<p>If I only apply to the top UCs like Cal, LA, SD, Irvine, and Davis, and I don't get into any of them BUT I meet the requirements for automatic admission to the system, what happens?</p>
<p>Do I get considered for the next "best" UC or just shoved to Riverside? Or just screwed?</p>
<p>“If I only apply to the top UCs like Cal, LA, SD, Irvine, and Davis, and I don’t get into any of them BUT I meet the requirements for automatic admission to the system, what happens?”</p>
<p>Are you talking about ELC? eligibility in local context or something like that?</p>
<p>It works like this: there’s a list of UCs schools for which, if you are ELC, you automatically get accepted. And yes, they’re the crappy ones, but SB was on it this year, so yay!
(I think SB decides each year whether or not they’re gonna accept all ELC students)</p>
<p>For the UC’s that you’ve listed, you do not get automatically get in, but you have higher chances if you are ELC. Like seriously, higher chances.</p>
<p>If you’re not ELC, no idea what you’re talking about. :-)</p>
<p>I applied to the exact same schools you listed and got rejected from all of them. A little less than a week ago, I received emails from Merced and Riverside telling me I’ve been accepted even though I didn’t apply. If you’re UC eligible, your information will be forwarded to the other campuses and you’ll be accepted to Merced, at the very least, since they want more people.</p>
<p>And yeah, if you’re ELC, you’re pretty much guaranteed admission to mid- and low-tiered UCs like Davis and Irvine, so in that sense, the UC system can be used as a safety.</p>
<p>From universityofcalifornia.edu:</p>
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<p>So if you’re ELC, you can consider these schools to be safeties, as you’re guaranteed admission.</p>
<p>^Yep. Irvine, SB, and Davis were my safeties. If you’re ELC, the lower-tier schools can be your safeties.</p>
<p>The decision to admit ELC is made year to year so check UCSB, UCI and Davis admissions website for ELC next year as it gets closer to Fall. You won’t know for sure until you get an Eligible In the Local Context letter from UCI and UCD in the early fall. UCSB didn’t send a letter but it was on their website. There were actually several people I read about on this form this year that were “guaranteed” ELC admission but did not get in! It may be that they were actually only elegible in the statewide context and they ere confused wich is easy to understand. If you are elegible in the state-wide context and (in some cases ELC) you are not admitted to any of the schools you applied, then you most likely will be offered a spot at Merced or Riverside. We got an e-mail stating so by the UC President in early Winter last year.</p>
<p>I was more referring to the situation Phishy has experienced.</p>
<p>I’m not ELC, but I definitely meet the requirements for admission to a UC campus (top 1/8 of high school seniors in CA). I was worried that if I only applied to the better ones, than I would forfeit my guaranteed UC acceptance.</p>
<p>Jugador, UCR tends to contact students who are top/mid level uc type student and notify them that if they apply or add UCR to their application they would have a spot at their school, even after the deadline to apply</p>
<p>A true safety is UCM or UCR, and if you can’t invision yourself at either one, Community college is the next best route to the mid/high UCs. You would at least have admission guaranteed to mid/high ucs depending on a major.</p>
<p>I don’t know about you, but if I was aiming for mid to high UCs and I was that kind of material, I wouldn’t settle for a UCR or UCM, and would personally opt out for Community COllege.</p>
<p>Yeah, I’m not sure why people brought up ELC in this thread, that’s not what the OP was asking. To answer your question, YES, the UC system offeres admission to Merced or Riverside if you are UC eligible if you were rejected to all other campuses:</p>
<p>[UC</a> makes it official: Fewer freshmen get in for fall - Los Angeles Times](<a href=“http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-ucadmit8-2009apr08,0,5821180.story]UC”>UC makes it official: Fewer freshmen get in for fall)</p>
<p>But Wilbur emphasized that all students who were academically qualified for the university would find a UC spot, although not necessarily at campuses they preferred. About 10,000 eligible students who were rejected by all campuses to which they applied will be offered admission to Riverside and Merced this month, she said.</p>
<p>Any UC eligible student will get an offer from at least one campus.</p>