<p>What does UCSD consider when looking at waitlisters? Does anyone know for sure or is it simply speculation and guessing?</p>
<p>I'd assume that it'd be some combination between avaliable spaces(of course) but mostly GPA and what major your applying to.</p>
<p>Then, for the essay, it told us why we "WANT" to go to UCSD. Not why they think we should be admitted so my essay was a little different. I think a more convincing essay could have been why we should be admitted such as GPA trend, grades winter quarter, jobs / EC that we've taken since the UC app was submitted etc. but the prompt was a little different so I instead said that I want to go because of (simply put) location, prestige, good program, etc.</p>
<p>Someone posted in the Ucsd thread that they called admissions and that wait list will be based off gpa. The 200 word thing is said to be useless. Also major is not really a factor either since Ucsd doesn’t admit by major but rather by campus wide selection</p>
<p>that’s a bummer. maybe the 200 word “essay” is another loop to go through to weed out more waitlisters because some may not do it.</p>
<p>Wow, I think UCSD is really behind and used this waitlist c r a p as a way to have more time. Someone with a 3.9 was waitlisted. Wonder what the non-tag gpa cutoff will be for non-impacted majors.</p>
<p>The nontag cut was 3.53. I called admissions Monday when I was wait listed. I seriously think they are buying time or are so scared of over admitting like they did previous years that they under admitted. This way they’ll be able to hit their target exactly by using the wait list.</p>
<p>I mean they admitted a considerably lower amount of applicants. They accepted ~7500 last year and if they were to accept the same number as last year they need the cut off to be around ~3.3 since that is the average of 15000 applicants.</p>
<p>^exactly! AT LEAST a 3.3. If the cutoff is at a 3.5, they won’t be admiting a lot of people. And how can someone with a 3.9 be waitlisted? I think they’re buying time</p>
<p>i have a few engineer friends who are in the 3.1-3.2 who got waitlisted. So i’m thinking everyone got waitlisted.</p>
<p>Well there were some rejections but I think they’re just buying time or trying hard to not over admit. I mean why else would they wait list practically everyone. It would be stupid to keep 2000-3000 applicants waiting if you think there’s going to be only a few hundred spots left after everyone SIRs. Also the fact that everyone they accepted is above a 3.5 almost everyone has other options which they can assume a lower SIR rate than the overall 38% they had last year</p>
<p>Well, let’s see.</p>
<p>UCLA admitted 5300/18800 to reach an enrollment target of 2500 CCC transfers for Fall 2012, or 28% of applicants.</p>
<p>If UCSD admits 5600/15100 to reach an enrollment target of 2400 CCC transfers, that will be an admission rate of 37%, and since UCSD doesn’t use a holistic approach, it’s probably safe to assume that it’ll be the top 37%, by GPA.</p>
<p>That seems to have been in the case, here. If the mean GPA of applicants was a 3.3, and they admitted those with 3.53 and above, then it looks like they were admitting the top 25-30% of applicants. The mean admit GPA has increased every year (was 3.48 way back in 2009, when admissions were way easier), so it’s not that strange that this year it will end up either staying the same or increasing. </p>
<p>I expected their cutoff to be around a 3.5, and the cutoff for the waitlist will probably end up being a little below that (like 3.45 or something). I don’t think that their admit rate is going to decrease by much (if at all), and they’ll probably end up admitting those who make the top 40% from the waitlist. I say this because the mean applicant GPA is always less than the mean admit GPA by about 0.15-0.2 (check previous years data).</p>