I was waitlisted but have gotten into other schools that are much higher including Northwestern and Vanderbilt. I am just a little confused exactly how they do their decision process
Son accepted - Psychology
OOS
3.4 / 3.6 weighted
33 ACT
no EC’s, no volunteer hours really
pretty solid essays
Accepted: UCSD, UCSC, USF, Cal Poly, CU Boulder, SDSU
Denied: UCSB
got an email late Saturday night.
Does anyone else, when you log into the portal, have a banner that says “You Are In!” and then has a little “Scan Me” icon in the bottom right corner? Probably the same for everyone
@court16 Did you get in? Everyone who got in should have that
@j678jgpo Her GPA is not that great. And BioMed Eng is super competitive at UCSD. Many kids in her school got in (range of hundreds) but very few engineering majors.
Wow. Psychology must be a lot less competitive than any other major - didn’t expect anybody with 3.4 GPA would get into UCSD. Congrats!
@BcUcIDK Congratulations!!! Having priority enrollment will make things so much easier. You will be more likely to get the courses you need with the professors with higher ratings. As far as I know there is no housing priority with UCSD Regents. I think you are guaranteed 4 years of housing instead of 2, and you are guaranteed to be in the college you choose.
Do a lot of people get off waitlist for l and s?
I got the Chancellor’s Scholarship. How common is it to get that?
@genesmasher First off, UCSD accepts people into the university, then into the major. Secondly, there may be other factors that caused the 3.4 GPA, and UCSD uses a holistic admission process.
@j678jgpo Yes yes, holistic, I know, lol. I’m sure a whole bunch of kids with 3.8-4.0 GPA that were rejected would love to gain some insight on what was missing in their application! Just saying.
ACT and essays may have pushed him past the 3.8-4.0 applicants. It’s also possible that there was an upward trend of his GPA throughout HS and wrote an essay about that. There may have been disadvantages throughout his life he focused on. Admissions officers eat that stuff up.
@j678jgpo and @mango1980 I found this: http://spaces.ucsd.edu/k-14/overnight/ It’s for select students only (i.e. by invitation)
@enavance huh, guess I’ll be seeing some of y’all new admits then
@genesmasher I’m the mom of the 3.6 (3.4 unweighted) kid who got in - He did have the ‘grew up with a single mom and had to quit sports to take care of his little sister’ thing going on, he had some pretty unique essays… but def no upward trend in grades. His ACT is good (33) but not 36 good… he worked for 4 years ( at a brewery as a busser) so maybe that was helpful? Perhaps He looked like a smart kid with potential who needed a break… He is amazed and delighted but cant quite believe it. I am asking him to decide soon so we can accept one and deny others and give others on the waitlist a shot. BUt I dont feel it was bc of his Psychology major - that feels a little below the belt, IMO.
@montanatocali Congrats to you son! Best of luck to him, wherever he chooses to go!
@montanatocali I didn’t mean to sound hurtful - I honestly have zero idea how competitive Psychology or any other major (beyond engineering) is at UCSD or other schools. Your son sounds like he fully deserves it. Congrats! And ACT 33 is nothing to sneeze at.
My S got waitlisted at UCSD & UCI. He “opted in” to the waitlists but I have no idea what is next - Anyone have any insight as to how this whole waitlist process works?
@DStepler: Your S needs to commit to another school by May 1 since usually waitlist notifications do not start till after the SIR day of May 1. If accepted off the waitlist, then he has the choice of accepting UCSD and/or UCI and forfeiting the original enrollment deposit or declining the waitlist acceptance and staying with the original school.
My advice is get him excited about his other options and if he is lucky enough to get accepted off the waitlist, then just some icing on the cake. Waitlists should be considered soft rejections.