Accepted!
Major: Pre Economics
SAT: 1840
GPA: 4.11
Decision: Accepted
Major: Environmental Studies
Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 1650
SAT II: N/A
UC GPA (W): 3.759 (UW):3.483
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 80/445
AP (place score in parenthesis): Environmental Science (3), English Language & Comp (3), Human Geo (3), Psychology (3)
IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
Senior Year Course Load: AP Stat, AP Lit, AP Biology, H Econ, AP Gov’t, Digital Imaging, and Acadeca
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): AP Scholar
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):Key Club (President) (2 years) Acadeca (2 years), Boys and Girls Club (2 years), Church Youth Group (2 Years)
Job/Work Experience: N/A
Volunteer/Community service: 300+ hours with Key club, 40 hours at animal shelter
Summer Activities: Summer Job
Essays (rating 1-10, details): both were probably a 7. Talked about service in my community in one, and hardships in the other
Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
Intended Major: 1st choice Environmental Studies, 2nd choice N/A
State (if domestic applicant): California
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Regular Public School in LAUSD
Ethnicity: Latino
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: Below 40K
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): First Generation, Low income
Reflection
Strengths: essays, service in community
Weaknesses:low gpa and sat
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Essays, Extra Curriculars, and I showed an upward trend.
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Rejected from UC Davis, UCLA, Cal Poly SLO, Cal State Long Beach. Waitlisted: UC Santa Cruz
Decision: Accepted
Major: Pre-Political Science
Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 1740 single setting
ACT: N/A
SAT II: Chinese: 800, USH: 550
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.5 (UC GPA 3.77)
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 10%
AP (place score in parenthesis): Chinese: 5 APUSH: 3
IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
Senior Year Course Load: AP Statistics, AP Literature, AP Government, Art, TA
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): N/A
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
2 ASB cabinet positions
2 Interact cabinet positions
Track
Academic Decathlon Secretary
Volunteer/Community service: 200-300 hours
Work Experience:N/A
Summer Activities: summer school if that counts
Essays (rating 1-10, details): One was about how I became interested in my major and the other was just about my perseverance in track. Personally I thought they were nothing special.
Other
Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
State (if domestic applicant): SoCal
Country (if international applicant): N/A
School Type: Large public
Ethnicity: Asian and White
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: $25k
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): First Gen
Reflection
Strengths: Essays and ECs?
Weaknesses: GPA and SAT
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Either good fit, essays, or extracurriculars because I definitely did not get in based on grades.
Decsion: Accepted. does anyone know if there is a facebook group or group me for accepted ucsb kids?
I got waitlisted, does anybody know how many waitlist kids they usually let on?
Decision: Accepted!!
Major: pre-biology
SAT: 2280 (750 CR, 770 M, 760 W)
UC GPA: 3.7
Where else I was accepted: UCSD, UCD, university of Washington, Santa Clara, Ohio state, u of Miami
Where I was rejected:Northwestern, Johns Hopkins, UCLA 
Where I still haven’t heard from: UCB, Cornell, Vanderbilt, Wesleyan, Vassar,
Maya, someone posted the waitlist stats, just have to read through the top threads 
Waitlisted and appeal stats from 2015 and 2014:
http://■■■■■■■■■■■■/docs/2015FreshmanWaitlistAppealCancellation.pdf?f397bc
http://■■■■■■■■■■■■/home/fall-2014-last-year-frosh-waitlist-appeal-cancellation-numbers/
It will depend upon how many applicants SIR by May 1 and how many spots that have open.
@gonewiththeair
Hey another Econ major =D>
Maybe we’ll be dying in our classes together next year
Decision: Accepted
Date decision postmarked/received: March 22, 2016
Major: Pre-Biology
Objective:
SAT I : 1770
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.8
Other
Applied for Financial Aid? Yes
State (if domestic applicant): California
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Female
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): First gen
Reflection
Strengths: Essays, ECs
Weaknesses: SAT score
Accepted: UCI, UCR, UCD, ChapmanU, USF, UCSB, UCSD (Waitlisted)
Rejected: UCLA
Waiting: UCB, USC
Decision: ACCEPTED!!!
