*** UC SANTA CRUZ WAIT-LIST THREAD 2017 ***

they released another batch around midnight

my son got in last night, had appealed but told he was not in last Friday and still on waitlist. Based on above post I checked portal – he’s in! Had SIR’d to Riverside but luckily not paid housing deposit or orientation fees yet. Congrats to those who got in. My sons stat’s, for those wondering, are admittedly not overly impressive: 3.25 UC GPA (up to 3.5 first semester), 1340 SAT, 3/4/5 on APs, virtually no ECs other than baseball, virtually no comm service (but great essays, wrote nice TY notes to his tour personnel, and appealed with a good teacher recommendation, uptick in 1st sem grades.

@cohenapple What was your son’s major

think he picked psych for UCSC, but not for all schools he applied to, he’s not really committed to that or anything at this point (not a stemm kid, a liberal arts/humanities type), so need to look into changing/going undeclared.

checked my email at 6:50am and I got off the waitlist
major: cs
uc gpa w: 3.91
sat I: 1220/1600
good ec’s and essays
will sir to this school unless if uci accepts me

good luck to you all!

Our son got accepted. We just checked the Portal today, just in case, since no email had been sent and he is in! Major Psych, SAT 1460, was on waitlist and we did not appeal but sport coach wanted him. Might have helped. We did send an email to UCSC saying he was still very interested in getting in and had received a response saying we would know it between May 1 and June 1. Anyway, he is now in which is wonderful.

@tamratRL did you appeal

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Hi…my daughter was accepted off the waitlist today at 12am. She received an email at midnight and then this morning I checked the portal and she’s been updated to accepted.
Stats:
GPA 3.75
SAT 1220/1600
ECs - okay - played soccer for all 4 years (both HS and club along with playing in Europe last summer), volunteer little league umpire, active in creative writing club
Essays - good - she’s a writer

She did attend a tour and wrote a letter to the admissions team expressing her interest. Also, we are in state (live in Irvine), however we were in Vancouver Canada for her freshman and most of her sophomore year. It’s made the application process very interesting.

Good Luck to all of the Waitlisted students.

I was accepted off the waitlist this morning
GPA:3.9
SAT: 1230
lots of ECs

@bullseye4 what was your major

@BTSFAN Political science

Congrats to everyone who got in off the waitlist! At least from last year, a lot of people usually get off the waitlist right after 5/1 so I really hope I get accepted too.

Wish you get accepted too brohan1020!

Congrats to everyone already off the waitlist! I’m stressing out and really anxious about getting off the waitlist myself :(( I hope I get in!!! UCSC is my first choice!! It’s stressing me out because I applied for biology and I know it’s a competitive major :((

Anyone get off the waitlist recently? If not, does anyone know when the next wave is gonna come? Thanks

still waiting, next wave will probably come after may 1

Is there anyone here who has already SIRed to UCSC? My daughter did today, and received her payment confirmation email. But signing her SIR still shows as a “To Do” in her portal. Is that normal for the first few hours? Want to be sure she is signed by 5/1 deadline!

@calgraduclamom I SIR’d a couple hours before you did and it still shows that on my to-do list as well. An email was sent to my mom that the payment would take 1-2 business days but that the payment was confirmed so I think as long as you received that email then its fine. I hope to meet your daughter! Whats her major?

Hi there! Thank you for the reassurance; you are so sweet! She is Undeclared Humanities for now. Probably will end up as English or Psychology. Wants to be a high school English teacher or high school counselor.