The scholarship info isn’t readily visible in the landing page. For us, we need to click on “View Update” to bring up the admission letter. At the bottom of the page, you can see a link to a letter called “Scholarship”. I’ve pasted the screen shot in below.
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Thank you for the information. Each year the acceptance letters and awards can look different on the student portal.
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Decision: Daughter accepted
Merit scholarships awarded (if any):
Major (and division if applicable) applied to: Cognitive Science
ACADEMIC STATS::
UC Unweighted GPA: 3.97
UC Capped Weighted GPA: 4.2
UC Fully Weighted GPA: 4.8
ELC (top 9% CA HS): yes
Comments about course load (including senior year):
Number of a-g courses: 60 semesters
Number of UC Approved Honors courses: 9-12th: 32 semesters of Honors/AP (16 yr long)
DE courses: 10+.
In State, Bay Area
First Generation? No
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What is CHC?
campus-wide honors collegium
Is it good ? What is different from other courses?
My son got it this letter .
They didn’t send any thing but sent this .hahaha
Son Declined
Decision: Declined
Major: Computer Science
ACADEMIC STATS::
UC Unweighted GPA: 4.0
UC Capped Weighted GPA: 4.31
UC Fully Weighted GPA:4.76
ELC (top 9% CA HS): Y
Comments about course load (including senior year):
Number of a-g courses: 52
Number of UC Approved Honors courses: 10 H, 20 AP
AP courses/exams (scores in parentheses): three 4, three 5
IB courses/exams (score in parentheses): 0
DE courses: 0
SUBJECTIVE::
DEMOGRAPHICS::
State/location of HS (if domestic applicant): Bay Area, CA
Country (if international applicant):
Applied for need-based financial aid? No
First Generation? No
Other acceptances/waitlists/denials: Deferred USC, Accepted UCD
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Wow, this is insane. Sorry about the rejection. Hope to see you with good news on UCSD/LA/B threads.
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Check the 2 links : https://bpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/wp.ovptl.uci.edu/dist/e/64/files/2023/10/First-Year-Handout-UCI-CHC-2023.docx.pdf
Biggest perk is priority registration and Honors Housing. Definitely worth looking into if UCI is a top choice school.
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Oh. Really?
I don’t really expect this outcome. Because CS engineering is hard to get in any schools nowadays. Thank you!
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.
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Residents in Orange County likes uci and ucla more than other place including UCB .
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The acceptance rate will be a lot higher for students if the university of CA would stop encouraging students to apply even with low GPAs. I think it is very misleading to students when the majority of accepted students have GPA 4.0 or higher. How many students gets accepted with a GPA of 3.0??? Many students apply with low GPA thinking that their awesome PIQs and EC activities will lead to an acceptance, but it rarely does according to their statistics. UCs need to change their GPA eligibility and stop taking money from students that most certainly will not get accepted, this practice is unethical.
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Are you from NorCal?
Sorry I do not agree with your sentiment.
I was one of THOSE kids who was admitted with GPA way below 75-25% for UCI and UCLA way back in the day. I did more than fine in comparison to my peers. It’s rare, but gives people a chance.
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I think UC is transparent about chances of admission with relatively low UC GPA. However, I hear your frustration with the process.
@Gumbymom is it time to start a 2024 thread for criticism, complaints, and general venting about UC admissions policies? These threads have been very active in the past. This type of discussion can really derail the individual UC admissions threads.
No one is “encouraging” students to apply to the UC’s and the UC’s do list their admit GPA ranges for each in-coming class so any applicant can do a simple search to determine their chances based on statistical data alone.
UC Comprehensive review means just that and many applicants are willing to take a chance that their unique circumstances, EC’s/Activities and PIQ’s could also help boost their chances even if the GPA is not within the admitted profile ranges.
You also have to remember the GPA ranges are the 25th-75th percentile so there are applicants below the 25th percentile GPA range that are admitted every year.
Edited for clarity.
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I didn’t say “forced”, I said encouraged. At the end of the day, college is a business, I get that.
Good luck to all the applicants!!
Peace!
Sadly, I think that “way back in the day,” was a VERY different world for college applicants. The sheer number of students applying to good colleges today is overwhelming.
I read entries here where kids with 4.0 unweighted GPAs, 12 APs/IBs, crazy ECs, and very polished essays, are not being accepted. They have done everything right, yet, the application process seems more and more like a crapshoot.
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I will continue to monitor and if things get out of hand, then I will start a separate discussion. I am hesitant since it always evolves into a some kind of debate and I really do not see anything more relevant coming out of another Venting discussion.
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