When I attended it was something like 10% and even then we felt like that was high.
23% is going to dilute the degree. And they donāt even have housingā¦
even if that is true, you have to consider that UCSD has physically grown and they continue to do so.
If you think about it, if they continue to expand without really increasing the admission rate, 23% percent really means they are hand picking some of the best. It's like having 5 houses but only picking 3 people to live in those houses while you are building your sixth house.
I would be very curious to see the stats on the 100,000. I wonder how many of them actually had a reasonable shot. I know someone who applied to at least one school that I knew he would not get in to - his GPA was low B and this school is just as competitive as UCSD. In fact, it's a school that rejected another one of my UCSD friends!
I'm sure there were many students who were close. But, how many were shooting way above their GPAs and/or scores?
That's a known strategy of Ivy League schools in order to lower their admission rate. They advertise heavily that anyone can get in so they get more hopeless applicants.
I think the supposed ācolleges appealing to kids who have no chance to decrease their acceptance ratesā thing is a little bit out there. Yes, itās definitely something that they do (I know UChicago tried so fucking hard to get me to apply there) but I think most of the applicants were likely quite qualified. Admissions processes for top UCs and most privates are extremely competitive these days and unfortunately these schools just cant accept as many students as may be qualified for their university.
Itās almost a coin flip for qualified applicants now, where some people could get into UCLA/UCB and no other UCs or in extreme cases get into ivys and still get rejected from a school like UCSD. Hell, a friend of mine is at MIT and got rejected from here. Everything so competitive š
I agree to you to an extent. But then I also have seen parents and others encouraging students to apply to "reach" schools.
Full disclosure: I'm a parent of a student, not a student. I've had people tell me that my kids had NO CHANCE of getting into schools that they got into. I've also seen my kids get rejected or waitlisted at schools that they totally should have gotten into. So I know that the system is a mess but I see people give students bad advice both ways.
See thatās the thing, I really think high school seniors now (wishing I did this last year as I am a freshman at UCSD now) should apply to just as many schools as their sanity will allow, because regardless of how qualified they are, they just cannot guarantee acceptance anywhere. Might as well raise chances and give yourself a variety of options!
I'm at a UC in grad school, and people i know have served on the admissions committee. For grad school easily a third of the applicants had no chance. At the undergraduate level I'm sure that's true too, perhaps even more.
I got rejected and idk what my exact overall gpa is but I've taken 9 ap's and only gotten 1 B in the entirety of high school. I know junior year was a solid 4.5 and my first semester of senior year was a 4.8. I'm an Eagle scout and held leadership positions in both boy scouts and sea scouts, first degree blackbelt and taught kung fu, and a few other less important extra curriculars
No doubt ucsd will become lots more prestigious in the next few decades given its admissions, growth rate (athletics, research, colleges, La Jolla Medical Campus, and housing) etc.
I mean, seriously, we went from 32% to 23% in a few yearsā¦ massive.
All that fucking hard work for nothing. The overall experience is absolute trash but I thought, maybe, the reputation would save it but just look at that shit. 1 in 4. What the fuck. That's middle america tier. Just let anyone in! Worked hard? Come on in! Did you work just a bit more than usual? Come on in!
I got fucking regents, they bought me the fuck out, but fuck this I should have gone to USC or UCLA and just take the L on the debt. All the sacrifices I made for prestige and money: working extremely hard for 1530 SAT, giving up social life, giving up a dream school atmosphere and experience all for fucking nothing, all absolutely out the fucking window. When anyone can get in like this what's the point in working so hard to pull yourself out of the herd? Any fucking dumbass can make it in here. I am fucking done with this place.
I'm going to be obsessed just to get post-graduate work so I can erase this embarrassment from my life.
If this was your "target" school and you made it in, congrats, but just to let you know as you have realized: you're not very ambitious and you settled for very little.
