#All UCs 🐻🐮🐴🐱🐶🔱🤠🐌 (2023-2024)

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exotic finch
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nah they can accept you undeclared

agile wedge
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i mean take it like this
if they took you for 2nd major and 6th choice college they tried everything to get you in

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and succeeded

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they put the work in to get you

carmine mantle
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True true

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Heard they got more applicants than ucla this year

exotic finch
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nah

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10k less

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they beat berkeley tho

carmine mantle
agile wedge
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that is something

orchid sedge
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bro i have a 4.7 uc weighted and i got flat out rejected at both la and sd

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4.0 uw

orchid sedge
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nope waitlisted

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🤯

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average compsci major experience

shell lark
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yeahh I got rejected sd, la, Irvine wl Davis

shell lark
exotic finch
orchid sedge
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were getting cooked

obtuse scroll
shell lark
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I’m starting to lose hope for sb and Berkeley

carmine mantle
orchid sedge
carmine mantle
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Cs is mad oversaturated

balmy laurel
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yield protection by ucla

tidal gale
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A LOT

carmine mantle
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Yes

obtuse scroll
shell lark
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yeah I had 4.6, varsity sport, clubs and leadership positions, APs and alot of dual and concurrent enrollment classes

carmine mantle
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My first choice was chem Eng but I got my second choice, biochemistry

exotic finch
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didn’t even apply raw cs i applied cse and ce

carmine mantle
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Gonna do more digging into the life at sd before I commit bc it’s my dream school

orchid sedge
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pretty sure la does uncapped no?

gentle wyvern
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Seems like UCs are becoming more and more random

obtuse scroll
carmine mantle
exotic finch
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i hear it was more predictable back then

obtuse scroll
carmine mantle
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After a certain point the process becomes arbitrary, and the sheer volume of people applying means that people have to get lucky with the mood of their readers at the moment of their review

gentle wyvern
carmine mantle
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They’ve probably read so many sob stories

shell lark
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ig luck as not been by my side

carmine mantle
gentle wyvern
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I seriously wished I got into one of the SoCal schools

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I actually can’t believe I’m going back to hood

gentle wyvern
exotic finch
obtuse scroll
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I was hoping for one of the socal ones

orchid sedge
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i need berkeley

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SO BAD

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like

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on my knees

shell lark
carmine mantle
obtuse scroll
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Sd specifically cuz i wasnt gonna go to any of the other ones even if I got in

shell lark
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SB or Berkeley needs to take me

steel matrix
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bro everyone is like “ucla wants the most aps and honors” but almost all my friends who took a double digit amount of APs got waitlisted

carmine mantle
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Campus is spaced out yet comfy, there’s a campus life

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And the college town has a very distinct sense of community and that it has been “lived in”

steel matrix
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i took 11 APs and 3 DEs and got waitlisted that was rlly devastating 💔

carmine mantle
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Ucla is overrated tbh

agile wedge
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green fn'd that shi

steel matrix
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bro it’s perfect it’s an hour from home so i can come home on the weekend and it’s in LA

steel matrix
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granted UCSD is abt 1 hr 30 mins from home

shell lark
exotic finch
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if sb berk slo sdsu or usc don’t take me i’m actually not going to college it seems like meltingsob

carmine mantle
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Not the best for stem but people like to think it is, the reality is that it’s known for humanities and performing arts with the exception that it has a top tier med school

tidal gale
steel matrix
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but ucla is in LA bro i fucking love LA

steel matrix
agile wedge
carmine mantle
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Uc Berkeley and ucla are one in the same even if they like to compete with each other

agile wedge
tidal gale
steel matrix
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only SB and berkeley left

carmine mantle
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Best of luck mate 🙏🙏

agile wedge
tidal gale
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hopin i finish uc strong and make it

steel matrix
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Idrc for SB i already got UCSD human biology

agile wedge
steel matrix
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But berkeley i hope for

carmine mantle
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My last uc to wait for is Berkeley too

tidal gale
agile wedge
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UCSD human bio supremacy

tidal gale
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and like sd>>la whos with me

carmine mantle
steel matrix
shell lark
tidal gale
agile wedge
carmine mantle
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My cousin who goes to ucla ruins it for me because he’s a huge narcissist who lets his biases show whenever he tries to gloat about how ucla is the best

steel matrix
agile wedge
carmine mantle
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I need a better perspective on ucla

tidal gale
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i see nobody in roosevelt tho nek

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like hey are yall there?

shell lark
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What major did u guys apply for ucb?

