<p>Are you guarnteed admissions to at least one uc school?</p>
<p>does anyon eknow</p>
<p>I doubt it. Aren’t the UCs supposed to be for the best in CA (top 10% at one time)? The remainder are what the Cal State and CCs are for.</p>
<p>My understanding is that you’re guaranteed a spot in one of the schools, IF you have a GPA of 3.5+ So if you’re on the low end, you may get into only one school, and it is likely to be UC Riverside or UC Merced (demand is lightest for these schools).</p>
<p>so you had to apply to every uc school? I applied to ucla, ucsb, uci, and ucsd and was rejected from all of them.</p>
<p>I think you had to apply to any of the UCs you may have wanted to go to. Although, you can try calling UC Riverside or Merced and see what they have to say. I know my son got a letter saying he was guaranteed a spot in a UC, but I don’t remember the requirements exactly.</p>
<p>It’s worth a call.</p>
<p>I should say, it’s worth a call IF you qualified for the guarantee.</p>
<p>i’ve heard that if you meet the UC A-G requirements and or UC GPA then you are at least guranteed acceptance to a UC campus. but i’m not completely sure about that. i wouldn’t be surprised if they dropped that gurantee because of the economy.</p>
<p>cal states lowered their admissions numbers greatly because of their budget.</p>
<p>In past years, if a UC-eligible California resident who applied on time was not admitted to any of the UCs he or she applied to, he or she would be contacted and asked if they wanted to be considered for admission to any UCs that had space available. This was called the being in the “Referral Pool”. If the student indicated they wanted to do this, they would eventually be offered a spot. Historically, these spots have been at the least selective campuses – Riverside and Merced. Santa Cruz used to accept referral pool students, but I don’t think they have recently. UC does this to keep its promise to the state that they guarantee a spot somewhere in the system for every UC eligible student who wants to attend. Because of funding cuts for UC by the state in the past year, there were rumblings that UC would no longer be able to do this, but I believe in the end they agreed to continue the practice. I think this generally happens later in the Spring, after the May 1 reply date, when campuses have a better sense of how many students are going to enroll.</p>
<p>A UC factsheet explaining what they did last year is available online:
<a href=“http://www.ucop.com/news/factsheets/2008/fall_2008_admissions_summary_e.pdf[/url]”>http://www.ucop.com/news/factsheets/2008/fall_2008_admissions_summary_e.pdf</a>.</p>
<p>I thought the guarantee was intended for the top ten percent.</p>
<p>the goal is top 12.5%. My understanding is also that if a student meets the minimum UC requirements, a place will be found… that place is called Merced.</p>
<p>Three UC schools sent us letter last October and gave my D guarantee admission to any major. They are UCR, UCI, and UCD. My D applied to 6 UCs. She got in all six of them (UCR, UCI, UCD, UCB, UCLA, UCSD) with Biology major.</p>
<p>chen1111 – I’ll bet that was the ELC letter, which guarantees admission to the mid-tier UCS when a student is top 4% of their graduating class. Looks like UCSB and UCSC did not participate in that program this year.</p>
<p>UCSB did:
[UCSB</a> Admissions](<a href=“http://www.admissions.ucsb.edu/ELC.asp]UCSB”>http://www.admissions.ucsb.edu/ELC.asp)</p>
<p>money4college, are you a California resident, and did you apply to any UCs?</p>
<p>In addition to the requirements other post-ers have mentioned (3.0+ “UC GPA,” all A-G requirements, SAT or ACT plus two SAT subject tests in two different areas, transcript showing high school graduation) you have to be a California resident and you must have submitted a complete application in advance of the deadline for the guarantee to apply. (Even students with ELC guarantees must complete all the listed requirements.)</p>
<p>The guarantee is not to any specific campus, so students who wish to insure acceptance should apply to one or more of the least-selective UCs. If you chose not to apply to the least-selective campuses (UCR and UCM) and were denied by the campuses you did apply to, you have to hope there is still space available at those campuses. Email to inquire.</p>
<p>I thought even if you’re Californian doesn’t mean you automatically get into one UC…</p>
<p>No one is guaranteed admissions to a UC school.</p>
<p>You need to be top 12.5 percent of your school, or ELC.</p>
<p>Yes, the UC system offers a guarantee to eligible California residents who apply on time:
[University</a> of California - Admissions](<a href=“http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/undergrad_adm/pathstoadm.html]University”>http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/undergrad_adm/pathstoadm.html)</p>
<p>To be “eligible,” however, ALL of the previously listed requirements must be met. As mentioned earlier, students must apply to the least-selective campuses to assure a place. Some students believe that if they apply only to UCB, UCLA and UCSD, that they would be guaranteed a place at one of those. That is NOT correct. If denied admission to all campuses applied to, students who believe they are eligible must contact the UC and see if there is space available. Currently UCM is where space is generally found.</p>
<p>There has been some discussion of eliminating the statewide guarantee, but no action has yet been taken on that issue.</p>
<p>I believe UC will initiate contact with students who applied on time, are UC-eligible, and were not admitted to any of the campuses to which they applied. I don’t think the student has to have applied to one of least selective campuses to participate. It is correct that these students are only guaranteed a place somewhere in the UC system – not at the campus of their choice. For example, if you apply to Berkeley and UCLA and are not admitted to either, and you are UC-eligible and applied on time, you will be included in the referral pool. Last year, as indicated in the PDF I posted above, referral students were offered admission at Merced and/or Riverside.</p>
<p>Correct, you do not have to have applied to the least selective campuses to be included in the guarantee, but it is sensible to do so to avoid the stress and worry of being put in the referral pool.</p>