Anybody got off for computer science? I think the yield rates are really high for CS. I hvent heard back yet.
@Samy123456688: No one can tell you if more waitlist acceptances are coming other than admissions. The longer it takes for the notifications, the slimmer the chances. UCLA will let all waitlisted students know when the waitlist is closed, so until then one can only hope.
No news is bad news. If you haven’t heard by now, you’re probably not going to get in. The waitlists don’t officially close until the summer, but usually by now all waitlist offers would have been made.
Then why not inform everyone on the waitlist it is closed? They should not let it linger. Close the door. If students were waitlisted at UCLA, they have other phenomenal options. They are great students. End the suspense and get it done. Makes zero sense to me.
@Craig14w It does make sense. Some kids are going to withdraw. Some will get rescinded. Then offers sometimes go out. When a kid is waitlisted they need to have the expectation that they are going to the school they are admitted and not get off the waitlist. At desirable and competitive schools like UCLA the ball is to the school not the student. It’s simple enrollment management strategy many schools use.
I wonder if schools called it a Limbo List, how many folks would want to remain in limbo. But calling it a “wait” list gives one the sense that if they just wait long enough they’ll ultimately get to the front of the line…
@10s4life I get the strategy. My point is if there are 2,000 kids left on the “Wait” list and the school knows it will only take another 100 if that, which I imagine are already “ranked”, then why not let the rest know so they can mentally prepare to go to the university where they were accepted. My D was accepted to UCSD, UCB and UCSB. Honors at UCSB. Waitlisted at UCLA. She comes from a legacy UCLA family with 8 alums. Her number one choice is UCLA. If she has no chance of getting in make it final so she can move on.
On another topic, Legacy means nothing at UCLA and that is a shame. SC does a great job with legacy. “The Trojan Family”. That’s why their student sections are packed with students for their football games while UCLA’s is empty. Clearly my daughter has done everything necessary to get her admitted to UCLA. Legacy, WHEN EARNED, NOT GIVEN, should have pushed her over the top not OOS/International money or a family that is sending their first kid to college.
Beyond frustrated…
Students should all mentally prepare to go somewhere else. The vast majority of people on the wait list won’t get in.
It’s a public school. Can’t use legacy. It is what it is.
USC’s stands are pretty empty when they’re not good.
@Craig14w No legacy at public schools it’s illegal. I understand how that can be frustrating. I’m a cal legacy/donor legacy and didn’t get in. Not the end of the world. Your d got into fantastic schools. Waitlisted kids are told to commit to another school. There is not expectation they should get in.
This year’s waitlist seems to be on hold longer than last year’s. Has anyone received regret letters?
@waitlistedcuck We have not received a regret letter but have been told this could go into June. Several people on this board mentioned people at their school getting regret letters but none for us.
@10s4life Understand the legality of Public schools not allowing Legacy to influence decisions but your kidding yourself if you think that because it is the law it doesn’t happen.
With kids SIR’ed to Cal waiting to get off UCLA waitlist and vice versa, both these schools will have to work their waitlists for a while to swap out the kids 
Sympathies for the admissions teams too.
@curiocitycills Last year the UCLA waitlist wasn’t closed until June or July.
@curiocitycills Schools expect a “melt” over the summer, meaning that schools expect students to get off other schools’ wait lists and leave. For example, if UCLA got 5,000 SIRs, they kinda know that they’ll probably lose a hundred or so between May 1st and the first day of school. They don’t always need to replace each student who switches his/her commitment. The wait list probably won’t be used at this time unless there is a very, very high amount of melt that they were not accounting for.
@Craig14w, I definitely can sympathize with your situation. Can you imagine the amount of error in a process that takes into account 111,000 applicants? Clearly the system is almost broken because there are just too many qualified applicants and too few spots in the UC system. Luckily your kid got into some great schools. It is ironic that the most accomplished students have the most stressful experiences with college admissions. My first kid applied to 2 schools, got accepted to both (one OOS with rolling admissions), and chose the OOS option the next day. We never knew we had it so good until my last 2 kids with much higher stats entered the fray this year.
@10s4life . . . in response to your post #308.
Do you think you were helped in being accepted to UCLA because of your tennis abilities? UCLA does engage in admitting those with athletic abilities as well as Stanford. I saw the listing of your stats in the admitted/denied thread. (The problem with those kinds of threads is that those with lower stats tend to take over the thread later on, or they’re posting false scenarios and are trying to lower the seeming qualifications of those accepted to UCLA.) If I remember correctly, you were accepted to the Electrical Engineering major with perhaps some softness in your SAT, though you had incredible grades. Congrats, and I’m sure you have seized upon the opportunity after you were accepted.
And I don’t believe that UCLA should be keeping students in limbo, when they have great choices, but their first choice is UCLA. Best of luck to your daughter, @Craig142 . It’s not always where she starts out, it’s where she ends up. Perhaps she’ll end up where she wants after a slight detour.
Best of luck, and she obviously doesn’t need it.
@LMK5 Very well put. It truly is the more accomplished kids that have taken their education very seriously that have the most stress. Most of it is absolutely the pressure they put on themselves but I that is the reason they are so successful academically.
@firmament2x Thank you for the encouragement. I will be happy to put this process behind me as will my daughter. So true about not being where you start but how you finish.
Good luck to everyone in the class of 2023!!!
@firmament2x Thanks I did commit to UCLA almost immediately. I think it did play a big factor considering I was not involved in any engineering extra curriculars in high school. Holistically they are looking at the whole person.