Waitlisted
In state
Electrical engineering
4.0 uw
4.36 uc weighted
4.73 fully weighted
Not much community service
Decent extracurriculars, tech internship, humans rights club, and other smaller ecs.
Luckily I was accepted into uc davis which I prefer due to its sense of community when compared to uci.
It goes to show how competitive uc admissions are compared to even 2-3 years ago before the pandemic. I also noticed that some schools in Irvine accept almost 3x the number of students when compared to equally competitive high schools in the bay and La. At my school more people get into UCLA and Berkeley than uc irvine which seems pretty odd to me even with similar numbers of students applying.
A friend of mine got regents at ucsb (extremely hard to get only top 2% of applicants get this) and was flat out rejected by Irvine.