Ucsc class of 2024 discussion thread

@Gumbymom - thank you so much for the info! Very much appreciated.

Someone on reddit said they got an acceptance today. I’m guessing today was the late day for the early admits though.

@SophiElliot can you share reddit link? Didn’t think to follow there.

@Hemmingway2019 For some reason I can’t post the link but the discussion was under subreddit ApplyingToCollege and it was called UCSC admissions fall 2020 made 10 hours ago by s4gan03

@SophiElliot
Great - thanks!

Thanks! Fingers crossed for you, SophiElliot!

Any new acceptances today or is this it for early acceptances ?

Does anyone know (or have an educated guess) as to why they do these early admits? It doesn’t seem to be tied to an invitation with a deadline to apply for Regents or other scholarship. Is it just so the student starts thinking about the school before they start getting distracted by other admissions?

@Casad I’m curious about that too.
My daughter has a few friends who got in this week and they are all high achievers who applied to SC as a safety. My guess is that there must be a certain percentage who lets the school know right away that they won’t be attending.

They know those kids get other attractive offers and early admits/likely letters increase excitement.

What they may not realize is that it can also have a negative affect on other attractive applicants. My daughter’s best friend was admitted Wednesday and she was not. I don’t’ think that will affect her decision come April, but who knows what teenagers may be influenced by.

@VickiSoCal Yep. I’m hearing a lot of “oh god, I hope they didn’t take my place” kind of talk. But oh well, we’ll all know our choices in a few weeks.

@VickiSoCal - I totally understand. My D was fortunate to get the early acceptance to UCSC but did not get the other UC early invites that some of her peers with lower scores received. I don’t think it will influence her decision but it does add to the anxiety.

I think we have to remind our kids (and ourselves) that early acceptances are a small percentage of the overall acceptances that will come out. Something in the application, beyond stats warranted the early invites. (In my D’s case she went to COSMOS at UCSC, so I believe that contributed.)

Hope your D has lots of good news coming her way! Thankfully the end is almost here and everyone will have their decisions soon.

Are you sure it’s not random? My daughter got in (Wed at about 4 pm, but she didn’t check her email until yesterday), and she is not really a “high achiever,” stats-wise. She’s Undeclared, and attends a large, academically competitive public high school. There are about 650 in each senior class, and last year about half the class applied to SC (and more than half of those were accepted, though less than twenty enrolled), so she must be surrounded by kids-- including actual high achievers-- who applied, but so far, she’s only run into a couple of others who actually got the early acceptance. (She did say SC was a safety school for the two she ran into… ) Most of my daughter’s friends applied to UCSC, and I think this is just adding to their stress, although of course they are happy for her.

The admissions that came out this week has nothing to do with stats. You’ll see from a variety of sources people ranging from 1200 to 1500+ all got early acceptance letters. High stats kids weren’t the target on 2/27

Is this just practice for the big roll out? So, totally random?

Did people who got accepted early hear it on portal but also get email already?

TheFrenchChef My son received an email on Wednesday and I(parent) just received a notification on my email today. His portal status updated to admitted.

@Junipero Yeah I would say they are totally random as far as stats go. There was no correlation with major or stats. It could have been something qualitative like personal statements, but I doubt that. We don’t know.

@ The FrenchChef, first portal update, then email to the student and today I also received email about my kid acceptance.

I am reading comments above that the early acceptances were random and that they weren’t related to Stats. However, in looking at people who were accepted and who posted their Stats, it did appear that most of the people had at least a 4.0 GPA UW. Their SAT/ACT scores might have varied, but maybe UCSC doesn’t weight that as much. Also, the other clue is that most of the people admitted said that UCSC was a “safety” school for them. That implies that they have high enough Stats that Santa Cruz was a sure bet for them. As someone noted, the university is doing this to try and entice some of the High Stats folks who might otherwise want to go somewhere else – it starts to develop some “brand loyalty.” :-)).