<p>anybody else apply? i applied for the UCSC one, and they said applicants would be notified by April 30th, now its May 1st, so it must be getting close. I think if you go you get extra points on your admissions package… like 200 i think, which is the difference between a 3.5 and a 3.7 (.2 on the GPA)</p>
<p>Ya I applied. I really hope I got in, but I also got into Rose Hulman Catapult. I also applied for the UCSC. I bet the UCSC cluster is the most selective, because it has the most programs. I'm starting to think I should have applied to Davis. </p>
<p>Would a high SAT score (2330) be enough to offset some bad 9th grade grades?</p>
<p>Is COSMOS much better than Catapult? Catapult seems interesting but COSMOS is much more well known and helpful in admissions, at least for the UCs.</p>
<p>Someone else on the board said they got accepted, debating between brown and COSMOS for summer.</p>
<p>well, i got rejected. they said they had 400 applicants and accepted 150... meh</p>
<p>hey taffy exact same here. I felt pretty sh**** about it considering the 37.5%+ acceptance rate, but I got into Rose Hulman catapult, which is probably a better, though less prestigious program.</p>
<p>COSMOS ROCKS! I was in it last year at UCI (cluster 3: energy and the environment).</p>
<p>=D</p>
<p>my friend with a 4.1 GPA got rejected from it... and you got rejected with a 2330 sat.. jeze who the hell DID they accept?</p>
<p>Well i dont know how much they considered my SAT score, as I sent it in 2 weeks after the deadline for all materials. the woman on the phone said they recieved it and it was put in the file. I also submitted before the deadline a 760 IIC score and 214 PSAT score, which had a relatively low 70 score for math.</p>
<p>Also my grades were not spectacular. I had 1 C, 1 B in 9th grade science, 3/5 math class grades were Bs and honors bio in 10th I had B one semester A the next. I probably got good recs, because I am the top in my class in my math and chemistry (not bio last year, stupid memorization). Given my bad grades, rejection wasnt that surprising. But it is pretty jarring, if true, that you get rejected several times, as your app is forwarded to each cluster until you are accepted or there are no clusters left. They may have tried to recruit minorities more.</p>
<p>Well taffy, good to know I wasnt on the threshold.
Why is COSMOS so prestigious/selective? UCSC or UCI do not have renowned faculty or anything of that sort.</p>
<p>yeah ucsc or uci dont, but all the ucla and ucb nerds probably applied, and ucsc is the coolest place on earth so i can see why they applied to this specific place :-P</p>
<p>if you go to cosmos you get like 200 points extra on your UC app, which is the same as 200 points on an SAT or .2 extra on a gpa, crazy. (i think thats how it works)</p>
<p>That seems like way too much. Afterall, You are being rewarded twice for achieving one set of things. First your SAT scores and GPA and other stuff is factored in, then your cosmos attendance, which was actually just a factor of you having good enough grades and test scores. Hence, they count the same things twice. </p>
<p>Besides, 200 points on the SAT seems like way too much. The difference beween a 1200 and a 1400 is pretty big.</p>
<p>wait is there any place to verify the 200 bouns points thing for the SAT
? I got accepted to COSMOS and I got a full ride to Brown for summer school but i decided to go to COSMOS(UCSC, Best month of my life) because I really want to go to UCSD and you can specifically check off COSMOS on ur UC app.
However, my SAT score SUCKS BUTT its an 1820-_- gahhh</p>
<p>200 points isn't very much, when looking at the total possible points on the UCSD Comprehensive Review. (11,000+ max. points?)
<a href="http://admissions.ucsd.edu/dev3/info/comreview.html%5B/url%5D">http://admissions.ucsd.edu/dev3/info/comreview.html</a></p>
<p>hey phatxmonkey i went to cosmos ucsc too!</p>
<p>i was talking about 200 pts on the UCSC rubric, which is a huge amount of points... the test scores part is worth 2400. the actual SAT I is worth 1200 of that 2400. sooo 200 points out of 1200 is like a 400 point boost on the new sat... difference between 1800 and 2200? maybe they dont give you the full 200 points on the ucsc rubric.. it was under the catagory like ucsd has there.</p>