UCI is my safety as well. My offer comes with fellowship too ^^
You can go to the below link to check out each admit's name, background and industry, etc.
http://applicant.merage.uci.edu/Already ... index.aspx
I worked in LA metropolitan area for 2 years before and I am going in IT consulting and entrepreneurship so UCI is a pretty good starting point for my career, considering that there are lots of start-up and tech companies in Orange County/ Irvine area. I am still waiting for answers from my top schools but I really like UCI so far. I had my interview on campus and got to be in contact with several second year students even until now. They are extremely friendly and helpful, and I really do not find that atmosphere in a lot of the programs. The people in the admission office/career center are quite agressive on recruiting strong students and improving job placement rate, for they are farely young and very enthusiastic. UCI has been trying to improve its ranking for awhile now, and they just replaced the entire staff body in the career center a year ago, so I am optimistic about the employment stats in the next coupla years...
Up until now there is only one thing I think UCI needs to improve this year- I think they admit a lot of Indians, Chinese, ABC and local Californians, and thus affect the diversity of the program. I specifically asked the student ambassadors about diversity in the past few years and I found that this year is prolly the least diversified. However nothing is finalized yet since there are still lots of spots open... and I think a few current students have already given feedback to the admission office so hopefully this would be improved.
PS. Imagenook and I are planning to talk face to face sometime, feel free to let me know if you would like to join us!