tidal gale
carmine mantle
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But my top choice was Muir

slim aurora
carmine mantle
shell lark
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I did eecs (I’m cooked)

agile wedge
# carmine mantle I need a better perspective on ucla

as someone whos lived at ucla
the dorms are cramped
the people are cool
the food is great
the architecture in some parts is beautiful and other parts is very aged
a lot of cool people come to do stuff (i saw actual bellingham at UCLA)

carmine mantle
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Might be screwed…

tidal gale
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i put down whatever the app had and saw i got into my third

agile wedge
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it's a great school

carmine mantle
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Good to know

feral timber
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how safe is UCSD

tidal gale
feral timber
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😱

agile wedge
carmine mantle
feral timber
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I dont need my life to end due to a random ass gunfight

agile wedge
tidal gale
feral timber
tidal gale
carmine mantle
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If I have to pick, should I pick Irvine chemical engineering or UCSD biochemistry 🤔 all other things equal

tidal gale
carmine mantle
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20 minute drive from sdsu so there may be a chance that stray frat people might wander and do dangerous stuff

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Small chance of them straying from their habitats though

slim aurora
exotic finch
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it’s a very calm campus

feral timber
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my typa campus

carmine mantle
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My typa campus too

feral timber
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Waking up in the morning with a cuppa coffee and just staring at the ocean

tidal gale
feral timber
exotic finch
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im not their typa student apparently but no worries i personally rather something with a bit more social activity

carmine mantle
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Well this choice is gonna be so hard since the only schools I applied to are so close to my preferences

carmine mantle
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Gonna do more research and soul searching before I commit since I have time

feral timber
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parties n frats?

agile wedge
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unable to live that fantasy

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:(

tidal gale
feral timber
agile wedge
tidal gale
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i see uchic as a huge ahh red flag didnt even bother

tidal gale
feral timber
agile wedge
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of my remaining top schools only northwestern looks like a green flag id take over ucsd w/ no debate

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maybe amherst

tidal gale
feral timber
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lemme go open common app

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It appears that I have applied there

hasty leaf
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Remaining major decisions for me are most ivies + rice and Stanford

Sooo looking like LA ‘28

agile wedge
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tbh i forget i did Amherst College

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i did the essays 3 days after it was due

feral timber
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It's the thought that counts

agile wedge
unkempt drift
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i prolly alr asked this, but is there an accepted ucla discord gc that we can be invited to by any chance?

feral timber
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better late than never

feral timber
agile wedge
agile wedge
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cause i wrote the essays in like 5 hours for most

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maybe berkeley i get a waitlist same for howard

feral timber
unkempt drift
feral timber
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I finsihed my piqs max 5 hrs

agile wedge
feral timber
agile wedge
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rejected anyway

unkempt drift
feral timber
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u gotta get into the flow state with the essays fr

agile wedge
unkempt drift
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they dangled the carrot by deferring me EA and making me do ED2 and then the harsh reject

unkempt drift
agile wedge
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exactly

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i mean no matter what we didnt get particularly what we initially wanted

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but we got something to be proud of

unkempt drift
agile wedge
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thats the interesting part of the college app process

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you start out with something in your head

feral timber
agile wedge
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and over time it morphs

feral timber
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T20 flex fboy

feral timber
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I quite liked writing them

agile wedge
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particularly for me i started out liking berkeley -> figured i wouldnt get any better than alcorn state uni in mississippi -> princeton rea reject -> uchicago ed2 reject -> uc davis accepted -> uc san diego accepted -> ucla reject -> cemented uc san diego

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its like a path

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would be something if i ended off where i started, interested in berkeley

unkempt drift
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makes so much sense to me now

agile wedge
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the farther down you go

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the narrower it gets

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until you get to your destination

unkempt drift
agile wedge
unkempt drift
agile wedge
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i mean likewise i would

unkempt drift
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i don't think it's a very easy change for me tho. ucla is great for humanities, prolly the best out of the bunch

agile wedge
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i see

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i loved ucla while i was there but i dont wanna remain in LA

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that was my main reason for why id take berkeley if i was blessed with the opportunity to choose

tough lark
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Berkeley safety issues are crazy

gloomy igloo
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has anyone recieved any UC acceptance mail yet

keen dew
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heard the culture at berkeley is pretty bad too

orchid sedge
feral timber
random saffron
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i've visited berkeley 4 times and every single time something crazy has gone down in front of me

agile wedge
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I’ve been to Berkeley once and I saw a random disheveled old guy shout about evil oil blood money on a microphone

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But some club offered me and my HS classmates condoms so pretty cool

lost heart
random saffron
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tbh if you're a big dude and don't mind crackheads then berkeley will be fine

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if you're a girl tho idk

random saffron
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most of my female cousins go there and every time we hang out they always tell me how they were followed the other day or some shit

