<p>If you had a 3.5 UW GPA for one semester even, how can you have a 3.99 UW now?</p>
<p>That being said, for the UCs, it’s a numbers game. Moreso than you’d think. GPA/SAT are infinitely more important than EC’s or whatever else you might use to sell yourself to them.</p>
<p>Your SAT is weak, but you know that. I don’t know if it’s possible to leap 300 points unless you literally took it cold for the first time that time. And even then it’s gonna be hard. That’s the nature of an aptitude test, you can only study for it so much. </p>
<p>If I had to guess, you are in at Irvine/Davis/etc. San Diego is somewhere between 60-80%. LA and Berk are reaches though.</p>