<p>Are you in-state or out-of-state? It makes a huge difference.</p>
<p>Your GPA is low for Davis, but your SAT score is slightly higher than what most people accepted at Davis have. I agree with JelloBiafra and the fact that class rank is very influential for UCs. The salutatorian at an uncompetitive school is preferred over the 50th best student at a very highly ranked high school because colleges expect more from you if you go to a superb school with better opportunities. UCs have a very particular way of re-calculating your GPA so this may or may not help you, but realize that most colleges mostly use GPA to compare people from the same school. A guy with a 4.0 at one school isn’t equally capable as some guy who has a 4.0 from another school.</p>