My daughter learned yesterday by picking up our mail that she was admitted off the wait list but the letter was dated 4-25. Turns out they’d sent an email on that date but she never saw it. The letter gave her only until midnight last night (May 1) to accept. We tried to call admissions but they closed at 4 pm (didn’t get mail delivered until 4:15 p.m.) so she emailed to ask if any chance of extension. Got auto-reply that they wouldn’t get back to emails before the deadline last night. She’d already accepted at another school and gotten excited for it and wanted to go farther from home for school (we live 45 minutes away) so she doesn’t feel very inclined to change but wanted her to have more time to decide. Still haven’t heard back from the school.
Still waiting to hear back too! I was an Undeclared Environental Sciences Major.
Stats:
UC GPA: 3.8
W GPA: 3.96
SAT: 1220 (new)
I had decent EC’s. President of a club, a high position in another. As well as volunteer work for environmental services such as beach clean ups.
I felt my essays were good but that’s probably just me lol.
Will update if and when I hear a response 
Does GPA still matter when they’re determining who gets off of the waitlist? Mine is pretty low so I’m worried I have no chance.
It also depends on your major.
So does anyone know if UCSC stopped admitting people off of the waitlist because there’s no more room??? There hasn’t been any notices of others getting accepted for a while :(. Acceptances should’ve come out soon after May 1st, right?
I hope sometime this week will start pulling off. May 1st midnight was when students admitted needed to let know if accepting, so gives admissions office 4 days to assess and hopefully will start pulling off waitlist this week.
anyone know when they started releasing more waves of waitlist offers in previous years?
Last year they released a wave on May 4th but they also took like 80% off of the waitlist. It might be less this year.
Has anyone already called and asked admissions about any info regarding waitlist release
I did, they said they aren’t sure about waitlist release dates and remained ambiguous about whether more will be accepted.
Starting to give up hope there is going to be any more pulls from waitlist. Usually a positive person but feeling maybe already they already have all spaces filled
Me too
My friend was also waitlisted and she told me that she said in mid May they will be releasing more accepting people, but it’s already mid may
Anyone hear back?
No I haven’t heard anything :((
My DD has been anxiously waiting as well. She submitted an appeal (denied) and hasn’t heard anything since April 21st. UCSC is her first choice. She finally heard back from an email to our local Adm rep who said that they have not “made any further decision concerning students on the WL. Our goal remains to update you on your status as soon as possible but no later than mid-June.” This waiting game is so hard!
i called on monday and they said they weren’t sure they’d be taking anyone else off the waitlist. it’s already been 20 days since the SIR deadline, so they should know how many students have decided to go to ucsc. I’m guessing class of 2021 is already filled up and they won’t be accepting anyone else off the waitlist 
What is the number to call and ask for status of waitlist? When I emailed, I just got the standard reply with deadlines and they have up until end of June or something.
@a228562 I think you just call the Office of Admissions - (831) 502-7253
I got an email today and I was rejected good luck to everyone else 