@Joy2009 Yes, she has a chance at admission according to UCSB’s freshman admission data from 2016:
http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/campuses/santa-barbara/freshman-profile/
The fact that she was offered CHP at Irvine makes it likely that UCSB admissions likes her too.
Has anyone here who is OOS gotten either a Chancellor Reception or a Regents Scholarship in the mail? And if so, what states?
yeah i live in new york and i got a chancellor reception invitation
@languages the OOS receptions are only in DC and NYC so I imagine only applicants in those areas received invites.
@lkg4answers Yes I noticed that as well, and what you said is probably right~
Also trying to get a sense of if regents is going to individuals in those states first. It seems like it has all been California receiving them so far?
Can international students receive Regents in the mail?
has anyone oos gotten regents yet?
We aren’t OOS, but my daughter received her Regents offer last night. She follows in her older sister’s footsteps. I was hoping she’d get Regents, too, but I thought she wouldn’t get it because her older sister had received it in the mail at an earlier date two years ago. So I thought at this point it was too late for her to be receiving one in the mail, especially after reading about all this people who have gotten it, but apparently not.
Since it’s snail mail, it may vary by location. We are in NorCal and received the regents letter on Monday night.
anyone heard back from CCS or know when they send out admission information(more specifically, is the CCS decision earlier for regent winners or do we also have to wait until after regular admissions)
I got invited to Chancellor’s reception, but nothing in the mail yet. Should I give up hope for regents and honors or could they possibly still roll in sometime soon?
My D is the same: Chancellor invite but no mail of Regents. I am assuming she did not get it since only a percentage of those invited are Regents. At this point it is more realistic to think you will not get it, than to hold on to false hope. If I am wrong, the surprise of getting it will be that much sweeter since it’s unexpected.
Just got back from the D.C. Chancellors Reception, and all students there were accepted to the University! Official release of admissions was said to be March 21
Congratulations @ianmcdonald! Can you share what else happened at the reception? Were there break out sessions?
sort of off topic, but UCSB is my first choice and i saw this forum and went to calculate my UC GPA and remembered something that i wanted to ask about. i’ve taken about 5 honors classes sophomore and junior year, (not including APS) yet when i look at the CSU/UC approved course list only one of those honors classes actually says it qualifies as an honors. this frustrates me a lot, does anyone know why they do this? what was the point of taking these rigorous honors courses if they weren’t even gonna help me in the end?
@collegegirl5824: Each HS has submit approval for Honors-based courses to get UC approved. My son’s HS had 6 HS designated Honors courses but only 3 were UC approved, so no honors points for the other 3 courses.
I believe the general rule is that the UCs will only give a rigor bump to one class in each subject. So, for instance, they won’t weight both World History Honors and World History AP. The bump goes to the AP class, not the honors. For weighted honors classes there is usually no associated AP. I know there are some exceptions out there but that is the general rule.
@lkg4anwers and @collegegirl5824: The most common UC approved Honors courses are Honors Chem, Honors Physics and Honors Pre-Calc. My son’s HS also offers Honors English, Honors Biology and Honors Alg2 which are not UC approved so no extra bump. All AP courses will get the extra honors points bump, but most of the UC’s use the capped weighted so only 8 semesters or 4 yearlong classes will get the bump and only 2 of these courses qualify in Sophomore year.
Even though the Honors courses are not UC approved, they still will help your HS course rigor which is recognized by the UC’s in their application review.
The reception was mostly just getting to meet with local alumni, as well as a couple of deans from the university and of course Chancellor Yang! I got to ask questions with all of them before the reception began, and then we were notified of our admission before watching a number of UCSB videos, and having the opportunity to listen to a panel of alumni, current students, and deans answer questions about the university.
Good luck to all applicants and congratulations to those invited to the Chancellor’s Reception!
That’s exciting @ianmcdonald How many people were at the reception and how long did it last?