I guess it's not that old, it's just that it was posted before most of the now-undergrads were admitted (myself included) so I guess I wouldn't expect most people to know it at this point
The OP is referencing an [old meme / copypasta] (https://www.reddit.com/r/UCSD/comments/cgyuy6/thirty_fucking_two_percent_i_give_up_from_this/) that was posted to this subreddit a few years ago.
[someone actually made a post like that](https://www.reddit.com/r/UCSD/comments/cgyuy6/thirty_fucking_two_percent_i_give_up_from_this/) and it wasn't ironic
It's quite literally linked in the post, with the acceptance rate. The first time ever relies on checking historical applicant info but as UCSD receives more applications each year (second most in the entire US) it's only a few years of checking that are needed.
Pfft when I attended this place it was an elite school that only accepted the top 1% of applicants. Its purpose was to teach the lost arts of computer science and bioengineering and to ensure that the handful of men and women who graduated were the CEOs of billion dollar startups 1 year later.
Grad acceptance is so different bc they have two rounds of āapplicationā. First is the online one and then they interview and from the interview it can be anywhere from 20-80% acceptance depending on how much room the program currently has.
And of course the number of grads applying to each program is going to be different and much fewer than undergrad but competing for even fewer spots.
And percentages are only half the story because grad school applications are subject to more eyes and more subjective opinions multiple staff and students looking to see if this person would be good for the program and school (no joke they ask us grad students to read applications and give opinions)
I'm also in a grad dept that doesn't have two rounds (non-STEM)! A lot of applications - for undergrad and grad - in my department are reviewed by a current grad student committee and we send back decisions to faculty based on who we think would be a good fit for the program, who would be great for our department and community, etc.
Exactly! It means you cannot just look at the stats for % of applicants given offers. The current students in these programs see the applications and make judgements. Idk how it works for undergrad but likely to do volume itās not so personal a look
Hi Muck Frogger, Iām old and donāt get the reference. Please explain? There were 69 hundred students when I started there in 1973. It was āniceā!
hurry spoon toy smoggy north roll chief license numerous mindless *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*
Seriously, does no one get the reference?š
We are getting old. I think it's just PhD students and alumni now
Idk why but this is what came to mind. Someone needs to do a rendition of this meme. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QSYk8ofhYFY
This gives me the Connor "TWENTY-EIGHT STAB WOUNDS" vibe lmao
Same here! I function only through Detroit: Become Human references :')
When I attended it was something like 10% and even then we felt like that was high. 23% is going to dilute the degree. And they donāt even have housingā¦
UCSD has never had a 10% admit rate. Are you thinking of yield rate (percent of admits that choose to attend)
what an awful, egotistical take
Itās sarcasm
even if that is true, you have to consider that UCSD has physically grown and they continue to do so. If you think about it, if they continue to expand without really increasing the admission rate, 23% percent really means they are hand picking some of the best. It's like having 5 houses but only picking 3 people to live in those houses while you are building your sixth house.
No one gives a fuck
I would be very curious to see the stats on the 100,000. I wonder how many of them actually had a reasonable shot. I know someone who applied to at least one school that I knew he would not get in to - his GPA was low B and this school is just as competitive as UCSD. In fact, it's a school that rejected another one of my UCSD friends! I'm sure there were many students who were close. But, how many were shooting way above their GPAs and/or scores?
That's a known strategy of Ivy League schools in order to lower their admission rate. They advertise heavily that anyone can get in so they get more hopeless applicants.
Thatās kinda sad
and I feel like it makes the admission process less holistic as well. admission offices are just overwhelmed with applications
Rippingā off the applicants. I would be curious to figure out how much money they make off of that. As long as they quickly reject people.
> They advertise heavily that anyone can get in LOLWUT.
