Adele Brumfield News Today

Print Anika Madan, a senior at Sunny Hills High in Fullerton, had a loaded school resume when she applied to six University of California campuses for admission this fall: a 4.6 GPA, 11 college-level courses, student leadership positions and community service building robotic hands for people with disabilities. She was accepted to UC campuses at Irvine, Riverside and Santa Barbara — but wait-listed at Berkeley, Davis and San Diego. Once again she is on edge — along with tens of thousands ...

Tens of thousands of UC applicants are wait-listed this year amid record applications, and admission directors say forecasting chances of being selected is as uncertain as ever.

Print The Burbank mother knew her high school senior would have a tough time competing for a freshman seat at a University of California campus in a year of record-shattering applications — more than 200,000 students were vying for about 46,000 spots. Still, she thought her daughter — with a 4.3 GPA, eight AP and honors courses and a host of extracurricular activities — would have a shot. She was floored in March when the campus notifications began rolling in. Out of seven UC campuses, he...