-I ask this just because I’m wondering if they will admit more students this year overall, since they accepted an unusually high amount of students from the waitlist last year.
The yield rate has gone up from low 40%’s the last few years to 50% for 2022 and 52% in 2023. To avoid over enrolling they probably admitted a similar number of students for 2024 and then will use the waitlist to fill in the gaps if they underestimated their enrollment yield.
It all comes down to how many students will end up enrolling by the SIR deadline and with the Financial aid package delays due to FASFA it will be difficult to predict.
My advice to all waitlisted students is you need to move on and love the schools that love you back. The waitlist decisions could go well into the summer so if you happen to be admitted off the waitlist, then it is icing on the cake.
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Ohh okay, that makes sense. One more question: will the fasfa delay be over by May 15th, (like will all of the students have their fasfa by May 15th to commit or deny), or will there be more delays past the 15th?
-thanks again for starting this chain and being so informative. It is very helpful.
Sincerely,
A hopeful waitlisted student
The deadline to file the FASFA was extended to May 2. Some UC’s have stated that complete FA packages may not be available to June or July so it is going to be a tough year for students overall.
Oh no. so waitlist decisions will come out in the later summer?
Here is the waitlist information for 2023 and 2022.
UCLA:
2022: Trickles of admits starting April 30. Waitlist closed on August 19.
2023: Rare waitlist admits on April 21, 2023, April 28, 2023, April 29, April 30. May 6 small wave of admits. More admits May 25, June 16, June 30. Some Denials posted July 15. Rare admit July 29.
do u think the may 15th commitment deadline will be extended even further due to the fasfa delays? If not, what will we do if we want to go to a uc, but don’t receive the aid package until June?
A possible June 1 SIR deadline is being discussed but not yet confirmed. You can run the Net price calculators to get an estimate to determine if the UC’s will be affordable.
https://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/tuition-financial-aid/estimate-your-aid.html
What’s a ballpark on the percentage of colleges outside the UC system that have extended decision dates to May 15? Have most/all of them? That makes a difference to when they’ll know how class size is shaping up as well.
All the CSU’s have extended their SIR deadlines to at least May 15 and some are now June 1. I do not keep track of other colleges but I know several posters have commented that colleges throughout the country of have extended SIR deadlines.
Is the UC system as a whole considering this? And what is the likelihood you see this happening? If it does happen, could waitlisted students hear back even later than expected?
None of this is confirmed but most likely it would be system wide.
Yes, it could set back the waitlist admits even later although UCI has already admitted a small group from the waitlist.
In general, this goes for any year not just this year, all students on any waitlist should consider it a soft rejection and not pin their hopes on getting off the waitlist.
Really?? Was UCI this Friday?
Also, do you know if UCLA admits by major when looking at the waitlist (they don’t when considering initial admits). So if you applied with a less impacted major, are your chances of getting off the waitlist higher let’s say
All the UCLA Colleges except Letters and Sciences admit by major.
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The UCI waitlist admits were Thursday April 18 and limited to Engineering.
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Thank you! Do you expect we could start seeing UCLA waitlist admits sometime this month, even if rare?
No idea. All anyone can do is wait and see.
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Which is great news for waitlisted. With new SAI caculation, lots of students will receive less aid or nothing from UC.
Some T50 private schools have generous financial aid package, I assumed high stats applicants may go for private schools.
So you think waitlist chances could be higher this year due to FAFSA complications?
Yes