<p>anyone know what kind of exception?</p>
<p>What are you talking about?</p>
<p>anyway. does anyone know if this means for personal causes, or gpa that has not met, and so on? last yr, ucsd received 12 students from admission by exception</p>
<p>Eligibility of the local context - you go to a poor school, and get horrible grades, but you're still in the top 5% or so or your school. Then you are "eligible".</p>
<p>top of your school. maybe you had all c's but everyone else got d's. you know there are schools that get an average of 30%ile for STAR tests.... but then again, someone does have to be at the bottom.</p>
<p>well there is this thing - admission by examination alone. if your total sat scores are above 3550 ( i think) out of 4000, then they take you. But i don't know the exact details for this.... ANYONE ELSE?</p>
<p>Go here to see methods of admission <a href="http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/undergrad_adm/paths_to_adm/freshman.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/undergrad_adm/paths_to_adm/freshman.html</a>
As you will see, there is no official admission by "exception." You may be thinking of Admission by Examination. The requirements given in that website for admission by examination are the minimums needed and do not assure your admission. There can be one-off "exceptions" made if requested but they are rare -- example, you cannot meet foreign language requirement because your high school does not have any foreign language courses.</p>
<p>as drusba has said, all of these are just to meet the minimium eligibility requirements so they won't automatically throw your app away. At the top UCs probably the majority they will not get you in alone. Most likely if you're only eligible through examination that means you probably don't have that good of a chance anyway simply because you have a relatively bad GPA (sub 3.0) that simply won't get you into the UCs that most would desire.</p>