I wanted to add what my son’s UC weighted GPA would be if weight were given to Honors classes for OOS students.
UC Unweighted: 3.85
UC Weighted (with AP only): 3.95 (2 APs senior year)
UC Weighted and Capped (including Honors): 4.24
The UC website says they do not weight honors for the minimum OOS requirement of 3.4 GPA, but campuses may use honors weight as part of the comprehensive review process. I think it’s important to include here if some schools are considering these stats.
Are people getting decisions today as well?
No decisions today. Based on past years, probably around March 15 for the rest of the decisions but no date is confirmed.
So 20th March it is.
Email that I got
"
Thank you for your patience! We will release your admission status no later
than March 20, so now is a good time to get ready to view your status on the
MyUCSC portal by logging in and making sure that your UCSC CruzID and
CruzID Gold Password work. On the decision release date, you will be able to
view your decision according to the first letter of your last name
(all times are Pacific Time):
A - C beginning at 12:00 p.m. (noon)
D - G beginning at 1:00 p.m.
H - K beginning at 2:00 p.m.
L - N beginning at 3:00 p.m.
O - S beginning at 4:00 p.m.
T - Z beginning at 5:00 p.m.
"
I believe they posted the same date last year and they posted the decisions on March 15.
It does say no later than March 20
do they send separate email on that day?
The portal updates first and usually followed by an email. Not everyone stated last year they got an email.
How many of you got this email ? Is it general email for all ? Or only selected students received this ? Just curious…
Thank you for your patience! We will release your admission status no later than March 20, so now is a good time to get ready to view your status on the MyUCSC portal by logging in and making sure that your UCSC CruzID and CruzID Gold Password work. On the decision release date, you will be able to view your decision according to the first letter of your last name (all times are Pacific Time):
A - C beginning at 12:00 p.m. (noon)
D - G beginning at 1:00 p.m.
H - K beginning at 2:00 p.m.
L - N beginning at 3:00 p.m.
O - S beginning at 4:00 p.m.
T - Z beginning at 5:00 p.m.
We got it
I think everyone not yet gotten the decision got this email
A bit late in posting.
Son accepted 2/29
Business Management Economics
3.9 UW, 4.4W (not sure of UC capped gpa)
7 APs, 5 Honors, 3 CC summer classes, AP Scholar
ECs- 3 yrs varsity soccer, mostly community service volunteer, work.
Accepted: USD, Pepperdine, LMU, Santa Clara, IU Bloomington (waiting for Kelley), UIUC Geis, UO Lundquist, UCR
Deferred:USC
Rejected: UT Austin
Waiting for other UCs and OOS privates
My niece got in on February 29
Film and Digital Media
4.01 weighted 3.7 unweighted
4 APs 2 honors - focused on Broadcasting since 7th grade
ECs - Lacrosse, Broadcasting anchor, community service, work experience
Accepted: Boise State, ASU Walter Cronkite School of Journalism. Waiting on SDSU, Cal Poly SLO, UCSB
My Daughter was early accepted at UCSC on February 29th. Biology.
4.18 GPA weighted after Junior year.
2 AP courses - Statistics and Psychology. Was in the Engineering academy for 2 years and took a host of Honors classes before the school dropped all honors classes.
Top 9%
Competitive and Sideline cheer National champions. Womens Club. National Honor Society. Extensive Community work.
Waitlisted UCD Biological Sciences
In at Fullerton, San Jose State, Sac State and Monterey.
Waiting on SLO, SDSU, UCSD and UCLA
Does anyone know if the UCSC early decisions on Feb 29 were based on merit/strength of application or some sort of random lottery? One of my friends who received it early was rejected from both Irvine and Davis while I got into both, while not receiving the UCSC Early Decision
It’s really a good question. My son got in early to UCSC whereas one of his best buds with really high stats did not get in early. Although my kid definitely has some interesting ECs and his PIQs were excellent, imho. That being said, my son was rejected from UCD and UCI but his friend was just accepted to both schools. (Totally different majors, btw). If its random why issue early acceptances at all when you know 2 weeks later you will issue the remaining decisions?? I’m not sure why but we are grateful, definitely helped heal the sting of last Friday.
Prior to last year, Early admits were mainly top applicants, honors college invitees and scholarship recipients.
Last year and this year seems to be more random. UCSC may just want to lock in a certain percentage of applicants early before the rest of the UC’s post decisions.
I have been following UC admissions for many years and found they like to change up every once in a while.
My daughter got in early, was accepted to Davis but rejected at Irvine. She has a friend with less rigor who got into Davis and Irvine but has not heard from UCSC. So it does seem random but perhaps choice of major plays a part.
I am not sure if I understand the goal of releasing some of the admission decisions early. Is the school hoping to learn something from the reaction they get? Will it inform any admission decision that is not released yet? Say if a subset of the released admitted students commit right away, would they admit less students in the second batch?
It is possible. As I stated, the early admits several years ago were top applicants and scholarship recipients similar to UCB early admits and UCSB Chancellor reception invites. Not sure about the rationale now?
One potential explanation I have is A/B testing to learn what decision date results in better outcomes for the school. So no impact for this year but informing the decision date for upcoming years?