UC San Diego Freshman Class of 2026 Discussion

Accepted UW4.0/W4.6 Biological science. Received email first then portal. Good Luck for others who are waiting.

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Instate, got in as “undeclared” (applied CS)

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Denied. In-State. Marine Biology 4.1 GPA

In state business psychology

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Accepted!
OOS w/ first choice major of Political Science and sixth college!
4.0 UW/4.5 W

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S denied, math
4.0/4.76
4 APs (5,5,5,4)
10 DE

(edited, fixed GPA)

S22 waitlisted at UCSD Data Science. :smirk:

WC GPA 4.13; FW GPA 4.21

5 AP classes; 2 college courses; lots of ECs. 9% ELC. Instate.

Congrats :tada: to all those accepted.

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WL people, how do you know what major you are waitlisted for? seems to me WL is same as undeclared.

Just received an email from UCSD to check the portal.

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My daughter was accepted neuroscience major. She was denied at SDSU nursing today.

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doesn’t show for me, but i assume it’s for the first choice major

D is waitlisted 4.2
1540
CS

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4% acceptance rate???

waitlisted 4.0/4.69

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DS22 accepted in state CS. 4.00/4.36/4.73, NMF

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There are more WLs than Admits and Denials.

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… and? Accepted?!

Where do you see that?

The # of spots (6,600) is not the acceptance rate. It is just the amount of kids they expect to attend. The yield rate is around 18% so they accepted around 4-5x more kids than the spots they have.

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6,600 accepted out of 130,000 applications! Acceptance rate dropped from 34% in 2021 to 5% now. Wow…

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