Very difficult to get in-state residency since an OOS student needs to show they are independent and cannot have help from their parents. You have to live here 366 days prior to the residency determination showing how you live independently and as stated by @siclocusest stated, you need to show you plan to live here permanently. You cannnot attend any school during that 1 year period or the schools will consider that you moved here for education purposes.
Residency determination is based on where your parents live unless you are over 24 years of age or financially independent.
After checking the Financial Aid Tab, I noticed that I got the Trident Coastal Scholarship. So far I haven’t seen anyone talk about this. The scholarship gives me $5000. I am assuming this is a lump sum scholarship and not $5000 yearly. Does anyone have any information on what this scholarship is, how many people get it, etc?
@erinthefatcat: Each year it is dependent upon how many students enroll by May 1 and UCSD has no waitlist stats listed on their common dataset so unfortunately no one knows???
UCSD only started using a waitlist in the last few years (2017).
@erinthefatcat My son was waitlisted last year for Electrical Engineering in Revelle and ended up being accepted. He declined as it was “TOO CLOSE TO HOME.” He ended up choosing Cal Poly SLO He was also waitlisted at UCSB and finally REJECTED. That, was painful! Best of luck!
Accepted!
Major: International Business (1st Choice)
Muir College (1st choice)
In State
Hispanic
UC GPA: 4.2
SAT: 1320
I took 1 honors course and 1 AP course junior year
2 APs Senior year
I was on varsity cheer
VP of avid
100+ hours community service
Was not expecting this at all. I’m pretty sure i will be attending UCSB in the fall cause i just got in today!
Essays were definitely one of my strong points
My DS got into Math-Computer Science and Seventh College as well. We really liked the colleges concept in UCSD. Do you know if the classes are also segregated that way (the ones needed for Major) or are the classes by college only for the general requirements ones? I mean classes that he will need to take for his Math and Comp Sci - will those be on some other campus or how are they planned?
No AP, IB, honors courses (not offered) but some dual enrollment courses
3.97 GPA, 33 ACT
Fluent in Spanish; studies French, Italian, Swahili, ASL
Extracurriculars: theatre, ballet, started ASL club, Spanish club, political activism, self-taught cellist/artist
No one from any school in our county has ever been accepted to UCSD and I was the first to be accepted to/attend an Ivy
Congrats to the UCSD c/o 2024
Current TA for chem and precalc
School badminton athlete for 3 years
Student council for school’s unique program, no other leadership
Interned in a chem-related lab
Tutored math as part of a community service
School honors for Math, Science, MUN, Spanish, Performing Arts
Silver award in SASMO 2017 but tbh I don’t think this is a big deal
Side note: I made grammar mistakes on the essay. Always remember to proofread
I didn’t apply to any EA or ED so no other acceptance yet
Rejected from JHU
Waitlisted from UChicago and Georgia tech
Son accepted to Pre-Psych at Warren College he was so excited- did not expect much.
out of state
UW GPA 3.9
SAT 1410 no subject tests
9 AP classes
ECs are typical (pretty good), but most ‘unique’ would be his main passion: volunteering every Sat for 4 hours since the start of his freshman yr (until the day he needs to leave for college) at a refugee resettlement area, tutoring kids who just arrived from various refugee camps and resettled. he rallies communities and fundraised a lot for school supplies etc for these kids. He wrote about it in all college ap essays and PIQs.
other schools:
waitlisted at UGA (head-scratcher), rejected at Emory (expected).
accepted at UCSB (super unexpected as well)
waiting for: UCLA, UCB, UCI
Waitlisted
In-state
1480 SAT 3.8 WGPA
I applied for Econ/ Business Psych
I had pretty strong EC’s (four years in student government, cabinet positions in clubs, 600+ hours of community service, four year varsity golf + two years as captain)
I wasn’t expecting to get in, so this is fine lol.
I was waitlisted at ucsd, and I opted in for the waitlist. I am now trying to opt out of it, but can’t find the place to do that. Does anyone know how?
@rg081602 I got the Trident Coastal Scholarship too, 5k per year. May I know which academic college you got into and for what major? I got in to ECE: Computer Engineering. It may be a scholarship for engineering students specifically, because my friends in other majors received much greater scholarships.
Son was rejected. Not sure why… guess it was very competitive this year. Congrats to all who got in!
This was the first and only rejection so far after many other acceptances.
Major: Physics
SAT: 1520
GPA: 4.35 W, 4.0 UW
Accepted: UC Irvine, UC Santa Barbara, UC Davis, UC Santa Cruz, Cal Poly, CSU Long Beach, San Jose State, CSU Chico
Waitlist: UCLA
Rejected: UC San Diego
Awaiting: UC Berkeley
I got accepted as a General Biology major in Muir (first choice)!
in-state
1120 SAT
4.2 gpa (w) 3.9 (UW)
Varsity tennis 4 years, VP of interact club, 4 years csf, 200+ hrs community service, completed my general ed at community college
I was honestly surprised that I got in, mainly because my SAT score is low. I think my essay however really strengthened my application.
Rejected from UCLA, SDSU
Accepted:UCD, UCSD, UCSB, UCM, CSULB, CSUF, Cal Poly SLO