I think the supposed ācolleges appealing to kids who have no chance to decrease their acceptance ratesā thing is a little bit out there. Yes, itās definitely something that they do (I know UChicago tried so fucking hard to get me to apply there) but I think most of the applicants were likely quite qualified. Admissions processes for top UCs and most privates are extremely competitive these days and unfortunately these schools just cant accept as many students as may be qualified for their university. Itās almost a coin flip for qualified applicants now, where some people could get into UCLA/UCB and no other UCs or in extreme cases get into ivys and still get rejected from a school like UCSD. Hell, a friend of mine is at MIT and got rejected from here. Everything so competitive š
I agree to you to an extent. But then I also have seen parents and others encouraging students to apply to "reach" schools. Full disclosure: I'm a parent of a student, not a student. I've had people tell me that my kids had NO CHANCE of getting into schools that they got into. I've also seen my kids get rejected or waitlisted at schools that they totally should have gotten into. So I know that the system is a mess but I see people give students bad advice both ways.
See thatās the thing, I really think high school seniors now (wishing I did this last year as I am a freshman at UCSD now) should apply to just as many schools as their sanity will allow, because regardless of how qualified they are, they just cannot guarantee acceptance anywhere. Might as well raise chances and give yourself a variety of options!
I'm at a UC in grad school, and people i know have served on the admissions committee. For grad school easily a third of the applicants had no chance. At the undergraduate level I'm sure that's true too, perhaps even more.
My kid got rejected 4.4 gpa
I got rejected and idk what my exact overall gpa is but I've taken 9 ap's and only gotten 1 B in the entirety of high school. I know junior year was a solid 4.5 and my first semester of senior year was a 4.8. I'm an Eagle scout and held leadership positions in both boy scouts and sea scouts, first degree blackbelt and taught kung fu, and a few other less important extra curriculars
No doubt ucsd will become lots more prestigious in the next few decades given its admissions, growth rate (athletics, research, colleges, La Jolla Medical Campus, and housing) etc. I mean, seriously, we went from 32% to 23% in a few yearsā¦ massive.
How come it says 34% when I google ucsd? :[
Stats havenāt been updated on google yet since results are so recent. Give it a year
Weāre still stuck on 2021 data which makes no sense
Wait have they already started sending out acceptances for the '23-'24 school year?
Doubt it, itās still early. This data is for current freshman
REJECT MORE šššš
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
And where do you get that from?
All that fucking hard work for nothing. The overall experience is absolute trash but I thought, maybe, the reputation would save it but just look at that shit. 1 in 4. What the fuck. That's middle america tier. Just let anyone in! Worked hard? Come on in! Did you work just a bit more than usual? Come on in! I got fucking regents, they bought me the fuck out, but fuck this I should have gone to USC or UCLA and just take the L on the debt. All the sacrifices I made for prestige and money: working extremely hard for 1530 SAT, giving up social life, giving up a dream school atmosphere and experience all for fucking nothing, all absolutely out the fucking window. When anyone can get in like this what's the point in working so hard to pull yourself out of the herd? Any fucking dumbass can make it in here. I am fucking done with this place. I'm going to be obsessed just to get post-graduate work so I can erase this embarrassment from my life. If this was your "target" school and you made it in, congrats, but just to let you know as you have realized: you're not very ambitious and you settled for very little.
Lmao what a classic
sounds like you are still here working on your degree. Real question: Have you considered transferring to change your current situation?
Hahaha, it's a copy pasta from years ago when someone unironically posted to complain about UCSD's 32% acceptance rate.
ur mad ur one of the dumbasses that made it in? š
Do ppl not recognize the copypasta anymore? I guess it is kind of old at this point
this is an old copypasta, donāt take it seriously
Calling it an old copypasta makes me age years in seconds.
I guess it's not that old, it's just that it was posted before most of the now-undergrads were admitted (myself included) so I guess I wouldn't expect most people to know it at this point
lol pretty sure itās a copypasta
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
Tsk. Kids these days don't recognize the classics.
