What kind of facts did they share?
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The 2 that I remember that were applicable to my S25: They mentioned that 60% of the students have some kind of research experience on their resume. There is also Technology Management within the engineering college for engineering students and much of the graduates were pretty successful in entrepreneurship.
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Congratulations! did they mention how many are accepted for Chancellor, and how many were Regents?
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They didn’t discuss it in the formal presentation, but I heard someone from admissions tell a parent that about 2% of applicants got Regents. He didn’t give a number for the % who got Chancellor’s invites.
Can back up the 60% figure, in engineering it’s even higher in my experience. Research is one of UCSB’s strengths.
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Usually only like ~500 or so Regents per year, most are engineers/CS
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The portal is closed, but the message states two different times it will open for decisions. One says 3:00 PM and the other says 3:30. Which one is the planned release?
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Oh no, they don’t have a poem this year! They usually have an admissions-related haiku that they post on the page.
UCSB closes the portal to prevent any kind of portal astrology, which imo is a good move.
I got my decision a little earlier than 3:00 PM back in 2022.
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Last year they said 3p or 3:30p, I don’t remember which, and then released them by 2:30p. So it wasn’t right at the designated time.
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Might be a little conspiratorial but the UCSB CS Department released their course listings for the upcoming school year. looks like CMPSC 16 is scheduled for double capacity for the next year, 300 students per quarter compared to the normal 150.
UCSB CS uses CMPSC 16 as a way to limit enrollment into the CS major as it’s a prerequisite for all the other CS classes (they give registration priority to admitted CS/CE/EE students)
Perhaps they’re planning on admitting more CS/CE students this quarter? I know from talking to department staff that the ECE department wants to increase enrollment over time.
Additionally CMPSC 24 is also double capacity this year, so we’re either going to see more CS majors or we’re going to have a LOT more data science majors switch to CS.
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Don’t remember you saying that when you were applying!
Lolllll hindsight is 20/20…
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Wow, thats so cool! Is it okay if I message you so I can ask some questions?
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“weakness.” I’m sitting here with 12-13 Bs, 10 APs, and Berekely Regents 
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Wish that was the case for me! Sadly I applied EECS to Berkeley, never stood a chance. But I’m glad I went to UCSB, I love it here. Worth noting that the only UCSB admissions index I didn’t get a full score in was the one for engineering GPA
They announced that regents were top 2% of admits. I asked the host afterwards about the rest of the chancellor invites and she said roughly top 3% of admits
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What was your GPA unweighted and weighted?
For reference, my UC Capped GPA was a 4.27, uncapped GPA was 4.55
Funny thing was that for UCSB the admissions counselor told me I was an auto-admit, they didn’t even assign a second reader to my application LOL
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you will end up where you are meant to be, trust.