Good luck to him. I wish him the best.
UIUC OOS CS acceptance rate is something abysmally small.
Agree and going in we knew it was a reach.
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We can’t attend admitted student day (spring break). Thoughts? Should we schedule a private tour?
Even though all of the tours for prospective students show that they are booked for next week (which is spring break for us) I emailed them and asked if we couldn’t get on a tour (I proposed a specific day but left the time open). They got back to me the next and added us to one of the afternoon tours. I know it won’t be the same as the Admit Day though but better than nothing.
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Thank you. Who did you email? Would you mind sharing?
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I emailed: visits@ucsc.edu. Just explained the situation and pleaded to be put on one of the tours. Good Luck!
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My S24 got an email today from UCSC:
On behalf of the University of California Regents and President Michael Drake, I am pleased to inform you that you have been selected to receive a Regents Scholarship at UC Santa Cruz. This scholarship is the most distinguished recognition that may be accorded to an undergraduate student at the University of California. Your notable academic achievements and other accomplishments have placed you among the top first-year students admitted to UC Santa Cruz. Our faculty has confidence in your ability to undertake and complete with distinction a rigorous course of study at the University.
As a Regents Scholar, you are eligible to receive $20,000 paid over four years ($5,000 annually), priority enrollment and special consideration for University housing placement (subject to change pending housing provisions for health and safety).
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Wow! Congratulations!
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Reposting his stats, for reference:
Major (and division if applicable) applied to: Computer Science
ACADEMIC STATS::
UC Unweighted GPA: 4.0
UC Capped Weighted GPA: 4.36
UC Fully Weighted GPA: 4.64
ELC (top 9% CA HS): Yes
Comments about course load (including senior year):
Number of a-g courses:
Number of UC Approved Honors courses: 4 (in 10th and 11th grade)
AP courses/exams (scores in parentheses): 6 (in 11th and 12th grade)
IB courses/exams (score in parentheses):
DE courses:
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): 4 wins in high-school and college-level level hackathons
SUBJECTIVE::
Extracurriculars: Attended hackathons (attended around 15 of them), UCIrvine GATI program college credits for Research during summer of 11th grade.
Job/Work Experience: Internship at AI startup
Volunteer/Community service: Hackathon organizing, some volunteer work at animal shelters, etc
Summer Activities:
Personal Insight essays (general details/topics): Personal hardship, leadership, art interest, online schooling.
Supplemental/Augmented Review: No
DEMOGRAPHICS::
State/location of HS (if domestic applicant): Northern California
Country (if international applicant):
Applied for need-based financial aid? Yes
First Generation? No
Other results:
Declined:
UCSD, UCLA, UCSB.
Waitlisted at:
UC Irvine
UC Davis
Accepted to:
UC Santa Cruz
UC Riverside
UC Merced ($2K per year Merit scholarship)
U Minnesota Twin Cities (15K per year merit scholarship)
Penn State U
Arizona State U (16K per year merit scholarship)
CSU - Long Beach
CSU - SJSU
Cal Poly - Pomona
CSU - SDSU
CSU - LA
CSU - Fullerton
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A deserving award for all your son’s efforts.
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Thanks lkg4answers and Mini123. Unfortunately, this confuses matters even more. My son now says he wants to take a gap year before college starts, and UC Santa Cruz doesn’t give an year off before enrollment unless there is a compelling reason (like health issues or military service). So we’re still debating about this.
I guess we could apply again next year, but we don’t know if we’ll get this scholarship next year, or even admission, for that matter.
Congratulations!!!
Just an FYI about UCSC. This was posted on the UCSD discussion thread this admission cycle and seems timely to your situation.
It’s a weird world.
Son accepted to UCLA , waitlisted at UCSD , rejected by UCSC .
As an aside, last year he was accepted to UCSC with a scholarship and an invitation to college scholars program but he decided to take a gap year. Nothing really changed on his application.
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Thanks for the info.
Now that IS weird!
I guess the admissions officials at UCSC took it personally when he spurned their offer of a scholarship. j/k.
We don’t know what goes into their calculations. A roll of dice, or a coin toss, perhaps?
I just found it interesting that nothing changed and the student wasn’t even waitlisted. So I understand the concern about the gap year, unfortunately something else to add to the confusion. Best of luck to him in whatever he decides.
Congrats. My son got the Regents scholarship today as well for comp sci. Wondering if it’s worth it over UC Irvine…
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Congratulations to your son as well. Apparently the Regents scholarship comes with “special consideration for University housing placement (subject to change pending housing provisions for health and safety).” More than the money, this is the best part, given the housing problems for students at UCSC.
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In addition to a monetary award, scholars receive priority enrollment and priority University housing placement, provided all housing requirements and deadlines are met.
Priority enrollment is a huge benefit.
UCSC is changing to a lottery system for housing. That said, they have not taken down the statement that Regents Scholars get priority housing. It might be something to clarify with UCSC.
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Yes there is no indication of any priority for Regents scholars in the sophomore housing lottery (and we were told specifically that it is random):
https://housing.ucsc.edu/continuing/index.html
To quote: “This lottery process will give all eligible continuing students an equal chance to participate in the housing lottery”. Only RAs, disabled students with accommodations and themed communities get priority (and none of those themes are academically based).
On class registration, UCSC is very good at creating more space in required courses. S23 had some nervous moments with classes being full, but they’ve all been resolved quickly and easily with more spaces freed up.
Thanks. I saw your post about it up thread and thought UCSC would have updated their Regents webpage by now.
If one of the new Regents scholars can ask and report back, that would be helpful.
Are Regents part of the College Scholars Program at UCSC? It was updated in January to say:
Between 20 and 25 students are housed in close proximity in each college and together participate in an enriched program of study designed to prepare them to take advantage of opportunities for undergraduate research at the upper division.