Waitlisted poli sci
Gpa 3.5
No TAG
IGETC done
All prereqs done too other than cs class they just added on assist
WAS JUST ACCEPTED RANDOMLY. GL GUYS!!!
@arkcount off the waitlist?
Wailisted 3.7 business admin. Anyone know the waitlist acceptance rate of business admins?
I really hope this is one of those “everyone on the waitlist gets years.” Does anyone know how many people were offered addmissions this year? Or the yield rate?
Oh and,
TAG: no
IGETC: Yes
PreReq: not all
Major: Psych
GPA: 3.2 – but a massive upward trend is in progress.
Congrats @arkcount !! Enjoy it 
see this is what I have been trying to figure out. They told me no waitlist acceptances would go out until June, if they’re already rolling out I have high hopes for us all
Bio Major
Gpa:3.11
Waitlisted
What do you think are my chances guys? I had a personal reason as to why i got a low gpa and i explained that to Davis, but Irvine didn’t give me the chance to do so. 
Anyone else heard of people already getting accepted off the waitlist?
@arkcount What are the rest of your stats? Did you finish all of your pre-reqs? I’m surprised you got waitlisted.
JK just saw your next post grats
Does anyone know last years acceptance numbers from the transfer waitlist? Also whats this all or nothing thing people say about the UCI waitlist? Some years nearly everyone makes it off and other years no one does?
@jdsam23 Last year was about 32.98% overall according to http://■■■■■■■■■■■■/home/fall-2014-last-year-transfer-waitlist-appeal-cancellation-numbers/ . Although I suspect that its also purely on what seats become available in the school you applied to. So I wonder if numbers vary depending on department. Still… 32.98%% is pretty decent. 
Not to crush anyone’s hope – but I doubt any of the 3.0-3.2/3.3 waitlisted people are getting in. Just my hunch. If only 35% make it in off the waitlist – and that makes sense, I doubt any of the bottom half of the waitlist are getting in. Not to be “downer” or w/e, but honestly, I think the best advice now is to just get started on your next year personal statements NOW. Treat them like a reaearch paper, make sure grammer is perfect, make multiple drafts, get peer reviews, get teachers to give you comments and most importantly, work harder throughout spring. Honestly, all those hovering on a 3.1~3.2 (myself included) – that’s just not really good enough. Lets be real. Irvine takes, on average, 3.9GPA freshman with 1900-2000+ SAT’s. I’m sure the transfer average is somewhere between 3.6 and 3.8. Soo, us CC kids. A 4.0 isn’t really that hard unless you legit don’t understand the material. For example, last quarter I got a 3.6 because I got a B in bio. No excuse from me about it, bio was hard – and that’s why I’m on the waitlist, yeah?
This quarter it seems like I can swing a 4.0. I’m taking psych 15 (stats), CD10g (child development – super cool class for pstch majors, getts you ready for the gre psych subject test), Anthro 1 and Anthro 1L.
I think we all need to visit those “how to get straight A’s in college websites” – because they actually work guys. It’s all about study habits. I don’t believe everyone in here has a gpa that is representative of their best work. If we did, we wouldn’t all be on the waitlist. That’s how I see it.
Now, I’m really not trying to sound like a dick or anything, I’m just trying to give my honest opinion.
What are the chance of a humanities major with a 3.17 gpa getting off the waitlist? Is it true that I can appeal my waitlist status?
@fleetfeet2016 with respect, it seems like youre generalizing a bit here based maybe on your own experiences or challenges and either youre not aware that every transfer student faces different hurdles and its not simply a matter of looking at websites or studying more. Some of us are unemployed or under employed or work so much that sometimes school must take a back seat, some of us are parents with or without a partner and some of us are trying to make the best of an academic system which honestly seems to penalize older students with more units or credits (it is criminally hard to raise your gpa depending on the amount of units or credit after 60). Many of us are trying to drastically change our priorities from the past, lets face it, its really rough. Instead of telling people with 3.0’s that they have them simply because you think they didnt study enough ir whatever is really kind of narrow and is basically the same superficial judgement a lot of us face which fails to reflect exactly what we are all trying to accomplish. I think personally anyone who is here on these boards, acceptance/rejection or waitlist probably all worked exceptionally hard and deserve a break if anything, good job everyone who got into their top schools or a school cause i know for me getting into the U.C system is huge. Anyways, good job everybody, and good luck wherever you go.
