<p>3.4 GPA, 1710 SAT score</p>
<p>Great writing skills (admissions essay, personal statement)</p>
<p>volleyball, Golf, a couple random clubs, Eagle Scout (almost), lots of community service</p>
<p>What UC schools could I get accepted to?
Santa Cruz?</p>
<p>My plan right now is to go to San Diego Mesa College, then transfer to UCLA or UC Berkeley, so you can "chance" this plan too if you please.</p>
<p>I haven't applied anywhere and time's almost up, help me out please! Thanks</p>
<p>3.4 is weighted or unweighted?? </p>
<p>UCs definetly merced and riverside, maybe santa cruz </p>
<p>Ur second plan all depends on hoe well u do in that san diego college.</p>
<p>I always recommend straight 4 year colleges and no transferring!!! Good luck!</p>
<p>If your writing skills really are that good, you should get into UCSC. My friend with similar numbers (3.5/1700), and not so great writing skills got in. </p>
<p>Now, from what I’ve heard, as long as you take all the UC-transferrable courses you need, and get a high GPA, you have a pretty good chance of getting into UCB or UCLA - mainly because of agreements between some CA community colleges and UCs. That being said, transfers tend to find it harder to adjust to the difficulty level of courses at UCB or LA. I actually disagree with Juaneiro about always going to a 4-year, as financially speaking, you save A TON of money going to a CC, so as long as you stay totally focused/motivated and transfer (which can be hard, I know someone who spent 6 years at a CC before deciding to transfer to a CSU). Right now, I’m a freshman at UCB (so not a completely “credible” source haha) but I’m regretting not thinking more about CC, especially after talking to transfer kids here, and all the talk about tuition hikes, etc - I just assumed it was where all the dropouts go (can be true at times), but I was COMPLETELY wrong.</p>
<p>Thanks to you both, I will probably apply to UCSC, but I think I’ll go with my original plan so I can get prior experience and transfer credit and also have plenty of time narrow down my career path/choices, as well as saving my family a lot of green. Then after I study my butt off I’ll see what I can do in terms of getting into UCLA or UC Berkeley. Maybe I’ll see you there Meep!!!</p>