<p>Are you notified at the Chancellor’ s reception if you are in the Honors Program?</p>
<p>Congrats to everyone who has received their letter so far!</p>
<p>@SoCalDad2, thanks for your info. My D is really hoping to get in and be offered Regents, I looked at her application portal and saw “decision pending” and despaired until I saw your post. No letter or email yet. We are in San Diego. FYI, she selected biology and her stats are: UC GPA 4.3, ACT 35, 8 AP classes through senior year, two SAT subject tests (800 and 720), extensive volunteer ECs.</p>
<p>P.S. Are we related? LOL</p>
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<p>She seems to have the credentials, but who knows how they make these decisions. </p>
<p>There was no Regents email, only the letter. Also, no invite so far to the Chancellor’s reception.</p>
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<p>Great minds think alike . . .</p>
<p>I guess letters should be arriving this week for Nocal students. No letters so far… just the e-mail. My son applied for computer science.</p>
<p>From looking at previous years, I think the earlier email invite means the student is invited to the Chancellor’s Reception, but not the Regents Scholarship program. I’m not positive, but this seems to be the case. </p>
<p>I live in southern Oregon and I got the letter like the day after I got the e-mail, so Thursday or Friday. </p>
<p>Hey! i was invited to attend the event in San Jose but I cannot seem to find the San Jose option anymore on the calender that UCSB provides on the link. Is anybody else having issues RSVP’ing to the San Jose Event?</p>
<p>@raidernation23 The San Jose reception may be full. The seating is limited for each location.</p>
<p>@CollegiateDreams I’m sure you are right. The Chancellor’s Reception seems to be for Regents and other honors type people, I think they were generally accepted to honors, from past threads, not necessarily given Regents. It is a larger population than the Regents scholars. However, all Regents invitees should be invited to the Chancellor’s Reception as well, if it is consistent with what happened last year.</p>
<p>@SoCalDad2 Where did you get this information? I don’t think it’s accurate. At all. Have you even seen their application numbers? Do you even know which school your kid applied to? They have over 60,000 freshmen applications last year. I’m not sure for this year, but your speculation seems way off… please correct.</p>
<p>"The Regents letter today referred to “preliminary and conditional admittance.” I think that is legalese for “You will be accepted.”</p>
<p>Nothing about major, but you would think someone “within the top 2% of admitted freshmen” would get their desired major.</p>
<p>The yield rate for UCSB Regents doesn’t appear to be very high – roughly 500 offered (2% of 25,000) and around 50 enroll. EDIT: Well, it is not much lower than the overall UCSB yield of 18%."</p>
<p>^^UCSB says that Regents goes to 2% of admitted students*, and they admit about 25,000 (out of over 60,000 applicants). 2% of 25,000 is 500. UCSB says that they have around 200 Regents, so about 50 per year. That is a 10% yield rate.</p>
<p>Where is my error?</p>
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<li>– <a href=“http://admissions.sa.ucsb.edu/docs/default-source/default-document-library/regents-scholars-program-2014.pdf”>http://admissions.sa.ucsb.edu/docs/default-source/default-document-library/regents-scholars-program-2014.pdf</a> [2/3 down on the first page]</li>
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<p>I’m just a bit confused, seeing as they had a significant increase in the number of freshman applications, and you are projecting a number, not a percentage, for students who will be admitted. Not to mention that the admit rate will drop, and so will the number of accepted students, offsetting your projected yeild for both total students and suspected Regents. I’m not saying your methodology is wrong, but let’s take things into perspective given the number of increasing applications. Why don’t you just ask the people who are listed on that pamphlet you cited for the real numbers?</p>
<p>For a clear read on their application increase, check out this article:
<a href=“UCSB Breaks Previous Application Record for Fall 2014 - The Bottom Line UCSB”>http://thebottomline.as.ucsb.edu/2014/01/ucsb-breaks-previous-application-record-for-fall-2014</a> </p>
<p>^^^An increase in applications does not result in an increase in the number admitted, nor does it have any effect on the yield rate. By focusing on the number of applications, you are looking at an irrelevant number.</p>
<p>Good and bad.</p>
<p>One of my sons just received a letter from UCSB Office of Admissions. It doesn’t say Regents on the envelope (which I didn’t expect) but it does look like an invitation. Woot! (I hope!)</p>
<p>Problem is, I have twins and they both applied, and for today, at least, there is just one envelope…</p>
<p>My daughter just received her invite to the Chancellor’s Reception! Phew! It doesn’t say anything about Regents, which is what we are hoping for. My son seems to remember that he found out about Regents a few weeks after the Chancellor’s Reception, but I don’t know. Anyway, as I recall, everybody invited to the Chancellor’s Reception is considered an honor student, but I’m not sure what the benefit of that is . . .</p>
<p>From what I gather UCI had sent very few honors invitations. If all the UCSB reception invites are considered honors, they may have a larger honors program compared to UCI. What are the advantages of the honors program at UCSB? I think pretty soon, we have to decide UCSD non honors or UCSB honors. Anyone else is thinking on the same lines.</p>
<p>@ljmom I know honors students get priority registration after first quarter. Someone posted thinking they got exemption from triples if they don’t want them. I do know they have honors floors if you want them. When I went there there was much more individualized support. You could easily speak to counselors and advisors and generally get attention. </p>
<p>There are separate honors floors, which, depending on your child, may or may not be considered an advantage. All the UC’s are stuffing 3 students in dorms built for 2. My son felt it was a huge benefit to have just one roommate as opposed to two in one tiny dorm room. This may have been an option for Regents Scholars only. As collegevetting stated, you do get priority registration after the first quarter, which is a real benefit. As far as individualized support, the school states the honors students have their own counselors, etc., and they do, but there are very few and it is not easy to get an appt., according to my son.</p>
<p>Thank you @collegevetting. I hope that we could get more information this weekend.</p>
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<p>There were several posts on this thread about students who received Regents last week. Of course, that doesn’t mean that there aren’t more Regents packages still to come. </p>
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<p>As far as the benefits of Honors, they get priority registration, so Honors at UCSB is almost as good as Regents (no money, of course).</p>
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<p>I think 10% of the students at UCSB are Honors, while only 3% are Honors at UCI.</p>