<p>do students who have one or two c's on their transcripts stand a chance?</p>
<p>Your overall UC GPA matters far more than your total number of C's. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>i got in with an F, a D, and several (3-4) C's</p>
<p>i got in with 2 C's during my junior year. same class (both semesters of AP calc).</p>
<p>i also think overall UC GPA matters a lot more. they're looking for what you CAN do (overall academic achievement) rather than what you CAN'T do (weakness is a class or two).</p>
<p>Brandnew2, what was your GPA? Did you get in for sports?</p>
<p>my gpa was 3.1-3.2 unweighted, ~3.5 uc weighted</p>
<p>i didnt play any sports. i had good test scores by ucla standards (1530 on the old SAT1, 770 writing, 770 math2c, 710 physics) and i had (in my opinion) very good essays. i had solid, but not outstanding, ECs. ive since met many people here at UCLA who got in with much lower credentials than me. places like CC kind of warp your mind with regard to what you need to do to get admitted to a decent college.</p>
<p>There were some suprising students from my year that had a few C's and mostly B's from my year that got into either Cal or LA. Grades are important, but they aren't an absolute marker of whether you get in or not.</p>
<p>
I believe John Wooden said roughly the same thing... :rolleyes:</p>
<p>what year did you apply to UCLA brandnew? It gets more competative every year, I doubt someoen with those same stats would be able to get admited for 2010</p>
<p>class of 2008, my year was very competitive. trust me, there are kids here who got in with a lot worse stats than me. if you come here yourself you'll find that out, and you'll wonder how all those kids got in. ucla's a public school that takes 10k+ kids a year, they're not all gonna have CC-level stats, and in fact the great majority of them don't. i'm consistently ranked near the top of my classes here, and i'm in biz-econ, one of the most competitive majors here besides premed/engineering.</p>
<p>as an addendum, the acceptance rate my year was actually lower than last year's acceptance rate, because they had to cut down the number of admits due to state budget problems. that situation has since improved.</p>
<p>yea c/o 2008 was probably the first and only time UCLA's acceptance rate was below berkeley's. </p>
<p>as far as the caliber of students here... the range is really wide. it also depends on your major too. a lot of people got in here for different reasons. it is, in essence, a "class" of freshmen where you run the gamut. there are people here who chose UCLA because it was by far the best school they could get into, and there are also people here who passed up HYPSM to come to UCLA. i've met both types.</p>
<p>Hmm... I've always met people on the lower end of the spectrum at this university, but have yet to meet anyone who has passed up HYPSM for LA. The only real reason I could see them passing up the others would be if they wanted to live closer to home/ in So. Cal. As exciting as LA is, it's really hard to pass up an undergrad education from HYPSM. I don't buy all those "because it's cheaper" cop-outs, because these places, especially Harvard, offer some of, if not the best, financial aid packages (in fact, Harvard offers free rides below a certain income point, but all their scholarships and aids above that point are quite lofty).</p>
<p>"places like CC kind of warp your mind with regard to what you need to do to get admitted to a decent college."</p>
<p>I second that. Good thing I found CC after getting in...</p>
<p>"ive since met many people here at UCLA who got in with much lower credentials than me. places like CC kind of warp your mind with regard to what you need to do to get admitted to a decent college."</p>
<p>That's reassuring! :)</p>
<p>would i stand a chance with
10th: 3.6,4.0
11th: 4.1,4.1
12th: 4.2,pending
uc gpa ^. no c's.</p>
<p>1870 sat ( 720m, 620w, 530r)
720m2c
760french</p>
<p>great essays, good ecs, awards, 7 aps by graduation, leadership,etc...</p>
<p>computer engineering major.</p>
<p>ripcurl..i think we both have one problem , must retake sats</p>
<p>theripcurl1969: That SAT is not helping you, nor is the fact that you applied to engineering. Given that the average SAT is a 2020, I'd say it's a reach (plus, the fact that your math and cr are so imbalanced is not good either. A 620 630 would have been a better scenario, really). I don't know anything about your individual context so I wouldn't say there's no chance, but I wouldn't count on an admission.</p>
<p>i've met people who've passed up harvard, stanford (several actually), duke, caltech, northwestern, georgetown, etc. </p>
<p>granted, there are less of these than there are students on the lower end of the spectrum, but they do exist and i'm sure they're not just exceptions since i've met my own share when the population is so big. several of them are regents and/or alumni scholars, while others just passed up those colleges for other various reasons, most noteably campus life. </p>
<p>on another point, i think one thing that many of us take for granted is that most of us are in situations conducive to thriving academically, whereas some of the students on the "lower end" of the spectrum came from underpriviledged backgrounds and got in standing out from their challenges but may not have necessarily faced the same academic rigor that others did while in high school. i think a lot of people look down upon the students on the lower end of the spectrum, but if you talk to them and understand where they're coming from, you'll have more respect for their accomplishments, even if their raw stats aren't high. </p>
<p>of course, there's also a few who got in here by "luck"... as in they even admit they don't know how they got in here. </p>
<p>but don't worry once you get in here. your SAT score doesn't mean anything anymore, your h/s GPA doesn't mean anything either. nobody really cares if you were valedictorian. and AP means academic probation, not advanced placement. </p>
<p>all the stuff people stress about on CC, they don't mean much once you get to college.</p>
<p>Phew. You made me feel much better brand new.</p>