UC Irvine Class of 2027 Official Thread

accepted to CS!
Unweighted 3.76 but I took a couple APs.
Demographics: Male, Asian.

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Don’t believe so.

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Decision: accepted

Major (and division if applicable) applied to: biomedical engineering

ACADEMIC STATS::
UC Unweighted GPA: 4.0
Weighted GPA: 4.28

Comments about course load (including senior year):

Number of AP courses: 3
Number of IB courses: 12

Major Awards: National essay
SUBJECTIVE::

Extracurriculars: officer medical club. Officer health services. Engineering internship. Soccer-varsity and club.

Job/Work Experience: part time job

Volunteer/Community service: stewardship club

Summer Activities:internship. Summer school every summer

Personal Insight essays (details): reflective.

DEMOGRAPHICS::

State/location of HS (if domestic applicant): Hawaii

Country (if international applicant):

Applied for need-based financial aid? No

First Generation? No

Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/denied:
Accepted. Uc Irvine. Uc San Diego. Cal poly slo. UW. SDSU. UCLA. Uc Davis.

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Daughter accepted!

OOS. UW 3.87, Weighted 4.1. National Honors Society, AP’s, clubs, volunteer hours, athletics, EC’s.

Waiting to hear from a few others before she commits! Good luck to all!

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Decision: Rejected
Major applied to: Aerospace Engineering
ACADEMIC STATS::
UC Unweighted GPA: 4.0
UC Capped Weighted GPA: 4.27
UC Fully Weighted GPA: 4.33

ELC (top 9% CA HS): yes

Comments about course load (including senior year):
Number of a-g courses:
Number of UC Approved Honors courses: school does not offer any
AP courses/exams (scores in parentheses): She took almost all available at her school - AP Euro (4), AP Lang (5), AP Psych (5), AP Calc AB and BC (3), Senior Year - AP Physics, AP Chem, AP Enviro Sci, AP Gov, AP MicroEcon
IB courses/exams (score in parentheses): school does not offer any

SUBJECTIVE::
Extracurriculars:
president & founder of engineering club
president & founder of women in Stem club
captain of robotics team
president & founder of creative writing club
6 years of coding -html, java, mostly Python
coded an open source doc used to send updated commands to some currently active satellites
co-coordinated an elementary school STEM fair
coordinated a professional women in STEM panel

Job/Work Experience: has worked minimal hours at a job for the last 6 months
Volunteer/Community service: 60hrs
Summer Activities: not very much

Personal Insight essays (details): Writing is a strength for her.

Supplemental/Augmented Review: no

DEMOGRAPHICS::
State/location of HS (if domestic applicant): CA
Country (if international applicant):
Applied for need-based financial aid? no
First Generation? no

Accepted: UCD, Westmont- Augustinian Scholarship, UCSC, UC Riverside, Cal Poly Pomona
Rejected: UCI, UCLA, UCSD

Daughter rejected.

In-state
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
3.97UW | 4.3 UC Weighted and capped | 4.4 UC Weighted
50 DE credits, 1 AP (4)
Top 9%
4 years of choir, musical theater, college level tutoring, 5 years of her own babysitting business, college honor society.

Accepted: UC Davis, UC Santa Cruz, Cal Poly Humboldt, WUE schools (Utah State, NAU, Montana State, University of Montana, University of Wyoming, KU, University of Idaho, Boise State, Washington State)

She is perfectly fine with this. UC Davis is her #1 choice and that’s where she is going. Go Ags!

Congratulations to all who got accepted today. :tada:

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Does anyone know the admit rate for business administration?

For 2022, it was 8.8%

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Decision: Accepted
Major (and division if applicable) applied to:
Data science

ACADEMIC STATS::

UC Unweighted GPA: 3.96
UC Capped Weighted GPA: 4.29
UC Fully Weighted GPA: 4.63
ELC (top 9% CA HS): Yes

Comments about course load (including senior year): 13 Ap

Summer Activities: Uc Davis Cosmos

Accepted: UCLA,Cal poly Sol, SantaClaraUniversity
Waitlisted: UCD UCSD
Waiting on: UCSB UCB

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Are you OOS?

Created a separate thread to vent about UCI decisions here - Vent about UC decisions

Update was in portal. Email just said there was a change in status.

My son was rejected
Weighted GPA: 4.29, unweighted GPA: 3.97
Number of a-g courses taken 9-12th: 27 a-g
Number of UC approved Honors/AP/IB or DE classes: 1 honors, 6 AP’s
Intended Major: Film and Media
Non-local CA resident from large public high school, Bay Area
Not ELC
EC’s: Varsity Baseball, acting, lots of film-related EC’s
Accepted to: UCSD, CSULB, CSUN, SF State, Puget Sound, ASU
Waitlisted at: UCD, LMU, UCSC
Rejected at: UCLA, UCI

He was very happy to get into UCSD today, so things worked out for him.

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what are the chances to get off the waitlist?

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We were 1-1-1 today too.

Accepted at UCI
Waitlisted at UCSD
Rejected at UCLA

4.0 UW
4.25 W

Also accepted: UCSC, Cal Poly SLO, UW-main (Seattle), Santa Clara, SDSU IU-Kelley, Loyola Chicago, the and a few other OOS colleges

Deferred: UMich (deferred), USC (deferred)

Rejected: Duke (ED)

Best of luck to you all on the rest of your decisions! He is waiting on a few others.

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Accepted!! (Business Admin Major)

UW GPA: 4.0
W GPA: 4.48

6 APs, 2 Honors, 2 Dual enrollments (all 5’s on exams, 4 on one)
ELC (top 9%): yes
Awards: book award from another university, UoR high school award in the humanities, social impact fellowship designed to bridge educational inequities for first-gen students, NSLI-Y finalist, U.S. youth ambassador finalist, national award for first-gen students
ECs: Japanese-American exchange program, president of culture clubs, Spanish honor society, mental health; AP World history tutor, owner of a blog, superintendent student advisory council
Accepted to: Cal Poly Slo, St. Andrew’s, UCSD, SDSU, Cal Poly SLO, UC Irvine, UCSC, SJSU, UCD, Macalester, Bowdoin, Williams, Amherst,Reed, Case Western, Rochester, American, UVA, SFSU
Waitlist: UCLA, Pomona college

College admissions is truly random! I hope everyone receives the news they desire in the future <3 Thank you for being a supportive thread. I wish you all the best.

  • At other schools, I applied as a history major except for Cal Poly Slo!

Wishing for all of us to find out place. Thank you parents for being supportive. We students appreciate you!

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Accepted at UCI with mathematics major. International Student. Also accepted to Berkeley via early notification. Waitlisted at UCLA.

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There is no way that is true. All applications get read before a UC releases.

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read it online. couldn’t believe it either. thank you for clearing it out!

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Congratulations on the UCI acceptance! My daughter got that too today. We were all hoping for UCLA (brother is there), but it stings less with two admits from UCI and UCSD. Lots of good choices, and I am so grateful for that!