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💀

agile wedge
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yo wha

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berkeley crazy as fuck fr

worthy stirrup
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lol what's going on

carmine helm
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for anyone interested u can see uci accetance rate by major here

agile wedge
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@split swan its not like super bad but can be a hurtful thing fr for a recent reject

plucky sentinel
agile wedge
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basically we did google forms in exchange for free condoms

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pretty cool

subtle acorn
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😭😭😭

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there’s no way

agile wedge
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and they were also sellin lego flowers to fundraise

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one of my classmates bought one

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but then when we left our van to go over to the golden gate bridge it got smashed into

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and the lego flower stolen

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:(

subtle acorn
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berkeley is wildddd holy

subtle acorn
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how could they

agile wedge
split swan
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Rejected ucla ez

agile wedge
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idk when i was there i didnt particularly like it

agile wedge
subtle acorn
agile wedge
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but thats a convo to have if that happens

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not now

nova bridge
keen dew
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ucb is too close to oakland

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and sf

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and berkeley

exotic finch
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it’s mostly because la jolla is absolutely not a college town and a large majority of the campus comprises of bio and tech research

gentle wyvern
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Last time asking but ucsd does not have a LOCI form right? other than the waitlist form to opt in

fringe dirge
gentle wyvern
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Would it be unnecessary to make efforts to submit a LOCI

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Or nah

fringe dirge
gentle wyvern
fringe dirge
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there's this thing but i'm not sure if it makes a diff

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or if theyll look at it

royal steppe
gentle wyvern
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Ig I will for San Diego two more months

royal steppe
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at this point UCSD lost cause for me

gentle wyvern
fringe dirge
# royal steppe its only for grades

i guess; they say "Changes to reported Extracurricular Activities
Correction to Personal Insight Question" though; they do specify that it is unlikely to make a diff though

royal steppe
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might have to go OOS which is kinda hard to grapple with
its just my instate options are not good/not as cheap as my OOS merit offer financially

royal steppe
fringe dirge
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not worth it probably

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yeah no

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only ucla has

floral star
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is uci better than ucd and ucsb for cs

subtle acorn
jade quiver
subtle acorn
random saffron
jade quiver
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Oh I’m good then

agile wedge
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i thought you meant like 6'2 needed

heady cobalt
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atp its a lottery

random saffron
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5'8 is like

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the minimum to be ok

jade quiver
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What’s Berkeley’s gym like

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I toured the place and the rec center once but never went to the gym

agile wedge
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im like 5'11 i reckon ill be aight

jade quiver
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I’m like 5’10 but 170 is that good

halcyon galleon
fast oar
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Can anyone send that one image with like the number of applications each uc got this year

mild saffron
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might be a rumor but i've heard some uc's will have higher acceptance rates for oos and int because of that

halcyon galleon
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But like

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That's the case for all public schools, OOS tuition is higher

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But most have a higher in state acceptance rate

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Why don't the UCs do something like that

limber cipher
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thanks Irvine😋

gentle wyvern
heady cobalt
pale ivy
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Is a ucla waitlist a somewhat positive indicator that my application isn’t crappy 😶‍🌫️😂

heady cobalt
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no idea

limber cipher
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yes if you get rejected from ucla you get into mit

heady cobalt
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each school has their own system on who they accept or reject

limber cipher
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it’s proven with 100% truth rare

pale ivy
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Edited 😂

halcyon galleon
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I was gonna say

limber cipher
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lmao fr

heady cobalt
pale ivy
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😂😂😂😂😂

limber cipher
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harvards too much of a safety thoigh

heady cobalt
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rookie mistake

limber cipher
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we don’t consider it here at a2c

pale ivy
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UCLA on crack this year ffsss

heady cobalt
pale ivy
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oos had no shot

heady cobalt
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oos and is had no chance

pale ivy
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top 1 national private school 38 applied —> 37 rejected + 1 waitlisted like wtf ucla who was that ao reading my schools applicants 😂

worthy stirrup
nova bridge
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¯_(ツ)_/¯

subtle acorn
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u never knowww

granite dirge
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u got into any ucs yet?

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im actually dead

twilit mauve
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why no berkeley lol

agile wedge
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of Los Angeles

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So UCI, UCSB, UCLA, UCR

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everyone did them

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Santa Cruz being the exception

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Berkeley, UCSD mainly untouched

twilit mauve
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why santa cruz 🤣

agile wedge
twilit mauve
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oh ok hahaha

agile wedge
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Basically if it all works out properly I could have a shot here at Berkeley

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But I doubt it

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And am happy with SD

granite dirge
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atleast u got into an uc

agile wedge
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I’m perfectly happy w/ this

heady cobalt
limber cipher
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i wish i got into sd 😭

granite dirge
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can someone pls telll me if its possible to get rejected from ucsc and get into uc berkeley

random saffron
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yes

hushed terrace
granite dirge
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ucs is wild

gentle wyvern
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for getting off waitlist, is it by school or no, so if all the kids at my school decide not to go ucsd does this mean, i can get their spot im so desperate ive been having delusional thoughts

