Most live in Isla Vista, which is a little area close to campus that primarily houses students
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Competitive to get into or competitive once you are there?
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Does anyone know the admission status for bio-psychology? How hard is it to get into the major?
UCSB does not admit by major to the College of Letters and Sciences but you are admitted into a Pre-major status for Biopsychology. You then need to take the required courses to fully declare the major.
Use the 27% admit rate for the majors listed in the College of Letters and Sciences. (87816 applicants and 23540 admitted for 2022).
Biopsychology Major
The Biopsychology BS major is designed to guide students through the requirements of a Bachelor of Science degree. First, students work on the pre-major courses to qualify for joining the full major. Should they meet the requirements of the pre-major, students must then declare for the full major in order to eventually complete their degree.
Major Course Requirements
The Biopsychology BS major has 4 parts: Area I, Area II, Area III (also known as Preparation for the Major), and Upper Division. Please also review the major rules & regulations below.
Area I: Pre-Major Requirements (Part 1 of 2)
The following courses require a 2.7 UC GPA before admittance to the full major:
- PSY 1 - Introduction to Psychology (4 units)
- MATH 34A (or 3A or 2A) - Calculus I (4 units)
- PSTAT 5A (or 5LS or COMM 87) - Statistics (5 units)
- PSY 10A - Research Methods in Psych & Brain (5 units)
- PSY 10B - Statistical Methods in Psych & Brain (5 units)
Area II: Pre-Major Requirements (Part 2 of 2)
The following courses require a 2.0 UC GPA before admittance to the full major:
- CHEM 1A-B (or 2A-2B) - General Chemistry (6 units)
- MCDB 1A and EEMB 2 - General Biology (7 units)
- *CHEM 1C is a pre-requisite for MCDB 1A & EEMB 2 series.
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Competitive to get into. I know UCSB doesn’t admit by major but was just curious if anyone had relevant stats on it.
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Interesting. Where did you find the admit rate by college and is this information typically available for all UCs?
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Decisions are out!
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Our particular high school’s acceptance rate is a good bit lower than the 27%, yikes. Just looked and the past two year it was 21% and 18%, respectively. A school across the bay from us is like twice as high gahhhhhhhh. Trying to remind myself that daughter already has 4 great UCs to pick from and we can’t be greedy, but I know she wants this one. 
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I’m in! 4.0 UW, 4.8 uncapped weighted. Statistics and Data Science major. In-state.
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Accepted; 4.0 uw gpa, strong ECs (research, volunteering etc.)
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Good luck!! 
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The data is from the UC Counselor conference and not available for each campus.
the results are out?
son waitlist mech engineering
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Denied for Comp Eng
UW 3.6, W 4.1, UC GPA 3.92
In-state
9 APs, 2 Honors
Decent PIQs, plenty of ECs, leadership, p/t job
WL at UCSC (CS major), UCI (Comp Eng major)
UCR (CSBA major), CPP (CS), Cal Poly SLO (CS) - still waiting decision but not hopeful
Admitted to SJSU (Comp Eng), and for CS at SFSU, Chico, CSUF, Oregon State, ASU.
Very glad that we applied widely across Cal States…at this point D and us are more relieved than anything else as we get closure on all these applications one way or the other.
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Please post your stats and here is a decision template for all to use.
Congratulations to all admits.
Decision:
Merit scholarships awarded (if any):
Major (and division if applicable) applied to:
ACADEMIC STATS::
Calculate your GPAs with GPA Calculator for the University of California – RogerHub
UC Unweighted GPA:
UC Capped Weighted GPA:
UC Fully Weighted GPA:
ELC (top 9% CA HS):
Comments about course load (including senior year):
Number of a-g courses:
Number of UC Approved Honors courses:
Number of AP courses/exams (scores in parentheses):
Number of IB courses/exams (score in parentheses):
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
SUBJECTIVE::
Extracurriculars:
Job/Work Experience:
Volunteer/Community service:
Summer Activities:
Personal Insight essays (details):
Supplemental/Augmented Review: Yes or No
DEMOGRAPHICS::
State/location of HS (if domestic applicant):
Country (if international applicant):
Applied for need-based financial aid?
First Generation?
REFLECTION::
Strengths:
Weaknesses:
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/denied:
GENERAL COMMENTS:
Daughter waitlisted. Will consider that a soft rejection and move on. Looks like it’s a hard admit from our high school. Congrats to those admitted!
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Was she also WL for UCSD & UCI
Seems like the state has it out for me, every in state uni I applied to has rejected outside of CPP which didn’t give me my major, yet every OOS flagship that I applied to except for UIUC and UDub accepted me, and financial issues make them meaningless
Decision: Reject
Major (and division if applicable) applied to: CS
ACADEMIC STATS::
UC Unweighted GPA: 3.95
UC Capped Weighted GPA: 4.38
UC Fully Weighted GPA: 4.68
ELC (top 9% CA HS): SWG & ELC
Comments about course load (including senior year): 16 CC/46units 5 Honors 8 AP
Number of a-g courses: 34
SUBJECTIVE::
Extracurriculars: 6 fig biz Saxophone player Boy Scouts Political Intern Sysadmin
Personal Insight essays (details): bad essays
Supplemental/Augmented Review: No
DEMOGRAPHICS::
State/location of HS (if domestic applicant): CA, LA
Applied for need-based financial aid? Yes
First Generation? Immigrant but not College
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rejected for env sci 
uc wise acceptances/wlsts/rejections:
accepted into uc riverside
waitlisted: ucsc uc davis uci ucsd
rejected: ucla
i’m probably gonna get rejected at uc berkeley too 
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