Thank you, good news here is it’s not even close to USC sticker.
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Son accepted!
Major: Art and architecture
UC Unweighted GPA: 4.0
Not sure about weighted/capped
ELC (top 9% CA HS): yes
Comments about course load (including senior year): 5 AP’s, 5 DE, lots of honors
SUBJECTIVE::
Extracurriculars: 4 years ASB, 4 yr varsity sport, team captain, community service group, officer
Job/Work Experience: part time job
DEMOGRAPHICS
in state- so cal
Other acceptances/waitlists/denials:
Accepted: SLO, SDSU (early), CSUSM, U of A, UCSC
Still waiting: UCB
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How does it work with the alternate majors? Do the admissions people really give the application a hard second look through that alternate lens before deciding to waitlist or deny? How do they decide between waitlisting someone for the primary major versus admitting that student for the alternate major? @lkg4answers @Gumbymom
I wonder the same. Some say that their acceptance letter says CCS decision to come. My daughter’s doesn’t. Strange.
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Decision: Accepted
Merit scholarships awarded (if any):
Major (and division if applicable) applied to: Physiology (Pre-Biology)
ACADEMIC STATS::
UC Unweighted GPA: I don’t know these off hand. D24 has 4.0 UW GPA and 4.3 W GPA
UC Fully Weighted GPA:
ELC (top 9% CA HS): Yes
Comments about course load (including senior year): 7 courses
AP courses/exams (scores in parentheses): 9 APs (5/4s so far)
SUBJECTIVE::
Extracurriculars: Theater (4 years - main roles), 3 year varsity LAX player, lots of volunteering, pre-college course at Northwestern, Camp counselor (work), intern at dentist office (she wants to be a dentist)
Personal Insight essays (general details/topics): I haven’t read them
Supplemental/Augmented Review: No
DEMOGRAPHICS::
State/location of HS (if domestic applicant): CA, SF Peninsula public HS
Country (if international applicant):
Applied for need-based financial aid? No
First Generation? No
Other acceptances/waitlists/denials
Acceptances: Northeastern, Wisconsin, University of Washington, CU Boulder, SDSU, Ohio State
Deferred: USC, Michigan
Waitlists: UCLA
Rejected: UVA
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The process is algorithmic. I reviewed my admissions file after I enrolled here. There’s a score assigned for a person’s ECs/Essays and grades, etc. There’s specific cutoffs for each major based on demand (number of applicants) and expected yield, etc.
^^ this is for engineering, L&S doesn’t have admit by major
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What were the 2 majors listed? College of Engineering and CCS are the only 2 schools that consider alternate majors. For both if the primary major is listed as an Engineering or CCS major, the alternate major needs to be in the College of L&S to be considered.
Thanks for the update. When my daughter looks further into her portal, it shows her major as Physics Creative Studies, but the letter says that because she applied CCS, she will be contacted by them directly to let her know if she was accepted. I guess she will wait for verification. Congrats to all accepted!
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My daughter applied CCS Physics first choice and L&S Physics second choice. In the letter, It gives a link if she needs to change major if she is not accepted to CCS, but in the portal it shows her accepted major as CCS Physics. It’s a bit confusing, but I’m sure it will all become clear in the next couple of days
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OOS rejected for economics
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D24 accepted
Pre-Psychology and Brain Sciences
WGPA: 4.3
Eagle Scout, Psych intern at major research university for two years, varsity swim team 3 years, yearbook, lifeguard
Demographics: OOS
Other acceptances: UCSD, Skidmore, Cal Poly SLO, U of Texas Austin, UC Boulder, U. of Oregon Clark Honors, UC Davis, Reed
Waitlist: U. of Washington
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S24 denied ME /engineering but accepted in college of Letters and Science as undeclared
UW gpa 4.0 UC W 4.36 
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@BeachMomOf2 I’m not sure where you live or what the major is but my older son was rejected from UCSB in 2021 and he was devastated. He is from California and is a business major. He is at CU Boulder at Leeds (business) and he is living his best life and so happy. In retrospect he wouldn’t be getting as good of a business education at UCSB since they don’t have business (Only accounting and Econ). He is very happy and it all worked out. Just trying to provide some hope
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You need to be admitted before CCS will notify you - if I remember correctly last year our daughter received word within a few days of the acceptance to UCSB.
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FINALLY ACCEPTED!!! I think my user name manifested this!!
Political Science
UW: 4.0, capped W: 4.3
APs: 7 plus 3 semesters of dual enrollment
ELC (top 9%): Yes
Work experience including leadership since 14, 4 years sport(1 year captain), volunteer board member on teen YMCA board(interview only); officer on key club 2 years
Demographics: In state, bay area, public HS
Other acceptances: OSU(honors, WUE), UofA(honors, top merit), SDSU(early, invite to honors), Rutgers, Cal Poly Pomona(invite to honors), UCRiverside(invite to honors), CSULongbeach, LMU(invite to honors)
Waitlist: (IF YOU CAN BELIEVE IT) UCDavis, UCIrvine, UCSD, and UCLA… The last 10 days has been rough Y’all! Felt like always a bridesmaid, never a bride!
Declined: Tulane(no demonstrated interest) and USC(deferred and didn’t continue)
Waiting on: Cal Poly SLO(not looking good), Cal
Grateful she finally got an accept and she is over the moon. All these kids work so hard for 4 years and the UC/top CSU admission process is BRUTAL. Hang in there parents!
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Primary - CS / College of Engineering
Alternate - Pre-Film & Media / College of Letters & Science
Congrats! No need for an SDSU get together. 
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D Accepted
College of L&S
UC capped 4.21
UC uncapped 4.79
In state
No financial aid
No first generation
Tons of community hours
Officer for multiple school clubs
Paid part time job
Accepted: SLO UCR UCD UCI UCSD UCLA
Waiting for decision: UCB
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I will still be having my FAT margarita on 4/13, but it will be by the Santa Barbara beach instead of the San Diego one. I will TAKE it!! Man, the last 10 days has been so tough. Hope yours lands where they are suppose to. Good luck!
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