****UCSB Admissions 2021****

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of California - Santa Barbara
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Accepted to Undeclared Letters and Science! Stoked as I was rejected from UCLA, UCSD, waitlisted at UCD, cal poly, UCI, accepted at SDSU, UCSC, fullerton, and UCSB!

3.9 UC GPA
31 ACT
EC’s included founding a leadership club at my school
100+ community service hours
Tons of work experience (had roughly 6 jobs since freshman year, usually two at a time)
Essays have to be what got me in. Put everything into those, described a lot of what I got gone through and how I persevered. (support my family, live alone w/ mom mom, etc.)

Couldn’t be happier, as this was my #1. Congrats to all that got in and to those that were waitlisted: You can get off! My brother was waitlisted at Cal and UCSB, got into both. Good luck, and know that wherever you go, college will be amazing.

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After reading through all of these acceptances (which I think I need to stop :slight_smile: ) I am surprised my daughter was waitlisted by UCSB. She is in her schools Scholars program (similar to IB), extremely active in school, volunteering and extracurriculars, is top 15% of her class, has taken 4 AP’s, 8 honors classes and rest of core classes are categorized as “accelerated”. Her UC gpa is a 4.22 and her ACT was a 30 (could have been her Achilles heal although I am seeing many 28 and 29’s posted here). Accepted early to SDSU for “academic excellence” and offered honors college and offered U of O’s largest out of state scholarship with Honors College as well. She applied under Sociology. Always interesting to see stats of those who have been accepted but it certainly blows my mind that she was not. Oh well, UCSB’s loss and Cal Poly’s (which was personally both my husband and my hope for her) gain. Once she saw she was waitlisted by SB she pretty much crossed it off her list.

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@bcgirlsmom, congrats on D’s acceptance to SLO. No easy feat this year. My S17 is quite discouraged by the arms race of UC admissions. I think that the data will show that there was a big jump in the number of schools applied to per applicant this year. Logical, as in this environment it is natural to want a hedge against rejection. There is also some trophy hunting that goes on, sadly. The unintended consequence is that the schools have even less idea than before of who actually wants to come. So now an element of randomness or serendipity comes in–making yields and probability of acceptance even less predictable on both sides. And so on. Who knew? My twin D15s are in blissful denial right now. And I am pretty bummed.

724

Decision: Accepted

Merit Scholarship, if received: N/A

School/Major: College of Letters and Science/Philosophy (L & S Honors)

Objective:

[ul]
[]ACT: 32C, 35E, 35M, 33R, 26S, 27W (34 SS)
[]SAT II: US History (760)
[]Unweighted GPA: 3.94
[]Unweighted GPA (updated w/1st semester data): 3.95
[]Weighted GPA: 4.22
[]Weighted GPA (updated w/1st semester data): 4.33
[]Capped UCGPA: 4.27
[]Capped GPA (updated w/1st semester data): 4.21
[]Uncapped UCGPA: 4.36
[]Uncapped GPA (updated w/1st semester data): 4.50
[]Rank: 11/522 unweighted, 17/522 weighted
[]Rank (updated w/1st semester data): 8/522 unweighted, 11/522 weighted
[]AP: European History (4), US History (5), Psychology (5), English Language (5)
[]Senior Year Course Load: AP Calculus AB, AP Statistics, AP Studio Art 2D, AP Spanish Language, AP Macroeconomics, AP Government, AP English Literature
[li]Major Awards: AP Scholar with Honor[/li][/ul]

Subjective:

  • []Extracurriculars: JV Soccer (Captain), Club Soccer, Youth & Government, NHS
    [    ]Job/Work Experience: Math Tutor, Babysitter
    []Volunteer/Community Service: Take care of my 4 younger brothers and 1 younger sister (pickup from school, take to appointments, feed snacks, help with homework)
    [    ]Summer Activities: Student Research Intern performing breast and colorectal cancer research at major research university
    []Essays: 9/10
    [    ]Teacher Rec #1: 9/10
    []Teacher Rec #2: 7/10
    [    ]Counselor Rec: 9/10
    []Additional Rec: 10/10
    [    ]Interview: N/A

