<p>how are your ECs????how is ECs effective to admission??</p>
<p>cause i'm not very active person
and all i do is marching band....</p>
<p>i really want to go to UCs..i dont wanna end up with CSU..</p>
<p>bump........................</p>
<p>i didnt have many ECs and i got into Santa Barbara, Davis, Santa Cruz, and Riverside. all i had was community service and film club.</p>
<p>I have guitar, mathletes, and recreational golf for my EC's...which is close to nothing. I got in to all of the UC's. Some of my friends with similar numerical stats but way better EC's got scholarships and whatnot though, so they apparently count for something.</p>
<p>how was your stats???</p>
<p>if you make elc (top 4% in our HS class), then minimal ECs are acceptable at all but Cal and UCLA. The elc guarantee schools this year were Irvine, SB, Merced and Riverside.</p>
<p>btw: Cal and UCLA really read the essays.</p>
<p>i mean like community service or sports and that kinda stuff..
im pretty confident with essay.</p>
<p>sat 1 : 1850
sat 2 : 650 us, 690 2 c
Varsity swimming 2 years
gpa unweighted : 3.73, weighted 4
community service : 35 hours
sent in college apps a day before it was due
UC's accepted: all except berkeley</p>
<p>im president of a club, was vice president of said club junior year, sprint captain of the track team, basketball team 4 years, active member of two other clubs, 100+ hours of community service. accepted to all the UCs i applied to (Berk, LA, SD, SB, Davis, Irvine, Riverside) with honors at LA, SD, SB, Irvine and Riverside (also got regents here).</p>
<p>From what I've seen from this year's admissions into the UCs at my school, I have to say that your essays and GPA are the most important things. Yes, ECs are good, but they count less than SAT. I know a lot of students from my school that had stellar GPA and got into almost all the UCs. GPA matters the most, I know students that got into all the UCs with 4.2 GPA while their SAT is just around 1700s. ECs matter, but make sure you make your essays and gpa shine.</p>
<p>gpa: 4.2 UC weighted
sat 1: 1910
sat 2: 800, 780
president of a club, treasurer of another. passion on computer programming. no sports or any musical talent, no speech. my ECs were definately weak. but I have to say I made myself shine through my essays. I also applied under engineering, and I got into all the UCs.</p>
<p>Yeah I suppose I should have included my stats...</p>
<p>ELC
3.9/4.29 UC GPA
2190 SAT
800 Math IIC, 770 Chem</p>
<p>Yes got into all UCs I applied for:</p>
<p>UCSC
UCI
UCD
UCSD
UCLA
Cal (UCB)</p>
<p>Stats:
640 W 680 M 740 R
770 MIIC 730 Chem
3.95 UW 4.3 W
Not ELC (one B in APUSH)
ECs: Peer Tutoring (1yr) in CS, Speech and Debate (1yr)
Took lots of classes in a local CC
Passion for computer programming</p>
<p>Got into EECS (Cal) and CS everywhere else.</p>
<p>I had sub-2000 SATs and a 3.9uw GPA and was an OOS admit to UCLA and also a UCB reject. My ECs involved being in charges of a couple of clubs and local community service organizations. I had more than 300 hours of community service and I did some summer volunteering programs. I attended some math/science-y programs that weren't on the national radar and I helped out with my family's business. I have some state awards. (I think I was rejected by Cal because my numbers were too low for them.)</p>
<p>EC's are essential and the essays are really important as well (esp at LA and Berk) I had sub-par stats (especially my gpa) and i got admitted to LA cause i was well rounded and my essays were good. Trust me, they look at everything they ask for</p>
<p>no real EC. got into ucd,ucsd,ucb,ucm,uci.</p>
<p>oh here are my stats.
ELC
sub 2200 SATs
700+ SAT IIs
~4.3 UC GPA</p>
<p>green_apple,
I say joyfully but not smugly that "I told you so."</p>
<p>And congratulations to all here admitted to any of the UC's. You'll get a very fine education; there's a reason why the UC system gets so many OOS applicants.</p>