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ahhh

lean hull
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it’s just super random i’d say don’t dwell on the waitlist so much

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i got waitlisted at ucla and i’m still going to opt in but i’m thinking about other options right now so i know how you feel

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ucla is my dream like how ucsd is yours

hushed terrace
lean hull
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hopefully you get off the waitlist for ucla!!!!

hushed terrace
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ahhh ty you too!

charred zealot
jade quiver
humble widget
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I was rejected and now I’m dejected

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UCLA gave me the blues and now I’m tuning into the news

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They said they had a magnitude of apps this year

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I wish I could have celebrated with a b**r

lucid drum
velvet oar
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i think ucla misspelt words in my acceptance letter

humble widget
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Dejected means depressed

velvet oar
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they wrote the word rejected instead of accepted

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silly mistake on their part

compact dirge
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how easy is to transfer into bio at UCSD

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for some reason biochem is a physical science

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which is not the case for literally any other UC campus

mild saffron
compact dirge
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guess it's just a school to school thing tho

mild saffron
compact dirge
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yeah

mild saffron
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Then…idk

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What are you transferring from?

compact dirge
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well I'm not even attending yet but I was accepted for biochem

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i was talking to a student there who said biochem is more heavy on the chem and labs vs biology

mild saffron
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Oooohhh I’m sorry I didn’t totally understand what you were saying

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My guess is it’s still hard ‘cause capped major

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But probably easier than transferring from say humanities or smth

wheat flower
acoustic ibex
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I think anything bio is capped

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And computer related

wheat flower
royal steppe
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someone probably already asked but does anyone know when UCSD starts giving waitlist acceptances?

steel matrix
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After the SIR deadline

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or aroudn it

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they can't even start yet bro

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They have to look at the yield rate and see how many spots are open

acoustic ibex
royal steppe
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after May 15 right?

steel matrix
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yes

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It's UCLA waitlist website but they're all the same deal

royal steppe
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aight

twilit mauve
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why does berkeley come out on ivy day 😭 its like colleges are trying to hit me with double disappointment

frigid musk
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berkeley wants to be important 🥲

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kinda wild knowing that all the remaining colleges i'm waiting on are coming out in a 3 day time span 😭

royal steppe
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LOL

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im waiting for harvard stanford and berkely

frigid musk
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omg gl

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ucla waitlist emotionally destroyed me so idk how i'll survive getting 5 ivies + Berkeley in one afternoon 💀

royal steppe
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GL MAN

frigid musk
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we will all do so well on ivy day 💪

royal steppe
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MANIFEST IT MANIFEST IT

frigid musk
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fr 🙏

granite dirge
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im dead

agile wedge
granite dirge
agile wedge
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T60 in the pocket

granite dirge
frigid musk
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tbf i think i'm dead in the water at ucla bc poli sci is a capped major iirc

agile wedge
granite dirge
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so ive to pay oos

agile wedge
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how are your CSUs then

granite dirge
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i got waitlisted from long beach

agile wedge
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what was long beach smokin

granite dirge
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idk

agile wedge
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you did cal poly slo right?

granite dirge
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ofc

agile wedge
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i hope you get it then

granite dirge
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slo is my last hope

agile wedge
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which UCs did you apply to?

granite dirge
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berkeley, la, santa cruz, san diego, and davis

agile wedge
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so berkeley is still left

granite dirge
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atp i have no chance

agile wedge
west goblet
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berkeley wants me so bad fr

stoic panther
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Suspected berk release date?

slim aurora
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28th March

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Ivyday

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Not suspected, confirmed

stoic panther
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Do UCs consider freshman year grades

uneven isle
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no

stoic panther
hushed terrace
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they see your freshman year grades but it won’t be factored into the gpa they calculate

brittle rose
strong palm
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How does uci waitlist work

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I heard its not ranked

acoustic ibex
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just a pool of applicants they keep on hand

strong palm
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And pick randomly?

acoustic ibex
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no clue how they go from there but i doubt its random

strong palm
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Ah

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Its entire luck then

random saffron
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they pick whoever will fill enrollment gaps

strong palm
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Wdym

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They will pick similar stats?

random saffron
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no they pick whatever they're lacking

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for example if they're lacking their first gen quota

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they'll admit more first gen students

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if they have spots leftover in a certain major

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they'll admit more of those ppl in that major

humble nova
random saffron
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😭

strong palm
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Ah ok

strong palm
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Is irvine better or ucsb?

wicked isle
random saffron
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including ucsd

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ik some are ranked but the ones that are ranked should be publicly available info

