SAT score

Colleges & Universities A-Z University of California - San Diego
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<p>hey guys, i was just wondering what a "safe" SAT score would be to get into UCSD </p>

<p>i'm going on the pre-med track; does that constitute the adcoms to have a higher standard? or does it not matter?</p>

<p>right now i'm around 1900, trying to at least break 2000 if not 2100</p>

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<p>SAT does not matter as much for UCSD as they have a points system for admissions. In my opinion 1900 is good, but higher is always better. I believe that there is not higher standard for pre-med. Correct me if I’m wrong.</p>

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<p>do u have a link to the pts system? is SD the only one that does this?
and would a higher score get me more pts?</p>

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<p>davis does it like that also.</p>

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<p>do u guys have a link?</p>

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<p>link to answer your question:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=384215&highlight=point+system[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=384215&highlight=point+system&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>This is a few years old, but still helpful.</p>

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<p>so is the process like: 1. make the pts cutoff & then 2. get interviewed?</p>

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<p>lolololololol. no. change #2 to get accepted.</p>

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<p>I think Berkeley and recently UCLA are the only UC’s to do the hollistic approach to admission’s review, i.e. they judge an applicant on their overall “picture” as opposed to the point system. In this way, they take after prestigious private institutions that rely on this system as seemingly all applicants have similar scores and it would be impossible to differentiate from the qualifications. </p>

<p>From what I hear, the holistic process involves an application being looked over by two adcoms. The adcoms review the whole application instead different adcoms reviewing certain parts, giving a respective score, and getting a cumulative score. If your test scores and GPA are high but you lack a lot of EC’s, I think the point system is more favorable.</p>

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<p>cr_book, can u clarify? or can someone clarify for him/her</p>

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<p>if you make the cutoff point, you’re accetepted. UC’s dont do interviews.</p>

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<p>don’t the top 2 do interviews since they’re hollistic?
also, what if someone doesn’t make the cutoff, but has other good factors (ie essay, recs, etc)</p>

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<p>They don’t do interviews, they don’t even take recommendation letters.
The other factors are calculated into the points system, so if the cutoff is not met, then the student did not make the cut.
Did you checkout the links? You can roughly estimate what your point total is.</p>

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<p>The top to (i.e. berkeley and la) do not do interviews because their applicant pool is just too large and doing so would be impractical. They cannot possibly interview the 44k that apply to berkeley and the 50k+ that apply to ucla. Even if they were to filter the pool in half that would be seemingly impossible.</p>

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<p>and ucsd actually got more applicants than berkeley this year, i think…</p>

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<p>does ne1 else have any thoughts on how i can improve (other than test scores)? b/c i looked at the comp. review and ECs like volunteering only go so far</p>

<p>is the 1st generation attendee meaning that i’m the first one in my family to attend UCSD?</p>

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<p>^ (10 chars)</p>