<p>@collegevetting I guess that is somewhat reassuring, thanks!</p>
<p>I guess we’ll have to wait until May to be sure. Hoping for the best </p>
<p>Sooo does the 200-word statement weigh alot on your waitlist decision…? Or is it more based on how close your initial application was from the cutoff?</p>
<p>happilee- Last year my son opted in to the waitlist AND submitted an appeal just like you are doing. He was admitted on the appeal a week later, in time to attend Triton Day and to sign-up for dorms right away. It is definitely worth trying!</p>
<p>Is it possible to call and see how many points your were off by for the cutoff?</p>
<p>I hate that my son is merely a number! Waitlisted. Appeal denied. WAS accepted at a couple of schools with HIGHER standards than UCSD. Not meaning tp pick on UCSD–this is a UC-wide problem: The admissions process is unfair because far too many kids apply to schools that are not their first or main choices, only because their counselors or parents encourage them. I know many who applied to a dozen or more schools! And then they sit back and don’t bother to tell the places they were admitted to “no thanks.” So the schools’ statisticians run the numbers to get “yield rates” for SIRs and final enrollments for the number of seats. PLEASE people. If you are going to enroll, send in your SIR NOW. If you are not going to enroll, send a note declining NOW. Only then will waitlists matter. Don’t wait until May 1. Do the right thing.</p>
<p>It is not this black and white.
My son is going to decline the schools he is 100% sure not going during spring break.</p>
<p>But there are a couple he needs to wait for financial aid packages, college visits, etc… to make his decision.</p>
<p>He is genuinely thinking about it between USC w/ Nat Merit, UCLA and UCSD w/Regents, and his decision will only come towards the 2nd half of April.</p>
<p>Of course waiting for financial aid status and needing to visit to help make a decisions are very good reasons to be undecided. But staying on wait lists or remaining “accepted, not enrolled” when there is zero chance of going to that school is wrong. </p>
<p>I read somewhere that UCSD does not notify about financial aid unless the student has been accepted, so not even waitlisted students will not get statements.</p>
<p>UCSD dug deeeeeep into their waitlist in 2011. I don’t know what happened in 2012 or 2013.</p>
<p>@emilyboss, your double negative has my brain in knots</p>
<p>@living61 I’m guessing a rise in the amount of applicants? They seem to increase every year.</p>
<p>Has anyone been notified yet?</p>
<p>My kids cannot figure out how to “decline” UCSD. If someone can let me know, they will decline today opening up 2 spots. They sure hide this stuff making it difficult to decline.</p>
<p>@rgosula There’s a “deny admission” button. It should be either on the welcoming screen or in “See Admission Details.”</p>
<p>If we login here :
<a href=“http://myapplication.ucsd.edu/”>http://myapplication.ucsd.edu/</a></p>
<p>Maybe because we previously did steps 1 and 2? I still don’t see it.</p>
<p>Please continue with Step 3.</p>
<p>1 - Review and agree to the provisions of your admission to UCSD.
2 - Submit resident status information.
3 - Accept UCSD’s offer of admission and submit your Statement of Intent to Register (SIR)
4 - Submit your parent information
5 - Submit more resident status information (if required)
6 - View final checklist</p>
<p>@rgosula Hmm I remember seeing a “decline admission offer” on mine, but it’s gone now…Try SIR-ing & see if there’s a “I will not attend” option.</p>
<p>tried that with no success.</p>
<p>at this point I think we tried hard enough, and will just let it expire May 1st.
unless someone gives us clear directions.</p>
<p>Don’t worry, if you don’t accept it’s the same as decline. </p>
<p>Some schools Accept is easy, Decline is hard. Why??</p>
<p>^ Psychological tactic to subconsciously compel students to attend? Lololol kidding</p>