Waitlisted?

<p>I notice a lot of people with good stats got waitlisted. I know people at my school with 4.5 GPA and 2200 SAT that got rejected. I got waitlisted. My stats is a lot lower than everyone here. 4.2 GPA, 25 on the ACT. I didn’t take the SAT. That might’ve been why…who knows…?</p>

<p>haha… i don’t know. i was pretty shocked that i was outright rejected, but i’m turning 21 this year so i have a different perspective on things.</p>

<p>when i graduated from high school in 2009 everybody and their mother got into UCSD. most of you guys were freshmen then.</p>

<p>add in three years of budget cuts… grade inflation… downplaying the SATs… and boy oh boy things have changed.</p>

<p>My stats aren’t terrible: 3.7, 2220. I had a traumatic first two years of high school, which i explained somewhere in my app – they probably didn’t read it. My junior/senior year GPAs were about 4.2-4.5. Got a 800 Math II (back when it mattered). Took 7 APs, 6 of them 5’s.</p>

<p>I taught myself programming and took courses at my CC while in high school. After that I spent 2 years in a foreign military in a notoriously tough vocation. Started a company while i was in there. Got a well paying job as CTO for a small company after that.</p>

<p>My counselor, teachers, parents all expected me to be a shoo-in at the mid-low tier UCs. I still got rejected from SD and sent to an alt department at UCSB. I declined – obviously they didn’t read my app if they thought I would be okay going undeclared. Only been accepted to UCD so far.</p>

<p>So yeah. I’ve spent 4 years of high school and 3 years in the “real world” preparing myself, and I still got slapped about like a plastic bag in the wind.</p>

<p>To the rejected: they rejected your application, not you. Cheer up.
To the waitlisted, I send you my best wishes.
To the admitted: Congratulations, and make the best of the opportunity you have been given.</p>

<p>^ ■■■■. i need to get as life. how did you do all of that?! major props to you. i need to get my butt up and going and working, dang.</p>

<p>Most of the people waitlisted here have much higher stats than me. I don’t understand. I got in last year with 1780 SATs, forgot my UC GPA think it was 3.8-3.9, a few volunteer hours, barely any leadership/ECs</p>

<p>Ugh now I’m starting to think if I had scored lower on my sat I would have been accepted; should have felt content with a 1970 -__-</p>

<p>All you smarties who were waitlisted at UCSD: I hope you applied to the Ivies and to other good private universities. I’m shocked you were not accepted. Really.</p>

<p>I was wait listed with a 3.3 GPA and a 1570 SAT. Pretty lucky on my end i suppose</p>

<p>Honestly, I didnt even apply to any Ivies. I might as well just go to UCI if anything</p>

<p>maybe all this waitlisting to elite applicants is just a sign that most of the waitlist will get in later on?? :)</p>

<p>^Probably. Senioritis man. Seniors slack in the last couple weeks of school, get a D, lose their spot, and someone on the waitlist gets bumped up. There’s going to be plenty of seniors in that situation. I see it among my peers right now…everyone doesn’t want to work anymore X)</p>

<p>Did anyone here get waitlisted but dont plan on opting into the waitlist? Just curious! Also does anyone know how the process of admittong off the waitlist works?</p>

<p>i plan to opt for the waitlist but unfortunately it appears that the login link still redirects to that blink website. is anyone else having this same problem?</p>

<p>^I can login just fine through Myapplication. I know the first year they did the waitlist they were over-enrolled. Anyone know about last year?</p>

<p>@PencilxBoxes</p>

<p>Late response but last year all of the freshmen on the waitlist were accepted. I don’t know about transfers. </p>

<p>Read the last post here:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/uc-transfers/1138965-ucsd-waitlist-3.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/uc-transfers/1138965-ucsd-waitlist-3.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Does anyone know the waitlist is first come first serve?</p>

<p>Are you at an advantage if you were to opt in early?</p>