@Petitepotato thank you so much for your help!! <3 Also @dancingsloth yeah i was wondering the same thing
Does anyone have last year’s success rate of appeal? I saw a chart with all uc schools’ rates one day but can’t find it right now. Ucsb is definitely my first choice and it’s just kind of hard for me to accept the fact that people around me being accepted with lower stats…
** Decision: ACCEPTED **
Major: pre-Health, Sociology. Accepted to the Honors College in Letters and Sciences.
Stats:[ul]
[] SAT I (by section): 2320 single-sitting, 2340 superscored
[] SAT IIs: Math 2: 800, USH: 740, Chemistry: 760
[] ACT: N/A
[] APs: Computer Science (5), US History (5), Calculus BC (5) w/ AB subscore (5), English Language (5), Psychology (4), Chemistry (4). Senior Year Course Load: 5 AP’s (yikes) - AP US Gov’t, AP Statistics, AP Biology, AP English Literature, AP French
[] IBs: N/A
[] GPA: 3.95 (3 B’s, all in sophomore year)
[] Rank: School doesn’t rank, but top 15%ish
[] Other stats (AMC/AIME/USAMO, PhO, ChO, etc): National Merit Commended, AP Scholar with Distinction
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[] ECs listed on app:
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South Indian Classical Music and Dancing since elementary school, with some national wins. Performed nationwide and internationally
-Speech and Debate: placed 3rd at States for Original Oratory in California (2nd most competitive state in the country, after NJ, i believe), top officer position
-Disabilities awareness club, top officer position, hosted district-wide dance for kids with special needs
[] Job/Work Experience: lots of volunteering with kids with special needs, some administrative/research work at local university, shadowing experience, worked at a hospital in india over the summer (i’ve been affiliated with the organization for years)
[li] Essays (subject and responses): talked about creativity, balance between tradition and innovation. I didn’t think they were phenomenal, but they were heartfelt![/li]
[] State or Country: CA
[] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Public HS, about 2,300 kids total
[] Ethnicity: Indian
[] Gender: Female
[li] Other Schools: [/li]-Accepted: UCLA, UCSD, UC Davis (Regents), UC Riverside (Regents), UCSC (Regents), University of Rochester (w/ scholarship), SCU (w/ scholarship), Case Western (w/ scholarship)
-Waiting: Brown, Tufts, Vandy, Emory, Rice, Scripps, USC, some other safeties
-Rejected: none yet, but Lord knows that’s about to change real soon
[/ul]General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc:
I was insanely worried that my 3 B’s sophomore year (APCS both semesters, Precalc H one semester) would impact my app a lot, but I think admissions officers want to see you pushing yourself! I didn’t listen to any of my HS counselors’ advice to take easier courses, and that worked out pretty great for me (it’s a lot of work, but I love the classes I’m taking), but it’s not necessarily for everyone. Advice: starting a non-profit is not necessarily the only way to get into a good school; show commitment to a cause for as long as you can and you’re golden. Also, study for the PSAT esp if paying for college is a struggle, because a lot of schools offer merit scholarships if you’re a semifinalist. Make sure you’re doing stuff during your summers. I didn’t get into some of the internships I applied for, but I volunteered wherever I could and I got a job, so keep yourself busy.
I spent HOURS browsing through CC and comparing myself to everyone on here, but that didn’t help me AT ALL. If anything, use it as a guide for cool things to do in your community. Everyone is so much more than the numbers and EC’s they list on here. <3
Daughter Admitted
Major - Math
UW UCGPA - 3.79
W UCGPA - 4.13
SAT 1410 (Math 740, Reading and Writing 670)
Admitted schools – Cal Poly SLO, UC Davis, UC Santa Barbara, UC Irvine
Waitlisted schools – None
Waiting on decisions – UC Berkeley,
Schools denied - None
I’m curious, is anybody still seeing “decision pending” on their portals like me? I’m a transfer for Econ and Accounting. c:
DD accepted into Actuarial Science
GPA- 3.8 uw/ 4.4 w (IB)
ACT- 34
She was very excited about this one.
@winonos I believe Transfer applicants hear back much later around May.
FA awards are out btw
If we got accepted, when do we receive our acceptance emails and when do we receive our acceptance envelopes in the mail?
@KuyaStiel I don’t think we get an acceptance email, but I’m pretty sure we’ll get stuff in the mail at some point next week. 
Lots of questions about waitlists. Here is the link with stats for all the UC schools for Class of 2015 (no one seems to have the Class of 2016 information) from askmssun about waitlists and appeals.
https://■■■■■■■■■■■■/docs/2015FreshmanWaitlistAppealCancellation.pdf
seeing the statistics makes me sick to my stomach… 
While some people dislike the system I’ve realized how much of a crapshoot the admissions system is this year. I was accepted(over the moon about it too), but I think what people need to understand is that UCSB has possibly adopted a more holistic approach to admissions this year and considered fit a lot more, as was the case with me. I am probably one of the applicants everyone didn’t think would get accepted or didn’t deserve to get accepted, but I tried extremely hard on my essays, extracurriculars, and had an upward trend in gpa and good test scores. (Please don’t discredit us “low stat” applicants, we worked hard too).
So whether you were rejected or accepted, please understand it’s not anything personal–the process is such a crapshoot this year and you never know what they’re looking for. There is no formula to getting in; they all want and look for something different so one decision does not affect another. Congrats to those accepted and to those rejected or waitlisted, I wish you luck in your academic endeavors
My daughter was accepted for Chemical Engineering in the College of Engineering yesterday. Then, she was emailed admission offer for Chemistry & BioChemistry in the College of Creative Studies a bit after midnight… Thank goodness because she was freaking out waiting & worried she didn’t get in because a couple of friends got CCS offers yesterday.
She is at a Middle College High school so no AP classes because they took college classes instead. She’ll be coming in with over 70 units (including an Associates Degree in Math plus 2 other more general ADs) so UCSB CCS sounds like a GREAT fit to me. She has also been accepted in the honors program for the College of Engineering at the University of Minnesota. Like many of you, we’re still waiting for UC Berkeley.
Best wishes to everyone as you make your decisions!
@Sharob how did u know UCSB is better for CS? would you mind providing me with the source.
@deadroses you have to let people process. I was a parent who actually thought the more holistic process made UCSB a better shot for my kid than UCSD or SLO (waitlisted at both UCSB and UCSD, in at SLO) After all she’s in the IBDP, is one of only a couple of kids at her school that works full time in the summer, has good grades, has decent test scores, plays two sports, extensive leadership and volunteering in Girl Scouts, the kid never sleeps it seems. Her coaches, bosses and teachers praise her work ethic (not something that probably comes across in an app with no LOR) It is hard to see them work that hard and not achieve a goal. Looking at her UC app it does look like she left some of her volunteer activities off, but at this point I’m not sure it would have helped.
She has other great options so I am not bitter. I am puzzled and don’t quite know how to steer my younger daughter whose GPA probably won’t be as good. I just don’t know what “else” D17 could have done. Like I said, she already doesn’t have enough rest and free time.
they’re graduate schools are tied, I dont think USNWR ranks undergraduate schools if the school has a graduate program
https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-science-schools/computer-science-rankings/page+2
- UCB
- UCLA
- UCSD
- UCI
- TIE - UCD / UCSB
- TIE - UCSC / UCR
I could not find UCM they might now have a cs graduate program
my response was @MisterStudentt
Financial aid is now available!
@MisterStudentt sorry my bad…in the first reply I said UCSB is better, but right after 15 minutes I wrote both are same…so yeh…my opinion is that Davis is better overall…