<p>Hey all, I'm a upcoming senior this fall, looking to go to any UC. I'm pretty ok with state too, but ideally I'd like it to be a UC.</p>
<p>Asian-American Male
3.1 GPA (Screwed up junior year)
2100 SAT
750, 780 SAT II's</p>
<p>EC's are pretty meh
I'm hoping to also appeal on the terms of a strong focus on my intended major and future career, psychology. I've done college classes for it during the school year and summer, and have also taken AP psych. I've also I have also done work with a psychologist on research for a kind of personality test called the enneagram.
Also, I am fairly confident that I can get a high GPA during senior year, around 3.6+. Will this be helpful to me in anyway, during appeals or even during the admissions process? Thanks =]</p>
<p>With those SAT I and SAT II scores, you definitely will be able to get into some of the UCs--UC Santa Cruz, UC Riverside, or UC Merced--if you improve your senior grades and are willing to take a gap year (meaning sit out a year) you could probably get into UC Santa Barbara, UC Irvine, and UC Davis. </p>
<p>I doubt you want to sit out a year, though--I'd apply for all six and hope for the best with the last three. If you don't get into one of those, go to UC Santa Cruz. The weather's unbelievably nice here, the school is top-notch, the people aren't bad and the view of the coastline from the college (which is up the hill) is fantastic.</p>
<p>Don't listen to these people. Just do your best on the UC application, work hard in school...apply to all the UCs that you like the looks of. See where it takes you.</p>
<p>The UC GPA is calculated based off your 10th and 11th year grades; however, they do consider how much you are challenging yourself in your senior year, and they look at your mid-year grade report, I think.</p>