Make me feel good about UCR!

College Search & Selection
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<p>arcadefire1027: The Regents of the University of California, in tandem with the California legislature, has defined the qualifying standard for admittance to a Univesity of California campus as being top 12% of that year’s graduating class.</p>

<p>UC: Top 12.5%
Cal State: Top 40%
California Community Colleges: the rest</p>

<p>Among the UC schools, there is, as you note, an informal pecking order, so that in general, UCB is top .5%-1%, UCLA is top .75% to 1.5%, and so on down through UC Riverside, and then UC Merced. Of course 20-25% of the students on any campus will be outside this range, but there it is, in general.</p>

<p>My point is that AMONG the top 12.5%, UCR is not at the bottom, so you can safely consider yourself top 10% of all graduates in the state of CA.</p>

<p>I googled to find this and here is the first press release I found which references this systemwide admissions qualification standard:</p>

<p>[University</a> of California - UC Newsroom | REGENTS APPROVE SOME ELIGIBILITY ADJUSTMENTS FOR 2005, DELAY ACTION ON PROPOSED GPA INCREASE](<a href=“http://209.85.215.104/search?q=cache:rR_KdDzktwMJ:www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/9974+university+of+california+12.5%25&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us]University”>http://209.85.215.104/search?q=cache:rR_KdDzktwMJ:www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/9974+university+of+california+12.5%25&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us)</p>

<p>REGENTS APPROVE SOME ELIGIBILITY ADJUSTMENTS FOR 2005, DELAY ACTION ON PROPOSED GPA INCREASE
Email this articleDate: 2004-07-15
Contact: Hanan Eisenman
Phone: (510) 587-6194
Email: <a href=“mailto:hanan.eisenman@ucop.edu”>hanan.eisenman@ucop.edu</a> </p>

<p>The University of California Board of Regents today (July 15) approved two adjustments to UC’s eligibility standards for freshman applicants, effective with the fall 2005 entering class, to help keep the size of the university’s eligibility pool aligned with the 12.5 percent target in the California Master Plan for Higher Education.</p>

<p>Every few years, the California Postsecondary Education Commission (CPEC) assesses where UC stands in relation to the Master Plan provision that the top 12.5 percent of the state’s graduating public high school students be considered eligible for UC. In May 2004, CPEC issued a new report estimating that, in the class of 2003, 14.4 percent of the graduating public high school class had achieved UC’s eligibility requirements, up from 11.1 percent in 1996. The Academic Senate proposal was designed to return UC to the 12.5 percent level in state policy.</p>

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<p>Hmm. Well that’s reassuring.</p>

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<p>It’s all about perspective. You are in an elite group simply to qualify for UC.</p>

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<p>Yeah I guess. What really bothers me is I wish I had set some goal while going into high school, like, Princeton, then I know I would’ve been able to get there. Ah well, it’s a life lesson-I need to start setting my goals sooner.</p>

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<p>Taking the math placement tomorrow..</p>

<p>Still would like more opinions on this topic though :)</p>

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<p>I recently spent a week at the Mission Inn in Riverside. It really opened my eyes to what a great city Riverside is. There are so many things to do so close to campus, and a local trolley that goes to art museums, shopping, and all kinds of restaurants too. There are a lot of gorgeous historic mansions in town, and the ski area at Big Bear Mountain is only 30 minutes away.</p>

<p>[Mission</a> Inn Hotel - Riverside California](<a href=“http://www.missioninn.com/]Mission”>http://www.missioninn.com/)</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.riversidetransit.com/downloads/promos/trolleyBrochure_07-10_vWeb.pdf[/url]”>http://www.riversidetransit.com/downloads/promos/trolleyBrochure_07-10_vWeb.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>[Snow</a> Summit: Welcome](<a href=“http://www.snowsummit.com/index_winter.php]Snow”>http://www.snowsummit.com/index_winter.php)</p>

<p>[Bear</a> Mountain:](<a href=“http://www.bearmountain.com/index_winter.php]Bear”>http://www.bearmountain.com/index_winter.php)</p>

