UC Irvine Class of 2030 Official Thread

Colleges & Universities University of California - Irvine
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Also Our first rejection. Congratulations to those admitted!

Decision: Rejected.

UC/CSU Capped Weighted GPA: 4.25 ELC(top9%):yes
Number of a-g courses taken 9-12th: 25
Number of UC approved Honors/AP/IB or DE classes: 6H, 2AP, 2DE
Intended Major: Business Administration
Instate: California, OC

extra curriculars/clubs, Varsity sports 4 years, lifeguarding, volunteering

Other admits: UC Riverside, UC Santa Cruz, San Jose State, CSULB, Cal Poly Pomona, ASU, LMU,

Pending: USC, UCLA, UCSB, SDSU, Cal Poly SLO - did not get in first wave

Reject: Just UCI so far.

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UCI waived me for SIR submission when I don’t even qualify for financial aid, maybe because they offered me UCI Honors Program? That’s cool!

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Daughter accepted and excited!

Decision: Accepted

Major (and division if applicable) applied to: English

ACADEMIC STATS::

UC Unweighted GPA: 3.9

UC Capped Weighted GPA: 4.2

UC Fully Weighted GPA: 4.5

Number of AP courses/exams (scores in parentheses): 13

SUBJECTIVE::

Extracurriculars: Dance

Volunteer/Community service: Multiple service EC’s.

DEMOGRAPHICS:

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

Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/denied: Accepted: UFlorida, Auburn, SDSU, Pepperdine. Rejected: None yet.

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Decision: daughter accepted

Major (and division if applicable) applied to: Civil Engineering

ACADEMIC STATS:

UC Unweighted GPA: 3.9

UC Capped Weighted GPA:

UC Fully Weighted GPA: 4.5

Number of AP courses/exams (scores in parentheses): 8

SUBJECTIVE::

Extracurriculars: Competitive Dance

Volunteer/Community service: dance teacher assistant

4 year varsity dance team and current captain

in state

Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/denied: Accepted: Davis

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D26 accepted to biomedical engineering. Zot! Zot! Zot! :blue_heart: :yellow_heart:
UC GPAs: 3.97 UW, 4.24 CW, 4.48 FW.
ELC: yes.
25 semesters of UC Honors, 9 AP courses (5 in all that have scores)
Typical “average excellent” ECs, with strong ECs for major.

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Decision: Waitlisted

Merit scholarships awarded (if any): None

Major (and division if applicable) applied to: Public Health

UC Unweighted GPA: 3.6

UC Capped Weighted GPA: 3.9

UC Fully Weighted GPA: 3.9

ELC (top 9% CA HS): No

Number of AP courses/exams (scores in parentheses): 8 (4,4,4,4, IP,IP,IP,IP

Number of IB courses/exams (score in parentheses): None

Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): None

SUBJECTIVE::

Extracurriculars:Eagle scout, Some research, Big TikTok Account, Lots of volunteering.

Job/Work Experience: None

Volunteer/Community service: Many Volunteer hours

Personal Insight essays (details): Average

Supplemental/Augmented Review: No

DEMOGRAPHICS::

State/location of HS (if domestic applicant): CA Bayarea

Country (if international applicant):

Applied for need-based financial aid? No

First Generation? No

Weaknesses: GPA, Had one C every year lol

Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/denied:
Accepted at the following: UMin, ASU, Rutgers, Purdue, UMass, Oregon State, UCM, UC Sant Cruz, SJSU, USFCa, SFSU, UIUC

Wailisted: CSULB, UCI

Rejected: UC Davis, Case Western

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Accepted!!

BA Drama:Theater Design

GPA 4.0 unweighted

ECs 9 years theater, 9 years Dance Technique, Choir Singer in Recitals & Festivals, 4 years Honor Choir, high school theater program actor, high school dance team dancer, Girl Scout Camp Program Aide, theater tech and production volunteer in stagehand sound booth microphones & costume & prop fabrication

AP & Honors coursework-12

AP Calc BC 5 AB Calc Subscore 5 AP Spanish 5 AP Bio IP AP Stats IP AP Lang 5 AP Lit IP APUSH 5 AP Gov IP

World History Honors, Eng 10 Honors, PreCalc Honors, Econ Honors

ELC (Top 9%) Yes

Class Rank- 20 out of 250

In State Public High School

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Decision: Accepted!

