<p>i got an email from the saying that they want me to come to a reception meet staff faculty and more and that they only send this to their highest achieving applicants. Does this by any chance that they have accepted me into UCSB?</p>
<p>It's not an acceptance letter is it? It probably just means that they think you're worth their time, which could also mean you have a very good shot at being admitted. </p>
<p>But you're not admitted, yet.</p>
<p>That the UCs are so unorganized they can't get their acceptance letters out before they start courting the accepted.</p>
<p>Yes, it essentially means that you are in, and that you live in a geographic area that they are targeting (for whatever reason).</p>
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<p>Uh, no. For some inexplicable reason, the poobahs in Oakland (home of UCOP), dictate that official decisions aren't supposed to be out until March. (I'm guessing that its more political (like most all things UC), than disorganization.) But, in any event, the individual campuses do jump the gun and notify top students early so they can hold an semi-private event to court them. The adcoms of individual campuses aren't dumb, nor disorganized. They recognize that an invitation to a reception received on March 31 is not gonna hold the same interest after that acceptance to Cal or UCLA has come thru. Nor, will there be time for the prospie to even visit prior to May 1. UCLA Engineering does the same - it invites about-to-be accepted prospies to an open house prior to the official notification date; the reason, I'm guessing, is to beat out Cal Eng.</p>
<p>In any event, Irvine, SD, and SB have already sent out notices to their top prospies. And, Irvine has started releasing official decisions.</p>
<p>thanks a lot to your quick responses. </p>
<p>Here are my STATS:
weighted GPA: 4.16
SAT 2000 ( W:700 R:600 M:700)
SAT UH: 680
SAT LIT: 670
lots of good extra curriculars, </p>
<p>so now my question is, i did not receive the same invitation from SD as i did from SB, does that mean that I have a lesser chance of acceptance there? What are my chances for UCLA?</p>
<p>The early invite cutoff for SD is higher, particularly since its the primary fallback school for science rejectees from Cal and UCLA (literally hundreds of 700s in math-science subjects).</p>
<p>I got one from SB, but not from SD. =/ Am I to assume that I didn't get into SD?</p>