I applied to a UC campus and unfortunately was not offered admission. I received an email titled UC Santa Cruz Offer from the admissions department telling me to consider ENROLLING at UC Santa Cruz; however, I did not apply to Santa Cruz. Did anyone else get this type of email? Could this be some kind of scam?
If you were in the top 9% at your high school, you’re guaranteed to get into at least one UC school. Were you in the top 9%? If you were, maybe that’s why UC Santa Cruz offered you admission.
Or are you a transfer student? Maybe the UC Santa Cruz admissions department saw your application and were impressed so they wanted you to come to their school.
I was only in the top 11% of my class. I did apply to only the Berkeley campus so admission to the UC system was definitely harder on my part. I just don’t understand why Santa Cruz would offer enrollment to their school when my application, to be quite honest, was nothing spectacular.
I also got the email this morning. I am an international student who applied to UCSD (reject) and UCLA (waitlist). I don’t know what the email really means, but I take it as an admission offer…
Either way, I don’t think I will enroll at UCSC so…
By the way, what scores did you have? I had a 3.7 UC UW GPA and a 1380 SAT
Check out this article from a few weeks ago about a mistake – Santa Cruz sent acceptance notes to students who had not applied. Did it happen again or were you in this group?
I just got an offer too LOL, I applied Berkeley and UCLA, International student xD
Just to make sure, the offer doesn’t mean they accepted you, but they want you to send an email before April 21 to apply after the regular admissions season?
Hmm. Let’s look at this situation. UC campuses received over 111,000 in-state freshman applications this year for about 33,000 total slots at the 9 UC undergraduate campuses. Super-qualified in-state kids are getting rejected left and right. So now we discover that UCSC has effectively extended the application deadline for certain applicants–just not for any California residents.
UCSC wants a"variety of perspectives"? Please. They want the 3X tuition and fees from OOS and international students. Really distressing.
Of course they do. On the other hand, UCSC is not exactly overrun with OOS and international students. For Fall 2016, UCSC undergraduates were 92.4% California residents, with only 7.6% OOS or international.
https://edsource.org/2017/uc-regents-debate-20-percent-cap-on-undergraduates-from-outside-california/578854
7.6% non-residents doesn’t seem like an unreasonably high number for a nationally-ranked state university. Furthermore, it is way below the 20% systemwide cap that UC has proposed, based on the current level of state funding.
The fundamental problem here is that even if we drove the number of non-resident students down to 0.0% (an obviously extreme measure), it wouldn’t alleviate the current crunch for CA residents. At UCSC, for example, non-resident students will take up a few hundred slots in the 3,900-student freshman class. So if we eliminated non-residents completely, we could make a few hundred more CA residents happy.
But UCSC currently rejects tens of thousands of CA residents annually. The total number of rejected UCSC applications this year was 27,503, most of which were from residents. Even the extreme move of eliminating all non-resident enrollment would make only a few hundred slots available, which is not much when tens of thousands of rejections are involved.
https://admissions.ucsc.edu/apply/first-year-not-admitted.html
I got the email as well. Emailed them back and received a second email today, saying they want me to pay the application fee and are basically guaranting me admission. Although the deans scholarship is a possibility I wonder how much they’ll actually offer me.
Waitlisted at UCB and UCLA btw
@labradoodle5 no, you have to email them back, wait for a response, pay the fee and then I’m assuming you’re pretty much in.
I was pointed to this thread, happened to me to and I’m OOS. Don’t think I’m going to take it as it’s unlikelt I’d actually get aid and I do think it’s unfair in many ways but I am grateful they considered me?
I just got a similar email from UC Riverside… I did not know they were that desperate
I guess they want higher tuition from out of state/international students.
UCRiverside too? Maybe that is why they still haven’t sent out financial aid awards to all the admitted students. Too busy recruiting more students? Ignore me; I’m just acting bitterly.
I also got an email from UC Riverside. They made it clear in their email how to proceed but UC Santa Cruz didn’t give a link to add the school to the application in order to pay the fee. Spoke with a rep and he asked me to forward my the email to him, and said he would get in contact with me once he figures out the problem.