**UCI Class of 2016 Official Decisions Thread**

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<p>Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>[ b]Objective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] SAT I (breakdown): 1730 total! 490 CR 610 M 630 W
[ *] ACT: 24
[ *] SAT II: Didn’t take
[ *] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.6
[ *] UC GPA: 3.91
[ *] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 32/372
[ *] ELC?: Yes top 9%
[ *] AP (place score in parenthesis): 3 AP Euro
[ *] IB (place score in parenthesis): 5 IB Spanish SL
[ *] Senior Year Course Load: A ton of I.B. classes
[ *] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Nothing really
[ /list][ b]Subjective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): 4 year of swim, 1 year of tennis, interact club for 4 years, csf member for 4 years
[ *] Job/Work Experience: Receptionist at family’s business
[ *] Volunteer/Community service: Interact…
[ *] Personal Statement: About my family and a place where I volunteered at
[ /list][ b]Other[ /b][ list]
[ *] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
[ *] Intended Major: Undecided
[ *] State (if domestic applicant): CA
[ *] Country (if international applicant): USA
[ *] School Type: Public
[ *] Ethnicity: Asian-American
[ *] Gender: F
[ *] Income Bracket: ~20k
[ *] Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.): ?
[ /list][ b]Reflection[ /b][ list]
[ *] Strengths: Honestly, I didn’t think I had any LOL! If there was one, I think it was probably my essays o.O
[ *] Weaknesses: SAT!!! They were horrible… And my GPA wasn’t too great either…
[ *] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I don’t really know. Maybe my essays?
[ /list][ b]General Comments:[ /b] Good Luck!! If I can get in, you guys can get in too!</p>

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<p>[ size=+2][ color=red][ b]Decision: Rejected[ /b][ /color][ /size]</p>

<p>[ b]Objective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] SAT I (breakdown): R:780 W770 M730 (2280 one sitting)
[ *] ACT: n/a
[ *] SAT II: US Hist: 750
[ *] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.67
[ *] UC GPA: 3.74
[ *] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): n/a
[ *] ELC?: ?
[ *] AP (place score in parenthesis): Bio (3), US Hist(5), Stats (3), Art Hist(tba), Comp Gov (tba), Comp Sci (tba)
[ *] IB (place score in parenthesis): n/a
[ *] Senior Year Course Load: 3 AP
[ *] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
[ /list][ b]Subjective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): ASB (3 years with various commendations from school, school board, city, and state), FBLA (various competition awards), Prom Committee
[ *] Job/Work Experience: n/a
[ *] Volunteer/Community service: 100 hours
[ *] Personal Statement: teachers loved it
[ /list][ b]Other[ /b][ list]
[ *] Applied for Financial Aid?: n/a
[ *] Intended Major:business admin
[ *] State (if domestic applicant): CA
[ *] Country (if international applicant):
[ *] School Typeublic
[ *] Ethnicity: asian
[ *] Gender: male
[ *] Income Bracket: don’t worry about it
[ *] Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.):none.
[ /list][ b]Reflection[ /b][ list]
[ *] Strengths: leadership in ASB, upward trend, SAT
[ *] Weaknesses: horrible sophomore year gpa, only one SAT II, less APs than some
[ *] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
[ /list][ b]General Comments:2280 and rejected from UCI lol[ /b]</p>

83

<p>Decision: Rejected</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown):2300 total (800M/750W/750CR)
[</em>] ACT:
[<em>] SAT II: 700- Bio, 700- Math 2, 700-US History (I know they’re low, couldn’t retake before UC deadline)
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): completely forgot (3.7?)
[<em>] UC GPA: 4.2
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top 10%
[<em>] ELC?:
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): 5s on English Lang, US History, Spanish 4, Biology; 4 on World History
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP CALC, Lit. & Social, Bioscience, AP Econ, AP Gov, AP Art History, AP Psychology
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):[/ul]</p>[/li]
<p>Subjective:[ul]
[li] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Political internship (did demographics)[/li]job shadowed/interned under plastic surgeon
Active member in SF AIDS Foundation
President of MCC
Secretary of Do Something club
VP of Get Set! (Girl’s Oriented Science Program)
etc. etc.</p>

<p>[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Friends Of Livermore Political Demographics Advisor
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: (sorry, think i put a ton of this in Extracurriculars)
[li] Personal Statement:[/ul]</p>[/li]
<p>Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: yes
[</em>] Intended Major: Bioengineering
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): CA
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):USA
[<em>] School Type: top Public school
[</em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[<em>] Gender:Female
[</em>] Income Bracket: 100k (going to be about 50k next year though)
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.):[/ul]</p>[/li]
<p>Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: SAT, Essay, Community Service/volunteering
[</em>] Weaknesses: Maybe GPA? (but for UCI, I thought it was above average).
[li] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I HAVE NO CLUE.[/ul]</p>[/li]
<p>General Comments: I don’t want to be that brat on the forum, that makes a big deal out of getting screwed over by a college. But to be honest, I really felt like I DID get screwed over. IN EVERY WAY POSSIBLE.</p>

