Chance me for UCs and CSUs?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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(For UCs)
Major - Biological Science
Alt Major - Biomedical Engineering
*CSUs - similar major(s)

NW GPA - 3.64
W GPA - 3.91
UC GPA - 3.91
SAT I - 1430 (M - 720 ; E - 710) *new SAT
SAT II (Biology M - 700) (US - 730) (Math 1 - 640)
ACT - 29
AP Score - WH (3); US (5); Biology (3)

Senior Course
AP Calculus AB
AP Civics/Economics Honors
AP French
AP Chemistry
AP Literature

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60+ local library

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Which UC’s and CSU’s?

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@Gumbymom
Oh, I forgot to include that. Sorry!
All of UC, and [CSUF, CSULB].

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CSUF/CSULB/UCM/UCR: Safety
UCSC: Match
UCI/UCD/UCSB: High Match-Low Reach
UCSD: Low Reach-Reach
UCLA/UCB: Reach

Biology and BME are both capped majors at UCSD so you want to pick one capped major and for the alternate major an uncapped major or you may not get into any major. Same is true for UCD where Biology and BME are both impacted majors.

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http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1903428-faq-uc-historical-frosh-admit-rates-by-hs-gpa.html can help you with UC historical frosh admission rates; the table in post #4 shows the 2015 admission rates by GPA and campus.

If your major is impacted (biomedical engineering often is; biology sometimes is), admission will be more difficult than general admission to the campus.

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@Gumbymom
Thank you for chancing me!
@ucbalumnus
Thank you for the link, it’s very interesting!

I was also wondering where I can find the list of majors that are capped or impacted for each UC? I am especially interested in the list for UCI.

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Impacted majors typically are those which are difficult to change into (e.g. high college GPA needed).

UCI has handy tables for changing majors: http://www.changeofmajor.uci.edu/ . Those where the grade or GPA requirement is higher than C or 2.00 should be assumed to be impacted.

Some schools report frosh admission thresholds by major. SJSU is an example: http://www.sjsu.edu/admissions/impaction/ .