Is it true Riverside/Cruz accepts 90% of the admissions? Does anyone know?
<p>according to collegeboard:</p>
<p>Riverside: 79%</p>
<p>Cruz:80%</p>
<p>That's a lot of percent too. But why i do i hear people saying both of those are pretty competitive schools.</p>
<p>i tihnk its because not a lot of people apply to it and the low number that attends it might deceive people and make them think its comeptitive</p>
<p>I don't know much about the cali system, so I can't really help you out on that front</p>
<p>Those percentages are ridiculously high because most people who apply to the higher tier UCs also apply to those 2 schools as safeties but never attend and so the acceptance rate is overinflated.</p>
<p>It is interesting they take such a high percentage of applicants. Despite this, the average GPA is about 3.5 at both. At SC, 90% were in top 10% of class. At R, 94%. So the answer must be that most CA high schools know what it takes to get in, the kids know, and they get few unqualified applicants. I guess it's not like everyone and their sister throwing in an ivy app for the heck of it.</p>
<p>nonetheless they are both good schools...</p>
<p>Old statistics.</p>
<p>From the 2004 admissions report (here: <a href="http://www.ucop.edu/pathways/ucnotes/september04/cconf1.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.ucop.edu/pathways/ucnotes/september04/cconf1.html</a> )</p>
<p>Riverside: 79.8%
SC: 69.0%</p>
<p>So yes, they do accept a lot of people; they are not among the most selective institutions. They are still selective, however, as the UC office of the President will tell you (about how 2004 was the first year the UCs were unable to offer admission to all eligible students). It's definitely one of those schools people can throw an application at with relative little worry ("just check that box and include $55 dollars, and get a 'guaranteed' admission under your belt").</p>
<p>I had seen those stats a few years ago and asked my brother who is a Californean about this. He said that there is a sort of guarantee for CA students to get into a UC with a certain proflie, and there is also a minimum academic profile to get into a UC at all. So, in a sense, anyone applying to UCs is preselected. If you make this high standard, you are likely to get into a UC if you make sure you make some safety choices within that category, but that does not mean those who do make the UC requirements are going to get in at all. It's a great system, in my book, and has made the UC system the best in the country as far as state university systems. When you see the number of UC schools making the top 50-100 national universities, it is mind boggling to those of us with one state school making that list.</p>
<p>well you know it would suck if all the UCs were selective....</p>
<p>What is non - ELC? I know it means Eligibility in the Local Context but does it mean student do not satisfy the minimum 25 courses?</p>
<p>After reading that chart, it seems like IF you're a california resident with low GPA/ and do not satisfy the minimum requirements have a chance of getting in.</p>
<p>Yeah, they take a lot of people because there's a lot of people who turn them down. The thing is that UCR's gotten a really bad reputation for accepting the "leftover" applicants of the UC system. I already got notified of a Chancellor's scholarship and they also invited me to the Honors program, but i'm turning them down. And my grades suck too.</p>
<p>Please clarify your last post Happiness- I lost you at the end. ELC is for I think the top 4%ish (not quite sure of number- maybe 5%?) of students gpa-wise at each school that are on track to fulfill the minimum course requirements and are given a boost in points admissionwise (initially suppose to guarantee you admission to lower tier UCs, I think someone said somewhere else they guarantee UCI and UCMerced this year). Non-ELC just means you didnt have a high enough gpa at your high school to be eligible, but you still need to fulfill the requirements to get into a UC (but you're not guaranteed like an ELC student). I don't think you can get in period w/o fulfilling the minimum requirement (maybe exceptions for recruited athletes?).</p>
<p>The main reason the acceptance rate is so high is because there are minimum requirements to even be considered as a UC applicant - what they call "UC eligibility rules." At other schools, you'll have a lot of people applying who have no shot of getting in, which brings the acceptance rate down. UC Riverside accepted all UC eligible applicants in 2004, so imagine how many people applied who were not even eligible. Theoretically their "admission rate" should be close to 100%.</p>
<p>I'm not sure though. I had a friend who got accepted to Riverside with a 2.0 GPA ( H.S) and he had D's. He told me the fact that he was a CA resident and low income got him in Riverside. And if i am correct, the minimum requirements for UC is to pass with a C for all the A-G requirements right? But in this case, i have heard of many people who had D's that got accepted to Riveriside, Cruz, or Irvine.</p>
<p>No, the minimum eligible GPA is 2.8, and UC recently voted to raise it to 3.0. There are a few people who are still admitted by exception, though.</p>
<p>2.8 high school GPA or UC gpa? </p>
<p>I'm having trouble and kind of stressed right now because i have a UC GPA 3.1 and high school GPA of 2.5(after the last semester of 12th grade, it'll be 2.7) (my freshman and sophomore year kind of screwed up because of the amount of stressed i had with my family etc. which i told them on my essay.) And had a few D's. But, since my junior year, i have gotten A's and B's till now. No C's and D's. So it kind of shows them that i have improved right?</p>
<p>That is too farfetched Happiness. There had to have been pretty outstanding circumstances, namely medical (I don't think even low income would hack it)- but with the number of applicants that each school receives who actually do fulfill the minimum requirement (2.8 gpa) even w/ outstanding circumstances, those who are below requirements w/ outside circumstances might not even be considered to begin with. The article about what im_blue talks about can be seen at <a href="http://www.ucop.edu/news/archives/2004/sep23.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.ucop.edu/news/archives/2004/sep23.htm</a></p>