<p>Hey, all three of these schools seem just a bit out of range to me am I wrong? I also have a couple questions, (incoming senior) thanks! Im a white male BTW.</p>
<p>UCI
UCSB
UCLA </p>
<p>3.5 unweighted GPA at a top 100 public school
Everyone seems to calculate weighted GPA differently, so I'll just provide a list of what I have taken.</p>
<p>Sophmore Year SM 1 SM 2
AP Euro History A A
Honors Chemistry B B
Honors Alg2/Trig A B
Honors English B A
Spanish 2 A A</p>
<p>Junior Year
AP US History B B
AP English (Lit?) B B
Precalc/Trig B B
Spanish 3 A B
Honors Marine Bio A A
World Issues (elect.) A A</p>
<p>AP Test Scores:
Euro 3
US history 4
English 4</p>
<p>My AP classes killed me, I could not get A's in most of them, did I take the wrong route by taking AP's and getting B's rather than getting A's in college prep classes?</p>
<p>2 Years JV Basketball
4 Years Baseball (3 years Varsity, Captian senior year)
1 year mock trial
4 years Best Buddies
2 years private piano lessons (count for anything?)
100+ Hours of Community Service</p>
<p>My class rank is top 25%</p>
<p>My SAT score is also rather low...1780, however I am going to re-take it and take the ACT</p>
<p>SAT 2's
US History 590 ***?
Math 2 590</p>
<p>I am not planning on playing baseball in college, however should I try harder to contact the coaches if it will help me get in?</p>
<p>Senior Classes:
AP US GOV
AP Eng<br>
Honors Precalc/Calc A
Digital Desgin</p>
<p>Hum …
Average Grades and average SAT, like the EC’S are average too.
It will be hard, especially for UCLA, but if you improve in SAT you definitely have a chance</p>
<p>The two other schools I think you’re fine. UCLA might be a bit difficult unless your GPA was a bit higher and SAT. SAT above 2200 and I think you gotta shot.</p>
<p>def. try to contact the coach for baseball for all these schools. if ur really that committed and if your really good, then i would recommend you to contact those coaches.</p>
<p>You need to calculate your UC GPA because different classes are weighted at different schools.</p>
<p>At UCI and UCSB tha average UC GPA is about 4.0, average SAT about 1880</p>
<p>At UCLA average UC GPA is 4.2, average SAT about 2050</p>
<p>All of these schools will probably take fewer freshmen this year because of the budget crisis and they will probably have more applicants as fewer Californians will be considering private schools. So expect te averages to go up.</p>
<p>to hmom:
are u sure that the average UC GPA are around there? i know where ur getting the averages from, but i find it hard to believe that the UC GPA is that high!</p>
<p>thanks guys! yea im not sure about the whole UC GPA it totally skrews me 3.86ish??, I got too many B’s in honors and AP classes, shoulda just taken easy classes for free A’s. I really really like UCI i was in Irvine today and stopped by to drive around campus for awhile just for fun…They do have the number one baseball team there aswell. Post links i will chance back!</p>
<p>And as far as them accepting less kids that effects me slightly, however my family needs NO financial aid, which could help my chances seeing as some kids might not be able to afford to go.</p>
<p>You don’t need an SAT score of 2200 for any UC. 2008 is the average SAT score for UCLA, a bit higher for Berkeley. Average GPA for these schools is close to 4.0 unweighted though.</p>
<p>There is a massive drop off from Irvine to Santa Cruise, dam I am right on the lower cut of UCI right now. Looks like I’m close, I have only taken the SAT once and improving by 100 points is not that hard at all. My GPA took hits because I took harder classes and played sports, thats gotta count for somthing. Thanks for the info, looking for more opinions please!</p>
<p>No chance at UCLA unless you get your sats up a lot!
I think you will get into one of UCI and UCSB, your sats are low but they are within range, so I think you’ll be fine.</p>
<p>yea its messed up though, my friend took no hard classes and got straight a’s, therefore qualified for ELC (top 4%) of class (2009 hs grad). He got into UCSB. Guess it just depends on the aplicant.</p>
<p>Students must fulfill the following minimum requirements to be eligible for the University of California in the local context:</p>
<p>Attend an eligible high school that participates in the ELC program and have his or her transcript submitted to UC with the school’s ELC submission packet
Have a UC-calculated grade point average of 3.0 or higher
Complete a specific pattern of 11 UC-approved “a-g” courses by the end of the junior year
Rank in the top 4 percent of the expected graduating class, based on a UC-weighted grade point average that includes all UC-approved courses taken in the 10th and 11th grades</p>