SB's Official Decisions Thread

Colleges and Universities University of California - Santa Barbara
#1

<p>I stole this from Irvine's Board...edited slightly.</p>

<p>Alright, so here's the format. If we all do it, it'll make things VERY easy to follow, and will make this thread an incredible resource for RD (and future EAers).</p>

<p>Remove the spaces before the brackets to make it work (and credit goes to the Stanford board, by way of Harvard)</p>

<p>Copy and paste the following into the reply. Delete the spaces inside the brackets.</p>

<p>Decision: __________ </p>

<p>Stats:
SAT:
SAT IIs:
GPA:
Rank:
Other stats:</p>

<p>Subjective:
Essays:
Hook (if any):</p>

<p>Location/Person:
State or Country:
School Type:
Ethnicity:
Gender:
major strength/weakness:
why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered:
Major:
Other Factors:</p>

<p>Mine looks like...
Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>Stats:
SAT: 1310 710V, 600M
SAT IIs: 690W/540MIIc/580USH
GPA: 3.89
Rank: 25/437
Other stats:</p>

<p>Subjective:
Essays: Pretty good, I'd say
Hook (if any): Strong-ish background with politics...girls state, campaign work</p>

<p>Location/Person:
State or Country: CA
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Not that it matters, but white
Gender: female
why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: Hopefully the whole package!
Major: (pre)poli-sci
Other Factors:</p>

#2

<p>Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>Stats:
SAT: 1350 (620 Verbal, 730 Math)
SAT IIs: 770 Writing, 740 Math IIC, 620 Physics
GPA: 3.5 UC Weighted
Rank: Definitely not top 10%
Other stats:</p>

<p>Subjective:
Essays: Omfg they were the ownage
Hook (if any): Nope.</p>

<p>Location/Person:
State or Country: Irvine, California (I want to go to UCI!)
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Taiwanese
Gender: Male
major strength/weakness: Strength: SAT IIs / GPA
why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: Come on, it's UCSB.
Major: (Pre) Computer Engineering
Other Factors: School Website Co-Webmaster (though I wrote Site Administrator on the application)</p>

#3

<p>Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>Stats:
SAT: 1400 (720 Math, 680 Verbal)
SAT IIs: 690 US History, 670 Writing, 630 Math IC
GPA: 3.4 Unweighted
Rank: School does not rank, but probably like 70/400?
Other stats: ...</p>

<p>Subjective:
Essays: Nothing special.<br>
Hook (if any): Nothing</p>

<p>Location/Person:
State or Country: Washington, DC (Out of State)
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Male
major strength/weakness: Strength: SAT scores maybe?
why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: Decent SAT's, geography maybe?
Major: Economics
Other Factors:</p>

#4

<p>Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>Stats:
SAT: 1390 (660 Math, 730 Verbal)
SAT IIs: 760 US Hist, 730 Writing, 660 Math IC
GPA: 3.9 UC Weighted
Rank: None
Other stats: 5 on AP US test</p>

<p>Subjective:
Essays: I honestly was very proud of them.
Hook (if any): an honor/accomplishment that gave me significant media attention. </p>

<p>Location/Person:
State or Country: CA
School Type: Catholic
Ethnicity: Mixed (1/2 White, 1/2 Asian) Didn't fill anything in though on the application
Gender: Female
major strength/weakness: strengths: well written essays, good activities weaknesses: math and science grades
why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: They have high standards, but not harvard-level standards. I think I qualified on my stats alone...
Major: Political Science
2nd Choice: Dramatic Art
Other Factors: demonstrated lots of passion for what i'm interested in studying and how i hope to contribute to a UC campus rather than what i'd get from it. </p>

<p>UCSB rocks :-)!</p>

#5

<p>accepted</p>

<p>1320 (690m/630v)
4.5 UC gpa</p>

<p>champion debater
internship
10 AP classes total</p>

#6

<p>Decision: Accepted to UCSB </p>

<p>Stats:
ACT: 21
SAT IIs: Writing 540, US History 530, MATH 1C 500
GPA: 3.8 UC GPA
Rank: top 10%
Other stats:</p>

<p>Subjective:
Essays: Excellent Mexican culture/ political stuggles
Hook (if any): Essays and ECs</p>

<p>Location/Person: Fairfield, CA
State or Country: USA
School Type: Public (4th year open; brand new when first attended)Ethnicity: Mexican-American
Gender: Female
major strength/weakness: Debate Captain/ Founder, Member of Fairfield Youth Commission, featured front page D.R. etc.
why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: my essay saved me
Major: Pre- Political Science
Other Factors: Wonderful ECS list goes on and on...Political involvement & speech/debate victories</p>

#7

<p>Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>Stats:
SAT: 1320
SAT IIs: 750/650/600
GPA: 4.1 UC weighted
Rank: top 10%</p>

<p>Subjective:
Essays: Eh. They were written according to what UCs wanted, and that's what they got and it's worked for all of them so far.
Hook (if any): Solid ECs.</p>

<p>Location/Person:
State or Country: California
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Gender: Female
Major strength/weakness: ECs
Why you think you were accepted: UCSB's a safety-school
Major: English
Other Factors:</p>

#8

<p>Stats:
SAT: 1300
SAT IIs: 750 IIc, 740 chem, 680 writing
GPA: 4.05 UC
Rank: 80/405
Other stats:</p>

<p>Subjective:
Essays: Teachers said that they're very good
Hook (if any): Got a U.S. Patent at the age of 12</p>

