<p>Can you tell me what the difference in profiles would be for a typical accepted freshman? Also, how would the profile vary (GPA, AP & Honors courses, etc) from say UCLA to UCSC or, UCSB? Do you have to be in the top ?% of your school in terms of GPA? The competition that my son goes to is intense and, they offer around 32 AP/Honors courses. I trying to figure out how many AP (are Honors classes considered the equivalent for admission purposes?) he should have without having him take too much.</p>
<p>looking forward to hearing responses to this. I’m a junior in high school from California looking to apply to all of those schools.</p>
<p>It would be nice if someone could give you a formula: this GPA, this many AP classes, this SAT. Unfortunately UCLA has moved to holistic admissions so there is no cut-and-dry formula. You can look at the admissions website since they give an admitted student profile. You can also look at their Common Data Set, and on the UCLA website you can also find more info if you search for “Institutional Research”. But in the end nobody can tell you how many AP classes he should have, because there is no fixed number that does the trick.</p>
<p>One Sr Asst Dir. of Undergrad Admissions at a major LA university said ‘students having 6+ Aps and GPAs well above 4.0’ so, I am thinking 6 APs may be a key number. Honors classes are probably not in the same category unless it’s a higher level class like Math Analysis H?</p>
<p>Maybe these will help:</p>
<p>[Freshman</a> admission profiles | UC Admissions](<a href=“http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/freshman/profiles/index.html]Freshman”>http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/freshman/profiles/index.html)</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/private/1213/USCFreshmanProfile2012.pdf[/url]”>http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/private/1213/USCFreshmanProfile2012.pdf</a></p>