Chance at UCs

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hey guys,
I've been underachieving heavily in high school, and now I'm stuck at a 3.6 nonweighted and 3.9 weighted. I have taken AP EURO sophomore year, 3 APs junior year, and plan to take 4 APs senior year. My SAT Score is a 2270. </p>

<p>ECs:
3 years track, 1 year captain
2 years city orch
4 years orch
2 years football varsity
2 years cyber patriots
1 year science bowl
100+ hours various community service
Working hard to host a 5K to help child abuse</p>

<p>I know that I have little chance of getting into good school, but I am still anxious. Thank you.</p>

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<p>You may already have met the guaranteed acceptance criteria for UC Riverside. </p>

<p><a href=“New Students | Apply | Undergraduate Admissions | UC Riverside”>http://admissions.ucr.edu/WhyUCR/ourGuarantee&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Apply by the July 31 date and you can have the comfort of knowing you are already accepted to one UC. It’s non-binding, so in November you can apply to others. You have a decent GPA and good EC’s and test scores. Work on your essays over the summer and I’m sure you will do well. Good luck!</p>

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<p>I agree with @CalZippers: Apply to the GAP program at UCR. My older S did so he had one UC in his pocket. The UC’s have been very focused on GPA vs Test scores, so a GPA around 4.0 (W) or greater with your test scores gives you alot of options. I think you have a good chance at UCSC and possibly UCSB/UCD. Go ahead and apply to some higher tier UC’s as reaches and add a few Cal States for safeties. It will also depend upon your major. CS/BME/ME and Bio probably the most competitive.<br>
Good Luck
BTW: Younger S had GPA (W) 3.73 ACT 31 and got into UCR honors with Chancellor Scholarship.
Older S had GPA (W) 4.2 ACT 25</p>

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<p>Hey guys, thanks for the responses. I really appreciate them. I would like to add I moved to a different school halfway through sophomore year. I would also like to add that I studied at Uci over the summer and took a class in biomedical engineering, and I also am taking an engineering class at Oxford this summer. How much would this help boost my chances toward higher tier UC’s.</p>

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<p>My son also had a poor freshman year. On the UC application (after the essays) there is a place to list “additional information”. He explained about his poor grades freshman year (his junior and senior year grades were excellent), citing lack of focus, immaturity, etc. Berkeley sent him a supplemental questionnaire. If you are only applying to CSU and UC’s. you would not need letters of recommendation, but if you receive this supplemental questionnaire you do, so be sure to be known to your teachers and guidance counselor.</p>

<p>He was accepted to all UC’s he applied to (Berkeley, UCLA, Davis, UCSD, UCSB) and Cal Poly SLO.</p>

<p>4.2 weighted GPA, 2240 SAT, robotics (6 years), music (8 years). Only volunteer work was high school mandated 30 hours of community service. He received a high enough score on the American Mathematics Competition to qualify for AIME and did well on it. I should add that he attended a low API, Title One high school and was ELC (eligible in the local context), which helps with getting into the UC’s.
<a href=“http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/freshman/california-residents/local-path/”>http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/freshman/california-residents/local-path/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>He is studying statistics at UC Berkeley. This is in the College of Letters and Sciences. I do not think he would have been able to get into engineering/computer science at Cal, but that was not his interest anyways. He is minoring in computer science.</p>