<p>I am a junior in High School with the year ending in a few months. It is time for me to choose a college and I think I have. UCLA just interests me. It is in the perfect place (a nice, big city), it is a large school, it is not close to home, and it has what I want to major in. Basically, everything I could want. I really want to know if I can get in.</p>
<p>Current GPA- 3.25 Not the best, I know but I still have an easy semester left and I plan to take a full senior schedule of easy classes to get it up.</p>
<p>SAT/ACT- On the P-ACT, I scored well in math (29) but not being able to finish in the reading brought my composite down to 22. PSAT I am unsure about. In Senior Sem (taking a year early) we did a practice one for fun really and I got a 600 in math. He shortened the time on each section by 5 min and I am sure I could do better. I am taking both within this school year and will take them again next year.</p>
<p>Extra Curricular/volunteer work- Baseball, Basketball (not for High School though :/), Oregon Humane Society (haven't yet but plan to for Senior Seminar)</p>
<p>So do I have a shot? I really have my heart set so if I don't can you recommend stuff for me to do to get me accepted? Thanks people.</p>
<p>What’s your Sophomore + junior GPA? UC’s only look at those grades, they won’t even see your senior grades unless you decide to attend, so getting A’s senior year isn’t as big a deal. You should still take challenging classes though to show you’re interested in higher level learning. Are you in-state or out-of-state? Test scores, aim for 2100+ or 31/32+</p>
<p>My junior grades (so far) haven’t been good. I slacked off a bit and that is why my GPA has dropped down to a 3.25. Sophomore gpa=3.25 and junior gpa=2.50 (so far).</p>
<p>If your school has a ranking system and you are not within top 10%, chances are slim to none (I believe 97% of last year’s admitted students were within top 10% and 100% were within top quarter). With even a 3.2, I highly doubt you’d be near that. Even if your school doesn’t rank, a 3.2 really would put you in a huge hole. A 2000 SAT would help, but not nearly enough to get you out of the hole. 3 APs won’t bring your weighted average near what UC needs it to be. I think their cap is 4.0 UC GPA? Not sure if it’d even reach there.</p>
<p>I mean a 2000 SAT from a 22 ACT would take a HUGE miracle as well. </p>
<p>ECs are extremely weak as well…</p>
<p>Oh and if you are OOS… it’s gonna be even harder. Sorry to be a downer, but it just doesn’t seem feasible nor possible.</p>
<p>Also, having easy classes senior year will hinder you. They do not take those grades into account for your UC gpa and the UC’s want to see that you are challenging yourself and looking to improve.</p>
<p>sorry to say,but ur GPA 3.25(regardless of soph n junior yr), ur chance at UCLA is thinner than a sheet of paper.
there are people with 2200+ and 4.0+ gpas got turned down, let alone a 3.25…</p>
<p>Not the best, not a chance as well. UCLA is quite rigid, it apparently looks only at students above a certain GPA, and in the top 10% of the HS class. Without the grades, SAT, a top high school, EC’s can’t help you. To top it off, they don’t look at Senior year grades, so you could be further boosting your GPA Sr. year, but they won’t even look.</p>
<p>Would be more productive to find another school to fixate on.</p>
<p>small clarification: The published reports about UC top 10% rank are ALL estimated (I had this confirmed by a Dean at one campus). The numbers are estimated based on California’s target goal of admitting the top ~12% statewide – thus, each campus just assumes it to be true in ther reporting.</p>
<p>Further, and according to their common data sets, no UC campus uses class rank as an admission criteria – they can’t bcos less than half of the California high schools actually rank studetns. But, they do rank applicants by high school once they submit an app. Thus, applicant rank can be a factor, but not in the general sense of many privates.</p>
<p>You do have a chance at UCLA – the very chart you linked shows that 4.2% of the admitted students had between under 3.29 “UC GPA” (UCGPA means only academic courses, only 10th and 11th grades, with +1 on the AP grades limited to 8 semester grades). So you definately have an excellent 4.2% chance of getting in…</p>
<p>but not so fast!! I’ll bet you $10 that every single on of those 4.2% are recruited athletes in glamor or revenue sports.</p>
<p>I think if you eliminated recruited athletes from that 4.2%, you’d have… 0% left.</p>
<p>0% as is zilch, zero, bupkis, nada, NONE. but there are always miracles.</p>
<p>But there is still hope… You could try UC Merced, possibly Riverside, and possibly San Diego St. or Long Beach St., but ONLY if you bring your grades up a little.</p>
<p>okay pepes my GPA is a 3.5 im a freshman i have no ap classes yet but i will have two next year i did 5 hours of community service and was rewarded by the national health department i was in the junior cadet class i love reading politcal science books and love tennis do i have a chance from now oh yeah i was ranked 176 out of 1376 freshmans</p>