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available as in there should be explicit info on it online saying their waitlist is ranked

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otherwise safe to assume that it’s just by institutional priorities

agile tree
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yeah check their common data set

twilit mauve
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As an east coaster, I kinda don't want to go to a bay area college cuz it would be impossible for my future kids to get into university

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I'm constantly hearing stories of how impossible it is to get into uni from the bay area

humble nova
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Just pick the right part

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My area is not competitive

twilit mauve
humble nova
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It really depends where in the bay you are

twilit mauve
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oh interesting

twilit mauve
humble nova
simple locust
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central michigan university

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Carnegie Mellon university

charred crown
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Carnegie University of Mellon realism

royal steppe
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my school a lot of ppl apply for UCs (bay area)

humble nova
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So it’s pretty chill

royal steppe
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oh i see

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theres like 650 kids in my school and

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according to the UC data

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500 apply to UC

fervent pond
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It’d be less competitive for them that way

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Also as ppl were saying it rlly depends on the area and the specific school

agile tree
pale ivy
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UCSD OR UCI👀👀👀👀

gloomy igloo
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UCI (i'm biased. it's the only one i got in)

split swan
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UCI waitlisted me

obtuse scroll
heady cobalt
obtuse scroll
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Waitlist

heady cobalt
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lmfao same

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wait cs or datascience?

obtuse scroll
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Data

humble nova
soft cargo
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like what city?

humble nova
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You prob won’t know it

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If you really want to know I’ll dm

soft cargo
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yea no worries its fine

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it's just that im in cupertino and it's hella comp

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and like everything surrounding it is like hella competitive

humble nova
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I’m near sf

simple locust
soft cargo
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i was just kinda surprised when you said 20/380 kids

humble nova
humble nova
simple locust
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ik a guy from fremont

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ik that’s east bay or something

soft cargo
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no one got in

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the valedectorian didn't get into davis

humble nova
simple locust
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that’s not brutal

humble nova
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Ours were not that bad

soft cargo
soft cargo
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im getting watilisted at almost everyschool

humble nova
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Idgaf about neu

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But they wl me 😡

soft cargo
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yea its tuff

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ive heard if you send them a loci you have a good chance of getting in

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like multiple locis

simple locust
obtuse scroll
royal steppe
simple locust
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It’s not about best application

obtuse scroll
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Unless im tripping

soft cargo
royal steppe
simple locust
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a val would not go to uc davis realistically

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prob a better uc

obtuse scroll
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Bay area kids getting screwed over left and right w ucs

soft cargo
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he has crazy grades and crazy ecs

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he got into every oos and hes getting fucked my ucs

obtuse scroll
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Only kids w insane gps are getting ucs atp

simple locust
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i said fit they’re looking for ppl that def will go to davis

royal steppe
soft cargo
simple locust
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UCs are not a safety

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except like merced

obtuse scroll
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I have a friend that made uiuc math cs but got waitlisted davis rejected sd

royal steppe
royal steppe
simple locust
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yeah

soft cargo
royal steppe
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too many cracked students here

simple locust
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dude my friend’s school has 30 valedictorians

royal steppe
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DAMN

obtuse scroll
soft cargo
obtuse scroll
soft cargo
simple locust
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Nah nobody is safe at the ucs

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Not even CSU

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either

obtuse scroll
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Most likely going purdue so its all good but

soft cargo
obtuse scroll
soft cargo
obtuse scroll
soft cargo
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i mean like idk if they do yield prot or not but its kinda weird

obtuse scroll
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Its whack fs

soft cargo
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you got in sc right

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or did you apply?

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some of friends got wl there as well

obtuse scroll
soft cargo
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nice nice

obtuse scroll
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One of my friends got sc waitlist but his gpa is sorta low so

soft cargo
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oh ok

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yea that's understandable

soft cargo
royal steppe
soft cargo
simple locust
limber cipher
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uiuc cs??

soft cargo
limber cipher
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respect

soft cargo
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but i'll prolly switch into cs + math or someting

limber cipher
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be careful it’s hard to switch

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I got into bioeng but I was thinking of cs+x

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but im scared i wont get it

soft cargo
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no it's fine bro

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i think ull get in

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i've talking to some friends and they say unless you fuck up ur first year you're fine

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like it's a 80-90 percent chance ull get in if you don't screw it over

limber cipher
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I’ve heard you need at least a- in all your courses

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to switch first year

soft cargo
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or at least the first few

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it';s all project based

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so it's kinda easy

limber cipher
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no like at uiuc

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you need at least a-

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including the cs prereqs

soft cargo
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yea yea

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for my major i've heard the courses are really easy

limber cipher
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okay that’s good

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good luck

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maybe I’ll do uiuc too then

soft cargo
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you could also look at the courses on this website

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it tells you the avewrage gpa in that course

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and you could see the easy courses and the hard ones to avoid if you do end up going

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i could send it to you

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@limber cipher i've sent it check dms

cold vector
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only ones left is ucsb and ucb right

subtle acorn
wicked isle
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The way I’ve been getting full waitlisted by the UCs I applied is fucking nuts

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I’m so confused for my ec description was i not suppose to fucking write it in bullet points. Idk if this minor detail is screwing thr fck out of me

feral timber
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Or descriptions

wicked isle
feral timber
wicked isle
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Extracurricular.?

