How many waitlisted at ucla

Fingers crossed! Lmk if anyone has any advice or experience with this. Hi there. My daughter submitted a letter for the wait list right away. She said she noticed she can edit it until April 15 and realized she wants to add something to it. Or is it too late once she submitted it, in that they may not see her updated letter? Thank you so much for all your help! All Rights Reserved. Discussion thread for discussing waitlist decisions. Oh yes we do! And what did the UC schools leave off the list that can make all the difference for a waitlisted candidate?

A Letter of Enthusiasm of course! You see, most highly selective colleges are never going to tell waitlisted candidates that they need to show their love to the institution.

But of course they do. You are permitted to use www. The economy is improving, but should it take a turn for the worse and students leave school, that, too, could affect waitlist action. Is the economy strong enough? Who knows? But I do feel confident that we will meet our enrollment goal. But being a member of the waitlist pool can be disheartening. Anika, for instance, has committed to Irvine but is hoping to get off the waitlist at Davis, her top choice because of the green campus environment, highly rated medical school and rich variety of classes that fit her plans for a psychology major.

She regards Santa Barbara as the best fit because it offers an elementary education program perfectly suited to her career goals. She always expected to go to a UC school, she said, with the prestige, the connections, the independence of living in student housing away from home. Accepted students are in the power position this month as competitive colleges try to impress them to say yes in a year of record applications to the University of California and other elite schools.

I feel a greater worth at a school that accepted me, like they value you. For high school teachers and counselors, such stories are becoming more common every year as competition for UC seats intensifies. Sadly, April has become depression month for us now because they get all these rejections.

Cyndy McDonald, a Central Valley independent college counselor, said waitlisted students need to face the fact that chances of a UC admission offer are generally low. The dismay among such students pains UC admission directors, who say that they wait-list only excellent applicants who can succeed at the rigorous public research university, but that state funding controls enrollment sizes.

Unlike some private colleges, UC does not rank waitlisted students nor take their ability to pay into account when offering them admission.

At UC Davis, for instance, half or more of students wait-listed for religious studies, mathematics, and animal science and management were offered admission last year, a significant increase over Only 1 in 5 students was admitted into some of the most popular majors — managerial economics, computer science and psychology, for instance.

Please enter the email address for your account. A verification code will be sent to you. Once you have received the verification code, you will be able to choose a new password for your account. Our sample of waitlist statistics from private and public institutions paints the following picture: On average, 17 percent of students accepting a place on a waitlist were admitted 58 percent of the schools admitted 10 percent or less of the students accepting a place on the wait list last year 41 percent of the schools admitted 5 percent or less 12 percent admitted no one There are several factors driving the low rates, including the size of the waitlist often very large , and how well a school anticipates its admissions yield.