<p>I have applied to UCLA, UCI, UCD, UCSB,and UCSC.</p>
<p>GPA UC weighted: 3.6</p>
<p>SAT I: 1970
SAT II: 730 math IIc, 600 spanish</p>
<p>a-g coutses: 44</p>
<p>Honors/AP courses: 8 semesters</p>
<p>AP Calculus AB test: 4</p>
<p>Community service: 200 hours each of 9th,10th, 11th grade summers; also organized xmas toy drive for kids living in homeless shelters and received public recognition for my leadership.</p>
<p>I know that UC does not give special consideration to the fact that my high shool is rated as one of the top schools in California, is freaky competitive, and that is why my gpa is "only" 3.6. So that's it. What do you think my chances are for these UC's? Thanks for your feedback.</p>
<p>Can I please get some feedback? BTW, I think that my essay is pretty good since I worked on it for 2 months and wrote many drafts until I was able to really arrive at a final product that describes what I'm passionate about.</p>
<p>i dont think you can use the "my school is competitive" excuse for your GPA. if you get 2100+ SAT1, and 750s SAT2, and get a 3.6, then you can say that your school is extremely competitive.</p>
<p>UCB/UCLA: Reach
UCSD: Slight Reach-Reach
UCI/UCSB/UCD: Match
UCSC/UCR/UCM: Safe Match-Safety</p>
<p>Also, Boelter Hall, why did u put uci/ucd ahead of ucsb and put ucsb with ucsc? that makes no sense. ucsb's average admit stats are actually slightly higher than than uci and ucd's. uci is ranked slightly above ucsb, but ucsb is ranked ahead of ucd. these three schools are very similar in admit difficulty, if anything sb is slightly harder to get into than uci and ucd. so im not sure why you would put santa barbara below uci/ucd and with ucsc. ucsb's admit stats are far far above ucsc's stats.</p>
<p>Admission rates count for very, very little. Look at it like this: School X has 10,000 applicants, and chooses 2,000 of them; that's a 20% admission rate. Now say, the next year, they only get 8,000 applicants but they still find 2,000 good candidates; that's a 25% admission rate, even though they admitted the same number of people. So really, it depends on how many applicants there are, and it varies from year to year (sometimes people feel more confident, etc.).</p>
<p>Also, rankings are highly arbitrary. Which ranking are you referring to? US News? Washington Monthly? THES? In general, UCD tends to be ranked higher than UCSB. UCI and UCD tend to be considered higher than those two and of similar quality.</p>