<p>Just curious... I know it was around 7700 last year, do you guys think it'll jump like 200+ points due to budget cuts and whatnot?</p>
<p>Trends show that it has been slowly rising over the years and that it made a drastic jump last year due to competition.</p>
<p>That’s all I (and pretty much anyone else here) can offer you since none of us know just how many applicants there will be (it could go either up due to competition or down due to the fee increases) and the quality of the applicants in that pool.</p>
<p>Good luck with the application process.</p>
<p>Because of budget cuts, they’re gonna accept less students (especially because 2009 over-enrolled at SD) so… around 8,000, perhaps?</p>
<p>hmm i see, thanks guys! Man i really hope it doesn’t hit over 8000 though…</p>
<p>How does the Academic Review work?</p>
<p>Step I: Academic review Maximum Consideration</p>
<p>Uncapped Grade Point Average (GPA) 4,500
Scores of all required exams 3,200
Number of “a-g” courses beyond the minimum 500</p>
<p>At my school, they offer a lot AP classes, etc. So I’d say we’re a little bit inflated, but how does UCSD calculate this?</p>
<p>My District GPA is 4.47 however, my college GPA is 4.72 (I got the ELC thing). My school GPA is ranked top 20 but my college GPA brings me to top 10 easily. Would that bring me to 4,500 or would it be placed a little lower.</p>
<p>I’ve always been wanting to attend UCSD, but like, both my parents went to a 4 year college and I don’t have many financial problems. I’m banking on my GPA, etc.</p>
<p>If you guys could tell me about this, that would help. Thank guys! (First Post btw!)</p>
<p>but then again, statistically, the class of 2010 has FEWER people applying to top tier schools…</p>
<p>brownman how do u know this?</p>
<p>Class of 2007 was peculiarly small,
Class of 2008 (my class) had a record high in number of applicants (acceptance rates dropped from '07 to '08)
Class of 2009 had a tad smaller class than '08 (acceptance rates hovered at about the same but increased a slight bit)
Class of 2010 is small, like '07, thus acceptance rates should slightly increase, but then there’s the budget cuts to consider</p>
<p>From what I’ve been hearing, our class (the class of 2010) will have fewer “smart” people, so to speak. Because of the whole budget crisis, there will be a small number of cuts, but more importantly, fewer people will apply for the same reason: the economy. </p>
<p>Also, when comparing our class with previous graduating classes and future graduating classes, we have the LEAST number of students who scored perfect on their SATs, fewer people applying to Ivies, and fewer National Merit Scholars (this year, our school has 7-8 National Merit Scholars, while last year there were about 16…nearly double!!). All the comparisons described above are drawn from my school and neighboring schools. </p>
<p>This just comes to show how college admissions will be this year!!</p>
<p>oh, and you also have to take into account that the last graduating class, class of '09, were the baby boomers.</p>
<p>But brownman, if that were the case why have ED apps for top schools (Cornell, JHU, Princeton, etc.) risen like crazy this year? (ex: JHU up 9%)</p>
<p>^ Actually, the baby boom was 1989/1990 (class of '08) and lasted (with a slow decline) throughout the mid-90’s.</p>
<p>Admissions rates varied per school (private/public), UCSD’s acceptance rate dramatically decreased over 5% from 08 –> 09, probably relating to budget cuts and families only being able to afford to send their children to public universities. On the flipside, USC’s admissions rate went up about 2% from 08 –> 09, probably because of the opposite (families can’t afford USC/private school’s high tuition)</p>
<p>no i see what u guys mean. ED applicants did go up this year, but overall, people applying to COLLEGES (4-year) has, and will, go down a bit. Many people are resorting to community colleges. Why, even with the while UC tuition increases, many people are quitting to go to a CC and then transfer to save thousands of dollars.</p>
<p>Ok because of last years cut which was 7738, which dropped a huge number of applicqants accepted, the likelyhood that it will increase more than 80 pts is very unlikely. Combined with the lowered number of applicants, the cutoff is going to be too high.
My guess: 7819</p>
<p>dude radiance, they didnt overenroll,they cutt almost 700 seats lol.</p>
<p>zman1: Agreed.</p>
<p>I hope its 7819…I’m not too far off of that…I’ll hopefully be closer after my new test scores…(((fingers crossed)))</p>
<p>Didn’t improve my Lit score, but raised my Math II to 700 (increased by 90 pts). That puts me at 7,702 assuming my 28 ACT translates to 1920 (I have seen several conversion charts online that claim to be “UC” conversions). If I can get points in any other category I should be ok.</p>
<p>Dude omg, how does UCSD convert ACT scores into SAT???</p>
<p>there are two ways I’m thinking:</p>
<ol>
<li><p>They do their own calculation (which if is true, I would like to konw =D) and add it to your subject tests and multiply by .8 (max possible is 3200)</p></li>
<li><p>They use this link [Eligibility</a> Index and ACT to SAT 1 Conversion Table](<a href=“http://www.ucsd.edu/catalog/front/ACTtoSAT.html]Eligibility”>http://www.ucsd.edu/catalog/front/ACTtoSAT.html) and convert your SAT scores to a 1600-based SAT1, which is then simply added to the subject test scores to attain total possible points 3200.</p></li>
</ol>
<p>Both ways would work…but I don’t know which way UCSD does it. Does anyone have any insight on this?</p>
<p>bump 10char?</p>