Iono some people with 3.0 GPA’s got accepted and people with above 3.5 got denied. Anything can happen.
@DrPoyPoy exactly
@jdsam23 I’m in the exact situation you mentioned minus being a parent. I don’t feel any different about it. The UC system is a little less holistic than it seems – grades are number one, personal statements are tie breakers. I feel that this is one of the worst things about the UC system, and it shows in the student body at large, but, when they get as many applicants as they do, with no real central obligation to a mission statement based on decades of “culture” and “ethics” like the best private schools – what do you expect? Of course getting into the UC system is hard, it is. I also realize school is hard, especially when you have a family or a demanding job.
As a transfer applicant we have opportunity to show how we overcome struggle – but to do so, we actually have to overcome struggle. I watch hundreds of people transfer to UC’s from De Anza (my home school) each year, they mostly have 4.0’s, some 3.9’s some 3.8’s, the vast majority headed to UC Davis, UCSD, or Berkeley.
I’m not trying to be a dick as I said, if anything, I’m trying to help people. The UC’s are a little peculiar with addmissions. I’d honestly argue that schools like USC are easier to get into, provided you can write well and come across as witty in the essay(s). I’d also like to mention LMU, SCU, and Pitzer among them (in Ca).
All I’m saying is to keep an open mind about it all, we may very well get in and we may not.
I knew this when I applied, and I’m not so surprised to be waitlisted. I would have been surprised if I was outright accepted! And, even though I think I did a great job of explaining my personal circumstances – I think that is what got me a spot on the waitlist, albeit just barely. And, I’m extremely grateful that the UCI addmissions office was willing to give me a shot at attending.
I’ve spoken with counslers from Davis and Berkeley many times (they visit our campus regularly to answer questions) – it’s all about gpa and numbers They want to see the major requirments done as it says on assist.org and done well (high gpa). The best way to get into a UC is to show a fierce upward grade trend – as unfourtunate as it may seem, a lot of the time these schools purposefully choose those who are the highest “ranked” at their home institutions.
What I’m getting at is, that to get in, you need to be better than everyone else, or at least your absolute best. That means getting the best grades you can. Of course, the other option, you can always TAG. That’s what I plan to do next fall. A 3.2 is needed for Davis and SB for most majors, a 3.4 for Irvine, and a 3.0 for UCSC.
There are options for everyone! But, the catch is we need the gpa – that’s what i meant to communicate.
TAG is a great program, it really is. We aren’t unit limmited as CC students, so we have all the opportunity in the world to bring our gpa up!
Personally, I have 100 Units. And, I’m going to do w/e ever it takes to bring my GPA up from the 3.2 it is now and TAG.
The glass is either half empty or half full.
We certainly aren’t getting any breaks. Once we get in, if we get in, then of course there is the workload presented at the UC of choice. We are then faced with the remarkable challange of competing against all of those 3.9/4.0/2000+ SAT high school students. The vast majority of which where the top 10% of their high school class.
AND, the competition for grad school only gets stiffer.
We may as well learn to be the best while at a CCC right? We’ll need to be in order to do well at a UC. I feel that is the whole point of having selective addmissions.
Good luck to you @fleetfeet2016 , i see your point and while i agree with most of it, i would say that in the past few days im fairly certain that people with much higher gpa’s than mine and at least a few with TAG agreements were rejected… People here got into UCLA/UCB but were rejected from UCSC/UCI…theres not a clear set of instructions for sucess here in many cases so im saying its not necessarily fair to assume people that didnt make it are not studying or applying themselves. Anyhow, youve got a great attitude and passion so i know youll likely get where you wanna go but dont be hard on yourself as this year kind of defied alot of expectations and its by no means a reflection on any of our efforts in the last several months. Last novel from me lol
Also-not a parent myself, I just know many fellow students are and that its just one of many challenges we face as transfer students.
When a UC decides who in the waitlist gets in, do they decide by space within the department of their major or do they decide by space within the entire UC campus?