<p>im a freshmen interested in applying to UCLA...my freshmen year hasn't been the greatest (because of other distractions) but all i am devoted to now is school/volunteering/ec's........i know i can pull a atleast a 3.9 uw for the next 2 years(not including freshmen year) and like a 4.3 or 4.4 w...does ucla only look at sophomore and junior year or everything? and what are my chances of getting in if they do?</p>
<p>It’s a good thing you are thinking about college this early. BUT, you need to do your own research, preparing for UCLA is a major deal and you need to resort to something higher than CC. Check out their admissions website @ [UCLA</a> Undergrad Admissions: Freshman Selection](<a href=“http://www.admissions.ucla.edu/Prospect/Adm_fr/FrSel.htm]UCLA”>Application Review Process for First-Years | UCLA Undergraduate Admission)</p>
<p>damn its so hard to get in</p>
<p>Meh, keep your GPA up and join some clubs.</p>
<p>The consensus seems to that UCLA wants well rounded students, so do a little bit of everything.</p>
<p>You’re in luck. UC’s don’t factor your freshman grades into your GPA (or has that changed?). Poor freshman grades could affect you if your school does the ranking thing. But yeah, you can definitely be a competitive candidate with good sophomore and junior grades.</p>
<p>play some sports dude. even JV helps, you dont got to letter.</p>
<p>Freshman year grades are not part of your UC gpa, only your sophomore and junior year. They will look at your freshman year grades but it might help you since they will think, “O this kid brought his grades up during freshman and sophomore year” or something like that.
To get a good chance, just do stuff that you are passionate about and get involved in it. Do a sport, become a leader for an organization, have a decent SAT score and GPA, stuff like that…
You can’t really measure your chance until junior year really :)</p>
<p>thanks guys</p>
<p>people, this year thr admit rate for incoming freshman was insane. I think it was even harder than berkeley. it is totally, completely unfair for all of you. All of the work to do, SAT’S lame ACT’S, AP EXAMS, over 4.0, and yet some still get rejected. **** them this really ****es me off. I feel for everyone, I am a transfer student and i am scared enough they will go hard on us as well. My friend got rejected with a 4.2 GPA, like 5 hard AP EXAMS, LOTS OF EC ridiculous</p>
<p>rthrakal – </p>
<p>1) try to read a lot just for pleasure. Can be anything… science fiction, Atlantic Monthly, anything well written. </p>
<p>2) take the same classes really smart people take in 10th grade. </p>
<p>if you really aren’t interested in 1), and don’t excel doing 2), then don’t sweat it! Most successful people in life did not attend a Top 50 college. Find out what you’re interested in, and figure out some way to have your career related to that interest.</p>
<p>The LAST thing you want is to fake who you are and fake academic interest or athletic interest or another EC interest, just so you can get into UCLA – and then fake it for another 4-5 years, then graduate UCLA into a job that requires you to fake it another few years. Where does the faking stop?</p>
<p>Find out what you actually LIKE doing, and do it. UCLA and other top 30 or so schools are for people who LIKE academics. They take hard classes because they LIKE hard classes… they get involved in leadership positions because it comes naturally to them, etc.</p>