UC San Diego Class of 2030 Official Thread

Colleges & Universities University of California - San Diego
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Decision: Accepted

Major: Computer Science

Merit awarded: Full ride (Jacobs School Scholarship)

GPA: 4.0 / 4.33 / 4.67

ELC: yes

AP: 13: Calc BC (5), Stats (5), Physics 1 (5), Physics C:Mech (5), Physics C:E&M (4), CSP (5), World History (5), US History (5), Micro (5), CSA (IP), Chem (IP), Macro (IP), Gov (IP)

DE: 3: Calc 1, Multivariable Calc, Linear Algebra

Major Awards: USAMO & USACO Gold

Extracurriculars: Various activities, hobby projects and leadership positions, all connected to interests in Math and CS.

Job: Part-time summer work related to major.

Community service: Tutoring, volunteering. Earned PVSA-Gold.

State/location of HS: Public HS in CA.

Applied for need-based financial aid: No. Did not submit FAFSA.

First Generation: No

Accepted: UCSD, UCLA, UCI, UCSB, UC Davis, UCR, Georgia Tech, UW-Madison, UMD, UNC, Purdue, ASU, CalPoly, SJSU

Waitlisted: CMU

Rejected: UW-Seattle, UIUC, UT-Austin

Pending: UCB, Stanford, USC, UMich

General comments: Had applied for COSMOS after 9th and 10th and was rejected both times. So these results from UCs were quite a surprise.

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Congratulations!

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your SAT scores please.

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Mine got Revelle too, which she hadn’t even ranked. I haven’t heard the most flattering things about it, but tough toenails, I guess. Because we live in north SD county, we’re driving down today to pick up some merch, and will be attending admitted students’ day at which point we’ll have more info.

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Decision: Rejected

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, OSU, UCM, UC Sant Cruz, SJSU, USFCa, SFSU, UIUC, UCR, Boulder.

Wailisted: CSULB, SDSU, UC Irvine

Rejection: Case Western, UCD, UCSB, UCSD, UCLA

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You did really well. Wouldn’t want to have to choose amongst this strong group - you can go so many ways. There’s only strong schools here!!

Best of luck.

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Anyone in Warren? :slight_smile:

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1540

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My S26 is in Warren in CS

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My daughter is a psych major! I’m interested in hearing more about Warren. :slight_smile:

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That’s great! We are doing the admitted student day tour not the open house. Hope to learn more about the school then. Also trying to see if he can see some faculty members on the same day.

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My student also got into Warren. Not sure we will be able to make it to the UCSD Triton Days, but would also like to learn more about Warren.

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I’ll preface this by saying how grateful we are that our out-of-state daughter was admitted to UCSD. With that said, I understand that merit aid has already gone out, but I’m seeing that it’s possible to see aid as late as April. Any Intel? She was awarded $ from UCSB, which makes me think it’s possible though not probable.

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If enough students that were awarded some merit scholarships decline their acceptance, it is possible that money can be given to other admitted students. Unfortunately, that may not happen until after the May 1 SIR deadline.

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Thank you! I can hope. lol.

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You are absolutely correct. I tried my best to get answer on howmany of the 26 selected out of 42 last year tranferred students are OOS with only gpa (1 point). Reached out to admissions, department of interested major and also undergraduate of education. They refused to give me the information saying they do not have it. They create the rules and admit students on the basis. Yet they do not have the information. It is a strange world we are living in.

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To close tue loop- my daughter committed to UCSD. What a wild ride this college application season has been.

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I’m grasping at straws here, but does anyone have any inside baseball as to when they’re planning to release the first round of wl acceptances? I’m in-state for engineering or math & applied sciences!

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In 2025, they admitted a few OOS April 16 but the majority of waitlist admits were May 9-16th.

In 2024, they started admitting on May 17th but the SIR deadline was May 15th that year.

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