UCI or UCR

Chance Me / Match Me!
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09-11-2016 at 7:02 pm in University of California - Irvine
Ok so I want to major in Civil Engineering or Computer Science and I’m applying to most UC’s with UCI being my most likely. Is UCI good for Civil Engineering?

Also I wanted to know if I have a good chance of getting accepted. Here are my **** below:

  • GPA 4.1 weighted 3.56 unweighted.
  • New SAT score 1250 (700 math, 550 reading, 21/24 essay) I just took the october SAT I think i got like a 1300 or more
  • Top 10% of my class
  • President / Founder of UNICEF at my school
  • Vice President of GIS Club
  • 300 + volunteering hours
  • GIS Intern (for my city) learned GIS programming and worked on city projects
  • I recieved an award from my mayor and city recognition (if that counts for anything)
  • CSF member for 3 years
  • ASB Senators (basically a lower division of ASB) 1 year
  • I volunteered at libraries a lot
  • Boy Scouts Volunteer ( I wasnt in Boy Scouts but I was the Troop Leaders assistant. I was in charge of the troop I was assigned to)
  • self proclaimed memer
  • I also am trilingual bc I took a language class for 3 years. It was for a language called Telugu.
  • yo where the **** is my noose tbh
  • I write pretty godly essays so assume that my personal insights are average to a little above average.
  • I’m the first in my family going to a college in the U.S.
  • Middle class income
  • I work at KUMON, a tutoring center for math and reading
  • I am Indian if that makes a difference.

As of now, My UC GPA is
3.5 : Unweighted
3.78 : Weighted
3.72 : Weighted and Capped
idk if this is right but ill go with it.

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UPDATE: I did do my UC GPA wrong. It is really
Unweighted GPA: 3.54
Weighted GPA: 4.13
Weighted and Capped GPA: 3.71

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where di u get into and where r u going?

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UCI and all the other UC’s will use your capped weighted GPA while UCLA/UCB will also use your fully weighted UC GPA.
Snapshot of the 2017 Admitted Freshman Class for UCI:
These are averages and not major specific for 2017 so expect competitive majors to have higher GPA’s and test scores.

Averages

High School GPA: 4.10
ACT Composite Score: 29
SAT Old Test Total: 2100
SAT Old Test Verbal: 670
SAT Old Test Math: 740
SAT Old Test Writing: 700
SAT New Test Total: 1310
SAT New Test Verbal: 630
SAT New Test Math: 670
Admit Rate, Overall

85,097 applicants
31,105 admits
36.6% admission rate
67.9% of all admits are California residents

Just based on Capped weighted UC GPA, here are the admit rates:

Freshman admit rates for UC GPA of 3.40-3.79:

UCB: 2%
UCLA: 3%
UCSD: 6%
UCD: 15%
UCSB: 14%
UCI: 13%
UCSC: 59%
UCR: 78%
UCM: 92%

What is impacting your chances is your GPA and the UC’s are very GPA focused.

So UCI/UCD/UCSB and above are all Reach schools. Your target schools would be UCSC/UCR/UCM. I would also consider some Cal States such as SDSU/CSU Long Beach/CSU Fullerton/Cal Poly Pomona. Apply broadly and you should have some good choices come spring.