<p>I don't think freshman grades matter, so I won't post it</p>
<p>Sophomore:
(1st semester)
Chemistry honors-A
Algebra 2 honors- A
English honors- A
AP European history- B
Spanish III- B</p>
<p>(2nd semester)
All A's except Spanish III</p>
<p>Junior:
(1st semester)
AP Chemistry- B
AP US history- A
Spanish IV IB- A
AP English- B
Pre Calculus honors- A</p>
<p>As of now, my weighted is 4.75 and unweighted is 3.75 (this is under the 10-12 GPA section)</p>
<p>My SAT score will be around the 2000-2100 range, after tons of practice, and taking it March. I also plan on taking SAT II Chemistry and Math II (got 800 on Chinese, yeah I know it doesn't do anything)</p>
<p>I'm a Chinese yo-yo instructor and Chinese TA. I've been a MC for a new year's event. I'm in an exclusive orchestra for 3 years and got some awards for violin. I've had about 100+ hours of volunteer. I'm Public of Relations for an engineering club (I actually want to major in engineering, so i don't know if that'll help my admission) and member of NHS. </p>
<p>Can anyone evaluate my chances? I really want to go to UCSD's engineering school.</p>
<p>You have a 4.1 UC GPA right now which is about the average. Work hard on studying your SATs and get over 200 community service hours and I think you’ll have a good shot.</p>
<p>Thanks jlewis24 for the UC GPA- I had no idea how to calculate it, so thanks.</p>
<p>JeSuis, I’ve looked at the UCSD website and I’m not sure which classes qualify as the A-G courses. Can you please clarify and explain what they are?</p>
<p>A-G courses are math, English, foreign language, science, history/social studies, and some electives (should say -P on your transcript.) You can count courses you took in 7th or 8th grade (for example, Algebra I or Spanish I.)</p>
<p>AndrewL, my AP score for European History actually was a 2…yeah, studying a month for that score. I got a 5 on Chinese though. This year, I plan on getting a 5 on AP Chem (my motivation is that the teacher will round my B to an A, so I’ll work really hard), hopefully a 4 on AP English and 4 on AP US History. I’m considering Chemical engineer. Can you explain to me what “impacted” means?</p>
<p>JeSuis, almost all of my classes has the -P on the transcript. I’m a bit confused, but to give you a brief overview of what I plan on taking:
3 years of Spanish (I’m stopping at Spanish 4)
4 years of orchestra
4 years of math
4 years of science (possibly 5, if I take Physics and AP Biology next year)</p>
<p>I’m not sure if I answered the A-G courses, but I tried my best.</p>
<p>“An impacted major is a major for which more students apply for than the school can accommodate. It is a classic example of when Demand exceeds Supply. When this occurs, the major becomes impacted and therefore is susceptible to higher standards of admission.”</p>
<p>Luckily for you, chemical engineering is not impacted so it should have no bearing on your admission status. (The only impacted engineering majors are the ones in the Mechanical & Aerospace department and the Bioengineering department)</p>
<p>I can understand why not as many apply for Chemical engineer…AP Chem has driven me crazy already. But man, I just wish I could get into UCSD, period. Hope my grades are good enough.</p>
<p>I’m not sure if you’re aware of it, but UCSD works on a point system. Here’s the link and you can calculate your point yourself. Some are subjective, but you can get a very good estimate of where you are.</p>
<p>Adam, my counselor calculated it according to UC schools. That’s what I first thought when I saw the supposedly low GPA, but UC’s calculate it differently than high schools.</p>
<p>From what I’ve read about UC schools, I think UCLA and UC Berkeley has an average of a 4.0 GPA. UCSD is around a 3.9 or something. If I’m not wrong, then I think my GPA of 3.83 is pretty accurate. I don’t know, maybe she did calculate it wrong, but I doubt it because she’s been doing this for a long time.</p>