<p>2.8 GPA
2190 SAT (800 writing, 790 Critical Reading, 600 Math)
780 English Literature SAT II
5 in AP English Language
Intended Major (guess it!): English</p>
<p>Senior Courseload:
AP English Literature
AP European History
Elective
French 2A
H Physiology
AP Statistics</p>
<p>My AP Lit teacher really liked my Personal Statement.</p>
<p>you need a 3.0 gpa to even apply to the UCs; however, you can do admission by examination if you don’t meet minimum reqs.</p>
<p>Okay, thanks! You think I can make it if I apply with admission by examination?</p>
<p>720 on US History SAT II. >> also</p>
<p>…Which UC’s do you think I can make it into?
If UC Merced accepted me…phew, that would be the day.</p>
<p>…bump bump ^_^</p>
<p>should I take the SAT again?
Get a tutor for Math maybe and get a 700 or something.
That’ll move me up to about 2300.</p>
<p>Yikes… The problem I’m seeing is that judging by your SAT score, you are perfectly capable of getting a high GPA… The question is how you got a 2.8??</p>
<p>Ah, unfortunately I didn’t have any kind of disease or death in the family that caused my GPA to be this low -_- 'twas merely my disregard for my academic life. I suppose I suffered minor depression for freshman and sophomore years, but it’s not any medical thing. I was very disillusioned but not anything any other teenager doesn’t go through. I’ll make sure to make my personal statement as dense and pedantically verbose on this matter as possible.</p>
<p>^^Yes, do that for sure. And I think that you can still get into Merced.</p>
<p>Wow, Thanks a lot! 
Hopefully, I can. At least I wasn’t aiming for the higher UC’s. </p>
<p>Other opinions are greatly appreciated!</p>
<p>Make sure that’s your UC GPA. UC GPA only counts Soph and Jr year. I had a 3.2ish gpa overall but when I calculated my UC GPA that dropped down to a dead-on 3.0. So in this case it kinda hurt me, but in your situation it might move your GPA up.</p>
<p>I got into Davis so not all is lost I assure you. I’m Asian btw, so it wasn’t an affirmative action/diversity angle that got me in.</p>
<p>Yeah, it’s my UC GPA. :/</p>
<p>Oh, that’s great good job! I’m Mexican, perhaps that might aid me in my application.</p>
<p>Ethnicity isn’t factored into UC admissions, only privates.</p>
<p>oh, okay. Either way, I wasn’t depending on it.</p>
<p>…bump! ^-^</p>
What is apply with admission by examination? How do you do that?
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