Major: Sociology
Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): didn’t send in
SAT II: didn’t send in
UC GPA (W): 3.75 (UW):3.48
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):
AP (place score in parenthesis): Apush (2)
IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
Senior Year Course Load: AP Stat, AP Lit, AP Gov’t, AP environmental science, Journalism, Sculptor
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Journalism - 2 years and a section editor, BSU club president, UNICEF club president and founder, CSF for 3 years, Tennis and Badminton for 1 year
Job/Work Experience: tutor
Volunteer/Community service: 58 hours (lol) @ Science camp and an Elementary school
Summer Activities: 2 journalism workshops
Essays (rating 1-10, details): i thought mine were really good! talked about journalism for one and the second was about how my parents were immigrants and how we were low income
Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
Intended Major: 1st choice Sociology, 2nd choice Political Science
State (if domestic applicant): California
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Public School in SJ
Ethnicity: african american
Gender: female
Income Bracket: Below 60K
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): First Generation, Low income
Reflection
Strengths: essays and EC
Weaknesses:low gpa and act
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Essays, Extra Curriculars, and I showed an upward trend.
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Rejected from UCLA, UCSD, Santa Clara University and Claremont Mckenna
Decision: Accepted
Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 2290 (720 CR, 780 M, 790 W)
ACT: did not take
SAT II: 800 M2, 770 Chem
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
UC GPA: 4.36
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/700
ELC?: yes
AP (place score in parenthesis): Euro (3), Bio (4), Eng Lang (4), Chem (5), Calc BC(5), US History(5)
IB (place score in parenthesis): none
Senior Year Course Load: AP Stats, AP comp sci, AP lit, ap us gov, ap physics c, service work
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National merit commended, ap scholar with distinction
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): girl scouts, red cross club (pres) rocketry club(vp), peer tutoring
Job/Work Experience: paid peer tutoring
Volunteer/Community service: volunteer work thru red cross, volunteer at school library
Personal Statement: one was 9/10, other 7/10
Other
Applied for Financial Aid?: yep, got Regents!
Intended Major: ChemEng
State (if domestic applicant): CA
School Type: large public
Ethnicity: white
Gender: f
Income Bracket: ~20K
Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.): first gen
Reflection
Strengths: gpa, sat
Weaknesses: kinda low EC involvement
Schools were you accepted/waitlisted to?: UCLA, UCSD, CSULB, Northwestern, Stanford deferral
Schools you were rejected from?: Caltech
Schools you are waiting for?: Berkeley, Princeton, Stanford final decision
General Comments: Good Luck all! It’s not the end of the world if you don’t get in, you’ll find your fit. I already knew I was in because of Regents but it’s always nice to see an official acceptance on my portal
Son was accepted
Mathematics
GPA - UW 3.95, UC weighted 4.15
ACT 31
ECs - only sports, not much else
Hooks: none
Accepted to CalPoly SLO, Cal Poly Pomona, UCI, UCR, UCM.
Waitlisted: UCSB. Rejected UCD
Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): didn’t take
ACT (breakdown): 30C
SAT II: US history 700
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.9
Weighted GPA: 4.08
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): n/a
AP (place score in parenthesis): Ap English Language(4), Ap Us History(3) Ap Biology (3)
IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
Senior Year Course Load: Ap English Literature, Ap French, Ap Government, Calculus
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Ap scholar, honor roll, a bunch of french awards
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Gilr up(Director of Exapansion), Student council representative, ambassador of the school, volleyball team(captain), honor code committee member, girl scouts(silver award)
Job/Work Experience: camp counselor, volleyball coach, babysitting
Volunteer/Community service: over 100 hours at a hospital, over 100 hours at Meals on Wheels
Summer Activities:
Essays (rating 1-10, details): 8. I thought one of my essays was really good and the other was ok. But still good.
Recommendations (rating 1-10, details): 9. Read one and it was amazing. The other teacher likes me too and my counselor loves me
Interview: N/A
Other
Applied for Financial Aid?: I said I was going to on the application but didn’t end up pursuing fafsa
Intended Major: undeclared
State (if domestic applicant): CA
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: small, all girls, catholic
Ethnicity: white(middle eastern)
Gender: female
Income Bracket: 60k
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): N/A
Strengths: essays, extracurriculars, i speak three languages fluently
Weaknesses:
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: UCSB was a target school for me. I was a top applicant and invited to the reception.