<p>I don’t know; I’m definitely beginning to feel worthless. A lot of my safety schools have either waitlisted or outright rejected me, while I’ve seen people with much lower stats waltz right into the acceptance pool. (not trying to say they don’t deserve it)
I’m beginning to feel like these rejections are a great precursor for the rest of my admissions experience. If i couldn’t get into UCI, how the hell am I going to get into any other better colleges I applied to? (catastrophic thinking I know, just feeling a little irrational at the moment).
I began justifying these rejections with the usual “Tufts Syndrome,” but am now starting to seriously think that I must be lacking something. I’m just simply depressed and demoralized. </p>

<p>PS. was it just me who found the rejections letter a little rude? I tried not to throw a tantrum, as I checked it at a party confidently awaiting good news, only to read it say, “We regret to inform you that…”</p>

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<p>I completely agree with you, meltingclocks. Uci was supposed to be my safety as well, but I got wait listed there and rejected from my target (ucsd) and reach (ucla). The only school I DID get into was UCSB, which hasn’t seemed to follow the nonsensical decisions the other UCs have been doing. Why is it so hard this year…?</p>

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<p>Wow. Meltingclocks, you are extremely qualified and have my heartfelt sympathies. It sounds like your rejection is UCI’s loss. Same for many of you posting here.
This makes no sense at all. Your stats mirror my son’s almost exactly. He was rejected from UCI, also: 2300 single sitting/4.2W/4.1UC + Eagle Scout. It was his safety, true. But since when do UCs strafe the top layer of their applicant pool?</p>

<p>Picordy: I agree. UCSB decisions seemed to make sense this year. But something’s gone wrong at UCI. </p>

<p>Next year’s kids will need to entirely rethink strategies for the CA publics, as the rules seem to have changed this year.</p>

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<p>Of all the UCs so far, Irvine’s decisions are the most baffling. I don’t understand all these rejections and am wondering how this batch of incoming freshmen as a whole will reflect that. I’m not even gonna try to offer encouragement because by looking through this thread, I’d be p(i)ssed if I were you guys. Not sure why UCI is so selective this year but its discouraging to see them turning down such hard working, highly accomplished applicants.</p>

<p>Sent from my HTC Evo 3D using CC</p>

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<p>@melting. Your rejection by uci is ridiculous! Your stats are impressive! There is just no understanding the decisionmaking by uci. Next year kids will feel even more compelled to apply to a million schools because of cases like yours.</p>

88

<p>Decision: Rejected</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2080 ( 790M, 620CR, 670W)
[</em>] ACT: 30
[<em>] SAT II: 730 MathII 700 USH 700 Bio
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.5
[<em>] UC GPA: 3.8
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 3rd Decile
[<em>] ELC?:
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): 4’s in Euro and Lang, 5’s in CalcAB Bio and USH
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): 5 in Design Technology
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: All AP classes in Art, French, Environmental Science, Literature, Calc BC, Government, Econ
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Nothing really MAJOR, but few awards here and there… PTA Reflections, AP Scholar, CSF</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): French Club (Pres), ARMs (President/Chapter Leader), NHS, Dance, Art, Principal’s Advisory Board, Library Teen Advisory Board, Operation Smile
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: 150 Hr Summer Internship
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: volunteer a lot at the library and community center
[</em>] Personal Statement: I thought they were pretty good.</p>

<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yep.
[</em>] Intended Major: Studio Art ← ESPECIALLY with this unimpacted major, I don’t know why I didn’t get into UCI…
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): CA
[</em>] Country (if international applicant): n/a
[<em>] School Type: Very competitive public school
[</em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[<em>] Gender: Female
[</em>] Income Bracket: >100,000
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.): Nothing CC would consider a “hook”.</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Essays, Scores (sure not the top, but for Studio Art… they’re good. I checked the averages on UCI’s website)
[</em>] Weaknesses: Scores (Overall… compared to people who want to do science stuff), Rank
[li] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I really don’t know… I got into UCSD though. So I’m not too disappointed by the rejection… more stunned than anything else.[/li][/ul]General Comments: Congrats to those who made it!</p>

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<p>@vhatisthis,</p>

<p>oh shut up. “he’s black, thats the only reason he got in”.</p>

<p>go ahead and say it, you don’t have to masquerade it by saying indirect hazy comments like, “i think race plays a huge factor”</p>

<p>and if you believe such is true, your comment alone will disprove all these “affirmative action isn’t considered in the UC application” thread speculations.</p>

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<p>I honestly don’t know why I got rejected from UCI. When other people started getting their acceptance emails, I thought that I would certainly get in too since my stats were, in my opinion, better than theirs. I am devastated that I didnt get it. </p>

