Hey guys, I got wait listed back in March for Business Administration at UCI. Who else is on the waitlist? If you know any information regarding the wait list at Irvine, PLEASE tell me!
Does anyone know how the wait list is looking this year? Does UCI have a ranking system for their wait list? Also, do they consider your major when they reevaluate your applications for the wait list?
Hey. I’m at the waitlist for Computer Science ! I already heard of people who got accepted from the waitlist for the past week so I’m sure there’s plenty of space for us. UCs do not consider major; it’s more like they accept you to the school first before they consider your major. and depending on space availability you may or may not get your first choice.
@kl0097 Oh, I see. Good luck to both you and I! Did you appeal off the wait list?
I was waitlisted for Business Administration as well, appealed my waitlist decision.
waitlisted for mechanical engineering and appealed. I got a good feeling about this year tho.
@TaterCrisps I didn’t know you could appeal off the waitlist so I sent in a personal letter about myself lol idk if they read it or not. why do you have a good feeling? Let’s just hope uci is very under enrolled this year LOL
My relative that goes to UC Irvine talked to the admissions office for me and recommended that I write an appeal off my waitlist decision. Let’s just hope that the trend of even years (2012,2014) continues onto this year haha.
I’m unsure if they would have read the personal letter unless you followed the appeal guidelines and sent an official transcript and appeal cover sheet.
Good Luck!
@e92hoang I had a cover sheet in like an official letter format with my address and UCI ID just in case they needed it! I also sent an official transcript but I sent it after the appeal deadline so idk if they’re going to consider it or not. I didn’t call it an appeal but rather “additional information” LOL
Yeah hopefully it’s like 2014!!! Regretting applying to irvine as business admin major 
I didn’t know it was that competitive
Waitlisted as a Computer Science major, hoping for good news for all of us in the next two weeks! 
Anyone make it off the freshmen waitlist yet? I hear it comes out sometime this week to next
@TaterCrisps I called UCI yesterday and they said decisions will come out mid may. I read somewhere online that UCI doesn’t take people off the wait list until they have an exact number of students who will be attending. Since higher tier schools like UCLA, UCSD, CAL, UCD all use the wait list as well, I heard that uci tends to wait until most of the other school’s wait list decisions are out.
Wow so there is no hope this week or next? Because my friend was admitted off the waitlist for Berkely yesterday. The majority seems to say this or next week but who knows
@TaterCrisps Yeah, I doubt it will be any time soon. If you see last year’s thread for UCI wait list, a lot of people heard back late may~early june. Someone even heard back 3 days before her graduation LOL
Good luck to both you and I! Let’s just hope that UCI is under enrolled (which is highly unlikely) or that alot of students cancel their SIR to UCI!!!
@TaterCrisps @e92hoang @kl0097 Hey just to update you guys:
So I guess whoever got into UCI has the capability to choose their major whenever. So, if you’re undeclared but you want to go to business admin, they will give undeclared students the spot first. The waitlists gets the remaining spots or they change your major to undeclared.
@Ellenparkk I was admitted as undeclared and my first major choice was Business Admin. So… UCI gives the spots to undeclared students first, how many spots are? Do I need to message the office or something?. I heard from people who received a message about the change to business admin on their MyAdmission portal . Do you think they will still give spots? until what date?. Finally, UCI gives spots to undeclared students depending on how well their applications were (I mean grades, scores, etc) ?
I hope I can still get a spot, but anyway I am so happy to be at UCI. Thanks a lot
@Ellenparkk thank you so much for the update! hope we get in together. A lot of people SIR’d out of Irvine for Berkeley and SD so that’s a good sign! (People from my local area)
@Franchess I think people get emails and thats when you can change your major. Have fun at UCI!
@e92hoang yeah that’s good news for us right hahahah
Wait is the waitlist released in batches/waves like other schools are or is it one by one on random dates
@TaterCrisps I believe it’s by batches? Maybe one by one actually because they have to reevaluate all the applications for waitlisted students