<p>Hi I'm planning on applying to UCSB and wanted to know from current students what they had to do and how they did in high school to get accepted.
Thanks in advance</p>
<p>ELC for me</p>
<p>Was ELC hard to get?
I live in Davis CA (most boring place in the world) and my high school is ranked 10th in the state...will that help me at all?</p>
<p>=] I got ELC; so for next year I'm totally in. It depends if your high school participates in ELC or not.</p>
<p>You have to have good grades to be eligible for ELC right? Like be in the top 4% of your high school or something.
I keep hearing of people who have gotten into UCSB with low gpa and average SAT/ACT scores. Is that true?</p>
<p>if you get ELC, you will get a letter from each school (that accepts)
and maybe one from UCSD that says they can't promise you a slot but that you should apply because you'll get like preference..none from UCLA or berkley</p>
<p>keltix is right. I got that UCSD letter yesterday stating that I should apply since I'm considered for ELC. =)</p>
<p>So ELC depends on your performance in high school right?</p>
<p>indeed
im not sure how close it is to 4% though...
i calculated that only the top 20~30 would get ELC (since .04*class size)...
but then i heard like ppl in the top 40 got it too. so it depends on your HS</p>
<p>so pretty much if you got ELC meaning your in the top 4% of your high school you probably have a really high GPA which kinda guarantees you acceptance anyway right?</p>
<p>no. I got ELC and I got guranteed acceptance to davis, a letter from San Diego to invite me to apply, and a letter from Merced to invite me to apply. Didn't get one from Santa Barbara, which I am kinda bummed about, but its fine, I guess. So the only one I got explicitely guranteed a spot for is Davis, but ELC only really counts for california schools, so it doenst mean your better qualified once you hit out of state. Like, still, for me, NYU Stern is a reach, so top 4% doesn't mean a whole lot.</p>
<p>ELC is top 4% + ties of each participating high school. The a-g gpa is weighted with UC-approved bonus points, with no cap on the number of bonus points.</p>
<p>Yea I live in state (Davis actually so i really wanna get out of here)
So when do you apply for ELC? After SATS or after your junior year is over?</p>
<p>should be automatic through your school;
if it participates</p>
<p>Hmm ok ill have to check.
Is there anything specific that UCSB looks for besides good gpa and sat scores?</p>
<p>the usual i would say</p>
<p>UCSB explicitly states on their Admission's site that ELC students are guaranteed admission, for anyone who's wondering.</p>
<p>yea that's been implied...</p>
<p>wait, any elc student, regardless if they got a letter from ucsb or not? Cause I remember reading it was some ridiculously hight rate, like 98% or something, compared to ucla which had like 50%, so then, not everyone with elc was accepted, and I thought I was one of the unlucky few, lol.</p>
<p>you get ELC promise from other schools and not UCSB?</p>