Welcome prospective Anteaters. It’s that time of year again as the UC application has now opened and submission starts October 1 through December 1. I am @Gumbymom one of the two UC Forum Champions/Moderators. My Co-Forum Champion is @lkg4answers and we are knowledgeable on the increasingly complicated UC admissions process and hopefully we can help any prospective UC applicants with their questions.
UC Irvine like all the UC’s are test blind and will use 13 areas of criteria to review Freshman applicants. Each campus will weight the various areas of criteria differently so one size does not fit all. The UC application website has plenty of information that can help determine if UC Irvine is a good option when applying.
2025 Freshman profile (25th-75th percentile):
Capped weighted GPA: 4.04-4.27
Freshman Admit rate: 28.7%
Major choice is an admissions factor. In the case that UCI is unable to accommodate all qualified applicants in their first-choice major, those students who indicate a valid alternate major may be offered admission in that major or Undeclared.
Selective majors include Business Administration, Nursing, Majors in the College of Information and Computer Sciences, College of Engineering, Business Economics, Cognitive Science, Economics, Psychology, and Quantitative Economics.
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Best of luck to all applicants.
UC Counselor conference information and updates are listed below:
UCI 2025 Freshman waitlist data:
| Number of qualified applicants offered a place on waiting list |
18,758 |
| Number accepting a place on the waitlist |
N/A |
| Number of waitlisted students admitted |
5,814 |
| Appeals submitted: 1616 |
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| Appeals approved: 16 |
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Number of Regent Scholarship offers: 1133
56% of Freshman applied to the following majors:
Biological Sciences, Business Administration, Nursing, Psychology BS, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, Undeclared, Political Science, Criminology and Public Health.
New majors are Music BA with no audition and B.Mus with audition required.
Thank you, as always for insightful input.
Do we know what the Enrolled wGPA is overall and/or per Major?
I do not think they are new? I was curious so I looked on the internet archive for this major requirements page and it shows Music BA and BMus going back at least to 2016 (probably the majors existed before that, but the web page was created then).
The new majors were listed on the UC counselor conference campus updates.
Here is the screenshot:
UC Irvine only lists the Unweighted UC GPA range of 3.86-4.00 and the Capped weighted UC GPA range of 4.04-4.27 for the campus. I have not seen a breakout of UC GPA ranges for each specific major other than the UCOP data for the Admissions by discipline:
That is strange! They apparently had some requirements changes last year for these majors but I do not see anything that would make them “NEW majors”… I wonder if there was a miscommunication somewhere? There’s ample info about these majors on the web site.
I did not go back to verify the new majors, I just took the information at face value from the conference. Mistakes do happen.
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Thanks, I forgot this one. Indeed, UCI shows enrolled GPA per Major category in the drop down box.
