I heard that if you apply to an out of state public schools, they basically don’t care about your rank and look at your quartile (1st quartile or not). Is this true?
So this means my ACT scores and ECs have a heavier weight in the admission process?
Or do colleges actually still look at your rank. Someone also told me that UC’s delete your freshman grades (which would boost me up so much). Is this true?
Thanks a lot.
<p>Yeah I'm sure UC's dont count freshman grades and they'll just average the other years</p>
<p>UC's don't count freshmen grades.</p>
<p>You need to take SAT IIs and the ACT with Writing to get into a UC.</p>
<p>how do they calculate your revised rank by excluding your freshman grades (if your out of state). I think its kind of tedious for them to go calculate every person in your school's gpa excluding their freshman year.</p>
<p>The University of California does not use rank in general; rank only comes into play for in-state students looking for Eligibility in the Local Context. </p>
<p>GPA is what counts for the UC's, not rank.</p>
<p>"I heard that if you apply to an out of state public schools, they basically don't care about your rank and look at your quartile (1st quartile or not). Is this true?" No, if anything your GPA will be weighted more because they won't be familiar with your high school. UC's only use the weighted "UC GPA" calculated from 10th and 11th grades and not class rank.</p>
<p>"So this means my ACT scores and ECs have a heavier weight in the admission process?" They could in the sense that people from competitive in-state high schools often have a boost since they're familiar with them.</p>
<p>"Or do colleges actually still look at your rank. Someone also told me that UC's delete your freshman grades (which would boost me up so much). Is this true?" UC's do not use freshman or senior grades.</p>
<p>Out of state public schools have do not all use the same criteria in admitting students in or out of states. Even schools within the same state do not. So you have to investigate the particular school's way of doing things. The UCs seem to have very specific criterion that have to be met for admissions, and there are specific SAT and gpa threshholds that they require, more stringent for out of staters. They are also very specific on what grades are used and how the gpa is weighted for AP classes and the like. Just because you meet or exceed the guidelines does not mean that you are going to be accepted, however, those are just minimum requirements for consideration.</p>