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
Accepted: SDSU, University of Washington, Oregon, UCI-honors,
Rejected: Cal Poly SLO, UCLA
Waitlisted: UCSD
waiting on: Duke, NYU, USC, and Berkeley
General Comments: If I don’t get into Berkeley I think I will end up here. I am perfectly ok with that though because who doesn’t want to live on a beach but praying for Berkeley
Decision: Accepted
College of Letters and Sciences
Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): Didn’t submit
ACT: 34 (29 writing)
SAT II: 720 Chemistry
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
UC GPA: 4.4
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top 10%
ELC?:
AP (place score in parenthesis): World History (5) Biology (4) Chemistry (3) APUSH (4) Lang (5) Calc AB (5)
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Course Load: AP Physics, AP Calc BC, AP Lit, Art, AP Gov, Student Gov
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): lots of school awards and AP Scholar w Distinction
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Student gov (4 years, treasurer last year), Tennis- school and club (captain every season), some other clubs at my school
Job/Work Experience: babysitting and tutoring
Volunteer/Community service: mostly NHS
Personal Statement: I thought they were good and worked a lot on them
Other
Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
Intended Major : political science
State (if domestic applicant):CA
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: public
Ethnicity: white
Gender: female
Income Bracket: 200k
Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.): none
Reflection
Strengths: scores, GPA, leadership
Weaknesses: lack of volunteer hours, basic extracurriculars
Schools were you accepted/waitlisted to? Accepted: UCLA, SDSU, Davis, GW, Santa Cruz, Boston College Waitlisted: Nothwestern
Schools you were rejected from? none yet lol
Schools you are waiting for? Brown, Berkeley
[ /list][ b]General Comments:[ /b] Good Luck!! I did not receive an invitation to chancellor reception
Decision: Accepted
Major: Biology
Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): Didn’t send
ACT: 35
SAT II: 790 Math II, 780 Chinese, 750 Chemistry
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 10%
AP (place score in parenthesis): APUSH (4) AP Calc BC (5) AP Chem (4)
Senior Year Course Load: AP Stats, AP Bio, AP Gov/Econ, AP Spanish, AP Literature
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): AP Scholar w/ Distinction
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): NHS (officer 2 years), lots of other clubs including a couple officer positions, orchestra concertmaster, LOTS OF MUSIC including international competitions for both piano/violin
Job/Work Experience: N/A
Volunteer/Community service: Lots of volunteering both with music groups, with NHS, and as a counselor (no specifics for privacy reasons)
Summer Activities: BU RISE, Foulger International Music Festival
Other
Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
Intended Major: Biology/Music
State (if domestic applicant): CA
School Type: Large public
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: ~60k
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None
Reflection
Strengths: ECs, GPA
Weaknesses: Not a lot of major-related activities
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: High stats, good ECs
Accepted to: UC Berkeley (Regents), Boston University, Brandeis, Wash U. St. Louis, UCLA, UCSD, UC Irvine (Regents + CHP), UCSB (Regents), UC Davis (Regents), UCSC (Regents), UC Riverside (Regents).
Waitlisted to: Johns Hopkins.
Rejected from: Northwestern.
Waiting for: Stanford, Brown, Columbia, UPenn, Tufts, USC
What is admission by examination? Sorry but i have read your posts a few places and do not understand the term. Is it for home-schooled students?
oh, just relying on ACT/SAT scores. Ah ok. Well I am surprised that option is offered at all to anyone with a conventional HS education - must be intended to allow homeschooled kids a chance to apply to a weaker UC maybe? Or for someone who needs to explain inability to have a great weighted GPA or lack of enough UC a-g courses. Probably not meant for someone going to a regular HS who has great test scores but not enough a-g courses and/or a weak GPA.
Also the admissions are holistic - if they did not like your kid’s essays or ECs - that could instead be the reason - not “admission by examination”? Hard to jump to conclusions only because you think your kid had a great set of test scores. I have seen 2300 SAT kids not getting UCLA either. Your case doesn’t seem that unusual.
Decision: Accepted for Undeclared Major
Objective:
[] SAT I (breakdown): 1940 C (660 W, 650 CR, 630 M)
[] SAT II: Didn’t take any
[] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.7 UW 4.02 W
[] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): School doesn’t rank
[] AP (place score in parentheses): World History (5), Art History (4), Bio (3), English Lang (3)
[] Senior Year Course Load: AP Euro, AP Calc AB, AP English LI, AP Studio Art, AP Psych
Subjective:
[] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parentheses): Image Editor for School newspaper, photography for yearbook, Captain of cheerleading, Key club, etc
[] Job/Work Experience: n/a
[] Summer Activities: Took painting and photography classes
[] Essays: 9/10 - pretty solid I guess
Other
[]Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
[] State (if domestic applicant): NY
Country (if international applicant): USA
[] School Type: Public, suburban
[] Ethnicity: Asian
[] Gender: Female
[] Income Bracket(mention if FA candidate): <$40k
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): expressed my interest in potentially pursuing art major in my essays and I had the extracurriculars and classes to prove it[/li]
Reflection
[] Strengths: Extracurriculars and essay
[] Weaknesses: Test score
[] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I was very honest and myself in my essays
[] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted at Boston University, Syracuse (Newhouse), Occidental College w 10k scholarship, UCSD
Rejected from UCLA, Northeastern, Tulane
Waiting on NYU, GW, USC