Not Accepted - 3.98 GPA, 1560 SAT, 13 APs, 1 CC, great EC’s - on national television, hosted events regional and international (20k raised), Presidential Volunteer Gold Medal honor, DECA international finalist three times, leadership roles, $30K Gov’t scholarship award, etc etc
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Pomona college is out? I did not see anything.
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oh ok. My daughter mail just states" received over 150,000 applicants this year…"
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DS rejected aerospace engineering
3.97UW/4.28capped/4.67W
Great STEM course rigor
SF Bay Area
Good leadership ECs
Varsity & Club Sports
No hooks
a 5% acceptence rate for ucsd is wild
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Rejected for human biology. Actually prefer rejection to waitlist so I can mentally move on.
Accepted UCD, UCSC, SDSU, Santa Clara, UOregon, Penn State, Pitt
Waitlisted UW
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closer to 15% accounting for yield
Decision: Accepted
Major (and division if applicable) applied to: Cognitive Science
ACADEMIC STATS::
UC Unweighted GPA: 4.0
UC Capped Weighted GPA: 4.36
UC Fully Weighted GPA: 4.64
ELC (top 9% CA HS): Yes
Comments about course load (including senior year):
Number of UC Approved Honors courses: 1
Number of AP courses/exams (scores in parentheses): 11 (scored 5 in 5 courses, 4 in 2 courses, 4 in senior year)
Number of CC courses: 1
SUBJECTIVE::
Extracurriculars: Freshman/Varsity Basketball and club sport(4 years), Science club 4 years(President 2 years), Mock UN club 2 years
Job/Work Experience: SWE in a startup since 2 years
Volunteer/Community service: SONC volunteer coach 2 years
Summer Activities: GMU ASSIP research - 1 summer
Personal Insight essays (details): Decent essays
Supplemental/Augmented Review: No
DEMOGRAPHICS::
State/location of HS (if domestic applicant): Bay Area public high school
First Generation? No
Accepted: UCD, SDSU, UC Riverside, UW Seattle, UPitt Honors College
Denied: UT Austin, Georgia tech, UIUC
Deferred: Northeastern
Waitlisted: UCSC
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DD rejected. Moving on!
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Rejected. Major was Global South Studies 
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Son got accepted to Computer Engineering. On Mobile now, will fill up details later.
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rejected business admin
D23 accepted to Data Science!
GPA: unweighted 3.97, weighted 4.44
12 APs, majority STEM with scores of 4,5 mostly, couple 3s (five APs in progress though)
In state Bay Area
Good ECs -
Martial Arts black belt(s)
Club founder for girls welfare
Club president for GWH
Club VP for mental wellness
Won some regional STEM contests
Summer internships during covid and last year (stem related)
Essays: how can I tell? I am a parent and we had no counselor help. To me they looked fine :), without prior experience
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daughter accepted Visual Arts - Studio 
instate
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More like 25% is my prediction.
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If these #s are true, then UCSD probably got more apps than Cal this year. Has that ever happened before?
D23 accepted
Major: neurobiology
UC unweighted : 4.0
UC capped weighted 4.3
Completely weighted ( her own high school) 4.6
Rank 16 out of > 400
8 AP ( AP world freshman yr, Ap bio sophomore year, AB calc, AP Chem, Apush junior year, BC calc, AP physics + 1 more I can’t remember for senior year- submitted all AP grades …. Not fantastic all 4’s except 3 in APush
Currently taking BC Calc, AP physics
Extracurricular- were ok but showed a strong interest in neuro pts… worked with memory care pts and best buddies / special Olympics for snowboarding .
I think her PIQ were catchy and showed her personality .
We are OOS so probably an advantage
accepted: UCR, UCSC, UCD
Good luck everyone !
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My daughter just got accepted for Human Biology.
We are local.
4.0/4.9 GPA
#2 in class of ~400
Language immersion, med tech pathway, 3 sport athlete but light on EC’s
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Daughter accepted
OOS - chemical engineering which was second choice (first was bioengineering)
How hard would it be to switch within engineering disciplines (within the first year or so)?
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Accepted OOS CS. 5.0 weighted UC GPA, 15+ APs, some olympiad/humanities/research ECs. Attended an admissions event when the counselor came to my school. PIQs were decent but not my best probably.
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