OOS Friend with SAT 1700 says UCI is my safety after getting in

Colleges & Universities A-Z University of California - Irvine
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<p>yeah i have this friend who luckily got into UCI OOS with 0 EC, yes 0 EC!! Crappy essay(one of the worst i've read..seriously), and like 4.2 UC GPA, with 1700 SAT.
i guess UCI really cares about GPA o.o
after congratulating him on his acceptance, i was told "UCI is my safety; i wanna go to berkeley"</p>

<p>!@#%$#$^??!!
what the heck?! berkeley?? expect an auto rejection bro
this type of people just ****es me off, seriously. even i wouldn't call UCI a complete safety, though i have a way stronger app...
geez...</p>

<p>anyone else who feels the way i do?
just wanted to vent,heh!
[i realized i should've put a quotation mark on the title..sorry]</p>

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<p>Disregard what I wrote.
-snipped-</p>

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<p>when he gets rejected from merced and riverside, we will have the last laugh. wow, SAT doesnt matter much, but i guarantee that someone who scores 1700 will fail every class they ever take at UCI</p>

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<p>whoa whoa whoa, calm down. just because someone gets a 1700 doesn’t mean they will fail every class they ever take at UCI.</p>

<p>How can you just come to a conclusion like that?</p>

<p>congrats to him, and its just how the UC system works guys. =/. nothing we can do about it.</p>

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<p>I agree with bombatwist. The average SAT at UCI is 1800ish and there’s not that much of a difference between that and a 1700.</p>

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<p>There is actually a very appreciable qualitative difference between a 1700 and an 1800. And the average at irvine is around 1850.</p>

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<p>dude hes your friend just be happy for him wherever he gets accepted to.</p>

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<p>Really now? An 1800 is basically getting 600 for all 3 sections. A 1700 is like 550, 550, 600.
Now obviously, there are other distributions, but the difference between a 550 and a 600 is not that much. Probably a few questions at the most.</p>

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<p>You have to understand how statistics works before you start speaking. In the upper echelons of SAT scores, such as 760-800, getting ONE problem wrong will drop you by a large amount of points. However, the curves work in such a way that if you are in the mid range, losing one or two more points does not affect your score as much. So youll miss a ton of questions, but your score wont drop as much as it did with the first few questions you got wrong
Don’t believe, me? Go look at any score distribution on practice exams. There is a VERY large difference between 1700-1800. As for anyone with that low of a score, I guarantee they will not do well at UCI.</p>

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<p>^I’ve taken the SAT before.
You guarantee that anyone with a 1700 will not do well at UCI? What about those who do very well on the SAT Subject Tests and AP tests, but not so well on the reasoning, because they aren’t accustomed to the reasoning’s test structure? The reasoning isn’t as good an indicator of academic ability as subject and ap tests are.</p>

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<p>It’s the SAT. It has nothing to do with how well you’ll do in school. Idiots with 2.0’s sometimes end up with excellent SAT scores. And at the same time, there are students with 4.0+ GPAs with SAT scores of 1500.</p>

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<p>SAT does not mean much at all. But there really isnt any excuse for scoring below an 1800.</p>

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<p>^Sure there is. You can have a really bad day and take the test, be sick, or just be completely unprepared.</p>

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<p>dasherwinator, no one likes an elitist. Calm down and accept that not everyone’s a good test-taker.</p>

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<p>I’m int he same situation as your friend. No big EC’s, 1710 SAT.</p>

<p>UCI and UCSB have been my safety schools all along, lol.</p>

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<p>You people on this website need to chill out… My friend got in to berkeley last year with a 4.0 UC and 1700 SAT. Its all about the essay. Also there is so much stat inflation on this website its crazy</p>

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<p>So true. I expect to get into Berkley or UCLA with ease.</p>

<p>Don’t quote me on this, lol.</p>

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<p>This once again goes to show the extent to which UCs value GPA (their own proprietary version known as UC GPA). If you have 4.1 GPA, you can pretty much guarantee you will be forgiven a lousy SAT. If you are ELC, you are in irrespective of SAT or essays.</p>

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<p>haha i got 1690 the first time i opened a SAT prep book for a diagnostic=]</p>

<p>feel happy for your friend. feel better about yourself. you will def get in now for sure right?</p>

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<p>I knew someone with a 1650 who got into Davis, but I think she was ELC. This is the first I’ve heard of someone with less than 1800 getting into UCI but I guess anything’s possible as long as you have the right GPA and classes and they make up for it.</p>