UC to wait-list some

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<p>UC will again implement a waitlist process for fall 2011 admissions. All campuses except Los Angeles and Merced will use waitlists for their freshman pools. 


Davis and San Diego also will have a transfer waitlist, and Irvine and Santa Cruz are considering the option for transfers.

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<p>The university enrolls more than 11,570 students for whom it receives no state funding. A waitlist is an enrollment management tool that enables campuses to attain their enrollment targets with greater precision while offering a space to as many deserving students as possible.</p>

<p>What students need to know:</p>

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<li> They might receive waitlist offers from more than one campus. Students may accept as many offers as they wish. Waitlist offers will be made by the end of March for freshman applicants and the end of April for transfers.</li>
<li> Once offered a spot on a waitlist, they must opt in. Instructions for doing so will be included with the waitlist notification.</li>
<li> Even if they accept a waitlist offer (or several), students should submit a Statement of Intent to Register (SIR) by the stated deadline to a UC campus or other institution to which they have been accepted. If they later accept an offer of admission from a campus where they have been wait-listed, they will forfeit their deposit at the first campus.</li>
<li> Wait-listed freshman applicants will be notified of their status no later than June 1; wait-listed transfer applicants, by July 1.</li>
<li> Preliminary financial aid awards will be sent at the time students are notified of waitlist offers. Additionally, SIRs of wait-listed students will be considered on time for purposes of housing and orientation, provided they are submitted by the deadline stated in the offer of admission.</li>
<li> Eligible applicants who don't receive an admission offer from any campus to which they applied will be in the referral pool, even if they are on the waitlist at another campus.</li>
<li> Campuses will still consider appeals. Applicants who feel they have grounds for an appeal should submit one, but they should keep in mind that the purpose of the appeals process is to deal with errors and compelling new information and hardship. Students cannot appeal for a spot on the waitlist.</li>
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<p>In the fall 2010 admissions cycle, the first time waitlists were used broadly, a total of 11,703 waitlist offers were extended to freshman applicants across all campuses except UCLA and UC Merced. Two campuses - UC Davis and UC Santa Barbara - were the only two campuses to admit significant numbers of students off their waitlists. These campuses yielded more than 40 percent of students admitted off the waitlist.</p>

<p>Source: Email from the UCLA Center for Community College Partnerships</p>

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<p>This doesn’t apply to TAG students… Right?</p>

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<p>I hope not.</p>

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<p>Didn’t UCLA waitlist people last year? Are they not doing it this year?</p>

<p>And SMCguy, are you in CCCP at UCLA? I got the same email.</p>

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<p>i dont get it. SO if your waitlisted your accepted but its not official until july?? can someone clarify this?</p>

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<p>I think it means that if you are wait listed, you will be notified by July whether or not you will be accepted or rejected.</p>

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<p>This likely has to do with the massive increase in their TAG program. This year they accepted 5,400 TAGs, last year, they had only accepted 7,000 applicants. This means that if they maintain the same acceptance numbers as last year, 75% of their potential application poll is coming directly from their TAG batch. This causes other problems since these TAG students are more likely to also be accepted to other more completive schools resulting in a lower than normal yield rate, this undermines the target rate of ~2,000 transfer students actually accepting the school each year.</p>

<p>Numbers come from these sites:
<a href=“News”>News;
<a href=“http://www.ucop.edu/news/studstaff.html[/url]”>http://www.ucop.edu/news/studstaff.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Can someone provide another source other than an e-mail? I’m not trying to discredit the OP, but I just want have a better idea of what is going to happen.</p>

<p>Also, what exactly would it mean to be wait listed (or what would it entail)?</p>

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<p>Can I accept UCSB and still be on the waitist of UCSD?</p>

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<p>^ you absolutely can. You can SIR UCSB by paying that fee and still have the option for UCSD if they accept you. You cannot get that SIR fee back though.</p>

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<p>What is a TAG?</p>