I completely agree. We are thrilled that she is staying at Davis. Incidentally, I got my BA at Santa Cruz and my grad degree at Davis. Haha. I think it’s the best environment for her. I just think it’s sad that by relying on the waitlist strategy they lost out on a good student who might have chosen them over the ‘more selective’ school. But regardless, any UC will provide a high quality education so she couldn’t make a wrong choice.
Good luck to everyone! I hope her decline frees up a spot for one of you who have applied to this program
He is now leaning toward UCSC due to the proximity to home and Silicon Valley in general which may be useful for internships in the future. Madison is higher ranked for CS (and overall) but likely may not make a lot of difference in career prospects (either job or graduate studies). The $21k/year savings will definitely be nice as well. For the big classes, from what I understand, they will be taking them online rather than in person (due to Covid restrictions) - in which case 40 students vs 200 students will not make a lot of difference.
It’s my understanding they will be back to full capacity this fall. Dorms and classes.
Our granddaughter, like another poster in this thread, has decided to stick with the local community college first and look at going for a transfer to UCLA or LMU. She really wants to go to LA rather than Santa Cruz and she sees the CC route as her best way to get there. Best wishes to all, and if there is another Theater Arts major out there waiting in the waitlist wings, at least one spot will open in the next round.
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Can we switch? 
My son has submitted the housing and tuition deposit to LMU but is still hoping to get off the waitlist for UCSC. If only it could be that easy.
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Hi, regarding career prospects, have you seen this?
That is so funny. At this point I think she has made her decision. I hope your son enjoys LMU or UCSC, whichever he ends up deciding upon.
my son is LMU bound as well and got waitlisted at UCSC and UCI and rejected at the balance of the UCs (although he was admitted to Merced despite not applying). I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
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LMU is very different than UCs. Private Catholic vs Big Public!
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My daughter is still waitlisted at UCSC…does anyone think that’s it or will there be more waves?
My daughter is waitlisted too. Was hoping they would admit more today since they seem to release in two week intervals. And since capacity has increased, fingers crossed!
Still checking MyUCSC every morning, too. Still 0 emails, no notification. I even emailed Admissions but no response.
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Yeah me too. Did they announce that capacity has increased? I haven’t heard anything.
I heard they are to be back in session this fall, on campus and fulltime. I would assume this means they can now accomodate a few more students than they thought a few weeks ago.
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I hope so. Meanwhile, my son is holding his accepted spot at LMU, but has started registering at CC because he really wants to attend a UC (in 2 years, his Plan B route). Daughter just graduated double major from UCSC in 3.5 years and thrived.
Following the pattern, something should have come today. But nothing did so ucsc is probably finished with waitlists unfortunately.
Wow, we are exploring our CC for future transfer but it looks like 2.5 years before transfer. What what your daughters double? How did she do that in 3.5? Fabulous!!
We are so disappointed…just OOS and waitlists…
I wish they would just end the torture of waiting and say, “We regret to inform you…” so that we can have closure.
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Exactly!!
Just curious - which two majors?