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Really

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R u fcking for?

feral timber
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The entire point is to write about them in a concise manner

wicked isle
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Fr?

feral timber
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Bullet points might just show that u can't do that

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Bullet points aren't really that descriptive compared to traditional writing imo

feral timber
wicked isle
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When writing ec desc that’s why I did bullet points

feral timber
wicked isle
wicked isle
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Let’s say fundraising I wrote like something like “organized 20 food drives; contributed 200 hours; provided food for idk like 20000 people” just an example

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I didn’t do a food drive or anything just an example of how I would have written it

agile wedge
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ive never heard of it happening before

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damn

wicked isle
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Irvine, San Diego, ucla all so far waitlisted my ass

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It’s all up to Santa Barbara and Berkeley

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I’m so confused how I didn’t get Irvine. Legit all my friends got in like bruh

cosmic onyx
wicked isle
cosmic onyx
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Santa Barbara will come through hopefully

wicked isle
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I mean I won’t lie ucla waitlisting me was surprising

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I kinda forgot I applied here cuz I felt like ik I wasn’t gunna get in

cosmic onyx
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Yeah I was never expecting to have a chance with UCLA

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My goal was one of uci, ucsb, ucsd

wicked isle
cosmic onyx
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Hopefully Berkeley and sb come through for us

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Uci and ucsd it sounds like the odds of getting off the waitlist aren’t terrible though

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Actually San Diego is worse than I thought 😬

wicked isle
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Last year at least our school managed to get two people off waitlist for San Diego but none for uci

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Uci actually bumming out

velvet oar
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i was shocked when i got rejected from all ucs minus davis waitlist

cosmic onyx
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College confidential says 1100 were admitted off ucsd waitlist last year and 3000 from uci

radiant wigeon
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thats acc crazyx

wicked isle
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Anyone by chance when waitlist decisions kinda start rolling

hushed terrace
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i think i saw in a uc counselor presentation that they even recommended writing this way instead of full sentences

wicked isle
hushed terrace
radiant wigeon
wicked isle
hushed terrace
feral hill
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irvine davis la and san diego all waitlisted me..

agile wedge
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I think that Irvines waitlist you can totally get off of

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But SD’s is ranked

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On what idk but it is ranked I believe

cosmic onyx
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It says 51000 for ucsd in 2022 which doesn’t make sense

cosmic onyx
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So the actual number is less

limber cipher
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I don’t know how I didn’t even get waitlisted at sd

velvet oar
radiant wigeon
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makes sense nvm

wheat flower
radiant wigeon
wheat flower
jade quiver
wheat flower
slim aurora
wheat flower
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They saw my potential 🙏

radiant wigeon
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yea my grades were good

humble nova
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I’m switching from biochem

granite dirge
radiant wigeon
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bro who keeps pinging me

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is swear

granite dirge
granite dirge
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and idek if waitlist is effective

humble nova
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I’m going to do mcd

limpid goblet
granite dirge
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and the last one is berkeley so

limpid goblet
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i applied all 9

granite dirge
limpid goblet
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i got riverside and merced

granite dirge
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atleast u got some

humble nova
limpid goblet
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i saw mcd and was like

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mcdonalds???

humble nova
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Lol

wheat flower
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Sometimes I wonder what colleges I would get into if I didn’t do cs

granite dirge
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yall made it too competitive

wheat flower
jade quiver
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its all up to berkeley now

limpid goblet
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hey ill take ucsb

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but they wont take me

wheat flower
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Idek if I would even go to Berkeley if I get accepted

humble nova
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Too competitive

subtle acorn
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ppl always use the word "cutthroat" when describing berkeley 💀

jade quiver
plucky sentinel
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im not tryna experience anything close to bay area culture

jade quiver
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yeah berkeley is a little ghetto

plucky sentinel
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at this point applying to the ucs were for ego cause i know im not going

jade quiver
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i would've gone to ucsd if they let me in my major instead of admitting me undeclared

acoustic ibex
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wait they admitted people undeclared instead of major

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how does that even work 😭

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capped majors?

limpid goblet
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very

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the prestige is the only reason anyone would want to go to berkeley

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literally

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well

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ig that goes for most schools

unborn depot
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anybody know anything about robotics eng at UCSC?

