Ucsc class of 2024 discussion thread

Accepted for Film and Media Production!
are they just doing early acceptances or is this basically d-day?

Also- I am from Cali and my name is NO WHERE near the end or the beginning of the alphabet, so that debunks that. I don’t think there is a method in a particular order like that.

@CindyLeuWho Congrats! Can you share gpa/test score stats?

Major: Film and Media
SAT: 1390 (wish it was over 1400 but didn’t get time to study more)
GPA: 4.something
In State

@CindyLeuWho Most people who hear anything today are just receiving acceptances! It looks like UCSC has rolling admissions

Well congrats to everyone! Is anyone for sure going to UCSC? Is it anyones first choice school?

I am sure it is many peoples first choice school. UCSC is a fantastic school and for those who got in already, congratulations to all of you and the hard work you must have done to get accepted!

D is math with a 1520 and 4.18 capped 4.6 something uncapped UC GPA. 13 AP classes and 4 college classes. Nothing yet. I am sure she will get in eventually but there doesn’t seem to be any pattern I can spot.

DSs (twins) got into Computer Engineering.

Congrats to everyone accepted! Here are my stats, if they can be of any help to people:

Decision: ACCEPTED
Date applied: 11/30/2019
Date accepted: 2/26/2020

Which school/major: Bioengineering and Bioinformatics

ACT: 34
Unweighted GPA: 3.9
Weighted GPA: 4.5
AP: Spanish (4), European History (4), Chemistry (3), Environmental Science (4), English Language (5), United States History (3)
Senior Year Course Load: AP Government, AP Calc AB, AP Biology, AP English Literature, Physics Honors
Major Awards: National Hispanic Recognition, National Merit Commended, AP Scholar with Distinction, Rotary Youth Leadership Award

Extracurriculars: FIRST Robotics (captain), Makerspace (mentor), Student Government (vice president), founder of an ongoing school project, National Honors Society (treasurer), writer for STEM magazine
Volunteer/Community Service: local hospital volunteer work
Summer Activities: volunteering, college engineering course, mentor at a leadership seminar
Essays (rating): 8/10

Other
State: CA
School Type: Private
Ethnicity: Mexican
Gender: Female

Reflection
Strengths: grades, test scores, a strong commitment to STEM, probably also being a female and minority I guess
Weaknesses: didn’t have a lot of major awards, summer activities were kind of lacking
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: I was unique in my essays, I feel like they definitely showed my personality…

Not an early applicant
D in state, but not local accepted/Plant Science

S admitted to Computer Science (2/26, 4:05 pm, in-state)
SAT: 1480
SAT subject: math2 800
GPA: 4.38 (UC capped); 4.0 UW

Admitted to Marine Biology (2/27, 4:05 pm, in-state)
SAT: 1330
GPA: 3.8
Extracurriculars: varsity lax, boys state delegate, youth advisory board to city council, aquarist/docent at aquarium, research assistant at Cal Poly SLO biochem department, field research on Santa Cruz Island partaking in Botanical Surveys, Marine Intertidal Monitoring Project partners with UC Santa Cruz and LiMPETS, Leadership, secretary/treasure of club, tutor/mentor at boys girls club, Field Research out of Joshua Tree National Park, other clubs, USMA summer leaders experience.

Go Slugs

Does anyone know when the financial information is available? There wasn’t anything with the acceptance.

Any insight from the moderator or anyone else on how admission decisions will come if you didn’t hear early? It looks to me like a common thread among the admitted students is a 4.0 UW GPA, and my son didn’t have that, so I think he’s out of luck on being an early admit. Will UCSC do a flurry of early admits and then hold off on “regular” admits until mid-March? Or will they continue to do rolling admits from this point on through March 20?

I don’t think they are done with early admissions. At least I hope not.

My DD is still waiting. She has a 3.96 gpa unweighted and 4.43 weighted with a 1400 sat plus a bunch of AP class. Major is environmental sciences and haven’t seen anyone post for that yet. Looks like it might be by majors but who knows. I have seen others post with lesser stats post acceptances . She was accepted to SDSU honors college but hasn’t heard anything from any UC schools yet. We are also instate …

I got accepted yesterday! I only applied to UC schools and was really regretting putting all my eggs in one basket but I am so relieved now!

accepted!
3.85 GPA UW
30 superscore, 29 but I had to submit a 27 with the essay
OOS washington

@NorCalsoccermom: Other than last year, previous year decisions had some High Stat Early admits at the end of February followed by the majority of decisions in Mid-March. Also prior to last year, they gave time slots based on last name when they would be posting their decisions. Seems like they may follow last year’s timeline and just start posting decisions in March over a few days.

Sorry I cannot give anyone more information.

@Gumbymom - just curious. Do UCs look at unweighted GPA? A friend’s son took 15+ APs but half are Bs. Very bright kid who loves learning, but now they are worried. Thanks!