<p>2) You posted the statistics of admitted students. This tells us what the SAT scores and GPAs were for students who were offered admission at UC Irvine. I posted the statistics of enrolled, that is, students who chose to send their SIR to UC Irvine and become part of the freshman class. This data was from 2008, as the class of 2009 is still sending in SIRs as we speak and that data won’t be available for a while.</p>
<p>The enrolled statistics are better at understanding the academic strength of the actual student body of the school. The admitted statistics don’t say much in that regard.</p>
<p>But when I look at the admit profile, UCI looks more like UCD than UCSD on the academic parameters (GPA, SAT, ACT, A-G Courses, ELC). Basically, it looks like UCD, UCI, UCSC and UCSD continued their march upwards while the other campuses pretty much held steady on these measures (although I guess Berkeley can brag that their average Reasoning SAT broke 2000).</p>
<p>Of course, most of this is splitting hairs… and half the states in the union would give their eye teeth (do states HAVE eye teeth?) for their flagship university to have the kind of admit profile the “mid-tier” UCs have. Now the only challenge is to maintain the quality.</p>
<p>sure. GPA and SAT score wise, Irvine and Davis are very similar. Application-wise, however, Irvine surpasses Santa Barbara, Davis, and has only 700 fewer applicants than UCSD. That gap could shrink drastically who knows.</p>
