<p>I have a 3.9 high school gpa. I want to go to UC San Diego. Or LA, Davis, SB. Think it's possible?</p>
<p>varsity cross country - 3 years
var track - 2 years
var swimming - 2 years
soccer - 3 years
I'm a 2nd degree black belt.
Lifeguard.
Honors and AP classes, like 8? Something like that.
Student council - 1 year. lol.
Over 100 community service hours.</p>
<p>No SAT/ACT scores yet. </p>
<p>So yeah. Cheers!</p>
<p>absolutely not. a 3.9 is preposterous. don’t even consider applying to college.</p>
<p>If that’s you’re unweighted GPA, then yes, especially if you’re in-state. </p>
<p>You could definitely get into all of them, although UCLA a high match and Berkeley a reach.</p>
<p>what do you think?</p>
<p>Sigh. Did you really have to put that?</p>
<p>Lol awesomeness, what I think he/she is trying to say is your grades are better than average, especially for those schools. You really have nothing to worry about and your ECs are good.</p>
<p>I don’t know! Sigh. Siiiiiiiiiigh.</p>
<p>Are you from California?</p>
<p>If so, I say YES, you can get into those schools. No worries. :)</p>
<p>shelly—if you are in state/public hs—check with your gc to see if you are eligible for ELC–top 4% of your grad.class. This would give you some safeties within the UC system. Your stats are strong-but-I believe UCLA & Cal are using holistic measurements of their applicants, so no guarantees. Last year I think Cal had someting like 5,000 applicants with perfect 2400 scores that were not accepted. You have done well-pat yourself on the back-and keep your GPA up–they do a review of your final transcript and have been known to rescind their admission offers. G’Luck</p>
<p>I’m no expert, but I dont think Cal is that rigorous, to deny 5000 students with 2400’s</p>
<p>She wasn’t asking about Cal anyway - she asked about UCSD, UCLA, UC Davis and UCSB.</p>
<p>only 276 kids got perfect scores last year. maybe they superscored, but even then, I can’t imagine 5000 kids with perfect scores applying there, let alone being rejected there</p>
<p>Here’s a better way to get the answer:
Go to a UC Admissions website. Calculate your UC weighted GPA. Go to your high school guidance office and ask to see the scattergrams for your school. Compare your GPA to the admissions outcomes for your school.<br>
You will have a better sense after you have your test scores.</p>
<p>Shellyiieezee, you did not answer the question about weighted or unweighted GPA.</p>
<p>If weighted, I would say iffy. The good news is that UC Riverside is an automatic if you qualify for UC, as is UC Merced. UC Santa Cruz is next easiest, then Davis.</p>
<p>Here is the % admitted to each of these schools:</p>
<p>UC Berkeley 24
UCLA 26
UC San Diego 49
UCSB 53
UCI 60
UC Davis 68
UCSC 80
UC Riverside 83</p>
<p>Those stats are of course artificially inflated, as you know, as only the top 12% of the CA high school graduating class is supposed to qualify for the UCs. The Cal States are supposed to be for everyone else in the top half of their graduating class.</p>
<p>BTW…it was indeed 5000 applicants who had 2400 SAT but did not get accepted to CAL according to a person working in the President’s office(My neighbor)</p>
<p>APOL- no offense but your neighbor is clearly wrong.</p>
<p>rocafelton – my gut says you’re right. Cal receives about 50,000 applications in total, accepting about 12,500 and enrolling about 5,000 (all rough figures from memory, but close enough for a gut check).</p>
<p>To imagine that Cal rejects the same number of 2400 scorers as students entering in the fall (5000) stretches credulity. That number is probably off by a factor of 5 or 10. </p>
<p>Of course I am happy to be corrected if anyone has the actual facts.</p>
<p>Not all applicants with 2400 have all the ECs and everything else that UCs are looking for. I know a few people that gave up music and sports to spend their time taking SAT prep classes so they could achieve that perfect score or try to. Will have to wait and see what the results are. I know several that did not get into Stanford Early Action.</p>
<p>BTW…there weren’t 5000 kids with 2400 SAT scores in the entire country. that is impossible.</p>
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<p>Well, about 45,000 applicants, about 10,000 admitted to fall 2007, and about 4,000 enrolled.</p>
<p>I also don’t think there were 5,000 perfect scorers in the country, and if there were, they all wouldn’t have applied to Berkeley (or any one school, for that matter), nor would Berkeley have rejected all of them (though perhaps some of them – it has before).</p>