ok, so we all know that there’s a lot of people applying to Ivies but we average students also need to speak out lol- not all of us are a genius . . post here if you’re “average” and are applying to “average” schools (also tell if you got in or not).
<p>Well, I am not a genious. Just the Average. Any idea if "average" students have a chance of being accepted by "UCs"??</p>
<p>Average students have a very good chance of being accepted by UCs -- but it depends on just how you define "average," really.</p>
<p>well, i am an average student: not very athletic but a badminton team member; highly motivated; 101% college bound; takes rigorous classes; good student; good grades; ms. goody-goody.</p>
<p>I'm average as far as SATs but great as far as grades go. I've been accepted to all the schools I applied to thus far. Just waiting to hear back from 2 more.</p>
<p>I'm average and I've been accepted to 3 of my top schools and I'm waiting for 3 more... :) Average is COOL!</p>
<p>No, average, if defined by stats at the 50 percentile, do not get into UCs. California's system is designed so that the top 10% go to UCs, another 30% under that to CSUs and the rest of the college bound to CCs. For a UC, most need to be in top 10% of high school class for freshmen admission. Comprehensive reviews allows for kids from disadvantaged backgrounds to get a boost. And then there are athletes....Some lower stats might sneak into Merced while it's new.</p>
<p>I'm average by CC standards in terms of SATs, fairly high gpa and course load, but only "normal' ECs. Check out the 1200 thread... There are more average kids then you think.</p>
<p>yeah true anovice, but many of them claim to be "average" just to prove that they're not showing off which I've noticed . . and wacki average is def. cool!! we avg. people need to ban together 'cause one of us could become president-- ya never know.</p>
<p>1200 isn't average. Average SAT is about 1000.</p>
<p>kirmum I think lots of people forget about that fact on this site .. lol</p>
<p>Kirmum:</p>
<p>a small nit: in the past couple of years, the top 14% have been accepted (includes athletes and ELC), while the Master Plan calls for the top 12.5%. Merced will likely take all who meet the minimum requirements assuming the UC budget doesn't get slashed by the legislature.</p>
<p>I guess that makes sense Bluebayou, 90 plus percent at all (don't know about Merced) are now in the top 10%, leaving athletes and special cases to round it out.</p>
<p>The people on this site who consider themselves to be average are generally speaking above average. I'd actually like to know what are average stats.</p>
<p>A truely averager student applies to college where if you have certain numbers, like say, a 2.5, >900, you get in.</p>
<p>I mean really... if there's 3000 schools in the US, once you look out of the top so many (100 or so?), it's really extremely statistics based.</p>
<p>It seems that average students who apply to match schools have a high probability of getting in. It's just in the upper echelons that a match does not an admit make. Some average kids I know have not even applied yet, as they can do a walk in admit for some local schools with transcript and testscores in hand. If you are above a threshhold, you are in. This angst comes with the schools where 20,000 matches are applying for 1000 seats.</p>
<p>Actually guys if you look at the way the grades are supposed to be weighted, an A is "exceptional", b is "above average", c is "average", and d is "below average". My problem is that while I dont have the best grades in the world by far (2.43 GPA) I have an excellent paid internship; my problem is that since I would rather not have my work suffer, my schooling does. I can only hope that my job:</p>
<p>1) You participated in a paid internship at ******* <strong><em>.
2) You operated as the Division's sole Information Support person for a
2500 member company. (</em></strong>* has 2500 employees)
3) You supported the Division's hardware and software initiatives.
4) It will be very difficult to replace you.</p>
<p>(this is some of what the division controller says he wrote on my recommendation letter.)
I can only hope that this adds some weight and gets my foot in the door. With no job and full time student when I get there I hope to do VERY well. Any other helpful tips to help me out?</p>
<p>Soccerguy brought up an interesting point. Many of the people who post on this board are trying to get into exceptional schools, and I think most of the people here have a skewed idea on average. I want to go to UCLA next year (I'm a CC transfer student, and have already applied) and I'm always shocked to find how many people think it's incredible I want to get into a school like that. In my classes the professors will occasionally go around asking where students plan to transfer, when I say UCLA, I normally get a few people going "wow that's impressive."</p>
<p>Come to this message board though and all of the sudden the concept of average has changed. UCLA does not really get much shock here; people just tend to see it as another school, as they do Yale, Harvard and so on. 99% of the people on this board are applying to the top universities in the nation, so it's not really a big deal. At my CC most people (I'd say 75% of them) plan to transfer to CSUN, which I believe is a third tier school. The handful of students who want to transfer to a big university (Cal, UCLA, USC and so forth) typically are seen far beyond average.</p>
<p>So what is the point of all of this? I think that the term average is misleading. Average is a very relative concept. If you're in a High School where the entire student body has a 3.8 (and for the sake of things lets assume that the classes are all difficult, there is just a very bright batch of kids) or higher, and yet you're standing there with a 3.75 (making you the lowest GPA in your class) you'll be called below average. Take that same student to a High School where the average GPA is a 2.8, then all of the sudden that 3.75 is going to make that below average student above average. Average changes and before calling yourself average (or above average) you need to take into account the people you're comparing yourself to.</p>
<p>Best post ive read in a while.</p>
<p>Does anybody actually have stats they consider average they'd be willing to post?</p>