UC Irvine Class of 2029 Official Thread

In for Business administration. Will update stats later. Thank you for all you are doing. Busy night, week for you!

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son waitlisted for Political Science
uw4.0 wc4.23
accepted to santa cruz, davis, and san diego
admissions is weird.

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Are the stats for Total # of Admits on UC HUB included students who later on got off from the waitlist and then got admitted?

When does SIR due for UCI this year?

Accepted for Physics with Honors College!

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SIR date for all the UC’s is May 1.

Decision: accepted

Merit scholarships awarded (if any): directors scholarship $15k/year

Major (and division if applicable) applied to: mechanical engineering

ACADEMIC STATS::

Calculate your GPAs with GPA Calculator for the University of California – RogerHub

UC Unweighted GPA: 4.0

UC Capped Weighted GPA:

UC Fully Weighted GPA: 4.24

ELC (top 9% CA HS):

Comments about course load (including senior year):

Number of a-g courses:

Number of UC Approved Honors courses:

Number of AP courses/exams (scores in parentheses): 2

Number of IB courses/exams (score in parentheses): 12

Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):

SUBJECTIVE::

Extracurriculars: varsity and club soccer. Model UN. Key. Interact. Diversity club

Job/Work Experience: engineering internship

Volunteer/Community service: tutoring. Ayso referee

Summer Activities: summer school. Internship

Personal Insight essays (details):

Supplemental/Augmented Review: Yes or No

DEMOGRAPHICS::

State/location of HS (if domestic applicant): Hawaii

Country (if international applicant):

Applied for need-based financial aid?

First Generation? No

REFLECTION::

Strengths:

Weaknesses:

Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/denied:
Accepted. UCSD. UC Davis. Cal poly slo. U Washington

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Waitlisted for Physics
UW: 4
W: 4.6
ELC - Yes

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What a day! Waitlisted at UCI and UCSD for mechanical engineering but got into Carnegie Mellon and MIT!

Decision: WAITLISTED
Major (and division if applicable) applied to: MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
ACADEMIC STATS:
UC Unweighted GPA: 4.0
UC Capped Weighted GPA: 4.27
UC Fully Weighted GPA: 4.58 to 4.67 (depends on how include a few courses)
ELC (top 9% CA HS): YES
Comments about course load (including senior year): High STEM rigor
Number of a-g courses: 31
Number of UC Approved Honors courses: 4
Number of AP courses/exams (scores in parentheses): 11 classes, 14 exams
NMF
Solid ECs with leadership

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S25 Accepted

In-state, socal public hs
Major: Earth System Science
UW UC GPA: 4.0
Capped UC GPA: 4.33
Fully Weighted: 4.42
ELC: No
UC approved AP/Honors courses: 10

Acceptances: UCSC, UCD, UCI, Cal Poly SLO, SDSU, UW Seattle

Waitlists: UCSD

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S25 accepted
Major: Data Science

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Decision: accepted - in state

Merit scholarships awarded (if any):
None
Major (and division if applicable) applied to: environmental science

ACADEMIC STATS::

UC Unweighted GPA: 4.0

UC Capped Weighted GPA:

UC Fully Weighted GPA: 4.2

ELC (top 9% CA HS): yes

Comments about course load (including senior year):

Number of a-g courses:

Number of UC Approved Honors courses: 2 AP, 2 Honors

Number of AP courses/exams (scores in parentheses): 2 (4)

Extracurriculars: captain Water polo, basketball, swim.

Job/Work Experience:

Volunteer/Community service:
Over 700 hours

Summer Activities: club water polo, environmental science internship

Applied for need-based financial aid? No

First Generation? No

Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/denied:

Accepted - UCI, UCSD, UCD,UCR, UCSC, SDSU, LB, Fullerton, SJSU, SLO

Denied - none so far

Waiting- UCSB, UCB, UCLA, USC, Santa Clara

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Accepted (In state) Chemical Engineering - Honors eligible(?)

UW 4.0 GPA, weighted 4.5

11 AP courses, 2 college classes at Cal Berkeley

We will be withdrawing soon as she got into UCSD today as well which she likes better. We are very lucky, congrats to all of you!

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MIT!!! LETS FREAKING GOOOO!!! THAT’S AMAZING!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!! You must be so proud.

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S25 accepted biochem
In state
4.0/4.33/4.7 gpa
9 AP classes

Accepted: Oregon honors, Santa Clara, SDSU, Cal state-LB, UCR, UCSC, Northeastern-London
WL: u wash, UCD, UIUC
Rejected: WashU, Columbia
Pending: UCLA, UCB,UCSB, Michigan, BU, NYU, Emory

I saw on my son’s portal he was invited to apply to honors college? Does everyone get that??

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S25 admitted into Computer Science and also into their honor’s program. The Honor program does seem worthwhile with class registration priority and 4 yr housing.

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S25

UCI Decision: Rejected on 3/14

Intended Major: Business

UC Unweighted GPA: 3.77
UC Capped Weighted GPA: 4.14
UC Fully Weighted GPA: 4.41
ELC (top 9% CA HS): Yes
Comments about course load (including senior year): High Rigor
Number of a-g courses taken 9-12th : 42 semesters
Number of UC approved Honors (CA HS’s only)/AP/IB or DE classes: 28 semesters (4s on all APs so far)
Local/Non-local CA resident/OOS/International: SoCal - top 2% rated public HS
ECs, work experience, essays, volunteer activities: average to above average.

Accepted : UCSC
Pending : UCLA, UCB, CPSLO, UCSB
Waitlisted : SDSU
Rejected : UCSD, UCI

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Please provide stats , can help future applicants

No, Honors college admission is for top applicants. Congratulations!!!

S25 has an invite to the Honors College Waitlist. Never heard of that before. Wondering if it’s new this year & if everyone gets an invite?

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