UCs & UoP - reach, match, or safety?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I'm having a hard time determining if I'm applying to enough reach/match/safety schools.
The colleges I'm considering are:
UC Berkeley
UCLA
UCSD
University of Pacific (accelerated dental program).
I'm debating on whether I should apply to UC Davis, UC Irvine or not.</p>

<p>My stats are:
GPA: 3.7 UW, 4.0 UC Weighted, 4.18 Weighted
SAT: 630V700M730W (2050)
Math IIC - 780; Chinese w/Listening - 800, Biology -730</p>

<p>close to no EC (drama for two years, piano for 12 years, interned with a biotech company for three weeks)</p>

<p>pretty strong letter of rec for UoP.</p>

<p>thank you for your time. :)</p>

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<p>UC Berkeley: Slight Reach
UCLA: Slight Reach
UCSD: Match</p>

<p>UCI/UCSB/UCD: Safe Match-Safety</p>

<p>U of P: Easy Safety</p>

<p>UC Berkeley, UCLA, and UCSD are all tough schools, but you should get into at least one of them. But if something happened and you were denied to all three somehow, would you be happy attending u of p. your stats seem to good to consider u of p unless you really love the school. i would apply to uci/ucsb/ucd for some safe matches-safeties just incase something went wrong with SD, LA and Berkeley (although I imagine you would get into atleast one of them). Also, you stated 2050 for your SAT, but your numbers add up to 2060.</p>

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<p>Cal/LA: Slight Reach/Reach
SD: Match
UCI/UCSB/UCD: Safe Match</p>

<p>UoP (Dental): Slight Reach</p>

<p>For UoP 3-Year Dental it really depends on the applicant pool that applies and by no means is easy to gain admission to or stay in the program while there.</p>

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<p>i highly doubt u of p accelarated dental is as difficult to get into as ucla and berkeley and more difficult to get into than ucsd. i could be wrong, but i doubt it.</p>

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<p>thank you ucchris and Golden Bear.
My verbal score is actually 620. Sorry, I should've double checked before I posted this. So my SAT I score is 2050.
I took the Oct SAT, hopefully my verbal + math scores are higher this time. :X</p>

<p>I'm actually looking at UoP 6 year or 7 year accelerated program, in which you get a B.S. degree within 3 or 4 years, and then go on to obtain DDS. I really have no idea how competitve that program is, unfortunately :(</p>

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<p>i think its fair to say LA,Cal and SD are on the same level academically.</p>

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<p>I wouldnt think u of the pacific's accelerated dental program as being nearly as competitive as UCSD, UCLA, and UC Berkeley to gain admittance to.</p>

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<p>oneday:</p>

<p>Assuming you are a California resident,
UCB/UCLA: Slight Reach
UCSD: Match
UCI/UCD: Safe Match</p>

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<p>Thanks everyone :)</p>

<p>My Oct SAT scores came out today, I've improved to 2120 (640R 800M 680W).
I know for UCs, they only take the highest setting, which would be 2120, and for UoP, they take separate highest scores, which adds up to 2170.</p>

<p>Does that change anything (improve my chances)?</p>

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<p>anyone..? :(</p>

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<p>Cal - Reach (Only because of the low EC)
UCLA - Slight Reach/Match
UCSD - Match
University of Pacific - Match/Safety</p>

<p>Apply to Irvine & Davis just for the heck of it (:
Actually Irvine if you're in SoCal. Davis if you're in Norcal?</p>