<p>Someone I know wants to get into UCLA but she has huge doubt about her chance. She's junior right now and she came to America in her Freshman year from Australia. She lives in La Jolla (San Diego Area) and is a California Resident.</p>
<p>GPA: 3.80 W, 3.6 UW (as of the end of her first semester as junior).
*If she get Straight A's for her second semester in her junior year and the first semester of her senior year, her GPA (weighted) would be between 4.0 and 4.05.</p>
<p>ECs:
-Badminton
-Key Club
-CSF Club (it's basically a volunteering club, very similar to Key club)
-Church Volunteering (Playing piano and violin)
-Orchestra
-Working at a Shoe Repair shop (volunteering)</p>
<p>Leaderships:
-First Violinist at church
-Leader of Church Worship Team
-Event Organizer of her church</p>
<p>AP courses:
-US History
-Literature
-Statistics
-Psychology</p>
<p>Awards:
-National Honor Roll
-Some certificate she got from counselor (she forgot what it's called)
-Physical Education Outstanding Achievement Award
-A medal (she got in australia, but forgot what it was for)
-Most improved student award for science
-Bunch more from badminton</p>
<p>I know, her stat is looking pretty bad. The only thing that can improve her chance to UCLA is the SAT score. My question is, AT LEAST what score should she aim for in order to have a decent chance to UCLA/UCSD? Would 2200 be enough? And what else can she do to improve her chance?</p>
<p>From what I've heard UC's can become pretty random in terms of selection. Tell her to figure her UC GPA(I forgot how to calculate it). Tell her to look at the other UC schools. UCI and UCD are both pretty good IMO. UCSB is pretty good as well.</p>
<p>They look at mid years just to make sure there is no significant drop. For admissions purposes they use the "UC GPA" which is a formula based on academic courses in grades 10 and 11 with a total of eight weighted (semester) classes.</p>
<p>your UC Gpa that they use for Admission is Soph-junior year grades only. Last years stats those who had a 3.7-3.99 weighted UC GPA had only a 15 percent chance at UCLA and a 11 percent chance at Cal. By the time ur friend applies those stats will drop likely too with the influx of applicants and seeing ur freind has to have straight A's senior year to get into the 4.0 weighted range it seems shes stuck in the 3.7-3.99 range. for UCSD, a 2100 would help her become competitive, 2200 for UCLA. However, it makes her competitive and then the ylook at EXC as a tie breaker. Thats where shes weak as well nothing unique or interesting, most school related outside of a shoe repair which realyl donest give back to the community in a significant way. She'll need to score really high on the SAT like a 2100-2200 and do a significant exc for UCLA to become a slight reach-match and UCSD match</p>
<p>i disagree on UCSD. For UCSD to be a match she has to score over the mean SAT to compensate for her lower then avg UCSD Gpa. Id say 2050-2100 is a good range to be in for your friend, 2150-2200 for UCLA. Also SF giants keep in mind with so many more apps to those schools, criteria for admission next year might be much more strict so i dont think a 1950 will cut it with a 3.8-3.9 gpa.</p>
<p>This pattern of more apps has been going on for years without too much of a pronounced effect on admissions standards. They have gone up, but it's not all that bad.</p>
<p>UCSD's admit stats are skewed by the large number of people who apply to UCB/UCLA and just check UCSD off as their safe school. So when in reality you would need a 3.8/3.9 weighted, the statistics register a 4.0 weighted for an average admit because of the large number of people with 4.3's applying and getting accepted.</p>
<p>In my opinion a 3.8-3.9 weighted/1950 SAT is a match for UCSD provided that SAT II's are decent.</p>
<p>"""This pattern of more apps has been going on for years without too much of a pronounced effect on admissions standards. They have gone up, but it's not all that bad.
UCSD's admit stats are skewed by the large number of people who apply to UCB/UCLA and just check UCSD off as their safe school. So when in reality you would need a 3.8/3.9 weighted, the statistics register a 4.0 weighted for an average admit because of the large number of people with 4.3's applying and getting accepted.
In my opinion a 3.8-3.9 weighted/1950 SAT is a match for UCSD provided that SAT II's are decent."""</p>
<p>-I would say a 3.8 1950 is deff not a match for UCSD. More like a slight reach. What you are saying was true about 5-10 years ago. however, students with 3.8 and 1950 are denied admission to UCSD all the time. those stats deffiantly do not make UCSD a match. Im not saying he could not get in, however it is deff not a 50% chance.</p>