<p>I guess I should rephrase it as USC is closer in admissions selectivity to UCSD than it is to UCB/UCLA. What UCSD does with ELC is something it has an obligation to do for the state of California. USC has no such requirement. What you're showing are very strong numbers and admissions to back that, and I'd like to see USC's similar stats before we consider UCSD a comparatively "easy" school to get into. Also, I would consider USC slightly on par with UCSD in reference to the OP's situation. He's OOS, and UC's have traditionally been unfriendly to people that aren't residents. He'd probably have close to the same shot at USC since it won't discriminate based on residency.</p>
<p>As for your safeties, I think lower tier UC's are still going to be your safeties. 83% should at least be above a 3.0, although what it looks like without averaging freshman year might be different. CSU's with the exception of CP SLO, CP P, and SDSU are likely going to be reliable.</p>
<p>Your best chance of a safety is UC Merced. Right now they have more spots than acceptances on a regular basis (this will change eventually, but right now nobody wants to go to a UC in the central valley--kind of middle of nowhere relative to the "in" spots of Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, and Santa Barbara). </p>
<p>Also, transferring from UC Merced to UCLA would be much easier than from OOS--priorities go first to the community colleges, then to students at other UCs.</p>
<p>Lastly, I have to mention that naderman's comment about you having no problem getting into UCI must have been a sarcastic shot at UCI--because the fact is that you have absolutely no chance of getting in there this coming year (sorry).</p>
<p>If you really want to go to UCLA consider going to a California community college and then transferring--but realize that the average GPA needed to transfer has been historically around a 3.6 or so. (However, it would be much cheaper than going to UC Merced as an international student, though) Also, these are essentially "safeties" since you can go to one as long as you graduated from high school.</p>
<p>There are lots of other schools in the US that have easier standards for admittance. Only about the top 150-200 colleges are real tough--and the US has over 1400 colleges. Just pick up a copy of the US News and World Report College edition that is currently out and look through the average admission statistics of some of the schools. Realize, though, that transferring to UCLA from most of those schools is next to impossible--regardless of GPA--unlike the California community colleges or UC Merced--from which you would get preference.</p>
<p>Thanks for the reply.
I however, just read on the UC website,that OOS Applicants need at least 3.4GPA for ANY UC's.
Do I even have 3.4 GPA? Can anyone confirm this facT?</p>
<p>It doesn't guarantee, but when, as you say, 90% of them get in, and when applicants get 300 pts for being ELC, they clearly want to give ELC the best chance possible.</p>
<p>Bassmon, I don't think any of us know what your "UC GPA" would calculate out to. You need to translate each class which fits into the UC "a to g" academic categories which you took your sophomore and junior years into an ABCD 4 point grade scale, add points for up to 8 AP classes, and calculate your average on a 4 point scale. Grades are very important to UC - they carry a lot more weight than SATs do compared to the policies of other schools such as USC.</p>
<p>An option which probably would be available to you is to enroll in a two-year California community college, take all of the required lower division breadth courses, and transfer to a UC in your third year of college. You will need to do very well in CC, but then, if you're UC material, you should be able to. There are a number of California community colleges which have residential opportunities for out of area students; you might check out Cuesta College in San Luis Obispo, (near Cal Poly) Santa Barbara City College (near UCSB), Butte CC near CSU Chico, or Grossmont or Mesa in San Diego, for example. Also, there are some community colleges which have a history of sending lots of their two-year graduates on to certain UC campuses, although they tend to be local commuter schools. The community college to UC route is an inexpensive option, but requires self-discipline.</p>
<p>Sophomore:
English 10/11 Hon 73%
Math 82%
Mandarin 74%
Social St Hon 90%
Chemistry Hon 91%
AP French 88% (3 on AP)</p>
<p>Junior:
English 11 80%
Math 11 88%
Physics Hon 82% (93/89/64) lolol
Mandarin 78%
history 89%
AP Economics 86% (5 on AP)
AP Chemistry 76% (5 on AP)</p>
<p>does anyone have a guide on how to calculate US GPA? Because I can't seem to find percentage ranges.</p>
<p>"you're in for uci for sure reachish for ucsd"</p>
<p>All he's told us is he has little to no ECs and a GPA of 83.6. How is that "in for sure" at UC Irvine? </p>
<p>My friend transfered from UC Riverside to UCLA, so that is possible. But I don't know if you would get into UC Riverside. You didn't really submit much of a full profile in your OP.</p>