<p>Should I write a letter of appeal? If so, what should I put??</p>

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<p>@MeltingClocks101, I have been rejected as well and I thought i would get in. I know how you feel. People who had no extra curricular activities are now rejoicing at their acceptance and I’m here wallowing in my tears. this sucks so badly. I just want to know why i didn’t get in.</p>

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<p>@cocoamix
What are your stats and what are your backup schools so far???</p>

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<p>are the admissions random or?..</p>

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<p>Thanks guys! I’m starting to feel a little better after this entire UC debacle (even after getting rejected from UCLA… ouch). </p>

<p>I never thought that the UCs had such a random decisions process, as I’ve seen more than qualified applicants receive rejections… and to be frank, students, who I would never have thought to get in, receive acceptances. I’m not an admissions officer, as I’m sure some of these decisions are justified, but seriously am thinking that UCadmissions are a crackpot. </p>

<p>With over 70,000 applicants, who can expect them to be making rational decisions on each application they come across? I NOW know I can’t.</p>

<p>I guess I’ll wait out the rest of this week to see how my luck goes in the last stretch of this admission’s process. Wish me luck! :)</p>

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<p>Decision: Waitlisted</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2020; 700 CR, 690 W, 630 M
[</em>] ACT:
[<em>] SAT II: 660 Spanish, 630 Bio M
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.7
[<em>] UC GPA: 3.95
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):
[<em>] ELC?: Yes
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis):
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: IB Spanish, IB Math, IB History, IB English, IB Biology
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): NHRP</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): some clubs, writing, recreational sport
[</em>] Job/Work Experience:
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: tutoring
[</em>] Personal Statement: I worked hard on it…I wrote about learning Spanish and doing mathematical art.</p>

<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
[</em>] Intended Major: Computer Science
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): CA
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity:
[<em>] Gender: female
[</em>] Income Bracket:
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.):</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: SAT I, challenging schedule
[</em>] Weaknesses: ECs
[li] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: My academics are ok, but my ECs are weak. </p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]General Comments: I got into UCD and UCSB, so my results are better than I expected. Though I would choose UCI over those schools.</p>

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<p>this is making me nervous…I applied as a freshman (im pretty sure I did) and on the website it says im a transfer…and now I have to wait until april to know!? + i’m an international student and I didn’t do the TOEFL :s do you think they can reject me justbecause of the toefl ? anyway congrats to everyone who got in!</p>

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<p>Decision: Accepted to CHP</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2080 (760 math, 640 writing, 680 critical reading)
[</em>] ACT: did not take
[<em>] SAT II: 790 math, 710 literature
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
[<em>] UC GPA: 4.4
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): high school does not rank
[li] Senior Year Course Load: AP stats, Spanish 4, Gov/Econ, APUSH, AP english</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): competitive tennis player, yearbook, work with disabled children
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: lots</p>

<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: no
[</em>] Intended Major: pharm sci or bio
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): ca
[</em>] School Type: private
[<em>] Ethnicity: asian
[</em>] Gender: female</p>

<p>[/ul]
Reflection[list]
[<em>] Strengths: grades, tennis
[</em>] Weaknesses: sats
[*] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: tennis team!</p>

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<p>^did you just get accepted?</p>

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<p>Objective:
SAT I: 2040(530/800/710) CR killed me.
ACT: N/A
SAT II: Chem 770, Math II 800, Korean 800
AP Tests: APUSH (2, so embarssing), AP Chem (5)
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.65
Weighted GPA: 3.96
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): N/A (top 12% or something like that)
Senior Year Course Load: AP Stats, AP Calc, AP Gov/Econ, World Lit, PE, AP Physics</p>

<p>Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Marching Band Drum Line for 3 years. National Science Bowl Team for Senior year.
Volunteer/Community service: Tutoring for 3 years</p>

<p>Other:
Applied for Financial Aid?: yes
Applied Major: Computer Science and Engineering
State (if domestic applicant): Irvine, CA
School Type: public
Ethnicity: asian
Gender: male
Green Card: yes
*** I had a C in APUSH for 1st semester. (probably biggest reason why I got waitlisted)</p>

<p>Was accepted from waitlist on May 2nd.</p>

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<p>Decision: Waitlisted, then accepted May 3</p>

<p>Objective:
SAT I: 1960
ACT: 30
SAT II: 760 math, 740 chem
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.75
UC GPA: 4.22
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): high school does not rank
Senior Year Course Load: AP Calc, APES, AP Psych
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): rugby, theater and lots of leadership
Volunteer/Community service: lots
Other
Applied for Financial Aid?: no
Intended Major: biomedical engineering
State (if domestic applicant): ca
School Type: private
Gender: male
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Was surprised I was waitlisted, but I’m sure my intended major had something to do with it.</p>