<p>hey guys my friend is a 4.1 unweighted gpa Asian student with tons of extra curriculars,work experience/internship
and sports that got rejected to uc davis as a computer science major. My friends SAT score is about around 1700 and he has high ACT scores do you guys know any reason why uc davis might have rejected him? Also i'm wondering if this can be a worthy appeal case.</p>
<p>Sorry my friend just told me his SAT score was actually 1920 not 1700</p>
<p>tell your friend that 1920 is pretty low man. also being asian doesn’t really help either but i know you can’t help that. maybe a 2100 or atleast a 2k would’ve boosted his chances by a bit</p>
<p>First of all, you can’t have a 4.1 UW GPA. Also, being asian, or any other race, doesn’t matter for UC admissions. His SAT is in the range for UC Davis. There’s a lot of reasons why Davis could have rejected him. Maybe his essays weren’t well written or his ECs aren’t as great as you say he has.</p>
<p>Today I got acceptance letters from UC Davis and Santa Cruz and I scored a 1760 on my SAT. I had straight A’s though and strong essays and EC’s. Tell your friends he still has a chance at other UCs.</p>
<p>i don’t know where you guys live or go to school but a 1760 definitely won’t get you into any good college and a 1920 is still pretty low. it’s also unlikely that people at my school who get 2200+ will have bad essays. it definitely has something to do with race and where you live</p>
<p>@Reflextion Well, guess what? I got into a good college with an SAT score of 1760. I wrote a unique essay and I got in. You can go on about how much the admissions process involves race/where you live, but at the end of the day, it’s whether or not you got in or not. And I got in. Stop trying to be a party pooper.</p>
<p>so you’re trying to tell me that people who work their ass off to get a 2200 to barely get in while others get a 1800 is fair? if race wasn’t a factor uc’s would be 100% asian. if you’re asian i’ll be damned if you got in with 1760 and but if you’re black/latino or even white and you got in then, still congratulations, but in my eyes it’s not fair.</p>
<p>@Reflextion
Are you saying Asians should have higher scores than everyone else in order to be admitted to the same college? If so, it’s ridiculous. </p>
<p>@book05 </p>
<p><a href=“http://blog.priceonomics.com/post/48794283011/do-elite-colleges-discriminate-against-asians”>http://blog.priceonomics.com/post/48794283011/do-elite-colleges-discriminate-against-asians</a></p>
<p><a href=“Do Asian-Americans Face Bias in Admissions at Elite Colleges? - The New York Times”>Do Asian-Americans Face Bias in Admissions at Elite Colleges? - The New York Times;
<p><a href=“http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2010/02/08/do_colleges_redline_asian_americans/”>http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2010/02/08/do_colleges_redline_asian_americans/</a></p>
<p>Even one of your own threads is about wanting to check off white instead of Asian on applications. Whyever would you want to do that unless there were some sort of disadvantage to being Asian? </p>
<p>I never said I wanted to check off white instead of Asian. I was confused about my own ethnicity.
Not saying it’s not true that Asians are scoring higher. Just saying I don’t think they should be expected to do so. </p>
<p>An unweighted gpa is a maximum of 4.0, so thats probably his weighted gpa.</p>
<p>His unweighted GPA could be a 4.1 if his school is on a 5.0 scale. Then it’s equivalent to a 3.1 on a 4.0 scale.</p>
<p>You don’t think they should be expected to score higher but the fact is that they must in order to remain competitve with URM’s and whites.</p>
<p>@reflextion - You have a bad attitude and I hope somebody makes you realize that one day. A “good college” can be the local community college, as long as it is the right fit for the student. Anything over a 1500 is above average in SAT terms. So what if somebody got in with a low SAT score. Also, people other than Asians can still get into good colleges. My latino friend has a perfect SAT score, multiple extracurriculars, and got into Princeton SCEA. She didn’t identify as hispanic because her guardians are Italian and she strongly identifies with that culture. I usually don’t pay attention to trolls, but you are particularly aggravating and elitist. </p>
<p>@menacing
As I said before, I am not saying it’s not the case. I am saying I think it SOULDN’T be the case. </p>
<p>We’re not disagreeing on anything here. </p>
<p>@Leicester</p>
<p>A “good college” can be the local community college.</p>
<ul>
<li>Say that long enough & you’ll start believing it. lol</li>
<li>I don’t think @reflextion has a bad attitude. He/she is just frustrated. I would be too if my stats are better than the students who got accepted by XYZ Ivies and Elite schools because of their race.</li>
</ul>
<p>But then if every Asian student with perfect or near perfect stats gets into the Ivies & Elites, Harvard, Princeton, Stanford etc… would probably be filled with 80%+ Asians. It would be like creating an educational system to cater to one ethnic group. There’s no diversity in that. The thought that all the Ivies and Elite schools being filled with just one ethnic group and that the others, Hispanics, Whites, Indians, Blacks are left out scares the heck out of me. </p>
<p>I empathize with you @reflextion, but what it is what it is.
By the way: I am Asian. </p>
<p>Check out Prop 209. UCs cannot discriminate based on race so race cannot be a factor in admissions. This is why most UCs are predominantly asian.</p>
<p>DD attends Davis. NEWSFLASH: Computer Science is impacted on her campus. Additionally, they over-admitted in 2012 and they are taking more CC transfers and full paying OOS students, so if Mo’s friend applied to an impacted major, it’s the department that rejected the friend.</p>
<p>@lanaHere - for some students, particularly for people focused on careers like dental hygiene or low level nursing, community college is the most economical choice. </p>