Chance me for University of Cali schools!

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<p>I am a senior in high school right outside of Atlanta, GA. I want to go to college to gain a B.S. in biology with some emphasis in marine biology or oceanography. I applied to many schools but my top are U.C. Davis, Santa Cruz, San Diego, and Santa Barbara. I'm obviously not a Cali resident but I love the marine biology opportunity in Cali and wish to be closer to my cousins and big sister out in L.A. </p>

<p>I have combined probably around 200-300 hours of community service, and will graduate with 7 AP courses the rest honors except for the language classes and three mandatory classes that aren't offered in honors. I have moved around a lot and during my sophomore yr my mom passed away of lung cancer. She was a single mom so her passing caused me to move from house to house and I am considered an "independent student" when applying. In my essay and short responses on my applications I try to explain the impact all this chaos that is my life has had on my grades which I have managed to keep above a 3.0 un-weighted. I think my essay also reflects my creative writing talent.</p>

<p>I don't know how forgiving these schools are for slip ups in grades. I have no grades on my transcripts below a 70%, but I hear these schools are HIGHLY selective. Plz chance me!</p>

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<p>Just wanted to throw one more thing out there! If anyone could help me find a private school in Cali with NO RELIGIOUS AFILIATION and a biology program with maybe a marine science/ oceanography emphasis or opportunity that’d be a miracle. I doubt there is one that exists from what I’ve researched but who knows maybe I looked in the wrong places.</p>

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<p>Cal State Monterey Bay.</p>

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<p>I’m not sure of your uc GPA, so I can’t really help but here’s a good idea of where you stand:
UCSB-4.11
Ucsd- 4.19
UCSC- 3.89
Davis- 4.01</p>

<p>Davis is not good for marine bio, but the others are because of their close proximity to the ocean.</p>

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<p>Cal, not Cali. Cali is in Colombia.</p>

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<p>you’re gonna need a 3.5 unweighted or higher for pretty much all of those schools. I’m not sure, but Cal State Long Beach and University of San Diego might have marine bio programs, and you could possibly get into those schools</p>

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<p>I too was going to bring up usd but its affiliated with religion and or some reason the poster doesn’t want that. Take a look at cal states. They’re cheaper and still get the degree you want</p>

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<p>I think I remember looking into Davis because it offered animal biology and animal science. I want to end up in the marine biology field specializing with sea turtles, but I’m not sure if either of those two degrees would be a good start to branch out of. I’m also looking at the CAL state schools they also look promising. But nobody knows how U.C. universities take into account a student’s background when looking at their applications? :/</p>

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<p>Oh yea! The reason I was so interesting in Davis was because someone told me they either owned or were affiliated with Bodega Marine Lab, and they had an area of emphasis in marine biology within the biological science major. Is this true!?</p>

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<p>Sorry about your mom. </p>

<p>OOS honors classes aren’t usually weighted. What is your UC GPA? Have you met the a-g requirements? Are there any financial limitations? If so, will you have someplace you can live?</p>

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<p>Long story short UCs see everything - background, ECs, personal statements, scores, additional information. If you have something in your life, they’ll know. Cal states do not look at any of this and jut care about your grades and scores. It’s really hard to get a good idea of your chances if we don’t know anything about you academic or extracurricular background.</p>

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<p>I’ve done mentoring at a few programs when I lived in Orlando, I worked at Beans, Books, and Brains (a “Barnes” coffee shop inside of a hs in Orlando) and have been apart of the Orlando Shakespeare Center, are scheduled to do volunteering at the Georgia Aquarium soon, have taken AP Lit, AP Lang., AP env. sci., AP human geo., AP gov., AP stat., (I’m ahead in the math requirements), AP Psych. Have had involvement in theatre clubs, adv. drama courses, and creative writing classes, I have finished all of the a-g requirements. I have a 3.0 unweighted and have no idea what a mere HS weighted gpa of that would be because my crap school cannot do anything right. and as I mentioned before I have finished around 200-300 community service hrs when the requirement for graduation is 30. And I have a current internship working on developing a website.</p>

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<p>3.18 unweighted. I just checked my transcript. Not like that makes much of a difference though :/</p>

