Q: Can I appeal your decision?
A: If you have new or compelling information that pertains to your application, you may appeal the decision, whether or not you are on the waitlist. Appeal procedures can be found in UCSC’s Information for First-Year Students Not Offered Admission. Please note that if there is nothing new or compelling, an appeal may not be appropriate.
does anyone know if theres a facebook group or groupme for the class of 2022?
@Gumbymom would senior grades be considered new or compelling?
@strssdabtcollege: UCSC does not specify if senior grades will be considered upon appeal. Some campuses do specify that doing well Senior year is not a valid reason for an appeal, since acceptances are provisional and it is a given that you need to do well Senior year or risk being rescinded. I think it is worth your time to appeal and the worst outcome would be that you are still on the waitlist.
@strssdabtcollege On the page where you write your appeal, there are boxes you can check that state your reason for appealing. One of them is “significant improvement in most recent grades” so your recent improvement definitely counts as a reason to appeal!
D got in.
Major: Biology
UC GPA 4.1
SAT 1220
Average EC’s
Very good essays
D also got into Davis (dream school and a reach) for Animal Biology. She’s already SIRed to Davis. Her stats are average, and lower than many admitted to Davis and Santa Cruz. I think it was her essays that got her in… I’ll just put this out there for future UC applicants who may be thinking of hiring consultants to help with essays. Don’t do it. The thing about my daughter’s essays that stood out? They were totally hers. There were no re-writes or edits by me or any teachers, friends, or consultants. They were simple and written from the heart. She wrote about her love of animals, her shyness and introversion, her autistic brother, her hard work. That’s all. I think her voice came through. Think about it.
@Andreq. You don’t need to explain or apologize for a thing. You have been a parent in the true meaning of the word. Who cares who doesn’t like it? I know what it means to need love and guidance from a parent who was “hands off” and can tell you it was awful. I applaud you.
@strssdabtcollege the UC’s don’t take into account freshman year grades.
@cawmom and @strssdabtcollege: UC’s do consider Freshman year grades in the context that you pass the a-g course requirements but are not included in the UC GPA calculation.
Son accepted - Physics Major
UW GPA 4.0, UC GPA 4.3
SAT 1460
Good essays (IMO)
Waitlisted UCD and SLO for Mechanical Engineering (first choice major), admitted MechE at UIUC EA, CU Boulder Pre-engineering, UW COE, SDSU, SJSU, Cal Poly Pomona
ME is my son’s first choice major so he will be declining his spot at UCSC even though I’ve heard wonderful things about its other programs. Congrats to those admitted!
Son was accepted to bioengineering (biomolecular). SAT 1510, GPA unweighted 3.93, and ?weighted (had 2 APs and one honors/college class each year), SAT2 math2 and physics 800, Bio-molecular 780. 5s on APs. Won math competition, works for math tutoring company and UC research lab volunteer work.
Waitlisted at Cal Poly SLO and UC Davis for non-engineering bio related majors. Everyone I know that has attended UCSC (including myself) has enjoyed the experience. Campus is spacious and beautiful. Academics are solid/appropriately challenging but not overly stressful. Students seem friendly and diverse. I’ve known many that have went to top med schools after graduation including UCSF and competitive East Coast med schools.
@Gumbymom thanks for the info!! i think i am just going appeal w/ my senior year grades and a new leadership position i have at work, doesn’t seem like it can do any harm!
@cawmom yeah fair, although my sophomore year grades were also pretty problematic so i’m just hoping to show an upward trend!
@shaswizzle thank u sm!! thats good to hear, ill likely do that
Great advice as my daughter got accepted to SDSU, cal poly SLO, UC davis and today UCSC. She wrote her essays without input. We are OOS ( Hawaii) and her stats are ACT 29 GPA 4.7 W. IB school. Strong leadership, outrigger paddling, and activism ( MYP project was getting rid of single use plastics). Good luck to you all. I’m a single mom and she might not get to go to California financially. 
Hey everyone! I already asked this before, but does anybody know where we can access financial aid/scholarship decisions?
Son was accepted into Robotics Engineering. SAT 1410, Weighted GPA around 4.25, unweighted around 3.85. Fair amount of extracurricular,(orchestra/music and sports) and pretty good essays. Rejected at UC Davis and Cal Poly (both mechanical engineering). Waiting for UCSB decision, ETA ~ March 20th.
S accepted to biomedical engineering. GPA around 4.5, SAT 1500, ACT 34. We are going to visit the school this weekend and walk around by ourselves to get a better feel for it. He was also accepted the Cal Poly, Davis, Irvine and Santa Barbara (different major at SB).
In the past how many applicants are taken off the waitlist? Does anyone know? Also CONGRATZ to everyone that got in! 
I would also like to know how many people have been taken off the waitlist in previous years @adesperateant