<p>[ b]Objective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] SAT I (breakdown):2050 (680 M 630 CR 740 W 9 essay)
[ *] ACT: 33 (35M 35E 34S 28R 10 Essay) (34 Superscore with 33R from another test date)
[ *] SAT II: Math II 760 US HIST 730 Chem 770 PHYS 650 (didnt send physics score)
[ *] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0):3.75
[ *] UC GPA:3.8 UW 4.5 W
[ *] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 63/708
[ *] ELC?:yes
[ *] AP (place score in parenthesis):Calc AB sub 4 Calc BC 3 APUSH 4 Chem 4 WHAP 3 AP Lang 2
[ *] IB (place score in parenthesis): IB Chem SL 3
[ *] Senior Year Course Load:IB Hist of the Americas, IB Biology HL2, IB Math SL, IB art SL, IB spanish SL, IB Language Arts HL2
[ *] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):none
[ /list][ b]Subjective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):few clubs (key club, Interact, CSF) was a bit sketchy at my school though, Varsity Water Polo, Varsity Swim (not all four years)
[ *] Job/Work Experience:none
[ *] Volunteer/Community service: Kaiser Permanente Riverside Hospital (300+ hours), Corona Public Library (50 hours), several hours here and there with community events
[ *] Personal Statement: Good I guess (wrote about social anxiety and how i began to overcome it)
[ *] Applied for Financial Aid?:yes
[ *] Intended Major:Biomedical Engineering Pre-med
[ *] State (if domestic applicant):CA
[ *] Country (if international applicant):
[ *] School Type:Henry Samueli School of Engineering
[ *] Ethnicity:Korean
[ *] Gender:Male
[ *] Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.):none
[ *] Strengths:ACT score, volunteering, personal statement
[ *] Weaknesses:SAT score, extracurriculars, class rank
[ *] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected:ACT score, UC gpa, community service
[ /list][ b]General Comments:accepted March 14th
rejected from Northwestern, MIT, Yale-NUS, waitlisted UCSD, accepted UCR
Hoping to get either Amherst or Tufts</p>
<p>Congrats to everyone who got accepted! It’s been a long stressful journey for all of us.
For those who got accepted - it says you must maintain a senior weighted GPA of 3.0… I am beyond terrified because there is a slight chance I will be getting 2 C’s… in AP Gov, and AP Calc AB. Will this get me rescinded? My weighted GPA will be over 3.0 but it looks like I am slacking off, when in reality, I am just struggling with classes I find difficult. :-SS </p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 1630 R: 580 M:510 W: 540
[</em>] ACT:
[<em>] SAT II:
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 2.51
[<em>] UC GPA: 3.36
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 125/380
[<em>] ELC?:
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): 2 on both APUSH and APELang.C
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: 3 AP classes
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Key Club, Leo’s, Class Club, Took 3 college classes and passed all of them with a B or higher
[<em>] Job/Work Experience:
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: 30hrs+
[<em>] Personal Statement: I think it must have been pretty okay if it got me into Irvine.
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
[<em>] Intended Major: Undeclared
[</em>] State (if domestic applicant): California
[<em>] Country (if international applicant):
[</em>] School Type: Public (4 years)
[<em>] Ethnicity: Mexican-American
[</em>] Gender: Female
[<em>] Income Bracket: Less than $15k
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.): First generation
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Personal Essay, volunteering, college classes
[</em>] Weaknesses: Grades, GPA, test scores, GPA, etc.
[li] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Who knows? I still think I owe it all to my personal statement[/li][/ul]General Comments: The best of luck to all of you and make the best out of a bad situation. </p>
<p>I really don’t understand this: my D was rejected from UCI with a much much better stats than what I see on this list for some applicants. She has a SAT of 2180 and a UC GPA of 3.76. And her hook was that she had health issues because of which her 10th grade GPA was less pulling down her average GPA. She got accepted into UCD, UCSB, UCSC and UCR and we think that UCD is better rated than UCI and why would UCI reject her. She evern had got a Supplemental Questionnaire from UCI and inspite of that, they rejected her!
Really upset with the way the admission-officers think and work!!!</p>
<p>@DIBM96 I understand, but I would say thank you to UCI for opening the door to a better opportunity somewhere else. Don’t dwell on this and hopefully your D will find the right school. I think my eyes are wide open on their admission process and for the next two students I have coming down the admission pike, we will be skipping UCI and SLO. </p>
<p>@liveonboca: Thank you! Yeah, I have been consoling my D that it does not mean that she is under qualified for
UCI by any means and that it all depends on what mood these admissions officers are in the day her application was read. Her thought is that economical adversity is given a better treatment than a disability issue and I find that so very unacceptable. If the kid has to battle her health issues and do the best that she can and still can be compared with others in terms of her course load (she has 11 AP courses to her credit and a AP scholar with Distinction), I don’t understand how the admissions officers cannot see that in the big picture. Is GPA everything then? I too am very confused on what I should advise for my second one who is a HS freshmen now.