Merit scholarships awarded (if any): n/a

Major (and division if applicable) applied to: Education Sciences

ACADEMIC STATS::

UC Unweighted GPA: (maximum 4.0) 3.8

UC Capped Weighted GPA: (maximum 4.4) (4.33)

ELC (top 9% CA HS): Yes

Comments about course load (including senior year): Heavy course load + LOTS of DE

Number of a-g courses: 33

Number of UC Approved Honors courses: 6

Number of AP courses/exams (scores in parentheses): 7, In progress: AP macroecon, ap us hist, environmental science. Five: psychology. Four: human geo, world. Three: spanish 4

Awards : congressional bronze award (service), ap scholar, ca seal of bilit, 2x first team all league, presidential scholar, USA Water Polo Academic All-American,

Extracurriculars: 4x var water polo & swim (club+school)

Job/Work Experience: swim instructor + head lifeguard (4 yrs)

Volunteer/Community service: Guide dogs for the blind (1,000+ hours), kids against hunger (10 hours)

Personal Insight essays (details): strong, abt guide dogs, captain, my personality

Supplementals: expl for grades, native-american heritage (expl for why not tribal affiliated)

DEMOGRAPHICS::

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

Applied for need-based financial aid? yes

REFLECTION::

Strengths: community service + heavy leadership, heavy DE enrollment (8)

Weaknesses: grades (one c, 8 b)/ not super heavy course load

Where else were you accepted/waitlist/rejected
accepted common app: pepperdine, baylor, belmont, lmu, university of oregon, tcu, creighton, smc, asu (barretts), chapman, cu boulder (honors), point loma, texas a&m,
accepted cal states: long beach, cal poly slo, cal poly pomona, sdsu, sjsu,
acceptedUCs: uc davis, uc santa cruz, uc riverside, uc irvine

waiting: ucla, uc san diego, uc santa barbara
rejections: none

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Accepted

Computer Science and Engineering

Merit awarded: None

UC Unweighted GPA: 3.98

UC Capped Weighted GPA: 4.2

UC Fully Weighted GPA: 4.68

ELC: yes

Honors courses: 3

AP: 10: CSP (5), CSA (5), Physics C (5), Calc AB (5), Psych (5), Micro (IP), Macro (IP), Calc BC (IP), Bio (IP), French (IP)

DE: 13, GPA 4.0

Extracurriculars: secretary nhs, csf, president key club, president tutoring club, captain robotics, president science club, vp CS honor society, president volunteering club, TKD second degree…

Job: yes related to major

Community service: 300+ ( tutoring, services, nhs, csf, key club)

Summer Activities: cosmos ucsc cluster 11

State/location of HS: CA, Bay Area, Public HS

Applied for need-based financial aid: No

First Generation: No

Accepted: UCSC, UCD, SJSU, SDSU, Santa Clara, UMD, Purdue, U Wisconsin, Ohio State, Penn State, RPI, WPI, UF, CWRU, CU Boulder، Cal Poly Slo

Waitlisted: UIUC, UW Seattle

Denied: none

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Congrats to everyone accepted today and know the waitlist/rejections are tough (been there too). This one was a complete surprise after waitlist at UCDavis.

Decision: Accepted
Merit scholarships awarded (if any): none
Major applied to: Comp Sci
UC Unweighted GPA: (maximum 4.0) - 3.95
UC Capped Weighted GPA: (maximum 4.4) - 4.21
UC Fully Weighted GPA: (maximum 5.0) - 4.64
ELC (top 9% CA HS): not ELC, but top 9% state
Number of a-g courses: 27.5
Number of UC approved Honors/AP/IB or DE classes: 16 (24 semesters)
Courses 3 yrs CompSci, lots of math (though Stats and DE MultiVCalc3/LinAlg), Physics C Mech/EM, 3 yrs language, 4 yrs perf arts
Extracurriculars: robotics software team 4yrs, marching band 4yrs, founded club/president 3yrs, NHS
Job/Work Experience: part-time job
Volunteer/Community service: strong commitment to one non-profit for 5yrs with leadership council role
Personal Insight essays (details): strong, mainly about ECs
Supplemental/Augmented Review: No
State/location of HS: public HS Bay Area
Applied for need-based aid: no
First generation: no

