applying to Davis, UCSB, and Cal Poly
I have a 3.7 unweighted gpa. 1200 Sat score (working on getting it up… taking again October 1). Amazing extracurriculars (club president, varsity track captain, other varsity sports, hundreds of volunteer hours.)
2 AP classes junior year. 5 senior year
want to major in psychology or human development.
What is your UC GPA? And is your GPA of a 3.7 on a 4.0 or 5.0 scale?
UCSB will be a big reach for you. As for UCD, I believe it will be a reach. An SAT score of a 1200 is simply lower than both of the schools’ average SAT scores and 25% rank scores. What are you getting on your practice tests? Perhaps get your October SAT to a 1370 for better chances.
Good luck.
Calculate your UC GPA: https://rogerhub.com/gpa-calculator-uc/
For Cal Poly SLO (I assume) but an FYI there is a Cal Poly Pomona, so make sure you distinguish which school, SLO uses 9-11th grades in their GPA calculation. Use the same UC calculator but include Freshman grades.
I agree that your test scores are a bit low for the UC’s and you would need a UC GPA of 4.0+ for a decent chance at UCD/UCSB. Retaking the SAT will help but your HS course rigor is also slightly lacking with only 2 AP classes Junior year. At your HS, are only Juniors and Senior allowed to take AP classes?
For SLO, Psychology has about a 12% acceptance rate so based on your stats (since EC’s only account for 10%), SLO is a slight Reach. Cal Poly Pomona would be a definite Match school however.
You need some solid Match and Safety schools on your list. I would add UCR/UCSC/SDSU/CSULB/CSU Fullerton and/or SJSU.