” their campus. I also agree about yield protection in that many applicants like to use UCD as a safety knowing they will probably not attend which I am sure all the other campuses practice also. SLO is another example of high stat rejections, again for yield protection and applicants using SLO as a safety.
Where someone goes for undergrad will not define them. It is what you do with the opportunities you are given.
@alscrw: The 2015 waitlist data is from the common dataset. The 2014 waitlist data is from Ms Sun’s UC Blog
Can someone explain to me something.
This is an excerpt from Davis’s waitlist website (https://www.ucdavis.edu/admissions/undergraduate/freshman/waitlist): “You may still accept an offer to be on the UC Davis waitlist even if you have accepted admission at another college. If you are admitted from waitlist, then you may submit a SIR to enroll at UC Davis and cancel your acceptance at the other college.”
How exactly does this work. Let’s say I am admitted to UCSD and I still accept the waitlist offer to Davis. If I make it to Davis, I would have to reject UCSD (through a SIR)? And If I don’t make it, I just go to UCSD? Also, what is a SIR?
Does anyone have any success stories?
Waitlisted by Davis for CSE, probably not gonna accept waitlist since I already have UIUC CE, was surprised since they accepted people with way lower sat scores last year
SIR is short for, Statement of Intent to Register.
TL;DR: SIR=You submit a contact to the school saying you’re going to attend.
Yes, basically, you have to submit your SIR to another school that you’ve been accepted to first because the deadline for that is May 1, and UCs don’t start taking people off the waitlist until AFTER May 1.
If Davis accepts you off the waitlist after you’ve sent in your SIR to UCSD or some other school, just retract/cancel your SIR to UCSD/some other school and submit your SIR to UCD.