<p>I'm having regrets about my submitted college apps, specifically the University of California campuses.</p>
<p>I applied to Cal, UCLA, SD, Davis, Irvine, and Santa Barbara.
However, I did not apply to Santa Cruz, Merced, or Riverside (should have thought twice about it).</p>
<p>I'm starting to get a little paranoid about my chance of getting admitted to at least one of the schools I apply to, as the rest of my schools are REACHES. And it's a bit late in the admissions process to apply to any more "real" safeties. </p>
<p>Quick Stats (worst-case scenario):
SAT: 2280
SAT II: 800, 780
GPA: 3.0 + 4.0 = 3.5 overall (not that good)
ECs: On a scale of 1-10, a 5 (not that good)
Essays: Average
Out-of-state</p>
<p>Do you think I could at least secure a spot at UCSB, Davis, or Irvine, considering everything else on my application is 'average?' Worst case scenario? I'm getting really worried about this. Should I have applied to Merced or Riverside?</p>
<p>If it’s unweighted, I think you’d stand a good shot at getting into one. While your GPA is low, your SAT is very high for the mid tier UCs. If you have good class rigor, you’re not in bad shape. Irvine and Davis don’t see many OOS students willing to pay the almost $55K and they need the money, so I see those two as most likely.</p>
<p>Would you really pay this for Riverside or Merced? I’d frankly question paying that for any of them other than Cal engineering. And good chance you’ll have to pay for 5 years to get all the classes you’ll need to graduate given the cuts caused by the budget crisis. It seems you could do better.</p>
<p>Yeah thing is, my family’s lived in California for all our lives minus the past year. So I was thinking that we just get our residency back, for at least the last three years of college. </p>
<p>Your SAT’s are off the charts and the GPA is not bad. Don’t waste you time on UCSC, UCR and UCM. UCSB and Irvine will be great safetys and are good schools in their own right. You will get in for sure to a few of them. What is your major? If it is STEM related than Cal Poly SLO and Pomona should have been on the list too.</p>
<p>Computer Science: yeah I should have applied to Cal Poly, that’s why I’m sort of worried now. Anyways I would use UCSB as a last resort if I don’t get into my other schools, but I was beginning to wonder if there was a chance of me not getting accepted into UCSB either.</p>
<p>Ucd ucsb uci are safe for you I think, reading your post really worries me since I am pretty much in your situation only to have a lower sat score at 2130 and the worst part is decisions come out in march which is a long time to wait for …ahh…</p>