What do they place more emphasis on? GPA? Test scores? Essays? Whenever I ask someone who works there they say that they “look at everything”. From what I’ve gathered, my guess is (from most important to least).
According to the common datasets:
GPA, test scores, HS course rigor (A-G) courses, essays are considered very important.
Important are EC’s, Volunteer, work experience and personal character.
Considered are First Generation and State residency.
Thanks! Where would I be able to find these common datasets
Google common dataset for each school. Section C5
http://opa.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/uc_berkeley_cds_2015-16_8-3-2016.pdf
Thanks, but what I find strange is that UCSB’s common dataset states that extracurricular activities, volunteer work, etc, are all Considered, and not even Important.
http://bap.ucsb.edu/institutional.research/common.data.set.2015.16.pdf
However, on their freshman selection page, it says that 50% of the application choice is based on Activities and Personal Insight Questions.
http://admissions.sa.ucsb.edu/applying/freshman/selection
Thoughts on this?
I did notice that also and it has been that way for several years so not sure if they just never update the common dataset.
Go to each UCs website and look at how they evaluate applicants. It does vary a bit by campus.
http://www.admissions.uci.edu/apply/freshman.php
http://admissions.ucsc.edu/apply/freshman.html
you can use Google for the rest.