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applied Mech E everywhere else, is robotics eng close to mech E?

plucky sentinel
jade quiver
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Trying to do anything engineering is not guaranteed

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especially not cs lol

jovial kraken
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if i get off a waitlist how likely is it that i'll get into my desired engineering major? ik for ucsd u would automatically go undeclared but i'm curious ab the other ucs

steel matrix
twilit mauve
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how much harder in general is it to get into Berk EECS compared to UCLA CS?

steel matrix
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Bro

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You should not be thinking about "harder" dude they're both actually shots in the dark

twilit mauve
unborn depot
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college of engineering as a whole was ~6% last year i think

twilit mauve
unborn depot
twilit mauve
lofty marsh
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can you link it

twilit mauve
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btw do different UCs communicate decisions?

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I saw this

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from u/allofldroc

limpid goblet
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they are aware im p sure

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when i was sending the ucsb "rubric" thing apparently they mentioned someone who get rejected sb but got into la

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so they do know

brittle rose
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wait so if you're getting mass rejected by ucs so far its not joever

limpid goblet
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yea

limpid goblet
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im on 4 for 4 uc rejections lmaooo

limpid goblet
twilit mauve
twilit mauve
brisk berry
limpid goblet
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literally lmao

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save some for the rest of us man

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i got none

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nada

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uci reject, ucla reject, uc davis reject, ucsd reject

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ucsc waitlist :/

twilit mauve
limpid goblet
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in my dreams

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most likely

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thatd be great if it happened then i dont mind a 6 rejections out of 7 then 🧍‍♀️

wicked isle
jade quiver
wicked isle
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Imma keep it real if this is true I hope berk takes me but at the rate college decisions are going I might be going to my local csu and man does it sting. Anyone got ways to just accept it and cope abt it. I’m seriously struggling

limber cipher
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hopefully

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like my stats aint even too bad

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out of state probably hurt

agile wedge
limber cipher
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4.3/3.9 1510

agile wedge
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Bro what

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You blow my stats out of the water

acoustic ibex
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Very unlucky

limber cipher
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4 leadership roles organized hackathon and afghani refugee drive organizing thing

nova bridge
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me 2

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surely right

limber cipher
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but i applied cs so im not suprised i didnt get that

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but they admit to general school

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which i thought i would have gotten

agile wedge
acoustic ibex
agile wedge
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Human biology at Muir

limber cipher
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im chill with irvine cs though i love the school

agile wedge
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I guess I wrote my way in cause I believe it’s a capped major

limber cipher
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just wish i didnt get straight rejected from the others

acoustic ibex
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I got admitted on a 4.78/4 (uncapped) 1540 but my ECs were awful

agile wedge
acoustic ibex
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Irvine cs is up there

limber cipher
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my brother went there bro i cant just withdraw it 😭

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i need to get out of his goddamn shadow first LMFAO

acoustic ibex
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Isn’t cc free

agile wedge
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How many UCs/CSUs did you get?

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Also I believe CCs are free/pay you to go, right?

acoustic ibex
#

?

limber cipher
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applied eng undeclared for berk though so we pray🤞

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since i applied pure cs everytwhere else

brittle rose
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interesting choice

agile wedge
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I made the same mistake but in my Princeton interview

limber cipher
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among us vr

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ofc

agile wedge
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@tough cloud what possessed you to write about among us

limber cipher
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doing that in 350 words is insane

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maybe not that insane actually

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that would be one interesting common app essay though

jade quiver
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Should I take sjsu cs over ucr & ucsc

wispy jackal
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i almost wrote my common app ab bojack horseman and mlp

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💀

acoustic ibex
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That is the most motivational essay

agile wedge
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man imagine if you’d used it as a common app PS

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And not a UC PIQ

jade quiver
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Hook game on a new level

acoustic ibex
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A picture is worth a thousand words

jade quiver
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My piqs are honestly mid

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I don’t think my ECs stand out too much either lol

acoustic ibex
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That conveys your dedication to ☐☐☐☐

agile wedge
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huh

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I took the PIQs as like something to express a lesson you learned

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With like no nuance or crazy hooks

jade quiver
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I was told the piqs were like interview questions

agile wedge
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Just get to the point and show how you grew as a person and what that means

jade quiver
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Yeah I didn’t do any hooks

agile wedge
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No hooks

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No nuance

limpid goblet
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ru supposed to have hooks?

agile wedge
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Just nail the question and show them what characterizes you

agile wedge
limpid goblet
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🧍‍♀️

jade quiver
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Basically I did x thing that taught me y lesson and that relates to z major ig

agile wedge
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as we said

acoustic ibex
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Including common app 💀

agile wedge
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I said x thing -> x lesson -> what I do at the university of California

