<p>I'm extremely nervous. UCLA is my dream school but after seeing my October SAT results, I feel like a dream is the only thing it'll ever be.</p>
<p>Here's a quick run through of my stuff:
4.0 unweighted
4.91 weighted HS GPA (only counting sophmore and junior years)
4.5 weighted UC GPA (I did a calculation with a teacher and i think it was something around there.)
took mostly honors and ap. (only regulars are lower level foreign language, pe, music, tech, etc.) US and Government at a community college.
EC: Church youth group, Assistant Teacher at Church's Catechism classes, Treasurer of school's Key Club, Volunteer at Hospital. All together maybe around 250 hours.
Moderately low income family (<60k)
first generation attending college.
ELC.
Rank 3 in my class of 590.</p>
<p>and here it is, my SAT score that may be my demise:
SAT: 1890. Breakdown: Re, Wri, Math: 560, 580, 750.</p>
<p>SATII aren't that great either:
Chem: 680
MathII: 690</p>
<p>What do you guys think?
Do I have enough to make it into UCLA? UCSD? UCB?</p>
<p>I am taking both ACT's and SAT's in December. I'm not sure if my scores can go up much more though.</p>
<p>I’m concerned because the admission committee may question your gpa at school. It’s unusal for a candidate who got the highest wt gpa allowed by UC, but the SAT1& SATII don’t live up to the trend.If your major is engineering, then I’ll worry even more.
Good luck to your up coming test</p>
<p>Your SAT math score of 750 will certainly be looked upon very favorably for Engineering and that alone would get you into most engineering schools. Your problem is that UCB and UCLA probably get a lot applications for their Engineering Department from students who not only score in the 700s on the math section of the SAT but also got CR and W scores in the 600s and possibly 700s as well, giving them a competitive edge over you.</p>
<p>wait, I think UCs only award you up to 8 extra grade points…
and that 8 points in two 24 courses (4 semesters x 6) is .33333…
which means by all means, the highest UC GPA you can get is 4.33</p>
<p>where does the 4.5 come from? </p>
<p>1890 and two 700s (about) are defintely pushing you into UCSD, but LA…a close reach.
But for Cal Engineering, I don’t think you have a good chance.</p>