<p>Jv and Varsity swim captain (4 years swim)
Karate: black belt
Vice President of Spanish club
Club swim 3 years
Cross country 3 years</p>
<p>GPA:(10-12)
UC: 3.74
UW: 3.44
W: 3.96</p>
<p>Sat I: CR:540 M:700 W:720 (1960)
Sat II: not yet taken</p>
<p>Worked as a lifeguard/swim instructor. Have about 350+ hours of community service for my church, the city pool, and sports medicine.</p>
<p>Ethnicity: Mexican/Latino
In-state residency
Prospective major: physiology & neuroscience </p>
<p>Match</p>
<p>UCD: High Match/Low Reach</p>
<p>Given your test scores and GPA on top of your nice ECs, UCD seems like a good match for you. Good luck!</p>
<p>if you have the opportunity, do you mind chancing me fren? :] <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1713808-what-are-my-chances-for-uc-schools.html”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1713808-what-are-my-chances-for-uc-schools.html</a></p>
<p>Low reach. Your GPA is awful. You should not apply to the UCs. You should apply to schools that care about your ethnicity.</p>
<p>Turns out I calculated my weighted incorrectly, it’s actually a 4.16. Would that make a difference? @Mangiafuoco </p>
<p>No because your unweighted GPA and your capped UC GPA are still too low.</p>
<p>Alright…</p>
<p>OP, it doesnt hurt to apply since its not totall6 out of reach. Write a good essay and see what happens. Also put UCM/UCR and UCSB if you want those as safeties.</p>
<p>With a UC GPA of 4.16, you are a Match/High Match. Anything over a 4.0+ is competitive. Good Luck.</p>
<p>@Gumbymom
4.16 is OP’s fully weighted GPA. OP’s capped UC GPA is only 3.74.
Also, a 4.16 capped UC GPA would not make UC Davis a high match. It would make UC Davis a low match.</p>
<p>@Mangiafuoco: Then my orginal chance of High Match/Low Reach stands. OP did not specify fully weighted vs UC capped weighted. My mistake.</p>
<p>My mistake @Gumbymom and thanks!</p>
<p>@Mangiafuoco a 4.16 capped UC GPA would not make UC Davis a low match. UC Davis’ average capped UC GPA is a 4.07. 4.16 is closer to that of UCLA (4.17) and UC Berkeley (4.18). </p>
<p>@awesomekid
Are you suggesting that a 4.16 will make UC Davis a safety? Because that is unrealistic. Very few students have the stats necessary to call the mid-tier UCs safeties. Such students are rare even on a site like College Confidential. high reach > reach > low reach > high match > match > low match > safety</p>
<p>@Thatoneguy24 you have a solid chance at UCD don’t worry!</p>
<p>@peterg123 thanks! I’ll try not to lol</p>
<p>@Mangiafuoco My friend got into Duke with a 3.0 GPA. No hooks. This guy’s GPA isn’t bad. </p>
<p>The op has a solid chance at ucd and most of the other mid/low tier schools. </p>
<p>@Mangiafuoco I thought it was high reach > reach > low reach > low match > match > high match > safety?
So someone with a 4.16 UC gpa would be closer to a high match for UCD. For the OP, UCD is a reach because UCs care about GPA soooo much.</p>