Here is the link to the appeal process. You need new and compelling information not originally submitted on the UC application. Appeal approvals are rare and you need to show UCI why you are stronger applicant than indicated on your original application.
I personally would move on unless you can show extenuating circumstances such as Medical issues requiring you to remain near family as an example. Neither grades received in the current academic year nor mistakes made on the application are a basis for an appeal or the reversal of a decision.
There is no data on which majors are accepted from the waitlist. It will be based on which major has spots available after the SIR deadline. You can scour last year’s Waitlist discussion and see what majors were pulled from the waitlist but it will vary from year to year.
I searched last year’s discussion thread and saw 1 posted admit for Biomedical Engineering for an OOS applicant.
Which majors that are admitted from the waitlist will vary from year to year depending upon how many students enroll by May 1. No way to know and the more competitive the major, the less likely for an admit.
No, they usually start admitting after May 1. They purposely under admitted last year since they were over enrolled the year before. As spots opened up Early they pulled from the waitlist early.
This is frustrating. DS was accepted to Cal Poly but needs to accept by May 1st but is waitlisted at both UCI and UCSD. If they don’t reach out before the 1st he will be to commit to Poly even if they come back later and offer him a spot.
That is usually how the waitlist works. You SIR to another school and if admitted off the waitlist, you can accept the new school and lose the deposit or decline. In general, waitlisted students usually do not hear until after May 1.
Thanks for the quick response. My dtr was waitlisted for nursing and her only options for a direct entry nursing program is pretty much out of state at this point.
Sorry to hear the disappointing news. She can decline the waitlist and then file an appeal but appeals are rarely granted. Extenuating medical circumstances are a very valid basis for an appeal but you take a chance either way.
No, they will not accept any extra documentation. UC ‘s do not consider an applicants level of interest. If they accepted an LOCI, they would gave required a waitlist statement.
Hello! How are you? I am senior in Southern California! As a student who got waitlisted at UCI for Biological Sciences and is local to UCI, do you think being local gives a more advantage in being accepted?
I know that the waitlist is a “pool of highly qualified applicants,” but other than major openings, is there any way that they select who gets off the waitlist? Like if for example, there are 5 physics major opening, and 100 waitlisted for physics, how do they pick which 5 get in out of the 100?
And out of curiosity, how likely would you say it is that they followed the same admission strategy (under admitting and taking from the waitlist) as last year?
UCI had 26,748 Undergrads enrolled for 2022. 5184 Enrolled Freshman last year and their largest Freshman class was 6088 in 2021. What their Freshman class capacity or Total Under grads capacity, I do not know.