March Acceptances!... Come on in

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anyone know when Berkeley will come out?

March 28! Best of luck.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone know when Berkeley will come out?

March 28! Best of luck.

Thanks. That’s the last one for my kid. Hopkins is Wednesday 3/20 I read somewhere…


Not expecting a yes from either but I think my son is not ready to start deciding among his yeses til the bitter end.

[Anonymous]

Kid rejected from UCLA, but in at UCSD, UCI, and UC Davis.

Waiting on Berkeley and UCSB. Funnily enough, Santa Barbara and Berkeley are their top two choices. So we will see what happens. Otherwise, my kid has UC Irvine as third choice so we are ecstatic that they got in!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kid rejected from UCLA, but in at UCSD, UCI, and UC Davis.

Waiting on Berkeley and UCSB. Funnily enough, Santa Barbara and Berkeley are their top two choices. So we will see what happens. Otherwise, my kid has UC Irvine as third choice so we are ecstatic that they got in!

Congrats! No small feat getting into any of the UCs, but especially one in the first tier and two in the second tier.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kid rejected from UCLA, but in at UCSD, UCI, and UC Davis.

Waiting on Berkeley and UCSB. Funnily enough, Santa Barbara and Berkeley are their top two choices. So we will see what happens. Otherwise, my kid has UC Irvine as third choice so we are ecstatic that they got in!

Congrats! No small feat getting into any of the UCs, but especially one in the first tier and two in the second tier.

Thank you so much Which one is first tier? I'm assuming you mean UCSD but I always thought 1st tier: UCB, UCLA and 2nd tier: UCSD, UCSB, UCI, UCD

UC tiers are confusing to me as UCSD, UCSB, UCI, UCD jump around a lot

[Anonymous]

WL'd at Pomona.

I know this thread is for acceptances, but Pomona is so hard that we're treating a WL as a win. (I'm cautiously pessimistic about DC being accepted off the waitlist--it's unlikely but reasonably possible.)

[Anonymous]

Good luck-Pomona seems Uber popular on this board this year!! Word is getting out!

[Anonymous]

In at Scripps! Aid info to come within a day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In at Scripps! Aid info to come within a day.

Congratulations! The most beautiful campus

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kid rejected from UCLA, but in at UCSD, UCI, and UC Davis.

Waiting on Berkeley and UCSB. Funnily enough, Santa Barbara and Berkeley are their top two choices. So we will see what happens. Otherwise, my kid has UC Irvine as third choice so we are ecstatic that they got in!

Congrats! No small feat getting into any of the UCs, but especially one in the first tier and two in the second tier.

Thank you so much Which one is first tier? I'm assuming you mean UCSD but I always thought 1st tier: UCB, UCLA and 2nd tier: UCSD, UCSB, UCI, UCD

UC tiers are confusing to me as UCSD, UCSB, UCI, UCD jump around a lot

I’ve understood it as …

Tier 1: UC Berkeley, UCLA, UCSD
Tier 2: UCSB, UC Davis, UCI
Tier 3: UC Santa Cruz, UC Riverside, UC Merced

However, I think it can be argued that it’s more like this over the past 10 years …

Tier 1: UCLA, UC Berkeley
Tier 2: UCSD, UCI, UCSB, UC Davis
Tier 3 Unchanged

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UCLA, baby! In state …

Please share stats! 🙏🏻

Parent of in state junior with eyes on UCLA…

Unfortunately, the UC system will remain a perplexing lottery system until standardized testing returns as part of their calculus, but for now:

3.85 - 3.88 unweighted / 4.38 - 4.42 weighted / capped, weighted UC GPA was on the low end for UCLA - I think ~ 4.12 (grade 10 - 11)
14 AP classes (score of 5 on all AP tests taken through last May)
6 honors classes (but only one is UC weighted)
1600 SAT (test blind, so that didn't factor into it)
4-year varsity team sport, CIF champion, team captain
Multiple research ECs that perfectly align with lived experiences and intended major
Multiple school club ECS (1-2 with leadership roles) that mostly align with intended major
Multiple volunteer ECs
PIQs were pretty good

At the end of the day, there's little rhyme or reason that I can see in the UC decisions. It's truly a lottery, at least from my perspective. It's also a risky strategy to "lock on" to a particular UC in the first tier (Berkeley, UCLA, UCSD) when those schools are receiving around 400,000 applications for maybe 20,000 freshman seats. That said, good luck to your junior!

With that SAT score, I assume a ton of rigor! Did your child take many DE classes over summer or during the year?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UCLA, baby! In state …

Please share stats! 🙏🏻

Parent of in state junior with eyes on UCLA…

Unfortunately, the UC system will remain a perplexing lottery system until standardized testing returns as part of their calculus, but for now:

3.85 - 3.88 unweighted / 4.38 - 4.42 weighted / capped, weighted UC GPA was on the low end for UCLA - I think ~ 4.12 (grade 10 - 11)
14 AP classes (score of 5 on all AP tests taken through last May)
6 honors classes (but only one is UC weighted)
1600 SAT (test blind, so that didn't factor into it)
4-year varsity team sport, CIF champion, team captain
Multiple research ECs that perfectly align with lived experiences and intended major
Multiple school club ECS (1-2 with leadership roles) that mostly align with intended major
Multiple volunteer ECs
PIQs were pretty good

At the end of the day, there's little rhyme or reason that I can see in the UC decisions. It's truly a lottery, at least from my perspective. It's also a risky strategy to "lock on" to a particular UC in the first tier (Berkeley, UCLA, UCSD) when those schools are receiving around 400,000 applications for maybe 20,000 freshman seats. That said, good luck to your junior!

With that SAT score, I assume a ton of rigor! Did your child take many DE classes over summer or during the year?

No DE classes - 14 AP classes, the 6 honors classes, and that’s it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:WL'd at Pomona.

I know this thread is for acceptances, but Pomona is so hard that we're treating a WL as a win. (I'm cautiously pessimistic about DC being accepted off the waitlist--it's unlikely but reasonably possible.)

My kid might be declining if no price reduction comes through.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:In at MIT! We are ecstatic and going absolutely bonkers! We did not expect DS to get in!!!

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🤩 wow!! Amazing! !

Congrats! Stats?

[Anonymous]

IN to Wesleyan!