UCSD Class of 2021 Discussion/Decisions

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1421

Decision: Accepted

Objective:

SAT I (breakdown): 2210 (660 Math, 750 Critical Reading, 800 Writing w/ 12 Essay)
SAT II: 730 Lit, 690 Math II
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.92 percent
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): probably top 10%? School doesn’t do rankings
AP (place score in parenthesis): World History (3), English Language (5), Environmental Science
Senior Year Course Load: AP Government, AP Microeconomics, AP English Literature, AP Spanish, AP Calc AB, TA
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): None

Subjective:

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Environmental Club (Treasurer, Secretary), Writing Club (3 yrs), Psych Club (3 yrs), Link Crew (2 yrs)
Job/Work Experience: Cafeteria Worker (1 yr), Tutor (Sept 2016-now)
Volunteer/Community service: Hospital Volunteer (2 yrs)
Summer Activities: …lol
Essays (rating 1-10, details): 5? Very mediocre, I went crazy writing and rewriting them 'til I just got fed up and submitted what I thought was passable.

Other:

Applied for Financial Aid?: Yeah, didn’t get shit ($0)
Intended Major: Economics
State (if domestic applicant): CA
School Type: Public, 75% Asian, ~2000 students total
Ethnicity: Asian American (Chinese)
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: $140k
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None

Reflection:

Strengths: GPA, test scores, sophomore year
Weaknesses: Extracurriculars, essays, didn’t take that many APs junior year
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: Should be safety anyways–happy to get my first acceptance.
Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected: Accepted to UCSB, UCI, UCD, LMU, CSUN, SDSU. Waiting on those sweet, sweet rejections (lol UCLA and Cal)

General Comments: I feel like I was a very mediocre applicant, especially in context of my classmates. But that goes to show that you should still give it a shot and apply even if the people around you are amazing; their accomplishments don’t necessarily void your own. Good luck!

1422

ACCEPTED!
Major: Mathematics-Computer Science
College: Thurgood Marshall
UC GPA: 4.24
SAT: 2210 (old)
in state (SD)

1423

Waitlisted. Phys/Neuroscience GPA w 4.5 uw 3.80 ACT 30 very solid app. Won’t take spot on waitlist as another top choice came through. Enjoyed the wait with everyone on here!

1424

Accepted for joint math/economics :slight_smile:
College: Muir
UC GPA: 4.65
SAT: 2370
In state

1425

Accepted:

Major: Computer engineering
College: Muir
UC GPA: 4.46
ACT: 36
AP’s: 10 in total, all 5’s
every STEM AP except APES

Awards: USAPhO Bronze, USACO Plat, SciBowl Nats, USAMO index: 212
EC’s: lot of clubs and volunteer work

Also NMSF and AP Scholar

Congrats to all who applied.

1426

Decision: Accepted (Major: Economics; College: Thurgood Marshall)

Objective:

SAT I (breakdown): 2210 (660 Math, 750 Critical Reading, 800 Writing w/ 12 Essay)
SAT II: 730 English Lit, 690 Math II
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.92
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): School doesn’t rank, but probably in the top 9%
AP (place score in parenthesis): World History (3), English Language (5), Environmental Science
Senior Year Course Load: AP Government, AP Microeconomics, AP Spanish, AP Calc AB, AP English Literature, TA
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): None

Subjective:

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Psych Club (3 yrs, Treasurer), Environmental Club (2 yrs, Treasurer then Secretary), Writing Club (2 yrs, Co-pres), Link Crew (2 yrs)
Job/Work Experience: Cafeteria Worker (1 yr), Tutor (Sept 2016-now)
Volunteer/Community service: Hospital Volunteer (2 yrs)
Summer Activities: lol
Essays (rating 1-10, details): 5. Very mediocre, I went crazy writing and rewriting them, so I just submitted once I was fed up with the process.

Other:

Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes. Didn’t get shit though ($0)
Intended Major: Economics
State (if domestic applicant): CA
School Type: Public, 75% Asian, ~2000 students total, competitive
Ethnicity: Asian American (Chinese)
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: $140k
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None

Reflection:

Strengths: GPA, SAT, sophomore year courseload
Weaknesses: Junior year courseload, essays
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: Accepted to CSUN, SDSU, LMU, UCI, UCSB, UCD. Still waiting on those sweet, sweet rejections (UCLA, Cal, NYU Stern lol)

General Comments: Throughout the whole college application process, I felt very mediocre in comparison with my peers. But I still got accepted to places, which goes to show that even if you’re surrounded by amazing people, their accomplishments don’t void your own. Give it your best shot, and know you’ll most likely be successful wherever you go, as long as you put in the work.

1427

Accepted
In state applicant
Major: Chemical Engineering (Somehow i got my first choice wow.)
College: Eleanor Roosevelt
UC GPA: 4.13
SAT: 1240 (new)
ACT: 28
Class Rank: 7th in the school I think for the time that I applied. But yeah top 10% of class.
Didn’t do so hot on the Math Level 2 and Chemistry subject tests. Like around 500 for both.
Around 100-ish (more or less) community service hours. Didn’t really hold leadership positions, but I’m in a handful of clubs.
I thought my personal statements were okay. Not mindblowing.
So, to future applicants, hey, you can get in if you’re like slightly above average.

1428

Accepted
Major: Mathematics
College: Revelle

Catholic all-girls high school

1429

Accepted!!

