The UC’s have been a huge disappointment in general. My daughter was accepted to 11 schools and waitlisted in state? Mine also got into UIUC and Purdue so we’ll be exploring those. FYI - older daughter is at Case Western and it is a fantastic school.
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Son accepted for managerial economics.
UC GPAs: 4.0 UW 4.36 CW, 4.45 W
Top 9% yes
A-G courses, 25 years including 6 years math, 5 years english
2 AP’s (5’s), 9 honors
EC’s: Track, performing arts / theater, choir, robotics, lots of volunteering, and more
Location: Bay Area
Accepted: SDSU (in December), CSULB, CPP, UCSC, St. Mary’s College, Cal Baptist, University of Oregon, Oregon State
Waiting on: Cal Poly SLO (top choice), UCSB, UCB
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People insist that UCs don’t “yield protect”, but I’m starting to think that might not be the case for Davis. I’m sensing a definite trend of very strong candidates getting put on waitlists.
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I do not think they yield protect. In my D’s case, she applied to a popular and competitive engineering major. Don’t be fooled by looking at overall stats for the school… stats are typically higher for engineering majors (and I am sure this goes for other popular majors as well, engineering is just what I’m most familiar with)! My guess is that the students they admitted to her major are all strong students, and they simply need to waitlist some to make sure they don’t end up over enrolling.
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The subject of Yield protection comes up every year. Each UC looks for different qualities in students. They want a certain type of student who displays certain types of traits. Davis looks for a certain type, Berkeley looks for a certain type that is different from UCD etc. Sometimes highly qualified student gets waitlisted or rejected because they might not have the traits or personality in their essay/academics/EC’s that the school wants to see.
Regarding the yield…it’s really important to note that the UC schools are good at predicting yield most of the time and utilizing the waitlist helps in their yield management
They take into account many variables such as the UC’s 13 areas of application review criteria but each campus can apply this criteria differently when forming their in-coming Freshman class. That is why the UC’s trend to be unpredictable and the process can be frustrating.
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S26 accepted for CS, in state
GPA: 4.0 UW, FW around 4.6
ELC: yes
Competitive SoCal high school
ECs: avg/good, one state level stem competition award
Acceptances so far: UCD, UCSB (likely given reception invitation), UMass AMHERST ($18k merit), and others
Waiting on: UCB, UCSD, UCLA, MIT, CMU, few others
Rejections: UW, UT Austin, UIUC (all applied for CS)
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Usually waitlisted at Davis is a good sign for Berkeley. I am assuming she loves Berkeley as well, but you never know. In our house the two kids did not want to be at the same school.
UC Davis Class of 2030 Results Survey:
This form is for tracking decision results, so it’s all centralized for future students. If you could fill this out once you get your decision, that would be very appreciated!
You can see all other people’s individual responses in the links above, along with overall form statistics (such as what percent got accepted).
In state Aggie mom here with waitlisted son - electrical engineering… quite disappointing. Headed out of state likely unless one of the even less likely UCs come through. He accepted the waitlist and fingers crossed but sucks we now have to likely wait into May (experience of friends with waitlisted in years past), accept another school and remain in limbo.
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Davis did pull from the Waitlist last year on April 18, so there is a chance he may hear before the May 1 SIR deadline. Best of luck to him.
@Gumbymom do you know if there is a chance for waitlists to clear before Aggie Day?
UCs are tough and unpredictable… my kid applied to 6 last year. Got into 2, waitlisted at 2 and rejected at 2. He’s a first year at MIT now. You just never know…. Also, loved Case Western
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I have not seen UCD pull from the waitlist in Early April but it can vary from year to year. I would say it would be unlikely by April 11.
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That’s very interesting. Do mind sharing which UC’s did what? And congrats on MIT! That’s fantastic!
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Decision: Waitlisted
Merit scholarships awarded (if any): None
Major (and division if applicable) applied to: Nutrition
UC Unweighted GPA: 3.46
UC Capped Weighted GPA: 3.79
UC Fully Weighted GPA: 4.0
ELC (top 9% CA HS): No
Comments about course load (including senior year): Mainly took dual enrollment courses and Summer college courses, only 3 AP courses.
Number of a-g courses: 28
Number of UC Approved Honors courses: 13
Number of AP courses/exams (scores in parentheses): 1 (3)
Number of IB courses/exams (score in parentheses): None
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): None
SUBJECTIVE::
Extracurriculars: 3 year Varsity athlete, Equestrian, Club Volleyball
Job/Work Experience: Worked all 4 years
Volunteer/Community service: Many Volunteer hours to include National Charity Leaugue
Summer Activities: Work, sports, volunteer, college courses
Personal Insight essays (details):
Supplemental/Augmented Review: No
DEMOGRAPHICS::
State/location of HS (if domestic applicant): CA Rural High School
Country (if international applicant):
Applied for need-based financial aid? No
First Generation? No
REFLECTION::
Strengths: Multiple Dual Enrollment courses to include Summer courses that showed interest in medical field, strong essays.
Weaknesses: GPA
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/denied: Accepted at the following: CSUSM, CSUF, Long Beach State, Loyola Marymount, Point Loma, Cal Lutheran, University of Utah, Colorado State, UCSC, and UCR. No denials yet. Waiting on Cal Poly SLO, UCSB, UCI, and UCLA.
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DS Accepted
Intended major: Physics
UC UW/ CappedW/ Fully W GPA: 3.75 / 4.08 / 4.17
Number of a-g courses taken 9-12th: 22
Number of UC approved Honors/AP/IB or DE classes: 7 AP, 1 DE
Location: SF Bay area
First Gen?: No
Accepted: UC Davis, UCSC, UC Riverside, Chapman, Cal Poly Pomona, San Jose State, San Francisco State
Waitlisted: Occidental
Waiting: Remaining UCs, Cal Poly SLO, Santa Clara, USC, Harvey Mudd
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Got into USD, UCSB, waitlisted UCSD & UCI, Rejected from UCB, UCLA. Valedictorian, 4.98 WGPA (I forget UC GPA, but it was high, but not that high because he took so many classes), highest rigor possible at his competitive private HS, strong ECs, leadership… applied to a competitive major (ME) - you just can’t predict.
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Thank you Gumbymom for all your hardwork and enthusiasm to keep these threads informative! I was on these threads few years ago with my son and now checked back for my daughter and was surprised to see Gumbymom is still active!!
DD accepted. UC GPA: 3.8 UW, 4.2 CW Biotech
Strong ECs including club President roles and paid work experience
Lots of acceptances, waitlisted at Madison. Davis was her #1 choice.
She will decline all others by end of day so the waitlist moves.
Feels good to have both kids out of college app process.
In other news, I got laid off recently from a really long career, oh well! that’s a problem for another day or month!
Thanks again to Gumbymom and best wishes to all those who are waitlisted.
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Accepted,
Very good public Washington High School
GPA 3.6 UW. 3.8 UC weighted
9AP
Solid Extracurriculars
Excellent essay
Notable admissions so far University of Washington, Purdue University, SDSU, UCR, UCSC, Chapman, Reed
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Not a repeat. I have twins
Accepted
Very good public high school in Washington
3.7 UW 3.9 UC Weighted
12 AP
Very strong extracurriculars (international awards)
Very good essays
Notable acceptance. University of Washington, Rutgers (Newport), SDSU, UCSC, USR, UCM
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