These so-called Holistic colleges don’t seem to understand the meaning of being Holistic.</p>
<p>More than her, I wanted her to get into UCI due to the proximity that it has to where we live and Davis would be an 8-hr drive now…and my D having had health issues, I would have felt so very comfortable having her stay close to home. Oh well, everything we plan does not work…</p>
<p>I still haven’t heard anything… If it makes a difference i got the supplemental questionnaire about special talents and disabilities… I’m a Hispanic female with a legal guardian on a low fixed income and parents who are drug addicts…
Rejected from: call poly slo, ucsb, ucd
Accepted: fresno state, ucm, csulb, waiting for UCI </p>
<p>@DIBM96 I understand. My son and I selected Irvine because we live in NE Los Angeles and the location, for me, was close, but far away. LOL. Now he is deciding between CSULB, UCR and UCD and I know Davis is far, but only an hour or so by plane and tickets to the Bay Area/Sacramento pretty inexpensive and plentiful. I will be getting a Southwest Air Credit and JetBlue Credit card to start working on some free trips (thanks to a poster here on CC). </p>
<p>I know some of the acceptances and rejections have no rhyme or reason. I saw a big influx of OOS acceptances and low GPA’s so maybe these people are going to be FULL PAYS and others might be part of a school/school or service area connection. Again, we will never know, but UCI turned me off with the rolling admissions and the whole handling of it screams at me that their administration probably sucks with the same inconsistency and vagueness. I see UCSB, UCLA and UCD as handling admissions in a much better, organized and straightforward way. I hope that those schools’ administrations are as efficient and organized as the planning to release decisions. </p>
<p>Maybe you will be coming to Decision Day on April 5 at Davis? Good luck!</p>
<p>Yes, I will be coming to the Decision Day. I will private message you – and we we can try and meet since we are both in So. CA and you never know we can maybe carpool or something like that Which Dept is your son going into? My D is a Psych major.</p>
<p>@lex2761IronHorse: Wishing you all the very best. From what I see, the UCI admission process handling seems to be very lame whereas UCSB and UCR seem to be very well-organized. So hang in there and I am sure you will hear soon…Again, all the very best – and dont worry – motivated students can thrive and do well in any school as long as they have the will power to succeed. </p>
<p>@DIBM96 - Have you considered appealing at UCI…not sure how the process works but if she has health issues and you would like her close to home, filing an appeal does not hurt. Good luck.</p>
<p>Are you serious… What’s up with these admissions???
"Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 1630 R: 580 M:510 W: 540
ACT:
SAT II:
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 2.51
UC GPA: 3.36
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 125/380
ELC?:
AP (place score in parenthesis): 2 on both APUSH and APELang.C
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Course Load: 3 AP classes"</p>
<p>Congrats to all who we’re admitted… S was denied:(
SAT…2190,
UCGPA- 3.8
Ap- calc BC-5, chemistry-5 , history-4
Sat 2- math-800 , chemistry-760
Tons of unique volunteering in the community, lots of ECs…
Got accepted to UCD, UCSB, UCSC and CAlpoly SLo…didn’t quite get the UCI view… </p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 470 Critical Reading, 540 Math, 530 Writing - 1540 Total
[</em>] ACT: 23
[<em>] SAT II: N/A
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.7
[<em>] UC GPA: 3.9
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 18/235
[<em>] ELC?: Yes
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): AP Chemistry, AP Literature
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Chemistry, Economics, AP Literature, Theatre Design, Spanish 3, Trigonometry
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): N/A
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Key Club
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: N/A
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service:
[<em>] Personal Statement: It was really good
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>] Applied for Financial Aid?:
[<em>] Intended Major: Chemistry (will attempt to change to Chemical Engineering)
[</em>] State (if domestic applicant): CA
[<em>] Country (if international applicant): US
[</em>] School Type: Regular public
[<em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[</em>] Gender: Male
[<em>] Income Bracket: $30k
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.): none
[/ul] Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Personal statement, GPA
[</em>] Weaknesses: Test scores, no leadership positions
[li] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Great personal statement[/li][/ul]**General Comments: **Not sure how I got in when I read rejected posts with stats higher than UCI’s average, but yeah I’ll probably submit my SIR soon enough</p>
Just do your best.</p>