<p>Location/Person:
State or Country: California
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Asian (Chinese)
Gender: M
major strength/weakness: Strengths are probably my essays, grades, and SAT IIs; my worst weakness is probably my SAT I score (still well above UCSB's average though)
Why you think you were accepted: UCSB = safety school
Major: Electrical Engineering</p>

#9

<p>Decision: accepted</p>

<p>Stats:
SAT: 1230
SAT IIs: 560/530/640
GPA: 3.6
Rank: top 30 out of 600
Other stats:</p>

<p>Subjective:
Essays: good-about surfing and volunteering
Hook (if any): a lot of music and volunteer involvement</p>

<p>Location/Person:
State or Country: CA
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Mexican
Gender: Female
major strength/weakness: ECs
why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: I'm well rounded
Major: Biology
Other Factors: I attend a school that is in the bottom 30%</p>

#10

<p>Decision: Accepted
Stats:
SAT:1440
SAT IIs:800,750,750,720,710,690
GPA:4.22
Rank:no rank
Other stats:ap national scholar</p>

<p>Subjective:
Essays:ok
Hook (if any): armenian</p>

<p>Location/Person:CA
State or Country:CA
School Type: public
Ethnicity:armenian
Gender:male
major strength/weakness: only weakness is gpa +satI score
why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: awesome stats
Major:undeclared
Other Factors:none</p>

#11

<p>Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>Stats:
SAT: 1300
SAT IIs: 740, 730, 610, 580
GPA: 3.60
Rank: Top 14%</p>

<p>Subjective:
Essays: Teacher loved the main one...my other 2 were ok, admittedly somewhat conceited
Hook (if any): Well, they screwed up my application status all the way up to Friday, when decisions were mailed out. They marked me down as having cancelled my app. Not really a hook, but still... Also, ex-National Hispanic Scholar (wrote about it in main essay lol)</p>

<p>Location/Person:
State or Country: CA
School Type: Parochial
Ethnicity: Greek & Mexican
Gender: Male
major strength: 100+ hours of community service, mostly with disadvantaged people (senior home)
major weakness: No "good" leadership positions...only minor roles (secretary) in 2 clubs
why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: Met the requirements for scores and had a tough course load in all 4 years (took a bunch of honors classes that weren't even weighted by the UC system, as well as by my school...)
Major: Pre-Business Econ</p>

#12

<p>Decision: Accepted </p>

<p>Stats:
SAT: 1340
SAT IIs: 650 IIC, 630 W, 650 Bio
GPA: 3.5 weighted =x
Rank: 27/320? something like that
Other stats:</p>

<p>Subjective:
Essays: Decent. Good enough for SB, i guess.
Hook (if any): Nah.</p>

<p>Location/Person:
State or Country: Southern California
School Type: Public... kinda ghetto.
Ethnicity: Asian (vietnamese)
Gender: male
major strength/weakness: weaknesses.. gpa, lack of good ecs, sat 2 scores, essay topics were kinda blah... i guess strenght would be SAT1 score.
why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: I guess "decent" stats
Major: Pre-Biology
Other Factors:</p>

#13

<p>Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>Stats:
SAT: 1290 660v630m
SAT IIs: 740wr, 620ic, 650 us history
UC GPA: 3.78
Rank: top 20%
Other stats:</p>

<p>Subjective:
Essays: Pretty good, I'd say
Hook (if any): </p>

<p>Location/Person:
State or Country: CA
School Type: Private/Catholic
Ethnicity: Filipina
Gender: female
why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: avg acceptee stats?
Major: undeclared</p>

#14

<p>Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>Stats:
SAT: 1250 550v700m
SAT IIs: 560wr, 740iic, 550 physics
UC GPA: 3.46 :)
Rank: 197/750
Other stats:</p>

<p>Subjective:
Essays: Excellent
Hook (if any):</p>

<p>Location/Person:
State or Country: CA
School Type: Large public
Ethnicity: Filipino/American
Gender: male
why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: no idea??
Major: computer science</p>

#15

<p>By the way, if anybody wanted to do this, it's very easy... I just changed my major from Undeclared (L&S) to Pre Business Economics and it was fairly easy and prompt! I just e-mailed them and they changed it the next day.</p>

#16

<p>are any of your seriously considering/going to attend UCSB????</p>

#17

<p>Not Me!!!.....</p>

#18

<p>My parents want me to go there instead of UCLA (why?!?!) </p>

<p>But I'm hoping for Princeton, or Swarthmore, or any other similar school.</p>

#19

<p>Decision: Accepted
Stats:
SAT: 1420
SAT IIs: 750writing, 720mathII, 760chem
GPA: 4.05 UC
Rank: N/A</p>

<p>Subjective:
Essays: good
Hook (if any): nope</p>

<p>Location/Person: SoCal
State or Country: kahleefoneeah
School Type: large, public
Ethnicity: didn't report
Gender: female
major strength/weakness: weakweakweak leadership
why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: no idea. if i knew me, i wouldn't accept me cause i am a total procrastinatior and completely irresponsible. :)
Major: Biochemistry
Other Factors: i wrote about a mental condition in my essay.</p>

#20

<p>are any of your seriously considering/going to attend UCSB????</p>

<p>I was seriously considering it if I was accepted into the College of Creative Studies, which I was not. So now....I don't think so. Also accepted to UCSD, which I think would attend over UCSB. But I applied to alot of other private schools that I have not heard from yet, which I prefer over UCSD. Who knows???? </p>

<p>I am visiting both UCSB and UCSD next week. Have not been to either yet.</p>