Revelle Mechanical Engineering
ACT: 34
GPA: 4.33

1430

Accepted for General Biology
UC GPA: 3.85
ACT: 33

1431

Decision: Accepted (Mechanical Engineering, Marshall College)

Objective:
SAT (new SAT): 1500, 730 english 770 math (essay score was 18 if we’re counting that)
SAT II: 740 Physics, 760 Math II
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.8
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top 10%
AP (place score in parenthesis): English Language (4), Spanish Language (4), Calculus AB (5), Physics 1 (5)
Senior Year Course Load: AP Physics C, AP Calc BC, AP Comp Sci A, Economics, AP English Lit
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): lol none

Subjective:

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): leader of publications photography (member for 2, assistant leader last year), robotics (also leader for 3 years), lacrosse, math club
Job/Work Experience: I suppose you could count the day my school paid me to photograph graduation
Volunteer/Community service: hospital volunteer for 4 years, earned 500+ hours and gold (x2) and bronze presidential service award for it
Summer Activities: Mechanicanal engineering research last summer
Essays (rating 1-10, details): I put a lot of hard work into these but tbh I have no clue (7??? maybe an 8 in good lighting??)

Other: Spanish Honors Society member for 3 years, Cum Laude member (top 10% of juniors + top 20% of seniors)

Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
Intended Major: Mechanical Engineering
State (if domestic applicant): CA
Country (if international applicant): N/A
School Type: Small, Private, Competitive
Ethnicity: Mixed (Asian/white)
Gender: Female
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): female in STEM (though I’m not sure if they really look at gender…)

Reflection:

Strengths: Test scores, ECs
Weaknesses: GPA
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: with all of the crazy decisions I really can’t say, I mean I’m proud of how hard I worked but I know there’s others who got rejected or waitlisted that worked harder than me
Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected: accepted Purdue and UIUC, denied scholarship USC, rejected Stanford.

1432

Accepted
Major: Environmental Systems (Earth Science)
SAT 1270 ACT 25
GPA 4.35

1433

Rejected
Major: Politics

Unweighted GPA: 4.0
Weighted GPA (capped): 4.95
SAT I (breakdown): 1600
ACT (breakdown): 35 Math: 34 Science: 36 English: 35
SAT II: Spanish: 800 US History: 800 Biology: 800 Chemistry: 780
Rank: 1/780
AP Scores: AP US History 5- AP English Lang 5 - AP English Lit 5 - AP Bio 5 AP Chem 5. AP Physics 5 AP World 5
IB Scores: N/A
Courses you are taking senior year: AP Calc, AP Lit, AP Stats, AP Psychology. AP Environmental Science

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Health Occupations Students of America Club (Treasurer, 3 years), Chicano Student Movement (Treasurer/Co-founder, 2 years), High level Art with several mediums including acrylic paint, watercolors, colored pencil and graphite
Job/Work Experience: Paid Internship at a Hospital, Paid tutor
Volunteer/Community service: about 7,000 hours volunteering at hospitals in Somalia, Pakistan, and Yemen
Summer Activities: Upward Bound (federally funded TRIO program for first gen potential college students), previously mentioned Internship at a hospital
Essays (rating 1-10, details): 10; One was hands down the best essay I’ve ever written. I wrote about why I wanted to be a doctor, including the loss of my brother just months before applying. I truly wrote from the heart for the first time ever probably. My other essay was about growing up poor, sleeping inside of a closet for a year like Harry Potter, but not because my family hated me, my “bed” (it was legit made out of ply-wood by my dad) just didn’t fit anywhere else in our tiny trailer. I did actually include that bit about Harry Potter to open and close off the essay, I thought it was fun.

Ethnicity: Latina
Gender: Female
State (if domestic): California
Country (if international):
Income Bracket: 25,000
Are you applying for financial aid?: Yes, I’m poor
Hooks (first generation college, underrepresented minority, legacy): First generation/minority

Not the best stats, but I’m hoping for the best!

1434

Waitlisted
30/1350
major: Biology
in state
4.09 uc gpa

(got into davis tho woo)

1435

Accepted
Applied Mathematics
Muir

1436

@Wilt Chamberlain, Ok trust me, those are definitely the “best” stats, you are one of the people rejected because they would probably decide to go to a better school, for sure.

1437

Son Waitlisted
Major: Electrical Engineering
UC GPA, capped: 3.8
ACT: 32, low-mid 700s for SAT IIs in math and chemistry
14 APs (4s and 5s on 7 of them so far), sports as the major EC
In state/so-cal

Not too broken up about this since my husband and I didn’t really love the school on our tour, plus he got into Davis and SLO so we have nice options already. My out of state niece was accepted as undeclared though she applied for mechanical engineering. Her stats were a bit lower (28 ACT I think, decent GPA, some APs, good ECs). She also got into Davis.

1438

Accepted!
Environmental science/ policy
ACT 30
UW 3.88 / W 4.2
Lots of ECs

1439

Accepted

In-state applicant
Major: Psychology
College: Thurgood Marshall
Weighted GPA (out of 5.0): 4.77 (16 APs, cc classes)
ACT: 34
Class Rank: 1/~750
Decent ECs and essays. Meh recs.

It was a rough 4 years of high school, but losing the sleep was worth it I suppose.

1440

Decision: Accepted
Major: Computer Science
ACT: 27
New SAT: 1280
Weighted UC GPA: 4.27
SAT 2 MATH: 600
In-state, IB program

I got rejected from UC Davis and Cal Poly SLO