Waiting List for UC & CSU Colleges

"The UC system recieved a record number of applications this year: 134,029. The same is true at CSU, where more than 609,000 students applied by November 30 - a record for the system" - according to Laurel Rosenhall - Sacramento Bee article dated April 3, 2010.

You can be accepted at one UC college, but wait-listed at others.

Here's the guide:

1. Inform the school by April 15 if you would like to be on the waiting list. Please note that an essay may be required.
2. Do not assume you will get in from the waiting list. Choose a school that has accepted you and put down the necessary deposit by May 1st.
3. There is no cost to be on a UC waiting list, but if you get in and choose to go there, you will lose the deposit put down at the school you originally agreed to attend.
4. Experts suggest students wait-listed at private colleges submit additional essays, letters of recommendation and requests for interviews.

At CSU, roughly 8,000 applicants have been wait-listed statewide.