<p>The counselor at my school recently told me that If i apply to 3 or more UC's and you meet the minimum requirements, at least one has to admit me...</p>
<p>Now I dont really take my counselors serious becasue they are usually wrong..</p>
<p>Do any of you know anything about this or was he talking out of his ass?</p>
<p>Like for example If i Apply to
UCLA, UCB, UCSD, and UCSB</p>
<p>One of those HAS to admit me??</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>3 or more? If you applied to Berkeley, UCLA, and UCSD with average stats, I doubt you'd be guaranteed anything.</p>
<p>Yeah , so my counselor was wrong right?? hahaha</p>
<p>If you're ELC then you're guaranteed admission to a UC. It may not be a top tier UC, it could be Riverside or Merced or a different UC.</p>
<p>Yeah your counselor was right about if you meet the minimum statistical requirements you are UC eligible. But what she neglected to tell you is almost 89% of UC applicants are UC eligible. Therefore, the top eligible applicants get these automatic spots. Usually these are your Regents and Presidents Scholars who get in on just being UC eligible because they have really high SAT scores (1450 or higher on old SAT format/750 or higher SAT IIs) and have sky high GPAs (4.4 or higher)</p>
<p>So technically you getting into Berkeley, L.A., S.D., or even Santa Barbara just on statistical eligibility would be almost a zero percent likelyhood if you didn't have top test scores and grades. But you might get into Riverside or Merced (If you applied to those to schools) since their requirements are less difficult. </p>
<p>But I doubt if the above listed schools offered you admission by way of UC eligibility stats, unless youre a regent or president scholar.</p>
<p>Sorry if I bursted you bubble.</p>
<p>This is the stat I commonly hear of from counselors.</p>
<p>If you apply to 1 UC, you have a 50-50 chance of getting in.
If you apply to 4 UCs, you have about a 90 percent chance of getting in to at least 1 UC. It probably has something to do with the 89% stat DanielHagos pointed out. And lastly, I'm not too sure on this, but I've been told by UC buffs that if you get rejected from the 4 UCs you apply to, the UC system automatically takes your app and circulates it around the UCs you didn't apply to, so eventually you (hopefully) end up somewhere. I THINK all of this is done free of service.</p>
<p>Well, that's what I hear. I personally can't back this up because I'm too lazy to even Google it.</p>
<p>Think about it, its not just blank cards here. We have stats. If you are good enough for berkeley you can get in at all the UC schools. on the other hand if your stats are too low for any of them, you will be rejected from all of them. There are no odds. Its just the adcom and you. good luck.</p>
<p>if you are elc, then you are guaranteed admission to one of the following: Merced, Riverside, Irvine or SB.</p>
<p>what's a ELC?</p>
<p>ELC = Eligibility in the Local Context, it means you are in the top 4% of your class.</p>
<p>^ Right, but you still have to apply to the school even though you are guaranteed admission.</p>
<p>Yeah, I read in some UC info packet that if you apply to a certain amount of UCs you're guaranteed admission, or something to that extent .. I'll try to find it later.</p>
<p>"All UC-eligible California residents who apply on time will be offered admission at one of the University's nine campuses, but not necessarily at the campus of choice. Students who research and apply to several campuses are more likely to be admitted to a campus they know they want to attend."</p>
<p>So I guess you still have to be UC-eligible, but yeah.</p>
<p>So should I apply to more than one UC??? there is only one UC I am interested in attending but I will apply to more if it increases my chances of getting accepted</p>
<p>Yes, I would definitely apply to more than one UC. It's only money.</p>
<p>Slando</p>
<p>If you are UC eligible, you most likely will be accepted to one of the lower tiered schools and may be accepted at a higher tiered school, but it isn't guaranteed.</p>
<p>Generally speaking, here is how I would rank the UCs from toughest to easiest to get into</p>
<p>1 Berkeley
2 LA
3 San Diego</p>
<p>4 & 5 Davis, Irvine
6, 7 and 8 Santa Barbara, Riverside, Santa Cruz
9 Merced</p>
<p>Applying to more UCs won't help your acceptance at the top three. But I hear that the rest of the UCs aren't that difficult to get into (depending on your stats).</p>
<p>If it is important to you to have at least one UC acceptance, I would definitely apply to at least one campus besides UCB, UCLA and UCSD.</p>
<p>Hope that helps.</p>
<p>Also, I'm surprised no one mentioned it yet, but you are guaranteed to at least one, if you meet the eligiblity standrards AND live in California.... just thought I'd point that out. UC is really big on state-wide eligibility. I believe you can find out more about it at their website.</p>
<p>If I had to apply I would defin to that too. Quite surprised though</p>