UC Santa Cruz Class of 2030 Official Thread

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Decision: Accepted

UC/CSU Capped Weighted GPA: 4.24
Number of a-g courses taken 9-12th: 25
Number of UC approved Honors/AP/IB or DE classes: 1H, 6AP, 3DE

ELC (top9%): yes
Intended Major: Business Management Economics
Instate: California, Santa Clara County

Ok extra curriculars/clubs, some work/entrepreneurial experience, unique volunteering experience over three summers, decent essays.

Other admits: UC Riverside, San Jose State, CSU Fullerton, CSULB, Cal Poly Pomona, Purdue, Umass Amherst, Ohio State, ASU, Oregon State

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Decision: Accepted

Merit scholarships awarded (if any): None

Major (and division if applicable) applied to: Community 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

Wailisted: CSULB, UIUC

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Some denials too

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That is unfortunate. Thank you for the updated information since I keep track each year.

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Decision: Accepted

Unweighted/ Weighted GPA: 3.93/ 4.25
Number of AP courses taken: 8
6 years of Science, 5 years of Math

Intended Major: Marine Biology
Instate: California, Alameda County

all year high level soccer, lifeguard, biotech internship, leadership in hs clubs, marine bio summer program at UCSC.

Other admits: University of Miami, Eckerd College, UNC Wilmington (Honors), U of Delaware, U of Oregon, University of Hawaii

Deferred: Northeastern

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S26 accepted for CS

SoCal, competitive hs, 4.0UW, around 4.6 FW

Cheers

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Accepted!

Theatre Arts

In state public HS

Class Rank- 20 out of 250

Top 9% -Yes

Unweighted GPA 4.0

4 Honors courses

8 AP

AP span 5 AP bio IP AP Calc BC 5 AP Eng Lang 5 AP Eng Lit IP APUSH 5 AP Gov IP AP Stats IP

EC dance technique training (8years) ton of youth theatre (8years) jv & varsity dance team, high school theater , theater tech volunteer, Girl Scout camp program aide, choir recitals and choir festivals, honor choir participant (4 years)

A-G Coursework

5 levels Spanish- 1,2,3,4 AP Span

4 courses in science-Biology, Chemistry, Physics & AP Bio

Math- Integrated program for Algebra/Trigonometry/Geometry/PreCalc Honors
AP Calculus BC, AP Statistics

4 courses of English- Eng 9, Eng 10 Honors, AP Lang, AP Lit

3 courses history/social science- World History Honors, AP US History, AP Gov/Econ Honors

7 fine or performing arts-Choirs, Ceramics, Digital Media Arts

Go Slugs!!!

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D26 Accepted for Poli Sci! :tada:

UW GPA: 3.79 Fully Weighted GPA : 4.2 Weighted and capped GPA 4.13

APs & HP : 10 - scores (5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 4 and four more are this year)

Comments about course load (including senior year): Number of a-g courses: 25 (including 6 years of math, 5 years English, 4 years Social Studies)

ECs : Editor in chief of school newspaper, GS Gold award, Swimmer, several others (Model UN etc etc), part of school’s highly selective Comp Civics team that is going to the Nationals

Top 9% : don’t know - very high acheving public school & they don’t give us this info

Instate, Alameda county

Other admits : UC Riverside, CSULB, SJSU, CSU Northridge, Univ of Oregon’s Clarks Honors College.

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UC Santa Cruz Class of 2030 Results Form:

This form is for tracking decision results, so it’s all centralized for future students. If you could fill this out once you get your decision, that would be very appreciated!

You can see all other people’s individual responses in the links above, along with overall form statistics (such as what percent got accepted).

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Just curious if there is anyone who did not receive a decision yesterday? It doesn’t seem like UCSC did “waves” this year as in the past and everyone got a decision yesterday. Their Insta post also just says “Dear applicants…decisions are out!” with no reference to there being more to come (like last year’s Insta posts).

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I did see on other sites that there were some applicants that did not receive a decision yesterday. Usually UCSC will send out an email stating when the rest of the decisions will be posted. Last year the email went out March 3 stating all decisions will be posted by March 20 and the next wave was March 7.

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Accepted for CS yesterday!

In state, public

ELC

UC GPAs: 4.0 uw/4.8 w/4.36 capped

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Accepted for Chemistry!

In-state, public, Bay Area

Top 9% Statewide

UC GPAs: 3.7 uw/4.27w/3.97 capped

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S26 Accepted

Intended major: Physics (Astrophysics)

UC UW/ CappedW/ Fully W GPA: 3.75 / 4.08 / 4.17
Number of a-g courses taken 9-12th: 22
Number of UC approved Honors/AP/IB or DE classes: 7 AP, 1 DE

Location: SF Bay area

First Gen?: No

Accepted: UCR, CP Pomona, SJSU, SFSU

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Congratulations. Cal poly SLO has not posted decisions yet. Typo? I saw you posted an acceptance for Cal Poly Pomona on that discussion thread.

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Yep Typo. CP Pomona is the correct one. Sorry for the fake news!

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Has anyone heard about merit or financial aid package yet?

Edited to add: child received an email today for an accepted student “special reception” in the Los Angeles area - does that go to everyone or is it like UCSB and there may be merit tied to it? Thanks for any insight!

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Several posts on Reddit about the Dean’s scholarship notification for Non-CA residents today.

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