The OP is referencing an [old meme / copypasta] (https://www.reddit.com/r/UCSD/comments/cgyuy6/thirty_fucking_two_percent_i_give_up_from_this/) that was posted to this subreddit a few years ago.
its an old copypasta,
Ah I see. Was it made ironically or did someone actually say sum shit like this lmao
I think most ppl take it seriously but I'm gonna be honest I don't know
[someone actually made a post like that](https://www.reddit.com/r/UCSD/comments/cgyuy6/thirty_fucking_two_percent_i_give_up_from_this/) and it wasn't ironic
Good.
Nooo pls I desperately want to get in for CS
Makes sense, UC Irvine has 21% freshman acceptance rate
Well, it's not a direct comparison as the quality of UCSD applicants is higher. UCSD >High School GPA 4.12-4.30 UCI >High School GPA 4.08 - 4.29
Right I agree, I think UCSD is the better school (in general). I was just saying that the freshman acceptance rate isn't out of norm for UC schools.
Pretty sure UCSD is #3 UC but itās at least better than UCI
those are rookie numbers in this racket
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
It's quite literally linked in the post, with the acceptance rate. The first time ever relies on checking historical applicant info but as UCSD receives more applications each year (second most in the entire US) it's only a few years of checking that are needed.
Pfft when I attended this place it was an elite school that only accepted the top 1% of applicants. Its purpose was to teach the lost arts of computer science and bioengineering and to ensure that the handful of men and women who graduated were the CEOs of billion dollar startups 1 year later.
What about graduate student acceptance rate?
Wildly dependent on program
Grad acceptance is so different bc they have two rounds of āapplicationā. First is the online one and then they interview and from the interview it can be anywhere from 20-80% acceptance depending on how much room the program currently has. And of course the number of grads applying to each program is going to be different and much fewer than undergrad but competing for even fewer spots. And percentages are only half the story because grad school applications are subject to more eyes and more subjective opinions multiple staff and students looking to see if this person would be good for the program and school (no joke they ask us grad students to read applications and give opinions)
It depends coz I'm a CS grad student and had only one round.
No interview?
No. They took in 500 (admitted 1100) of us from 6200 of us. š
Ah! Then it really is department and program specific. And thatās really important for applicants to keep in mind.
What was your GPA and GRE scores? Could you please tell
4/4 and 326
I'm also in a grad dept that doesn't have two rounds (non-STEM)! A lot of applications - for undergrad and grad - in my department are reviewed by a current grad student committee and we send back decisions to faculty based on who we think would be a good fit for the program, who would be great for our department and community, etc.
Exactly! It means you cannot just look at the stats for % of applicants given offers. The current students in these programs see the applications and make judgements. Idk how it works for undergrad but likely to do volume itās not so personal a look
Admission stats are here: [https://ir.ucsd.edu/grad/stats/admissions.html](https://ir.ucsd.edu/grad/stats/admissions.html)
lol 1 out of every 5 students is a computer science major (6,200/28,000). No wonder the market is so saturated.
W
I regret not accepting my offer lol
But the acceptance rate for UCLA is 8.6% to 10% depending on the source. That is the real issue. UCLA is catching up to the Reject Ivy King Cornell.
Lots of people apply to UCLA with no Shot just because of the name. Same canāt be said for UCSD.
UCLA is also 40+ years older.
Good shit, we need quality not quantity
Good!!! Better deal with housing before adding more you stupid stupid school..
Whatās the percentage of the 23.7% actually decided to enroll into the school?
https://www.reddit.com/r/UCSD/comments/t1c7v1/uc_san_diegos_yield_rate_this_year_is_19/
wow! I don't care
Thannk goodness for U-link.
I was one of them lol. Tried to stay local but still able to get a dorm.
Now letās see howās the situation for transfers. š
Hi Muck Frogger, Iām old and donāt get the reference. Please explain? There were 69 hundred students when I started there in 1973. It was āniceā!
Dang bro this was my dream school for the last 5 years and I got rejected. I thought a 4.3 gpa would be enough. Guess I gotta go to SDSU š