UC Santa Barbara Freshman Class of 2026 Discussion

[s318830]

Since I promised to share all results regardless of the outcome for future stats-gatherers:

• Admission Decision: Accepted undeclared to college of Arts and Sciences
• Applied Major: Computer Science
• GPA:
  – Weighted GPA: 4.29 (uncapped)
  – Unweighted GPA: 4.0
• In-state, non-local
• HS course rigor: 5 AP & 1 CC (AP Comp Sci A (4), AP Comp Sci Prin (5), AP Physics 1 (5), AP CALC A/B, & CALC B/C (pending), and a college Computer Programming class) A-G Reqs: A-2.5, B-4, C-6, D-4, E-3, F-1, G-3.5.
• EC’s and major-related job:
  – EPP Participation: none
  – Work: 21+ hours/wk, major-related
  – EC: 11-15 hours/wk (varsity tennis, officer in his school’s Cyber Patriot team, student rep to district’s CTE comp sci pathway, CSF, 120 hours of volunteer work)

Other results:
Accepted: San Diego State, Cal Poly Pomona, SLO, CSUF, CSULB
WL: UCSC, UCSD
Rejected: San Jose State for CS
Awaiting: UCR, UCB

[kms2015]

Daughter accepted
L&S pre-Econ
OOS
3.9uw, 4.7weighted
Class rank 1/654
Rejected UCLA, accepted UCSD

Congrats to others and good luck to all!

[CFC17]

Waitlisted. OOS, college of letters and sciences

[2Mom14]

D22 accepted pre-biology OOS
uw 4.0
Weighted 4.3 but we do not weight honors and I never tried to figure out the UC capped gpa etc.
varsity Poms
Lots of volunteer hours
Shadows PTs at a clinic
Several clubs
Officer of one
State winner in fccla

[123Class2023parent]

D WL’d
In-state undeclared
4.0 UW, 4.35 UC GPA, 4.45 Uncapped GPA
8 APs including senior year

Devastation over here

[dh2]

Daughter waitlisted, I am seriously heartbroken for her over this one.

L&S, in-state
4.0 uw 4.36 Capped 4.7 weighted
9 AP/11 honors
Part time job and plenty of ec’s

[rk_kris75]

DS22 in-state got accepted. W-4.5/UW-3.85/12 APs/SAT-1580.few ECs, but not a lot.

[Andy_Lam]

Probably have UW and W reversed.

[gauchoengineering]

just an FYI, I didn’t receive this text from UCSB Admissions, but I still got in.

[bobozeak]

WL
OOS
4.0
Biology

Crazy times.

[larryhd2]

Why does his acceptance say Pre-Chemistry as a major rather that just Chemistry, which is what he listed as his intended major?

[gauchoengineering]

Thank you for finding these stats ahead of time They really helped me with better understanding how brutally competitive UCs are for engineering majors.

[Luluzinha]

My S22 was admitted!!
In state for CS
Rejected for UCLA, Davis, Irvine, San Diego

Admitted to UCSB, UCSC, Merced

Still waiting UCR and UCB and SLO

[Greg_MacDonald]

Was 4.0 uw or w?

[Bigals]

Waitlisted OOS 3.72 UW GPA L & S 9 AP 5 honor classes 31 ACT really good ec’s though. Does anyone have the stats for waitlists?

[JenBar]

And we got the text and were waitlisted
And we got the early invite for UCLA Alumni Scholarship - and were rejected

None of it means anything, I’ve determined.

[browniebutton50]

Congratulations to you!!

[ucscuuw]

I am just glad it all worked out. As @Gumbymom often says you will land where you were meant to be.

[DeannaJo]

Waitlisted.
In-state
Poli Sci (Letters & Science)
UC GPA 4.22

[Gumbymom]

Students interested in graduating with a major in any area of chemical sciences enter UCSB as a pre-chemistry major and take a subset of this key preparatory coursework in introductory chemistry, mathematics, and physics. Once the pre-major requirements have been completed students may petition to declare one of the full majors. Note: Grades earned must meet the grade prerequisites for the full major.

You will need to receive a cumulative 2.0 GPA per sequence. There are a total of 6 sequences. Click here to calculate your GPA. We advise that you calculate your GPA per sequence.

1. General Chemistry: Chem 1A or 2A, 1B or 2B, 1C or 2C
2. General Chemistry labs: Chem 1AL or 2AC, 1BL or 2BC, 1CL or 2CC
3. Organic Chemistry: Chem 109A, 109B, 109C
4. Organic Chemistry labs: Chem 6AL and 6BL
5. Math: Math 3A-B, 4A, and 6A
6. Physics: Physics 1-2-3-3L-4-4L or 6A-AL-B-BL-C-CL

https://undergrad.chem.ucsb.edu/programs/chem-pre-major