Acceptances (all comp sci): UC Irvine, Cal Poly SLO, Purdue, SDSU, UCSC, UC Riverside, CSULB, SJSU, Colorado-Boulder, U of Oregon, ASU, Oregon State, U of Utah
Waitlist: UCD
Rejections: UT Austin, CMU, UIUC, UW for comp sci (admitted for pre-science)

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UC Irvine Class of 2030 Results Survey:

This form is for tracking decision results, so it’s all centralized for future students. If you could fill this out once you get your decision, that would be very appreciated!

You can see all other people’s individual responses in the links above, along with overall form statistics (such as what percent got accepted).

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fell asleep before i could post, but i was accepted! i’m so grateful. definitely needed this after the heaps of rejections i’ve been getting.

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Decision: Waitlisted

Intended major: Physics

UC UW/ CappedW/ Fully W GPA: 3.75 / 4.08 / 4.17
Number of a-g courses taken 9-12th: 22
Number of UC approved Honors/AP/IB or DE classes: 7 AP, 1 DE

Location: SF Bay area

First Gen?: No

Accepted: UC Davis, UCSC, UC Riverside, Cal Poly SLO, Cal Poly Pomona, SJSU, SFSU, Chapman

Waitlisted: Occidental, UCI

Declined: Harvey Mudd

Waiting: UCSD, UCSB, UCLA, UC Berkeley, Santa Clara, USC

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Decision: Rejected

Major applied to: Business Administration

UC Unweighted GPA: 4.0

UC Capped Weighted GPA: 4.25

UC Fully Weighted GPA: 4.25

ELC (top 9% CA HS): Yes

Number of UC Approved Honors courses: 4

Number of AP courses/exams (scores in parentheses): AP Spanish Lang (5), AP Lit, AP Gov, AP Microeconomics, AP Drawing

State/location of HS: California

Strengths: Part-time job, summer internship, track for 3 years (varsity for 2 years)

Weaknesses: No ECs related to major, didn’t take calculus

Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/denied: Accepted UCM, UCR, UCSC, CSUF, CSULB

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Decision: Accepted

Merit scholarships awarded (if any): None

Major (and division if applicable) applied to: Quantitative Economics

ACADEMIC STATS::

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UC Unweighted GPA: 4.0

UC Capped Weighted GPA: 4.25

UC Fully Weighted GPA: 4.74

ELC (top 9% CA HS): Yes

Comments about course load (including senior year): Rigorous. 8 DE courses. Maxed out math, english and science classes available

Number of a-g courses: 25

Number of UC Approved Honors courses: 4

Number of AP courses/exams (scores in parentheses): 5

Number of IB courses/exams (score in parentheses): 0

Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): None

SUBJECTIVE::

Extracurriculars: Voice, musical theater, soccer, track and field

Job/Work Experience: None

Volunteer/Community service: She and a friend did a great project working with the homeless last summer. They came up with it on their own. We were very proud.

Summer Activities: Lots of courses at the local community college

Personal Insight essays (details): PIQs were excellent. She wrote about how lessons learned from theater applied to her life and her volunteering experience.

Supplemental/Augmented Review: No

DEMOGRAPHICS::

State/location of HS (if domestic applicant): Large public high school in Central Valley, CA

Applied for need-based financial aid? No

First Generation? No

REFLECTION::

Strengths: Essays were really good. She’s an excellent writer. Academics are very strong. #4/550+

Weaknesses: We were worried that her EC’s weren’t strong enough

Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/denied: Accepted - CSUMB, CSU Fullerton, Westmont, St. Mary’s, Occidental, Cal Poly SLO, UCR, UCD. Waiting - UCSB, UCSD, UCLA, Cal, USC, NYU

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