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<p>You need to calculate your uc gpa. Your AP’s will be weighted for grades c and above. Have you seen the uc admissions website? Anyway, “chances” are not good at most UC’s with gpa below 4.0. UCSC could happen with a less than 3.6, but chances are not good. “Good” SAT’s/ACT’s could help. Chances at some privates might better if you have a great story. And money.</p>

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<p>Okay I figured, thnx for being real with me.</p>

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<p>You need to calculate your UC GPA. It needs to be 3.4 in order to be eligible for admission. You get extra weighting for your AP and IB classes.</p>

<p>“In order to be considered for admission, applicants must have earned a minimum GPA of 3.0 (3.4 for nonresidents) in all “a-g” courses completed in grades 10 and 11, with no grade lower than a C.”</p>

<p>A=4, B=3, C=2, D=1. (Pluses and minuses don’t count.) Give an extra point for any AP or IB course.</p>

<p>I think you have other threads where you were told that you won’t get aid for the $23,000 per year charged to OOS students at the UC’s. I think you were also told about Occidental where you will have a better chance of getting your need met, and their Marine bio program. Also in SCMI is Cal State Long Beach.
[SCMI.us</a> » About SCMI](<a href=“http://scmi.us/category/about-scmi]SCMI.us”>http://scmi.us/category/about-scmi)</p>

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<p>Shrinkrap is right, the UC’s and the Cal States weigh admissions based on GPA’s and SAT’s. GPA’s below 4.0 are not considered competitive at the UC’s. SDSU’s average for entering freshman was something like 3.7.</p>

<p>Have you thought about the costs for coming to California? You would be considered an out-of-state resident for the 4 years of your education even with the “independent” status, so if you plan on doing the UC or Cal States, you will be paying out-of-state tuition, no matter how good your EC’s or personal essays are. (FWIW: Everyone and their relatives wants to come to California schools.)</p>

<p>California, not Cali (we don’t call it that), does not have enough money for its own resident students and a number of California kids, whose parents have been paying taxes for YEARS (me included) don’t receive any funding, so if the state can’t fund their own residents, they won’t have money to fund OOS students no matter how much the students want it. They will admit you at the Cal States, but you will be paying full fees, and that’s not cheap. California admits OOS students so that they will pay full fees. Sorry, buy your stats aren’t high enough for the UC’s.</p>

<p>OTHER CALIFORNIA SCHOOLS-
Private, expensive, and extremely difficult: Stanford and USC
A majority of the private schools out here do have a religious affiliation:
USD, Loyola Marymount, Santa Clara, USF, St. Mary’s-Catholic,
Pepperdine, California Lutheran, Chapman U, Loma Linda U, Pt. Loma Nazarene-Christian<br>
The Clairemont Colleges: Harvey Mudd, Scripps, Pitzer, Clairemont-McKenna, etc., don’t appear to have an affiliation BUT they are extremely competitive and are extremely expensive as are: Azusa Pacific and University of Redlands.</p>

<p>You realize that most of our California colleges are NOWHERE near the ocean or bays, right?
Now, I don’t know much about Sea Turtles but the only place I’ve seen them in Southern California (San Diego) is in an exhibit tank at Sea World. Our water and beaches in San Diego, I think, are too cold.
We did see them in open water in Hawaii but Hawaii water temps in the 70’s, versus our water temps in San Diego in the high 50’s and low 60’s, might have something to do with that.</p>

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<p>You have plenty of APs and the uc GPA can surprise you. Pull out your transcript and a calculator and you can have this done in 2 minutes:

  1. Assign a number to every grade in 10th- 11th. PE classes dont count. 5- A in AP/ Honors (not Enlglish 10 H or Alg 2 H) 4- B in AP/H or A in regular class. 3- C in AP/H or B in regular. 2- C in regular.
  2. Add all these numbers up
  3. Divide by the total number of classes</p>

<p>Let us know what you come up with. It may surprise you. Remember UCs don’t look at freshman year.</p>

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<p>OOS don’t get credit for honors classes, only AP or IB in the a-g courses.</p>

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<p>Aren’t UC’s accepting more out of state applicants because of budget cuts?</p>