<p>You're better off going to a cc for 2 years and then to a top UC than going to UCR. Just my opinion.</p>
<p>Yeah, assuming your major qualifies and you can keep the minimum required GPA (which in many cases is very easy), two years at a community college will guarantee you a spot at the middle tier UCs.</p>
<p>can't i transfer from ucr to ivies?</p>
<p>Iviws take a very small nimber of transfers. You will have to do something highly unusual to go from UCR to an ivy. You have a WAY higher chance of going fom a ccc to UCB or UCLA.</p>
<p>ucr to ucla or ucb? why transfer from cc instead?</p>
<p>You need to understand the CA system. Actualluy, it doesn't make sense if you don't know the system. The UCs can only accomodate so many kids, so the cc system is there to take the pressure off UCs and CSUs. To encourage kids to enroll in ccs, Cali has made it easy to go from a cc to a UC. Much easier than going from a UC or CSU to another cc. Kids at cc get first priority and can even sign guarantee transfer agreements with some of the lower UCs. In truth, it's amazingly easy to go from a cc to a UC.</p>
<p>I think you should take tougher classes over the summer and take tougher classes in community college. If you get great grades in those classes, it would make sense that colleges would primarily ignore lesser high-school courses.
Take SATII's and AP's to legitimize your transcript as well. I don't know much about the college process. However, I think if you can make yourself qualified for an Ivy League school, you have a slight chance at one of the Ivies. More importantly, you would have a great chance at 2nd tier schools. With top SATs(2100-2400), strong SATII scores, some APs, and great grades in difficult classes a little later in life, it would make sense for colleges to strongly reconsider you.<br>
IVY league could be tough. Even though you can become qualified, it is still competitive. However, I think what matters in the long run is how skilled you are. Incorporate how you have matured through job experience and independent projects into your essays and try to get a qualified professor's recomendation and you will be credible I think.
Most importantly, learn from your mistakes and don't repeat them. Why didn't you get A's. Understand why, and get A's from here on out.</p>
<p>does anyone know anything about stanford's summer classes?</p>
<p>Well just look at your self compared with everyone else. What else do you have to back yourself up.</p>
<p>ok on the june sat i had a 2340</p>
<p>now hows my chances?</p>
<p>thx</p>
<p>ps my uc gpa is like 2.7-2.8</p>
<p>weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee</p>
<p>new score same fate?!</p>
<p>to answer caltech, i can only count on my sat...;/</p>
<p>hey, I've been skimming through this thread and noticed some things that people have said. I don't know if anyone else has pointed this out but for ucla, the freshman comprehensive review is used to evaluate one's application (not sure about other UC's). I think their comprehensive review is pretty fair because it's a holistic view of the student. I heard an application is reviewed independently by 3 or 4 adcoms before a final decision is made, so there is room for you to explain. </p>
<p>as for explaining your low gpa...Hopefully you'll be lucky and run across the same personal statement question that they asked last year. </p>
<p>Question #3
Focus: Open-ended
Rationale: This question seeks to give students the opportunity to share important aspects of their schooling or their livessuch as their personal circumstances, family experiences and opportunities that were or were not available at their school or collegewhich may not have been sufficiently addressed elsewhere in the application. Is there anything you would like us to know about you or your academic record that you have not had the opportunity to describe elsewhere in this application?</p>
<p>I heard that personal statement questions from the UC's are generally similar year-to-year, so most likely they'll probably have an open-ended question where you can explain yourself. </p>
<p>Best of luck to you! And if anything...I HIGHLY recommend you transferring from a CC to a top-tier UC. In the end, you'll still graduate with the same bachelor's degree as the person who came into a particular UC as a freshman.</p>
<p>UC only considers your grades from 10th and 11th grades. Senior grades do not count. What is your official UC GPA?</p>
<p>like a 2.7-2.9</p>
<p>2340 sat (aiming for perfect score in oct/nov)
800 chinese
750-800 us history</p>
<p>no ec
no ap</p>
<p>medicore school....each year 3 ppl go to cal, 1-2 to la and a few to other ucs..besides that, no one got into anything good.</p>
<p>1st gen chinese....came at middle of 9th grade...what else...hmm does middle school awards count?</p>
<p>Aiming for a perfect SAT score sounds like a good idea, especially if you want to emphasize that you are better than your GPA suggests. I would also suggest taking several SAT II exams, like biology, chemistry, physics, English, history, etc. so that you can show that you really know these subjects. You should also try to take college classes over the summer, maybe at a UC or CC on the quarter system, since it's already June.</p>