Objective:[ul]
[] SAT I: 2310 (800 CR, 780M, 730W)
[] ACT: 33
[] GPA: 3.42 UW
[] AP (place score in parenthesis): Calculus AB (4), Calculus BC (3), English Literature (5), Physics 2 (2), Psychology (4), U.S. Government & Politics (4), U.S. History (5), World History (5)
[] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[] College courses? If so, list them.: Astronomy, Biology, Multivariable Calculus
[] Senior Year Course Load: AP English Language, AP Statistics, AP Computer Science A, AP Spanish Language, AP Macroeconomics
[] How were your personal statements? Rate out of 10, including the additional comments section:
[li] Supplemental?:[/li]
[/ul]Other:[ul]
[]** Intended Major**: Environmental Policy Analysis
[] Freshman, Transfer, Graduate/Professional or Returning?: Freshman
[] EOP?:
[] NCAA?:
[] Are you from California? If not, from what state & county (city)? If so, what county (city)?: Yes
[] If International, from what country?:
[] School Type: Public
[] Ethnicity: Asian
[] Gender: Female
[] LGBTQ?:
[] Citizen?: Yes
[] Served in military?
[] Married?:
[] Orphan?:
[] Income Bracket: 150k
[] # of Family Members: 4
[] Level of Education of Parents/Guardians:
[] Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.): Research for U.S. Congress
[li] Living on-campus? Yes[/li]
[/ul]Reflection:[ul]
[] Strengths: ECs, maybe test scores. I’m NMF, but not sure UCs really care.
[] Weaknesses: GPA… I have so many regrets. My boyfriend got into Berkeley, LA, and Irvine on Regents, and I’m very bitter now.
[] Accepted: UCSD. Deferred at UChicago and Georgetown.
[] Rejected: just Davis so far…
[/ul]General Comments/Additional Information:[list] Congratulations to everyone who got in! UC Davis had an 8.6% acceptance rate this year, and it’s a huge accomplishment to be accepted. Although I didn’t particularly want to go to UC Davis, the rejection still stings and I wish I’d worked harder for a higher GPA now. Best of luck to all of you!
ACCEPTED!!! Major: Animal Biology
W GPA: 4.31
UC GPA: 4.29
SAT: 1820
ACT: 28
I get the feeling that they weighed our GPAs a whole lot more than test scores this year
@mash97 Berkeley! East Coast schools are great, but in-state tuition’s too tempting. Also, in Davis’ rejection e-mail, they wrote that they accepted about 5,900 applicants out of a pool of ~68,500.
Good luck with those decisions! @mycollegeclarity
That seems ridiculously low. I feel like that would be the predicted yield and they accept around 40% with the hopes that a percentage of those admitted would fill the available 5900 spots
@vimyle No, that’s just the amount of space they have. Say there’s 100,000 applicants(made up number) and they only have a set number of spaces, say 8,000. What they’ll do is accept MORE people than they do spaces while expecting that not everybody who have received offers of admission will actually attend.
So if Davis has a 40% admit rate, that means they’ll accept 40,000 people out of 100,000 people, but only 8,000 of those 40,000 will actually choose to attend.
This is why top schools like Stanford or Harvard are able to accept so little people; because they expect that a high percentage of them will ultimately decide to attend due to them being a top tier school while schools like UCM or UCR have to accept 50+% of their applicants because majority of them may have been accepted to better schools or whatever.
Son rejected for mechanical engineering. SAT I: 770 M, 620 CR, 560 W 1950 total
SAT II: 730 Math, 690 Physics, 650 Chem
ACT: 31 composite (34 in Math)
GPA: 3.67 UC/CSU, 3.8 cumulative
Varsity track all four years. Eagle Scout.
We knew it was a reach school because of the GPA so we weren’t that surprised, but I’m dumbfounded by the number of people with 4.0, or over that got rejected or waitlisted! Congrats to all!
Congrats to everyone who got in! I am currently double majoring in Econ/Stats at UCD! Feel free to ask me questions . If you are on the waitlist, you definitely should accept the offer. I was waitlisted and I got in! The campus is beautiful and you definitely should visit it if you have not already.
WAITLISTED
ACT: 34, 35 superscored
UW GPA: 3.53
W GPA: 3.96?
UC GPA: ?
In-state, wrote a killer essay, arts and sciences…
I think Davis is waitlisting the overqualified applicants.
Accepted: University of Michigan, Tulane (Distinguished Scholar 108k/4 years), U-Wisconsin Madison
Rejected: Cornell, WUSTL
Waitlisted: UC Davis
Still Hearing back from: UCLA, UCSB, UCB, UCSC, Vanderbilt, Tufts, Johns Hopkins, Brandeis
@stuart07 I got into Cal, Vandy ED II, UCI Honors, and waitlisted from WUSTL and Davis. My guess is that they’re waitlisting stronger applicants, and if they accept the waitlist spot they’re looking to see if they have a strong reason for wanting to attend (proximity to home, financial reasons, etc.)
Just curious, isn’t UCSanFran a graduate school?