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And I did this for every essay

limpid goblet
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i just started it w an intro on how i took an interest in engineering which went into how i fostered that interest ig

jade quiver
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That’s literally every college supplemental format lol

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Especially the “why us”

acoustic ibex
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Why us was pretty easy

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All the creative questions killed me

limpid goblet
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my counselor said to not do why us

jade quiver
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Insert _ lab here and _ professor name

acoustic ibex
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Exactly

gentle obsidian
agile wedge
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You yap = rejected

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they need something tangible about you to take away

gentle obsidian
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tbf all of my essays were under the 350 word limit by a pretty decent (>50 word) amt

limpid goblet
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now im concerned i yapped too much even tho im not a yapper

agile wedge
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If you turn your PIQ into a philosophical discussion w/ no point then you failed

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like if ur equating birds to the sun and don’t bother explaining how that makes you a good applicant

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Then idk what to tell you

jade quiver
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That’s a common app essay thing

agile wedge
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Exactly

jade quiver
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But everything else nah

agile wedge
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Common app essay is for the nuance and creativity

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That’s why my REA common app essay was ass

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I wrote it like a PIQ

limpid goblet
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ik someone who used a “worm in a pond” metaphor

hushed terrace
limber cipher
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damn

gentle obsidian
limber cipher
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arentyou the like stanford kid though'

hushed terrace
limber cipher
#

i remember you got into some cracked school

hushed terrace
gentle obsidian
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yeah all my friends from the bay w/ similar stats & ecs if not better got wrecked

agile wedge
limpid goblet
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i wish i could rewrite my commonapp

gentle obsidian
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meanwhile im a bruin now 💀

limpid goblet
#

i shouldnt have done the

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discovering my culture or whatever

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it was my main ec :/

limber cipher
#

I DID THAT TOO LMFAO

agile wedge
heady cobalt
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im from the bay and cs and i got wl from sd and la 💀

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it nvr makes sense

limpid goblet
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i mean i sprinkled in a little bit of "discovering my culture" but it was mostly i guess

limber cipher
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im asian i have such a cool and interesting and unique culture!!!

limpid goblet
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what i did

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idk

limber cipher
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not like theres 10k of you at your school!!

limpid goblet
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idk how to describe

agile wedge
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I’m from LA and got rejected from LA + Irvine so far but got into Davis, SD, and Riverside

limpid goblet
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if anything that mightve hurt me cause its sorta controversial

limber cipher
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i doubt they were like

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thats not a real country

gentle obsidian
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ucla vs ucsc regents vs uc davis vs ucsd for premed whats better

limber cipher
#

rejected

limpid goblet
#

true

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yea

limber cipher
#

ucla fs

limber cipher
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easily

limpid goblet
#

i shouldve used my editor more

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but

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idk

heady cobalt
agile wedge
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brother the choice is UCLA, then UCSD, then Davis, then UCSC

limpid goblet
#

i hated the way they would reword my essays

agile wedge
#

That’s what I’d think

gentle obsidian
#

damn y'all r prestige wh*res

limber cipher
#

well yes

gentle obsidian
#

the tryhardism at ucla scares me

limpid goblet
heady cobalt
#

only berk can save me 🙏

limber cipher
#

ucla culture just seems so fucking nice

limpid goblet
#

i just wanna go to a college far from home 😭

limber cipher
#

like i wish i could be there bro

jade quiver
limpid goblet
jade quiver
limpid goblet
#

MY 2 WEEKS AT UCLA WERE LITERLALY SO FUN

agile wedge
gentle obsidian
#

tbf ucsds college system kinda scares me away and uh the ucsc housing system isnt that great

hushed terrace
gentle obsidian
#

but i really like davis

jade quiver
#

I want to go to ucsd because of the nice dorms and campus but they didn’t admit me for my major and I will definitely not be able to get in for it lol

gentle obsidian
#

and i had a burning hatred for ucla until friday

jade quiver
#

UCLA honestly looks really nice

limpid goblet
heady cobalt
jade quiver
#

Just socal in general ig

gentle obsidian
limpid goblet
#

ucsc lwk lowest value uc :/ like yes its a good school but like living in sc its expensive and also theres other schools that cost cheaper and give same results (csus)

jade quiver
heady cobalt
jade quiver
#

Hoping for Berkeley because cost but I wouldn’t mind getting off the waitlist too

heady cobalt
#

my gpa fell from a 4.5 to a 4.4 😭

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thats prob why i got rejected lmfao

agile wedge
jade quiver
#

Nah gpas aren’t all that

heady cobalt
limpid goblet
#

ainnoway

wicked isle
#

Unless San Diego accepts me lol.

jade quiver
#

Rejected where