What are my chances of getting into UC Davis, UC Irvine, UC San Diego, UC Riverside, San Diego State University, Pepperdine, and Cal Poly SLO??
I’m so worried I won’t be able to get into any of these. I’m a California resident, have a 23 act score and 1180 sat score, and I have a 3.84 unweighted GPA and 4.02 weighted GPA. I have good extracurriculars and am currently taking a couple more AP classes to boost up the GPA.
Your test scores make the UCSD, UCI, UCD and SLO tough admits. What is your intended major? Also Senior year courses will not help your admission chances since CSU’s/UC’s do not consider Senior grades in their admission decisions, however good grades will maintain your provisional admission.
Although UC’s are GPA focused, your test scores still need to be within range (preferably at least at the 25th percentile or higher) so UCR looks like your only solid chance for the UC’s.
Freshman admit rates for UC GPA of 3.80-4.19 (capped weighted and not major specific):
UCB: 14%
UCLA: 14%
UCSD: 44%
UCSB: 54%
UCD: 58%
UCI: 65%
UCSC: 85%
UCR: 94%
25th - 75th percentiles for SAT:
UCB: 1280-1490
UCLA: 1280-1500
UCSD: 1250-1470
UCSB: 1290-1450
UCD: 1190-1430
UCI: 1190-1420
UCSC: 1170-1380
UCR: 1090-1310
UCM: 1020-1230
25th - 75th percentiles for ACT:
UCB: 30-34
UCLA: 30-34
UCSD: 29-34
UCSB: 28-33
UCD: 26-32
UCI: 26-32
UCSC: 26-31
UCR: 23-30
UCM: 20-27
UCSD/SLO: Low Reach- Reach (depending upon major)
UCI/UCD: High Match-Low Reach (depending upon major)
Pepperdine: High Match
UCR: Match
SDSU: Match-High Match
https://admissions.calpoly.edu/prospective/profile.html
I know you asked about safeties on another thread, so you really need to apply to a couple just so you have options come Spring. The suggestion for a test optional school should be considered. Not sure why you did not apply to some of the other CSU’s which would probably be your safety schools.
Thank you for the input! Yes I am definitely looking at that list you linked me to from the other thread and I will be doing research on the test-optional schools… I did have some CSUs for safeties but I had to redo my entire list because my parents wanted me to really narrow it down. By the time I remembered about adding in safeties, the CSU and UC Merced deadlines already passed