@niting Ah, well, UCR is not bad at all.
It also has the same marketplace as UCI.
got in uci and I’m attending it
with just a score of 1620 
but my essay and school grades were amazing
Does anyone know when they will start releasing the waitlist decisions?
@JeffreyO probably not until after the SIR date, May 1st.
Decision: Accepted CHP
Objective:
[ *] SAT I (breakdown): 2350 (750 CR 800 M 800 W)
[ *] ACT (breakdown): Did not take
[ *] SAT II: 800 Math II, 730 USH, 750 Bio
[ *] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): ~3.9
[ *] Weighted GPA (if available): School doesn’t weight
[ *] Rank/percentile (if available): School doesn’t rank
[ *] AP (place score in parenthesis): 4 APUSH, 5 Calc BC, 4 AP Euro
[ *] IB (place score in parenthesis): None
[ *] Senior Year Course Load: AP Lang, AP Stats, AP Gov/Econ, AP Bio, Physio, Jazz Band, Leadership
[ *] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): NHS, Merit, Jefferson, BVAL swim champ, others
[ /list][ b]Subjective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): 4 years football, two years captain; Swimming four years, three years captain, two school records; Basketball two years; Leadership three years; Key Club admin; Band three years, two years Jazz; Club swimming with Far Western cuts; Lifeguard
[ *] Job/Work Experience: Lifeguard
[ *] Volunteer/Community service: Tutor, swim instructor, Key Club stuff, Relay for Life and other cancer stuff,
[ *] Summer Activities: Went to Africa to volunteer, swimming, Relay for Life
[ *] Essays: Pretty good in my opinion and my English teacher’s opinion
[ *] Teacher Recommendation: Two recs from teachers
[ *] Counselor Rec: Yep
[ *] Additional Rec: Peer rec for Dartmouth
[ /list][ b]Other[ /b][ list]
[ *] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
[ *] Intended Major: Biochemistry
[ *] State (if domestic applicant): California
[ *] Country (if international applicant):
[ *] School Type: Public
[ *] Ethnicity: Asian (Korean)
[ *] Gender: Male
[ *] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): First gen college student, first in family to attend college in US, first language isn’t English, Immigrant to US under adverse circumstances, extracurriculars
[ /list][ b]Reflection[ /b][ list]
[ *] Strengths: Tests, work, etc.
[ *] Weaknesses: Chemistry (the only B I have is Honors Chem)
[ *] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Good grades, test scores, lot of extracurriculars
[ *] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
Accepted: UCLA, UCR, UCD, UCSC, UCSB, SJSU, Sac State, Vanderbilt, USC
Waitlisted: UNC, Dartmouth
Rejected: UC Berkeley, Yale
Will be attending UCLA, USC, Vanderbilt, UCI, or UCSC
Has anyone gotten a financial aid award for out of state, when you’re actually instate?
Sorry, I just saw responses to my post as we kinda just quit looking here when she was so upset that she did not get in. Thanks for your responses!
My daughter took all Honors English and Honors Math classes but only 2 AP Classes before Senior Year where she had 3 AP Classes fall semester and 3 AP spring semester. Straight As in those, but of course they don’t see those grades. So she was a little weak in the number of AP classes prior to senior year. Her brother has autism and her essay was about him and made me cry – got her into finals for some scholarships, including one at her school where only 5 kids got picked. Kids she knows at her school with lower grades, lower SAT scores, less AP/honors classes, way less honors and extracurriculars got in when she did not. She is going to Cal Lutheran with a 30K Performing Arts scholarship, and though on the Waitlist at UC Irvine, won’t go there now as she is involved in the whole process at Cal Lutheran. UCI was her first choice school, so she was devastated and embarrassed since everyone she knows that applied got in except for her. She said “I helped these people with their classes, and they got in, and I didn’t.” President of one club, treasurer of another, leads in school plays starting sophomore year, choreographed the entire musical Legally Blonde and played Elle in it. Was choreographer for theater dept. for her junior and senior years. Did Speech and Debate (multiple awards, selected to compete at State), Mock Trial (multiple awards). There are other clubs and activities – honoraries, etc. Plenty of volunteer work. Being a middle class white girl with two parents with advanced degrees and no hardships noted (not that there are not any! just did not want to talk about that) probably did not help her. I see others with good scores and ECs who also did not get in, so who knows. I’m sure there is some chance involved based on who reviews your application. And maybe Cal Lutheran is a better school for her, and she was meant to go there. Plus, it will save us some $$.
Hey! does anyone know when the waitlist decisions come out for uci?