Chances for UCSD

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<p>Hi so I am a junior attending Santa Margarita Catholic High School (SMCHS) and I am thinking about applying to UCSD, but I want to know if you think I could get in, anything would help! thanks</p>

<p>3.6 weighted gpa
1920 on SAT
4 years of swimming
1 year of water polo
Ocean Institute Internship
Job at local party supply store- 2 years
3 years of Mandala club
Link crew for 3 years (helping freshmen adjust)
Assissteens for 6 years (volunteer organization)
three cousins all alumni/attending
eagles for CHOC- 2 years
helping my mom teach her special education students- 4 years</p>

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<p>You’re chillin’. Just make sure to write bomb essays :)</p>

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<p>i dont know if you’re aware, but UCSD uses a point system for their admissions. you can use that to chance yourself.</p>

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<p>@fishy: They’re completely getting rid of the points system for the HS class of 2012.</p>

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<p>^finally…too bad I’m class of 2011 though. I feel the point system makes it harder.</p>

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<p>Just write very good essays on your volunteer/community service experiences. Get very high scores on the SAT II (they’re not that difficult). That should get you in with the holistic review. AP classes?</p>

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<p>tomato, their implementing ‘partial’ holistic approach to this years applicant pool so there is still hope :)</p>

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<p>I hate the holistic review. Just my opinion :P</p>

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<p>JeSuis… all the way!! :stuck_out_tongue:
i dont like hte holistic either… the point system makes me feel more safer, because in the holistic, you are sort of at the mercy of the reader… [im not too sure about that, but just my own opinion :slight_smile: )</p>

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<p>Yeah. With holistic review, two different readers could have two different decisions for you. It really becomes luck at that point. Funny how they instigate the holistic review right after they decide to recruit more minority students. Affirmative action in disguise? Who knows for sure, because they’re getting away with it.</p>

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<p>the holistic review for this year is used only for borderline applicants …</p>

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<p>theleakers…
How do you know the holistic for this year is used only for borderline applicants??.</p>

<p>Actually it makes sense since they are using the partial holistic review to supplement the decisions making process. My best guess is that the cutoff will increase by 400 which is too much i know but it makes sense because they will accept a certain number of students through the comprehensive review. The rest which i think are below the cutoff will be admitted through the holistic review. For the supplemental questionnaire i think they send it to students who didn’t explain quite well their essays or ec’s and they want to know y they should give them points.</p>

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<p>I read it somewhere regardless UC admissions conference …</p>

<p>3 more weeks (at most) to suffer …</p>

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<p>@VaGaSi07
lol what are you doing… im getting even more tense… 400 points … [hehe]</p>

<p>no offense btw.</p>

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<p>I highly doubt the cutoff is going to raise 400 points… I say 200, max.</p>

<p>But I guess we will see in a little over a week (wow… it’s getting incredibly close…)</p>

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<p>SAT subject tests aren’t required after this year for UC’s (and never for CSUs)- save your money, unless you’re applying to a private that requires them…</p>

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<p>^ Or if you’re applying to a major with an alternate review process (ie. Engineering applicants might want to take Math II and/or Physics if applying to certain campuses.)</p>