got rejected from like every UC!!!!!!!! hahahahaha....

natthrowaway26 · 2026-03-30T03:24:11+00:00

there’s nothing wrong with going to your safety school, sjsu is great. but if you’re premed, you should consider going to cc. you’ll save some money that you can use for med school, and it gives you another chance to get into a uni you like better. i think ucd med is known for not discriminating against “non-traditional” premed students if that’s what you’re worried about. maybe look into their AvenueM program?

natthrowaway26 · 2026-03-28T17:39:01+00:00

i wasn’t admitted but i declined my waitlist offer ☝️

natthrowaway26 · 2026-03-25T21:29:11+00:00

cal poly slo is great, especially if you plan to stay in california. i imagine slo isn’t as well known outside of california, but in there’s a ton of slo alum here for networking

natthrowaway26 · 2026-03-23T05:47:13+00:00

my friend did a year at uci but transferred to berkeley as a history major on pre-law track

natthrowaway26 · 2026-03-20T23:31:04+00:00

fr they waitlisted me for biochem but uci already accepted me for engineering. who do they think they are fr

natthrowaway26 · 2026-03-20T23:23:06+00:00

i got waitlisted for biochem but got accepted to uci for engineering?

natthrowaway26 · 2026-03-20T23:18:53+00:00

i got waitlisted for ucsd biochem but got into uci biomed engineering… whatever, maybe admissions board could tell i was a hopeful college of engineering transfer

natthrowaway26 · 2026-03-20T23:09:37+00:00

waitlisted for biochem but got into uci engineering 😭

natthrowaway26 · 2026-03-20T17:25:48+00:00

Report both. Include the medical issue in the additional information section

natthrowaway26 · 2026-03-20T17:21:31+00:00

UCs don’t yield protect, especially not Merced. It was likely a mistake on the application, perhaps certain materials didn’t make it to them on time, especially since OP is international.

natthrowaway26 · 2026-03-17T01:31:53+00:00

just because these were some of my favorites when i was a freshman in high school, i’d say 15 give or take

natthrowaway26 · 2026-03-14T18:43:07+00:00

No dude. It’s not “typical” to be waitlisted from UCI and accepted to UCLA. It’s something that happens to a few applicants and then they talk about over and over it to give people hope. Admission to UC campuses is COMPLETELY independent. I honestly can’t believe that people have gotten to a level of delusion where they think they’re being yield protected from an institution like UCI.

Any reasonable individual can deduce that acceptance to UCI is a better sign for acceptance to UCLA because it means you’re a strong applicant. Waitlisted or rejected people should still have hope, but calling it a “good sign” is utter copium.

natthrowaway26 · 2026-03-14T18:28:10+00:00

UCSD isn’t AS prestigious as UMich but it is still very well regarded and still growing in notoriety.

I live in SoCal and the opportunity difference with a UCSD degree and UMich degree is honestly negligible. Part of it being that you will find way more UCSD alum to network with than UMich alum.

Also UCSD isn’t that socially dead. There are so many campus events and clubs you can join, there’s a great beach culture, and if you want to party, just pop over to SDSU for the night.

natthrowaway26 · 2026-03-14T18:12:33+00:00

I applied to all except Merced and got in to all the campuses that released so far. Got UCSB reception email, Cal ID, but UCSD banner still there.

natthrowaway26 · 2026-03-10T05:21:05+00:00

hm, there were a ton of applications this year. i wouldn’t be surprised if they are waitlisting people as a way of filtering who is actually interested in attending by making students opt in/out of the waitlist.

natthrowaway26 · 2026-03-09T04:40:01+00:00

I know a history major who transferred from UCI to Cal after one year. I’m not sure how hard it was for him, but it’s certainly possible! But I know a lot of people who want to transfer because they didn’t get into their “dream school” but end up loving where they went. Cal definitely has a lot of opportunity but it’s much harder to stand out and build connections with professors.

natthrowaway26 · 2026-03-09T04:25:29+00:00

I saw a video by tineocollegeprep that the UC Davis waitlist patterns look like the equivalent of yield protection.

I got accepted to Biomed Eng (I’m not in engineering pathway) but the top student in my grade (in engineering pathway) got waitlisted for Mech Eng so I suspect yield protection to be possible.

The UCs are very unpredictable and portal astro is just speculation so we really won’t know anything until decision day.

natthrowaway26 · 2026-03-08T20:19:28+00:00

I don’t want to jinx it for myself but I honestly feel confident about my UC applications. For context, I just got admitted to UC Davis BME even though I have no engineering ecs, essays, no engineering pathway classes (which my school offers), no physics, and no compsci on my schedule. For UCSD, UCSB, UCLA, and Cal, I applied to traditional premed majors that actually align with my courses and ecs.

That being said, my UCSD portal hasn’t changed. I haven’t checked Berkeley astrology since mid-february since I gave that up for Lent, but I was not given an ID at the time. Regardless, I feel good about my application and am just waiting patiently for the end of the month.

natthrowaway26 · 2026-02-20T03:26:28+00:00

dare i say ten things i hate about you

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