it is less competitive for the lower UCs.
At my school(international), ucsd, ucd, and UCI can be considered safeties, but the sat average(admitted students 1560) for UCLA is significantly higher than the American Average
@momofsenior1 @Greymeer
Please not that Purdue is not a safety for International Students.
I’m from China, where it is equally as competitive as India(Where OP is applying from)
The SAT average for students admitted to Purdue at my school is 1398, and they have rejected 60% applicants with sat lower than 1350.
@iwantcollegeplz yeah exactly. I know I have no chance at UCLA and Berkely so I’ll be applying to Davis, Irvine as well as San Diego. Keeping Santa Cruz and SJSU as absolute safety schools. But are you sure that UC San Diego is a safety school? It’s quite competitive! And if so, what are the average SAT scores for international students?
@momofsenior1 @Greymeer @iwantcollegeplz Just to clarify, the following safety schools for me at the moment are:
Texas A&M, UC Santa Cruz, San Jose State University, University of Arizona, and hopefully UC Davis.
And I’ve made a mistake in my post. My SAT score isn’t 1460, but 1480. My bad.
Any other colleges you’d guys recommend me to apply to?
@iamdaone
Let me check.
I’m from China so it might be a little bit different in India, but I would assume these two regions to be equally competitive.
These data are accepted student profiles from my school(top three high school in China)
Average Acceptances from 2013-2018
Texas A&M: 1375 3.66
UCSC: 1370 3.69
UCD: 1425 3.89
UCSD: 1490 4.04
University of Arizona: 1329, 3.39
No data represented for sjsu
I wouldn’t consider UC Davis and UCSD ur absolute safety, but it’s a solid match!
I find some of these comments really interesting. My daughter is at a competitive Bay Area high school and even they are told to consider almost no UCs (other than M & R) as safeties. Internationals will have some admissions advantage being full pay but even so I find the idea of schools like UCSD and UCD being “safeties” curious. Maybe @Gumbymom can comment, being a UC expert?
@iamdaone: You would be considered OOS for the UC’s and SJSU. An advantage since you are full pay and your stats do make you competitive. I would say UC Davis is a Match and not a safety. UCSC is probably close to a safety but the Engineering majors are still very competitive.
UCSD would definitely not be a safety school since all Engineering majors are Capped majors (impacted). UCSD admits into the university first then into the major, so you could be accepted but not into your major choice and then would have to try and switch majors which is difficult.
Below is some UC admit data. Engineering majors required higher than average stats for the best chances and none of the data is major specific.
2018 UC capped weighted GPA averages:
UCB: 4.23
UCLA: 4.23
UCSD: 4.16
UCSB: 4.13
UCI: 4.13
UCD: 4.11
UCSC: 3.96
UCR: 3.81
UCM: 3.71
2018 Data:
25th - 75th percentiles for SAT:
UCB: 1360-1540
UCLA: 1340-1540
UCSD: 1300-1520
UCSB: 1270-1500
UCD: 1220-1480
UCI: 1230-1490
UCSC: 1210-1450
UCR: 1130-1380
UCM: 1020-1280
Freshman admit rates for UC GPA of 3.80-4.19 (capped weighted):
UCB: 12.6%
UCLA: 11.7%
UCSD: 38.7%
UCSB: 53.6%
UCD: 56.5%
UCI: 52.1%
UCSC: 75.7%
UCR: 90.1%
UCM: 96.1%