Number of qualified applicants offered a place on waiting list:
17482
Number accepting a place on the waitlist
9747
Number of waitlisted students admitted
3758 updated
UCD Waitlist 2024 CDS
Number of qualified applicants offered a place on waiting list:
17166
Number accepting a place on the waitlist
9609
Number of waitlisted students admitted
4309 updated
NO APPEALS DATA
UCD Waitlist 2023 CDS Data
Number of qualified applicants offered a place on waiting list:
19446
Number accepting a place on the waitlist
10988
Number of waitlisted students admitted
4387
NO DATA FOR APPEALS
UCD Waitlist 2022 Counselor Conference Data (Not Confirmed with CDS which is not available):
Number of qualified applicants offered a place on waiting list:
19263
Number accepting a place on the waitlist
6933
Number of waitlisted students admitted
1338
General Waitlist Information and Tips:
UC Waitlists are not ranked and it is not first in, first admitted.
There is no way to determine your chances from being admitted off the waitlist. It will be depend upon how many admitted students SIR and how many spots are open after the deadline.
No specific timeline for waitlist admits. If space opens up before the SIR deadline of May 1, then students can be pulled from the waitlist.
Residency type and major are not broken out for the UC waitlist statistics.
The number of waitlisted students that actually enroll is not listed.
No LOCI’s since UC’s do not consider demonstrated interest. Opting into the waitlist shows your interest in attending.
Opting into the waitlist is by invitation only.
You cannot appeal your decision while on the waitlist.
UC Davis asked for Senior Fall grades and Spring course updates to opt into the waitlist for Fall 2025.
Admissions appeal information: Can I appeal my admission decision?
Appeals are rarely granted. Consideration for appeals is based on new and compelling information, extenuating circumstances and your overall academic record. As part of your appeal, you must include a statement describing your special circumstances, as well as any additional documents such as unofficial academic records and letters of recommendation. All appeals and supplemental documentation must be submitted online—interviews are not granted and appeals received through any other channel will not be considered.
The opt-in form for waitlist has option to add + and - along with letter grades for 12th grade. The 9-11 grades also seem editable to include + and -. Any idea how the grades are to be updated?
I saw on another site that a waitlisted applicant contacted admissions. For Senior grades, admissions said to put+/- but leave 9-11th as originally reported.
In a two semester system, does anyone know what to select on the waitlist form for the non-class semester? Example - AP Gov was only 1st semester, so what do you choose for the 2nd semester? In the original UC app, “not offered” was the choice, which is not an option on the waitlist form. I think the best selection is “not enrolled”, but the form is defaulting to “other grading system” with a box which wants a grade input, but it can be overridden.
My student also had a one-semester class in summer of 10th grade. We are more reluctant to change something from 9-11th - but “other grading system” for the 2nd semester is simply not correct, and the grade box has a “-“ in it…also not correct. We will call admissions, but wondered if anyone encountered this and already got an answer. He would really love the opportunity to go to Davis - so we do not want to mess this up!
Were you able to get an update on this? We also have the same doubt. In fact the second semester course of Econ honors instead of AP govt is not even present in the pre-populated list.
Not really. My spouse and I each called the admission office and got two different answers. One said to leave the non-class semester as defaulted to “other grading system” and the other said to leave it blank (-select-). Both recommended using the comment field to notate the classes that were only offered as single semester classes to clarify.
Both advisors were consistent saying to update all grades to +/- for all years (even 9-11) to match the transcript.
Given the confusion/mixed answers, this info should not be considered advice from me. Pls let us know if you are able to get any clarity from admissions.
Did try calling them. They were not even clear about updating grades. They just asked us to choose to opt-in to waitlist if interested. When I explained more and asked about + and - for senior year grades, they just asked to update per transcript. So we went ahead and just updated senior year grades with + and -, and left selection as blank (-select) for semesters that course was not taken. Did not touch any 9-11 grades.
Do you submit grades as part of opting in to the WL? My student opted in as soon as they saw the WL option, is it still possible to submit any updates? She has a couple of big awards since her application, is there any way to submit that information?
I do not know if you can update with grades after submitting the waitlist opt in but the student can try. It appears there is no where to submit EC’s, awards and new achievements in the waitlist form. I do not have access so i cannot confirm.
The UCs have significantly lower admit rates for instate kids even though their yield rates are significantly higher.
This is not true of all university systems, for contrast see UW. I think that is why the yield rates in UW are so much higher for instate kids, they know they will mostly get in and so they are not desperately trying elsewhere.
Approximately 2 out of 5 kids who opted into the WL last year were eventually admitted to Davis.
The reason why in-state yield at UW is much higher is that UW is the single flagship, so UW is not competing with itself!
In the UC system there are quite a few campuses that are considered flagship-level, and since students can only attend one, they must decline other offers, lowering yield.
If you looked at yield for the UC system as a whole (how many kids admitted to UC end up enrolling at UC), I think it might be higher than UW’s yield.
Is there any way to figure out the “systemwide yield” for a subset of UC campuses? For example I would expect that the yield for UCB and UCLA, taken as a unit, is probably quite high.
Oh that’s a good point… although you can’t multi-select, it could just be easily calculated using the numbers of admits and enrollees for any subset of the campuses.
That’s not true. UW has 3 campuses. Bothell and one other which I don’t remember. Seattle is to Washington what Berkeley/LA is to California. But California has a population ~5 times that of UW. So their 3 universities for x people is actually more than our 9 univs for 5x people. So UW having a higher yield rate at their flagship school shows up much worse when we dig into the numbers. And using the link provided by Gumbymom shows even for the 3 flagship univs (B, LA, SD) put together the yield rate is only 39.44% so still very low compared to UW.
Edited to add that I went to each univ’s numbers (enrollees and admits) and added them up by hand and then divided them to get the yield rate.
I doubt that Bothell and Tacoma steal students away from Seattle? Berkeley and LA definitely do steal students from each other, though. And each one individually has a yield over 50% for CA residents. Yield is lower for OOS because they are so expensive.
I will stop before I get in trouble from the mods because this is off topic!