Other:

[ul]
[]State: California
[]Country: N/A
[]School Type: Public
[]Ethnicity: White
[]Gender: Female
[]Income Bracket: $150k
[li]Hooks: N/A[/li][/ul]

Reflection:

[ul]
[]Strengths: GPA, test scores, essays, letters of recommendations
[]Weaknesses: My volunteer and community service work is virtually non-existent due to family obligations, and my decision to not take a 4th year science to double up on math might be detrimental.
[]Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: High class rank, essays, recs, class rigor, test scores
[]Where else you are applying or have already applied:

[list]
[li]Accepted - Davis, Michigan, Minnesota (Honors), Oregon (Honors), Pitt (Honors), Texas, Tulane (Honors), UCSB (Honors), UCSC, UCSD, Washington, Wisconsin, WUSTL[/li][li]Applied - Berkeley, USC, Vanderbilt[/li][li]Waitlisted - UCLA[/li][li]Rejected - N/A[/li][/ul]
[li]General Comments/Advice/Hindsight: Stay positive and be yourself![/li][/list]

725

Accepted
Political Science (rip second choice major) Honors
In-state
Male

UWGPA 3.69
ACT 35
SAT 2090
SAT 2 Math 800 Ecology 790 Chem 780
AP Chinese 4 Calc BC 5 Stats 5 Macroecon 4 Physics 1 4
Essays ok i guess
EC: worked on a congressional campaign, saxophone, piano, intern at state assemblymember’s office, political club

726

Accepted
Film and media studies
UC GPA: 3.52
ACT: 35 (35E, 33M, 36R, 35S)
Very hard class schedule with many AP’s and honors
No special ec’s, just some clubs and varsity sports
Good, humor based essays (i mean something had to make up for my trash gpa)

727

Accepted
Undeclared (Letters and Science)

New SAT: 1280 (650, 630)

IB Diploma:
History HL
English (A) Language & Literature HL
Chinese (B) HL
Economics SL
Environmental Systems & Societies SL
Mathematics SL

Leadership scholarship at school, founded my own club (community service & health), house captain, wrote for the school newspaper, volleyball school team, usual Asian things (piano, ballet), not so usual Asian thing (harp) etc.

I’m Asian (if you haven’t noticed), studying in private independent school in HK

waitlisted at UCSD
rejected from UCI, UCLA, UCB (i knew the last two were unlikely, but very disappointed for Irvine)

728

Accepted as a Regents Scholar!

729

When are international students expected to receive their acceptance letter (United Kingdom)

730

@etherealdreams how do you know about UCB. They do not announce until 3/30.

731

@oviandhisbros I’m a California resident and I haven’t even gotten a physical acceptance letter yet–if they mail everything out at the same time, maybe we’ll get stuff next week or the week after?

732

Rejected- poli sci
SAT- 1270
WGPA- 4.3
UWGPA- 3.9ish
lots of school involvement including clubs
120 community service hours
10+ AP’s
meh essays
local student (SB)
brother goes to USCB- probably doesn’t have any impact
Congrats to everyone who was accepted, UCSB is a rad school! If anyone has any questions about SB itself, reach out to me!

733

Does anyone know when the UCSB receptions are? Also, when will we receive our actual mail package acceptance?

734

@dogrunner1 whoops i wasn’t thinking straight! i didn’t mean to put UCB on the list – was making assumptions.

735

@etherealdreams hahaha, yes, I am making the same assumption

736

Has any international student received their acceptance package?

737

Does anyone know when the financial aid award letter/information will be posted to the UCSB portal?

738

@mangolover99 My DD had access to hers last night around 10pm. They surprised us by getting our net cost down to $13k (EFC of $11.5k- 2 in college). She may well be a Gaucho soon.

739

@voltthorn I haven’t received anything from UCSB.

740

Transfer Student here
Accepted!
Pre-Economics
I checked my unofficial financial aid letter and it says I am Blue and Gold eligible. How do I check how much that gives me. It only tells me what I’ll receive from Cal Grant, Pell Grant, UCSB Grant, and Gaucho Health Insurance Grant along with loans and work study.