@Hemmingway2019:
2019 Waitlist not available but UCSC was overenrolled this past year so probably less off the waitlist.
2018 Waitlist:
Number of qualified applicants offered a place on waiting list:
12,504
Number accepting a place on the waiting list: 7,453
Number of wait-listed students admitted: 149
2017 Data:
Number of qualified applicants offered a place on waiting list:10,378
Number accepting a place on the waiting list: 6038
Number of wait-listed students admitted: 2236
Is your waiting list ranked? No
2016 Data:
Number of qualified applicants offered a place on waiting list: 9983
Number accepting a place on the waiting list: 5707
Number of wait-listed students admitted: 4097
Is your waiting list ranked? No
@Gumbymom. So, in relation to 2019 waitlist, you think that even less than 149 waitlisted students got in 2019? My friend’s son got in in May last year, and there had already been earlier announcements of his waitlisted friends getting in, so she felt that he was probably in the third group or wave of waitlisted students offered acceptance. Is Santa Cruz saying, though, that they don’t rank waitlisted students? How do they select which 149 get in, then, when you have thousands on the waitlist if they don’t rank them?
@NorCalsoccermom: It is hard to tell how many actually were accepted from the waitlist in 2019 since not all accepted students post on any of the college websites. To me, it seemed that there was more than 149 but there have been some year’s where no one was accepted off the waitlist and some years where thousands were accepted.
Again it all depends upon how many end up enrolling by May 1.
Regarding ranking the waitlist, the majority of schools state they do not rank the waitlist but I am sure there is some hierarchy of how they admit the students. UCSC Engineering is basically admit by major so if spots open up in a specific discipline, they can pull from the list. For the rest of the majors, since they are only admitted to a “proposed” major, there is more leeway and flexibility.
Accepted back in late Feb. and got the Regents Scholarship today!!!
1330 SAT (very low due to extreme circumstances)
4.5 GPA (W) 3.9 GPA (UW)
Super good extracurriculars (job, internship, club leadership, etc.)
Thanks for the data list @Gumbymom. Any insight into risking a place on the waitlist if an appeal is submitted? I’d like my D to consider appealing, because fall GPA came up quite a bit; but i’m curious if that changes waitlist chances if appeal is denied.
If I get a spot off of the waitlist later is there any guarantee that there will actually be enough room in the classes that I would like to/need to take for my major?
Accepted back in February
Major: psychology
OOS (Virginia)
1290 SAT; 27 ACT
Rank: 41/414 (top 10%)
4.12 weighted capped, weighted 4.4, unweighted 3.8 UC GPA
8 AP’s
Female, Asian
EC’s: Summer Exchange program, VP Future Medical Professionals of America (FMPA) Club, VP Red Cross Club, member in all honor societies, essay tutor, equity leader, weekly volunteer at local SPCA, hospital, and Red Cross
Awards: Okinawa Peace scholarship recipient, 1st place in Japanese speech contest, Smith College Book Award, art work displayed in city fair and art walk, and AP Capstone diploma candidate
3.9 W 3.5 UW 31 ACT (low due to life circumstances, became orphaned at 15)
taken CC class, had national lab internship, has a job, 3 years of swim, 2x club leadership +other stuff
Kinda shocked because I really thought I’d get in, but I’m hearing UCs don’t do a holistic review and mainly look at GPA and test scores.