Chance Me UCSB

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of California - Santa Barbara
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<p>I heard that the college has a great chemical engineering program for students. Is that true?</p>

<p>Anyways, UC GPA: 4.00
Unweighted GPA (10-11): 3.64
Uncapped GPA (10-11): 4.18
SAT Score: 2010 (690 CR, 660 M+W)
Subject Tests for Chem./U.S. History is around 700</p>

<p>What are my chances of getting into the engineering school? I'm planning on taking the math 2 SAT test on December. Will my chances be higher if I got an 800 on it?</p>

<p>Btw, I'll have passed 8 ap tests by graduation.</p>

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<p>You’re 95% in if your a cali resident.</p>

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<p>Uh seriously? I am a cali resident. I thought that my chances were more like 60% or so because of my gpa. Isn’t the average gpa for the school like a 4.04?</p>

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<p>Yeah its 4.08 but your SAT is above their average(1916) and unless your ECs are terrible you’ll be fine.</p>

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<p>What about a 1600 SAT with the same GPA, but with 400+ hours of community service and applying for Biology?</p>

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<p>@swaqqq:
I’d say your chances are around a 30% for ucsb.</p>

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<p>Chance me?
Weighted 3.84
1850 SAT</p>

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<p>dchau503: You most likely will get in; 85+%</p>

<p>sgolditch: eh, around 30-50%.</p>

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<p>Will applying to the college of engineering reduce my chances?</p>

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<p>It’s a lot harder because you’re now applying to a specific program where your competition is a lot smarter. You’re competing with higher averages ion terms of GPA and scores. I’d say you’re at about 85% chance of getting in.</p>

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<p>Thank you. </p>

<p>Still looking for more chances though.</p>

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<p>Guaranteed you will be admitted to UCSB.</p>

<p>65% chance you will get in with your intended major straight off the bat. (Chemical Engineering, you say?)</p>

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<p>Omg, 65% chance. Will a 720 on a math 2 SAT bring that up or down?</p>

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<p>I mistyped. 80/20 chance. 720 is a damn good score.</p>

<p>Why the 20? Admissions are very random.</p>

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<p>looks good, idk about ur ec or essays, but i had lower stats than urs and i got in. just do good on ur essays and have alot of ecs and you’ll be set.</p>

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<p>What about a 3.8 and 2150 for Electrical Engineering?</p>

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<p>Well, I have 210 hours of volunteer work, 1 leadership position at a club, member of 3 clubs, and varsity tennis as my EC’s. My essays are average. </p>

<p>@Billybee, I think you’d get in. Chance me?</p>

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<p>I’m currently in the COE for chemical engineering and I can tell you that it is a fantastic program. We’re currently ranked #2 in the entire nation for our ChemE department above MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, etc (granted that it’s for our graduate program, but the resources of the graduate school trickles down). I’d say you have a very good chance of being admitted. Our department admits roughly 40 people a year give or take (I think my class has around 45 but I know my mentor who is a 3rd year said her class is around 80) so we each get a LOT of personal attention.</p>

<p>The COE takes care of you, no joke. You get assigned special advisers and they can help you with basically anything.</p>

<p>Didn’t get a class on your GRID? They can manually put you into a class that’s full.</p>

<p>Class times conflict with your schedule? They can move the time of the class to fit you (they had to move the meeting time of a math class for a friend of mine)</p>

<p>Have a professor that is god awful? Everyone in the COE is assigned a professor that is sort of your advocate and mine told me that if I ever have a problem with a professor that isn’t “up to par” he would go sit in a lecture and if he agrees with me, then he would go talk to the department board of said professor.</p>

<p>And on top of all of that, there are only so many people in the department itself so classes are extremely small and you get to know your fellow ChemEs really well. Plus, our department isn’t competitive so there is always someone willing to help you understand the material better. (I know for a fact that I would have never passed my programming class without the help of my fellow ChemEs)</p>

<p>Overall, if you’re looking for degree in chemical engineering I personally believe there’s no place better than SB. Good luck with admissions!</p>

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<p>You should get in dchau. Your SAT and GPA are right where you want for them to be.</p>

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<p>Sorry to jump in on this but you guys seem to have a good grasp on chances and I’m freaking out. I am a transfer student applying from UCSC. Second year lit major, 3.5 GPA. Any input would be awesome. Thanks!</p>