<p>[The</a> Old Spaghetti Factory - Riverside, CA, 92507 - Citysearch](<a href=“http://national.citysearch.com/profile/553185]The”>http://national.citysearch.com/profile/553185)</p>

<p>[Riverside</a> Art Museum - Home](<a href=“http://www.riversideartmuseum.org/]Riverside”>http://www.riversideartmuseum.org/)</p>

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<p>Well, I do know the area (I live about 35 minutes from campus), and I don’t think it’s nearly as bad as everyone’s making it out to be.</p>

<p>But then again, going to UCSB would have probably been a billion times cooler, city wise, but ah well.</p>

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<p>UC Riverside has like 42% Asians. </p>

<p>So it can’t be THAT bad. ;)</p>

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<p>haha, yeah I noticed that..</p>

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<p>The film Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death (1989) was filmed there. Was a Revenge of the Nerds movie filmed there too?
BTW, Ronald Reagan honeymooned at the Mission Inn in Riverside.
Do either of these trivia items make you feel better?</p>

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<p>You’ll get an explosive GPA that will propell you into any graduate program in the nation :slight_smile: Just work hard on internships and such, and you’ll be fine. I know lots of people who turned down UCI/SD/SB/Davis to attend UCR on scholarships. Hell, I even know 2 people who turned down UCLA. lol. </p>

<p>I also know a UCR graduate who now makes 6 digit figures in the marketing department of her company.</p>

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<p>Only UC Berkeley has more Asians (43%) than UC Riverside percent-wise.</p>

<p>Besides, if you’re Asian, and you feel miserable about your life and feel you are a disgrace and a dishonor to your family name and to the Chinese/Korean community b/c you attend UC Riverside (there are actually Chinese/Koreans who feel this way)… don’t worry, you’re in good company. There are 6,000+ Asians who are in the same boat…</p>

<p>Hell, I know a good number of Chinese/Koreans who attend UC IRVINE and they feel this way. They feel like they are a disgrace and a dishonor to their family name and to the greater Chinese/Korean community because they only got into Irvine, and couldn’t even get accepted to UC San Diego.</p>

<p>Seems in terms of Asian prestige in California, UC San Diego is the cutoff. Anything below UC San Diego is considered bad to Asian people in California…</p>

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<p>What was the point of that last post honestly? </p>

<p>The Asians I know that attend both UCR and UCI are all happy and acknowledge that they are great schools. But thats not even an issue. Why?</p>

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<p>I don’t think it is productive to take a lot of energy to understand or compare your accomplishments to your peers at this point in your life… 18 years of age. You’ve only been a semi-adult for five years. And most colleges are really snap-shotting you for 2.5 years. You’ve got another at least 50 years of highly productive time in this world, and another 20 after that, if your health holds, to be a productive member of society. In other words, you are ONLY 10% of your way into your adult life!</p>

<p>Make the most of UCR. Do not think about why you are not at UCLA. You’ve got another 50 years to keep improving, to far surpass the people who peaked at 17 — and half those people who got into UCLA will have peaked already. It’s just the imperfect nature of selecting a person for intelligence, character and energy after such a small time as an adult.</p>

<p>Use this challenge to you as motivation to out-create, out-work, out-give all those kids who already peaked!</p>

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<p>to iamyourfather:</p>

<p>haha, well thank you for that, but I’m not asian</p>

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<p>I know of someone who is going to UCR this fall in part because he wants to play tennis and wouldn’t qualify for D1 teams. People choose schools for lots of different reasons. As others have mentioned, if you have a positive attitude and make an effort you can obtain a great education just about anywhere. Graduating with little or no debt is a big bonus you will appreciate more fully after you graduate.</p>

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<p>I actually might like to play tennis as well, so that’d work out pretty good for me, haha.</p>

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<p>Bumped for more info</p>

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<p>Yeah, let’s do that again</p>

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<p>Still would love more feedback</p>