@ucbalumnus oh I certainly didn’t consider them safety schools, but I think I had a descent chance of at least getting waitlisted. My backups are UCR and some cal states I applied to and have already received admission offers from. Information I forgot to include in the original post is my UC GPA which is 4.02, not amazing by any means but something I wouldn’t expect to be far off from admission range. I have not heard back from UCI, so that would be my top school at the moment.