UC Riverside Class of 2029 Official Thread

Colleges & Universities University of California - Riverside
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DECISION: Accepted
Merit scholarships awarded (if any): ?
Major (and division if applicable) applied to: BS in Computer Science

ACADEMIC STATS:
UC Unweighted GPA: 3.87
UC Capped Weighted GPA: 4.16
UC Fully Weighted GPA: 4.45
ELC (top 9% CA HS): No
Comments about course load (including senior year): high rigor in STEM, less rigor in humanities, two Bs in a AP Calc BC but get 5 in exam
Number of a-g courses:
Number of UC Approved Honors courses: 6
Number of AP courses/exams (scores in parentheses): 12 (CSA, CSP, Calc BC, Chiese, Phy1, all 5, senior year PhyC, Stats, Gov, Psyc with course and self take Eng Lang, Chem, USH)

EXTRACURRICULARS:
Job/Work Experience:
Volunteer/Community service: Service club president, Cyperpatriot Captain, Lifeguard, Robotic club co-captain. Lots of out of school leadership as well.

DEMOGRAPHICS:
State/location of HS (if domestic applicant): NorCal
Applied for need-based financial aid? No
First Generation? No

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I know people who were waitlisted or denied

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Thank you. I have not seen anyone post here but just saw some individuals posting on other sites about denials and waitlists.

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Congratulations! Was the scholarship information in the admissions letter, or elsewhere on the portal? Thanks!

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when i clicked off the acceptance letter it showed me the scholarship with a button to accept it. Kinda weird because other schools haven’t been like that.

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My daughter was rejected from UCR yesterday, then got an email today saying there was an update in her portal. The message in the portal basically said, oops, our bad, we meant to waitlist you. Seriously? We’re happy she’s not actually rejected, but this process is hard enough on the kids without these kinds of mistakes!

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“The number of applicants was also boosted by student interest in UCR’s new major in business analytics at the School of Business, which received 5,110 applications in its inaugural year.”

This is a quote from the UCR press release attributing some of the increase in applications to the addition of this new major.

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My son was accepted for his second choice major but then got an email saying there is space available so now he is accepted for his first choice ..

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My son was accepted last Feb 28 and received an invite yesterday to apply for University Honors Program. Is this invite sent to everyone?

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yes..

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Don’t know about everyone, but my student got the same

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My kid got into UCR at 2 pm pacific on February 28th, I think. Just a data point. Gumbymom knows all.

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this is serious goof up. what are her stats?

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Stats are mixed because her school is unusual. She attends high school and community college at the same time. High school GPA is 3.9 UW, but college GPA (73 credits) is 3.1, which makes her overall GPA low compared to most of the other freshman applicants. I’m not necessarily surprised she was waitlisted, just annoyed by them sending a rejection first, then correcting it. She did get into UCSC today :slight_smile: so that’s a relief.

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We toured UCSC, it’s so beautiful. Your kid will be so happy there!

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Daughter

She hadn’t intended to apply to UCR, but they emailed her requesting that she do so, and waived the app fee as an enticement.

Decision: accepted

Merit scholarships awarded: none

Major (and division if applicable) Bioengineering 5 yr BS/MS

UC Unweighted GPA: 4.0

UC Capped Weighted GPA:4.35

UC Fully Weighted GPA:4.49

ELC (top 9% CA HS): yes, Merced

Comments about course load (including senior year): substantial

Number of UC Approved Honors courses: 4

Number of AP courses/exams: 6

Number of college courses: 8

State/location of HS: California

EC:

Selected as member of International Teen Advisory Committee for Global Ehlers Danlos Foundation

2X Camp Counselor SciCon

Invited to, and attended Camp Royal for top HS students

VP of Competition - FBLA, went to Nationals

4 years of Theatre

2 part time jobs: Peer tutor and Retail clothing store

Plays piano, flute, guitar

National Honor Society

CSF

Accepted:
Chapman/UC Irvine: 5 year BS/BS Applied Math, Engineering

Fordham: Mathematics

Fresno State: Mechanical Engineering

San Jose State: Mechanical Engineering

CalPoly SLO: Mechanical Engineering

UC Merced: Bioengineering

Waitlisted:
UCSD, Aerospace Engineering

Pending:
UCSB, UCLA, UCB, Pomona College, Vassar, Barnard at Columbia, Stanford, Brown University, Harvard, Yale

No rejections… yet

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S25 Accepted (2/28) .. Computer Science / Business Admin

Unweighted GPA: 4.0
Weighted GPA (CA): 4.53
Weighted and Capped GPA (CA): 4.21
High rigor in courses (Mostly APs else Honors)
num AP courses/exams: 14 APs (most 5s else 4, calc BC in jr)

Major Awards:
National Merit Finalist w/ Corporate Scholarship
Wrestling Individual: 2X CA CIF Regional Medalist & Master Qualifier
Wrestling Team: 2X League Champion, 1X Division Final (Runner-up)
State Legislature Certificate of Outstanding Achievement
Congressional Award Bronze Medal (Volunteering)

Job/Internship:
Paid Summer Research - Simulation/Modeling in biology
Summer Internship - AI Project at major corporation

EC:
CyberPatriot: Platinum tier, team lead, ranked #1 in district
CPU Club, English tutoring, Piano, and Kiteboarding

State/location of HS: S. Cal. public
Applied for need-based financial aid? Yes
First Generation? No

Accepted:
UCSB, UCLA, UCI, UCSD, UCD, UCSC, UCR, CP SLO, CP Pomona, UAriz, SCU
Pending:
Rice, USC, UPenn, Cornell, UCB, Stanford, GT, UMich
Rejected: None .. yet

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anyone else never get an acceptance package? i was really looking forward to one :slightly_frowning_face:

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Like in the mail? We did not get one from any of the UCs. I don’t think they do that. Kid got some swag at the open houses though.

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i found out you can request to see your admissions file for other UCs. has anyone tried that for UCR? i emailed the registrar to request to see mine