@phemrajani As has been said, in order to open up a spot to those of us whose kids were waitlisted, please if he’d prefer one of the other campuses he got into, have him deny the offer ASAP so it gives those of our kids who are waiting a chance of being admitted. Kids who were put on the waitlist are those that came close but not close enough and that there was no more room to accept them. So if others deny their offer who would prefer to go other places, it opens up spots for those who are waiting. Thx!
No financial aid here, but was not expecting any.
my portal says no information available for financial aid yet, does that mean I didn’t get any?
Accepted!!
Major: Politics
In-state
UC GPA: 4.3
ACT: 30
ECs: Pretty Good
Accepted: UCD, SDSU (weber), Cal Poly SLO, CSUN
Daughter was Waitlisted.
Major: Communications
Gpa: 3.89
Sat: 1230
ACT: 27
EC: ASB VP, 3 years Cheer
Essays: strong
Colleges accepted: CSULB, SFSU, U of Denver, Depaul, Colorado State
Waitlist/ rejection: Rejected from CPSLO, Waiting on SDSU, UCSB, UCI, UCSD, UCLA (knowing a couple of those are unlikely acceptances, but who knows)
Will she attend: quite possibly if they change to accepted and she doesn’t get into one of her other pending acceptance schools. She has accepted the Waitlist.
@Jennoelc Hi - my understanding is that there is no Mechanical engineering major at UCSC? Can you clarify your note? Did you mean Robotics Engineering ? My son applied to latter.
@Andreq not sure what can be done to maximize chances. If anyone knows please let us know!
@calgraduclamom I understand what you’re saying about them all blurring together at this point in your mind. OK. No there is no reason for him to appeal… As I said his academics and test scores are far below what anybody else’s are who are admitted so I think because of what he wrote in his essays explaining his situation is probably the only reason that he was even able to get waitlisted. His education consultant however did say for those of her students in the past who were waitlisted for Berkeley… She did have them send an essay but maybe that was just on top of everything else. She said she has never had any of her students waitlisted at Santa Cruz. Sadly my son and I do not have a good mother son relationship for various reasons and he never in 1 million years would ever sit down with me. He also has never given me any of his portal passwords for any other university for me to see if he’s even missing anything from other universities that maybe should’ve been turned in… He is very close mouthed with me. The fact that he even came downstairs this morning and said he was waitlisted is actually a big deal… because he actually shared something with me. But OK thank you very much.
@adesperateant Ok so your daughter I think it was its just going to do whatever the steps were and not do anything extra such as send an essay? His consultant has never had anybody waitlisted from Santa Cruz but in the past when she has had students waitlisted from Berkeley she said she always has them send an email in addition to whatever else the University asks for for those students who were waitlisted. But then again Berkley is different in Santa Cruz.
UCSC waitlist is not ranked and completely random
@Andreq Berkeley DOES require an essay for their waitlist. My daughter was waitlisted there as well (and later admitted). Each UC is different.
@Andreq- I already told him this morning but he was getting ready for his school and we will discuss it tonight at dinner table and see what he thinks.
Son Accepted.
UC GPA: 3.83
SAT: 1410
Strong essays
ECs nothing spectacular
From a project-based learning junior high and high school.
Waitlisted :0
Pretty worried actually, since UCSC was a safety school and my goals are UCSD and UCLA.
GPA: 3.31 (UC ~3.45) (extenuating circumstances)
SAT: 1470
ACT: 35
Mediocre essays
EC: Piano 11 years, varsity lacrosse, art (California Arts Scholar, went to CSSSA)
8 AP classes total (2 junior year, 6 this year) – french, bio, psych, music theory, art studio, art history, calc ab, lit
100+ hours community service, been working at a roller rink for past few months
I’m a bit confused, but I’m sure there was a reason. Looking at the scattergram for applicants from my school, I’m one of about 5 other students in a sea of acceptances for my score ranges that got waitlisted. I hope my essays weren’t worse than I thought – if that was one of the determining factors then I’m afraid of what will happen with the other UCs I applied to.
oomf i wish you the best of luck my bud:). is ucsc a school that you would want to go to badly?
@imsydv everything you do counts for something. You’re waitlisted. That’s promising in and of itself. Appeal…get a letter of recommendation from a teacher, write a stellar appeal letter–all those things count. From what I’ve read here on the forums, submitting appeals on the as a waitlisted student seems to help. Remember, not all of the kids that got accepted are going to accept the UCSC offer; so spots WILL open up. Please don’t lose hope.
Where do we see the financial aid info?
If you are on the waitlist, does appealing really help? If it really does increase my chances of being accepted, what would I write about because I don’t have any “new information” to provide. It was all there in my application.
Does a recommendation letter from a teacher really help too?
My understanding is that appeals are tailored to address students who are outright rejected as opposed to waitlisted. Of course, every school is different.
For those on waitlisted, according to last year’s cds, 10378 qualified applicants placed on waitlist and 6038 accepted to be on the waitlist (58%), and 2236 admitted (37%), way better # than SLO.