UC Irvine Class of 2028 Official Thread

Colleges & Universities University of California - Irvine
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I think those who believe the YP theory tend to be the same people who believe college admissions are a ranking game mostly based on GPA. In reality, GPA, albeit important, is just one factor among 13.

UCSB and UCR are the two UCs closest to using a numeric scoring (and ranking) during their admissions process. For this reason, officially UC says UCSB and UCR use a “hybrid” review process, while the other seven UCs use a pure holistic one.

From what I have learned, in a holistic process, they tend to use “buckets” instead of ranks when evaluating an applicant’s academics, if that makes any sense. Once two applicants are in the same GPA bucket, for example, any difference in GPA makes no further difference. What matters are differences in the rest 12 of the 13 factors.

Once you get an idea of how holistic review works, it’s not hard to understand, at least in principle, why an applicant with a higher GPA may be rejected but another with a slightly lower GPA is accepted.

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Does anyone know of Irvine prioritizes nursing transfers from within their own school? Or how to transfer into their nursing if admitted for a different major

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Here is the change of major information for Nursing. I would contact the Nursing office and ask about priority for internal transfers.

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I’m a software engineer at a large company (50k+ employees), my group has 30+ software developers and we have 7 from UC Irvine. They are very good coders, employees, and people. Do not generalize students based on schools. You will find a bad apple at every campus.

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hey guys, I’m a current student at UCI! if you have any questions about dorming/food/classes/orientation, etc. feel free to message me! i know that it is super confusing going through this process haha!

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UC admissions results really can seem random at times. Many more-than-qualified students outright rejected.

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In recent years, every year UC has received more qualified applicants than they can admit. As a result, no matter what they do, they have to reject a significant portion of well-qualified applicants.

You can argue why that’s the case: high school GPA inflation, lowered academic standards, etc. But roughly 110 K UC applicants have a >= 4.0 UC weighted capped GPA, which means they have more than two 4.0 applicants for every seat available. At the more competitive UCs, the situation is even direr.

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My D24 made UCI and we’re trying to compare/contrast diversity among her college choices because that is important to her.

Diversity make-up at UCI, according to US News data, is
38% White
27% Asian
13% American Indian
13% Hispanic
6% International
2% Black
Did US News have a typo or misinterpretation of “American Indian”?? I thought that in demographic surveys, American Indian refers to Native American Indians but did survey takers mistake American Indian for Indian-American? I grew up 15 miles from UCI so I’ve seen the campus population. Why is it even reported this way?? I could not find data on the UCI website or College Board college search. Does anyone have more accurate diversity breakdowns?

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That data is very wrong.

Go to UCI’s data page and sort student enrollment by ethnicity.

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Thank you!

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At UCI, the number of Asian Americans > Hispanic > International > White (Non Hispanic)

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This is the case across pretty much all UC campuses. The only exceptions are:

  1. UCSB still has a White plurality;
  2. UC Merced is majority Hispanic.

BTW, since 2023 UCI has enrolled slightly more Whites than internationals, although the difference is insignificant either way.

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If you want to compare the UCI numbers with other UCs you can use:

or in a graphical way:

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I got in for business administration to UCI, intl student here. can someone tell me how does Paul merage compare to uiuc gies in terms of placements, connections and internships. also is Paul merage any good for investment banking? I need to choose between uiuc and uci and its getting really confusing for me!

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A post was merged into an existing topic: UC Irvine Freshman Class of 2028 Waitlist/Appeal Discussion

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2 posts were merged into an existing topic: UCI Transfer Discussion Fall 2024

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Hello,

I was waitlisted in UCI as a biological science. I was wondering if its common for people who were waitlisted as a bio sci major to get off the waitlist? I’m also wondering when is the first wave of UCI pulling people off the waitlist?

Thank you!

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UCI does not breakout their waitlist data by major so there is no way to know. Waisted students should not expect to hear until after the May 15 SIR deadline.

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@WestCoaster6, please share your son’s stats because I worry about my chances of acceptance to UCI with the same major. Thanks in advance for taking your time to post your son’s stats.

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Hi UC Irvine prospective-Parents and Students:
For those of you who have children without perfect scores- don’t despair! Not all is lost. Not everyone who gets into top UCs are 4.0 or “almost” perfect. I used to spend hours combing through CC- your child will be placed into where they are supposed to be.

My D24 received 2 Bs her sophomore year and a B and a C her junior year at her large public HS in Sacramento and still got into UCB, UCI, UCSC, UCSB, UCR, UCD, CalPoly, San Diego State, USF, Biola, Masters and waitlisted at UCLA and UCSD. She was accepted in Political Science.

**I believe it was rigor of schedule, extra CC classes, volunteer at variety of places

D24 Accepted

Major: Political Science

UC Unweighted GPA: 3.82

UC Capped Weighted GPA: 4.1

UC Fully Weighted GPA: 4.2

ELC (top 9% CA HS): YES

Comments about course load (including senior year): 5 APs (10th/11th) and 4 APs (12), 4 CC classes done in the summer (ECON, SOC, PSYC, STATS); she only got 4s and one 3 on AP tests.

Number of a-g courses: 26

Number of UC Approved Honors courses:

SUBJECTIVE::

Extracurriculars: Lots

Job/Work Experience: part time job at optometry office

Volunteer/Community service: Mentor/tutor title 1 school, mental health workshops,

**GIRLS STATE; GOLD AWARD GIRLS SCOUTS; CA STATE SEAL OF CIVIC ENGAGEMENT (11th)

DEMOGRAPHICS::

State/location of HS (if domestic applicant): in state - Public- Sacramento
NOt first gen

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