@rocknix one, they release all decisions at once
@ucsdcscholar what is the time range for calling campaigns?
@bsmdint 4:30 - 8 next week
i heard it could be up to 8PM at night.
@Mordowin What is yield theory?
Yield theory is the theory that colleges don’t accept over-qualified applicants because they believe that they will get into better schools and will ultimately reject them.
@ucsdcscholar thanks!
so… yield theory is legit?
@YoungOne4 most people consider UC Davis to be a likely school for them, so the school has a super lower enrollment rate as compared to the other UCs (i.e. UCLA), so they accept people who usually have lower stats and waitlist most of the top or middle applicants (of course there are gonna be outliers, though, because I doubt the school would waitlist anyone above at 1580 or something), so based off of that, they accept or waitlist people.
@prideful that was my dilemma 
I had pretty high stats as compared to some of the other applicants and I worked really hard to get those stats because UC Davis is my #1 choice, but I got waitlisted
@cutiepie679 @ummsail @person2000: This theory has been around for years and no one has yet been able to prove such a thing exists. Each UC campus selects applicants that they feel will “fit” into their University based on their own criteria. This theory has also been utilized by applicants when it comes to explaining why Cal Poly SLO waitlists many high stat applicants. You have to remember that College Confidential posters are only a small sampling of the actual # of applicants that have applied to these schools. You cannot make assumptions on a few hundred posters…
wow, uc davis accepts low students? really?
is that how they’d like to position themselves?
@caleegalee: Take a look at UCD’s Freshman profile and you can see for yourself that the assumption is not true.
http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/campuses/davis/freshman-profile/
@cutiepie679 I got a 36 on every section on the ACT (single sitting) and was waitlisted by Davis ¯_(ツ)_/¯
I would like you to ask you to rephrase your sentence and your wording when you say such comments. You can’t automatically assume that the general population of the students there are low simply because of their stats. I’m no 4.0 student myself, yet I was accepted. However, that being said, a lot of my friends, 4.0 students, high SAT scores, multiple extracurriculars were also accepted by UC Davis. Sure, acceptance of students like me are maybe classified as a “yield protection” acceptee, but honestly, to say that we are low or that we would bring down the position of the school is not right. Especially when there are so many frantic and stressed students on this site, watch your words. Everyone should be proud of their accomplishments and getting into college, no matter which they are accepted to.
I would have just brushed your comment off @caleegalee if it hadn’t been for a friend who read this and after being excited by her first acceptance have her confidence dashed again. And it’s not just you, a lot of other students say the same things, it’s just that you popped up in the front page we were browsing.
Both GPA and SAT or ACT count and also which major someone applied to. And UCs have to take students from every region .UCs cannot just accept all students from one top school and leave every student from other school. If a student with low stats got accepted from your school it means he/she applied in less competitive major.
@livegorilla: Stats are not everything but definitely important. Unfortunately no one can say for sure why some applicants are accepted and others are not. Simply there are way too many qualified applicants applying to the UC’s for a small number of spots. Just remember that where you go for Undergrad will not define you, it is what you do with the opportunities you are given that will make you successful. Best of luck to all applicants and “bloom where planted”.
@orionary I really hope so…
When are the decisions expected?
The whole yield protection theory is just untrue…there were many high stats students also accepted to UCD this year. You’re going to get the yield protection theory on every school’s forum because some kids just didn’t get accepted and they felt they like they should’ve. So much comes into play in admissions, no two applicants are the same, to say that Davis only accepted low stats applicant is false.