<p>UC schools can look at high schools' API score to measure the competitiveness. Do you happen to know your school's API score?</p>
<p>Arcadia is one of the best public schools in Southern California (I'm from the area). My friend that goes there tells me that they send plenty of students to Berkeley every year. It's almost like a feeder school to the UC system. I remember reading somewhere that they send 30+ students to USC as well.</p>
<p>Those stats are about right for a match. Some students I know got in with lower GPAs and a lower SAT scores.</p>
<p>A 3.7 at Arcadia is = to 4.2 most other places.</p>
<p>if applying to eecs with those thats mentioned in the OP, what is it? big reach?</p>
<p>Not a big reach, just a reach.</p>
<p>Does the OP go to monta vista or something?</p>
<p>At my school, 3.8 unweighted and 2100 or more is basically a guarantee into berkeley. I have never seen anyone with those stats rejected in teh past 2 years. 1400 for the years before the new sat. Our school usually 100 people or so get in out of the graduating class of 450. Pretty easy school to get in, but then again we are instate and public.</p>
<p>yeah, my counselor did a stats evaluation with all the seniors this year and showed us where the kids got in and what their transcripts looked like. she said i was MOST LIKELY going to get into berkeley (not for sure) because our school had like 50 get in and then 30 are going there and my stats were better in comparison than most of the students who got in (class of '07 is in general a LOT smarter than '06). i wouldn't consider it a safety, more like a match or low-match. </p>
<p>everyone comes from good high schools. :( my high school has only had 2 graduating classes and no one has yet gotten into MIT, Yale, or Princeton.</p>
<p>Here's the scatter plots I've been talking about.</p>
<p>I do realize that some were rejected with higher stats than 3.7/2100, but it looks like most got in.</p>
<p>Oh and I do go to Arcadia.</p>