I’m starting to think of it like that. It’s a great school that just doesn’t get a lot of love for some reason. I wish my son and I could visit, but we’ve been really careful about the pandemic. Is campus even open for tours?
Im in socal around 3 hours away from campus. I visited last week and I loved it. Unfortunately most of the campus is closed but I visited the dorming area and talked to the people that attend the school and they said they really liked it. They also have these really nice new dorms. They are really nice
there are no actual tour guides but you can go on campus!
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has anyone heard anything?
Nope. Honestly idk what’s taking them so long. I’ve already lost interest after acceptances from Davis and SLO but I’m still curious. I wonder if they’ll release after Cal
Interesting. It was the first acceptance my son received other than Sonoma State, and they actually sent physical mail with a February date on it. I’d be curious to hear what happened. He’s waitlisted at Davis and that was the one we were holding out to hear.
Honestly I think riverside is a great school with a new medical school. I’m not sure how that factors into what your son wants to do but I’d be happy attending Riverside given the infrastructure. I don’t know much about the CSUs other than CPSLO, and SDSU but I’ve heard Sonoma State is an up and coming school so he has some great options!
He was accepted to SDSU (I said already, though not sure about this thread) and that seems like a viable option, though “UC” has more of a ring to me as a parent. The one thing I’ll say about Sonoma State is that they sent their acceptance in about a week, and it was great to get that feeling of “safety” from the safety choice. It’s also closer and I like the Sonoma area a lot. I could see it as a springboard for transfer, but he already has better options.
SDSU is fantastic! I’ve only ever heard good things about it and I applied there as well. It’s reputation as a party school is long gone and I’ve heard of major companies recruiting from the student pool there. It’s also a research university unlike other CSUs including the cal polys. Riverside is ranked a bit higher nationally but SDSU is starting to make a name for itself as a good school
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interestingly my friend logged onto the UCR portal last night to see that he was rejected. I’m curious as to why they would reject some people before the large wave.
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Wow that’s certainly strange. Are they a freshman or transfer applicant? My portal still says I’m being considered
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I also had a friend who was rejected. I still have not received any application status updates through. It still says considering!
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Was your friend also rejected last night, because if so maybe the wave of rejections was yesterday or on the more unfortunate aspect this is the start of the rejection wave. Hopefully, it isn’t the latter and they rejected those people before the wave of more acceptances…Idk;-;
Wait the large wave? I thought that already happened on March 2nd…If I’m mistaken then great! I too am waiting and if the “large wave” is yet to happen then like 
I’m really curious. How come UC riverside releases decisions after all the other UCs which are considered bigger fish? I got accepted into UCSD and while Iwould be extremely grateful and happy for a UCR acceptance, I would not consider UCR as much as i am considering UCSD now since UCSD is better for my programme. Doesn’t it result in less yield?
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I agree. I was admitted at UC Davis and I’d also be glad to be admitted to UCR but I no longer have as much incentive to apply. I wonder if they’ll release after Berkeley
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Do you guys think Riverside is rather late for their final wave due to the top 9% rule? Do kids who didn’t apply to UCR bump kids who did apply? Does UCR hold spots for the top 9%?
Sorry for asking the same question three different ways ;-). Just curious
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The top 9% rule basically puts those students into UC Merced. I don’t necessarily think it is UCR.
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Most likely due to being on the lower end of the UC spectrum they cannot release all decisions as confidently knowing they will have lower students applying. If you think about it most that apply to UCR are going to apply to other UCS and therefore would want to go to the higher-ranked ones which most of them are. They probably hold off to analyze the number of immediate acceptance rejections and those that actually intend to attend then let out their final wave. But saying that, then waitlists come into play raising the question of why they don’t just use that so its all confusing 
I guess these are competitive majors like CS and the applicants who have not received yet may not have made the first cut (very high stats). Several of these first cut kids would likely have got into other southern California UCs like UCLA, UCSD, UCSB or UCI - and UCR may be waiting for analyzing how many of these folks decline admissions. If the number who decline is high, they may send more acceptances for the second cut before March 31. If the number is low then they will waitlist the second cut folks. The question you ask is why not waitlist them directly - but some of these second cut students will take it as an insult they were waitlisted at UCR but would consider UCR as an option if they were admitted late (just before March 31). Easier on the ego to say to high school friends that one has not yet received admission from UCR than to say UCR has waitlisted me. This is all a guess but may be true as UCR is not as highly ranked as the other UCs. But it is a tricky game for UCR - as some may decide in the meantime on out of state or private over UCR.
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