<p>so the cutoff IS 7580…</p>
<p>I called the office today because I was curious about my point total and yes, the adcom told me straight up the point cut off this year was 7580.</p>
<p>^
what were the cut offs for the last year and the year before?</p>
<p>UCSD is on an upwards journey to tier-1-ness so the cut off point as most likely been increasing year by year. I know my mother’s friend’s daughter who is now graduating UCSD would never have made the cut this year (She was rejected by Davis and Irvine).</p>
<p>Ok, whatever, I blew this thing way out of proportion. </p>
<p>I was throwing out a number based on the information that was at hand. I’m not exactly in a spot where I can get a reliable sampling of the general population, whether on CC or at school. I agree with what you guys are saying because I do notice that the people who get rejected with high stats don’t tend to disclose their ECs and such, and it’s not exactly the easiest thing to disclose on a public forum family status and such.</p>
<p>And I think a post way back when before the decisions stated that the cutoff last year was 7468.</p>
<p>Peppers, I’m inclined to agree with your conjectures, since a bell curve does seem to be the most sane choice for a school looking to enroll a strong class while cutting down the risk of over-enrollment. I suppose we’ll see once the statistics are released by the UCOP.</p>
<p>Sorry if I seem to contradict myself in my posts, but this is all very vague so I’m just bouncing from idea to idea.</p>
<p>anyone else thought that this may be due to last year’s high admit rate? it was almost 50%</p>
<p>I would doubt they use a bell curve.</p>
<p>they already have a pretty ****ty matriculation rate (21%, compared to cal at 41%, lower than all UCs except SC/SB,) so I doubt that they are overly worried about accepting people who won’t attend - and bet your ass they want to raise their average sat/gpa of admitted students.</p>
<p>i would think maybe they would admit less people this year, but not admit less QUALIFIED people.</p>
<p>They wouldn’t lower the admit rate unless their yield was higher than expected, and I haven’t heard anything of the sort, so I don’t think it’s due to that. UCSD is simply on the path to becoming a tier 1 school.</p>
<p>Last year’s admit rate was 42%. The year before was 45.7% All the admits are going down. I read an old article and Berkeley’s admins were sad that they only had a 33% admit rate (back in 2003ish)</p>
<p><a href=“http://studentresearch.ucsd.edu/sriweb/enroll/ffapadac.pdf[/url]”>http://studentresearch.ucsd.edu/sriweb/enroll/ffapadac.pdf</a></p>
<p>dragonfang, those numbers don’t include transfer applicants/admissions which is why the percents are off.</p>
<p>I found this which is rather interesting:
<a href=“http://www.ucop.edu/news/factsheets/Flowfrc_9505.pdf[/url]”>http://www.ucop.edu/news/factsheets/Flowfrc_9505.pdf</a></p>
<p>i got in 1870…out of state
pretty amazing i think </p>
<p>smiles :)</p>
<p>i realize that on my UC app i left family income blank as well as parent education…
my parents make under 60k a year and they also did not even attend high school… i’m a first generation. I think i lost a couple hundred points on that deal which seperated me cut me from the fall applicants</p>