Thank god US News ranking didn’t punished UC Merced because of its selectivity and they just leapfrog UC Riverside and Santa Cruz and a bunch of very selective privates.
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Interesting UCI Computer Engineer Regent selection UCI CE Regent Selected
Doubting if this is real – but no AP Physics/no AP Calculus still gets you in. I guess power of essays (and luck) !!
Well. It is posted by a friend on Reddit.
But to make you feel better, S24 got in to CE. No Regent, but he didn’t have AP Physics and No AP Cal either.
Always thought for Engineering major, Physics and higher level Math was necessity. So a bit surprised to be selected as a Regent Scholar.
Selectivity has not been a factor in US News college ranking methodology for a number of years now.
S24 did not get Regent. He did get in UCI for CE.
But no AP Cal doesn’t mean no higher level math. Just no AP. I had him straight go thru community college math curriculum. People here will tell you about the box. Glad S24 is able to do things outside that box.
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Engineering major at UCI requires Physics 7 series and there is no AP physics that can replace it.
https://apstudents.collegeboard.org/getting-credit-placement/search-policies/college/3887
At my school, 320 kids apply to ucla, 42 admits, 29 enrolled. 329 applied to ucsb, and 111 were admitted, 28 enrolled. Oddly, 220 students applied to Irvine, and only 32 were accepted (with 6 enrolling). This confirmed my theory that Irvine yield protects (or some form of it), as it’s more likely to accept kids from schools where students are more likely to enroll when accepted. I have also checked the high schools in Irvine, and they have significantly more Irvine admits (more likely to enroll when accepted), with less admits to ucla, ucsb, and ucb compared to my school. I have cross checked this data back a few years and it seems to follow the same trend. This explains why some of my friends who got into ucb, and ucsb early (top 1% if applicants) got straight rejected from Irvine.
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Also, weighted capped gpas are not a great representation. You can have the highest weighted capped by only taking uc approved honors instead of Ap courses.
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CS curriculum is no joke at any school. Most of students who chose CS field are really into it, NOT because CS gradutes has high earning potential. They were already good at coding when they were in high school, some of them had hand-on experience.
Several CS courses offered in high school, AP CS Principle which is super easy, then AP CS A which is still easy, then AP CS AB which is a little changellenging. I heard the beginer-level CS course offered at UCLA is difficult to those students without programing experience. The CS courses at Cal is more changellenging, many students dropped/failed the courses.
AI is hot topic, AI will replace lower- level developers, chatGPT can code anything. Plus CS is saturated major. Some CS graduates from UCI/UCSC couldn’t find a job, we just hired them recently, they are not good picks (sorry to say that).
Choose what you’re good at, do not follow the money.
D24 accepted last Friday, just an hour after rejected by UC Davis.
UC gpa is 3.75 uw/4.39 w/4.04 capped
8 APs (12 total UC Honors courses, they didn’t count her freshman/sophomore year Honors courses), CA public HS (Bay Area)
35 ACT (which I know UCs didn’t even see but relevant for private universities)
Undeclared/leaning towards Biology/STEM major
moderate ECs (1 season of track, some clubs, a science summer internship, and spent multiple summers as a camp counselor)
Other acceptances: UCR, Northeastern (starting at int’l program for Fall semester), and UOP
Waiting: USC, Claremont McKenna, NYU, Northwestern, UMich, UCLA, UCSD, UCB, UCSB, UCSC, CalPoly, Santa Clara, (and I’m missing at least 2 more…)
Rejected: Stanford EA and UCD
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I think the only way to easily determine if there is really yield protection or not would be to know where a large sample of specific students were admitted. Anecdotal information from a number of sources is suggestive. However, we’d need a Bayesian or an admissions officer to give us any confidence one or the other.
Thank you.
Do you mean uci students are worse than UC berkeley or UCLA?
Ok. Fine
My son learned coding from oracle’s employee and really awesome students from our high school went to ICS.
.i don’t understand your statement fully " " don’t follow money" ?.
