<p>i just found out that less than 10% of 3.6~3.99gpa students got admitted to ucla....with 3.78gpa would it be almost impossible for me to get into there???</p>
<p>Information source? And is that weighted or unweighted?</p>
<p>from ucla.edu and weighted.....</p>
<p>i dunno, but don't they give points for various aspects of the application?
Before you isolate one statistic (such as GPA), perhaps you have to know it in context of what else it is on those same apps. How were their SAT's and EC's; did those same apps also lack the difficult (AP, honors) courses offered by their school...
In other words, don't they use a rubric to decide, and GPA is only one factor?</p>
<p>Well, apparently you have a 10% shot.
After that, it depends on how strong your courseload, rank, SATs, ECs, essays, etc. were - at any rate, it's probably a reach, but not impossible.</p>
<p>I'm in the same boat - I have a 3.8somethingorother - I guess we'll see.</p>
<p>paying3tuitions:
i know that they look at other things but i strongly believe that gpa is the most important thing that they look at.</p>
<p>yeah...id better have really strong sats....</p>
<p>Ok, so if they weight the GPA with lots of points, and we all know they get too darned many aps to interview anybody or read a Letter of Recommendation like EVERYPLACE ELSE...
then SAT's could help.
Hey, why do they have you write those essays if they're not going to count them, too? Lots of people shine through with cool essays.
Evenif GPA is the "most important thing" to them, you can still make up for it with SAT's, essays, EC's, and taking hard courses.
At least I hope so, b/c we've got someone in this house with the same questions on his mind.</p>
<p>im in the same boat</p>
<p>i thought uc gpa of 3.7-3.99 had a 15 percent chance to get in</p>
<p>my cousin got into ucla last year with a 3.4 weighted</p>
<p>her essays were spectacular though.</p>
<p>so gpa has a lot to do with admission decisions, but it's not EVERYTHING.</p>
<p>UCLA is almost impossible to get into. You definitely shouldn't be gauging your academic worthiness on this app outcome! I have know only two students that got in. Of course, they were spectacular students with 4.5 gpa's, spending spare time reading to blind immigrant children from some indigent Indian tribe, and, oh yeah, one had her only siblings born with the same incurable terminal disease, and the other had both parents dying from cancer with very little time left! You almost have to have a story, I mean a REAL tearjerker situation. And, fair or not, it helps to be a few of the minority groups despite what they say to the contrary.</p>
<p>dnduswo:</p>
<p>UCLA: Reach</p>
<p>You said you have a 3.78 gpa weighted. Under the UC system it could be much more. At my high school, I have about a 3.9 weighted, but it's about a 4.1 for UCLA and Berkeley, because they give you a whole point for honors/APs and take away plusses and minuses.</p>