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What all are other schools?

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Kelley is one of them

It ranked better but not in Bay area. If you are looking for placement in Tech. UCI is better.

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Please, is there anyone else that doesn’t have an update from them yet?

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I haven’t an update yet. No email at all.

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I haven’t an update yet. No email at all.

Provides some relief that I am not the only one 😮‍💨

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Anyone heard from UCI today? I still haven’t received a decision email.

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Anyone heard from UCI today? I still haven’t received a decision email.

I haven’t 🥹

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Hi
Has anybody else received invites ? Also, I wanted to connect with people who have been admitted to uci this year. Is there a group for that ?

I haven’t received a decision from them, not aware if anyone else has been admitted this round either. Thinking of emailing them.

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I haven’t received a decision from them, not aware if anyone else has been admitted this round either. Thinking of emailing them.

I sent an email on Monday. They are yet to respond though

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I sent an email on Monday. They are yet to respond though

I might just wait until next week since they did say it could take about 6 weeks. I’ll let you know if I get any updates from them.

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> I sent an email on Monday. They are yet to respond though
I might just wait until next week since they did say it could take about 6 weeks. I’ll let you know if I get any updates from them.

Alright 👍

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