You are correct in saying we need a Bayesian to be sure. I would even say we need to do a Bayesian on a major-by-major basis, given that the applicant’s desired major is often the deciding factor in admissions decisions.
But of course, we cannot get the data needed to do a proper analysis. So at best, we are left with educated guesses, and what’s mine?
When a school has virtually 5 competitors, it has to be doing an incredibly lousy job of yield protection, if its yield rate stays at 20%± year after year.
Or, we might say, instead of them doing an incredibly lousy job, perhaps there was no yield protection to start with.
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Patricksmith
I don’t understand surely. Your intention is to humiliate uci students and my student. I read many times your comments. If i misunderstand, let me know.
Take it easy. One person’s opinion does not diminish the value of an awesome UC education, regardless of which campus.
Thank you.
Decision: D24 Accepted
Merit scholarships awarded (if any):
Major (and division if applicable) applied to: biology
ACADEMIC STATS::
UC Unweighted GPA:4.0
UC Capped Weighted GPA: 4.28
UC Fully Weighted GPA: 4.28
ELC (top 9% CA HS): yes
Comments about course load (including senior year): AP Calc, AP Physics, AP English, AP Gov, and AP economics in progress senior year.
Number of a-g courses: 27?
Number of UC Approved Honors courses:
AP courses/exams (scores in parentheses): AP Literature (4), AP Enviromental Science (4), and AP Chemistry (4)
IB courses/exams (score in parentheses):
DE courses: 5?
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
SUBJECTIVE::
Extracurriculars: 4 years Orchestra, Founder of pre-med club
Job/Work Experience: NA
Volunteer/Community service: Elementary school tutoring
Summer Activities: NA
Personal Insight essays (general details/topics): She would not let me read them. Writing has been her strong point according to her teachers. I believe this was her carry.
Supplemental/Augmented Review: No
DEMOGRAPHICS:
State/location of HS (if domestic applicant): High Desert
Country (if international applicant):
Applied for need-based financial aid? Yes
First Generation? No
Denials: Likely denied at SDSU and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo have not heard a response.
Accepted: CSUSB, UC Merced, UC Riverside, UC Santa Cruz, and UC San Diego
Waitlisted: UCLA
Waiting: UC Berkeley
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Those who say UCI yield protects are wrong.
I know it’s odd but historically I have noticed and we joked about it that kids with top stats that get into LA don’t get into Irvine and vice versa. It was an observation based on looking at what people post. Not based on facts.
Irvine doesn’t YP. However I think they look for different things than UCB or UCLA. I don’t know what It is.
This cycle, at daughters school, and her friends at another School, no one except my daughter got into UCI. my d is the valedictorian. Her friend the valedictorian at another school didn’t even get waitlisted. Yesterday at least 3 at her school got into UCLA one with a 3.5 GPA ranked 10 in the class applying to biology. Her valedictorian friend from the neighboring town got in and so did the second ranked kid at his school. So we know 5 people who got into LA.
So as my kid got into both and she had the higher academic profile of all the kids I mentioned l. I can say they didn’t YP her. They gave her Honors invite. I do think something about her stood out to Irvine that the other kids didn’t have. Her essays were very good and entertaining ??? There is absolutely zero reason to flat out reject her valedictorian friend from the other school. His essays were good. He had a lot of stuff but He didn’t even get waitlisted.
Daughter admitted for engineering. Friend rejected for business. The second ranked kid at her school is poly sci- Rejected and the third ranked kid biology -rejected.
This whole process is arbitrary and 
absolutely plays a role.
My d got regent’s at ucsc and honors at Irvine but neither at Davis, UCSD UCLA and didn’t get the early admission for Berkeley or SB -and didn’t get into sdsu until a few days ago. While kids with worse stats got into sdsu in December. Who knows???
For this cycle at my daughters school Irvine definitely was harder to get into than UCLA by admission numbers at her school ( not per the university I am just talking about the kids from her school)
Finally 3-4 admits to UCLA from her small public school is rare. There are only 100 students in her class. And not all of them apply so 3 known and the second ranked kid is awesome so we hope she got in if so, it will be 4 admits.
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