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<li><p>57% had h.s. GPA of 3.75 and higher</p>
<ul>
<li>27% had h.s. GPA between 3.5 and 3.74</li>
<li>12% had h.s. GPA between 3.25 and 3.49</li>
<li>4% had h.s. GPA between 3.0 and 3.24</li>
</ul></li>
<li><p>12% had h.s. GPA between 3.25 and 3.49</p>
<ul>
<li>4% had h.s. GPA between 3.0 and 3.24</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<p>this seems to good to be true.
is it? i heard the avg was like 3.91 or something. the source is collegeboard.</p>
<p>You have to keep in mind that the UCs use their own special UC weighted GPAs ;)</p>
<p>From the UCSB 2008 Freshman Profile: University</a> of California - Admissions</p>
<p>Admit Rate — Overall: 49.2%
Admits: 23,166
Applicants: 47,073 </p>
<p>Averages
High School GPA: 3.94
ACT Composite Score: 27
SAT Critical Reading: 606
SAT Mathematics: 633
SAT Writing: 616</p>
<p>^^ that's the freshman admission profile--not those who actually enrolled as freshmen.</p>
<p>Looking at 408BOSss other posts, it seems he/she applying for admission, so aren't those the statistics that are pertinent? (As opposed to the rankings discussions, where the yield statistics would be significant.)</p>
<p>Well, the admit statistics will be more skewed toward the students who considered the school a safety.</p>
<p>Have they published the enrolled stats for the UCs yet? It has been such a crazy year, I am wondering how everything settled out.</p>
<p>(Weird... this thread was closed for a minute.)</p>
<p>I think some of the UCs have released enrolled stats (like Berkeley). I'm not sure about UCSB.</p>
<p>The OP numbers are from the common data set for 2007-2008. <a href="http://bap.ucsb.edu/IR/CommonDataSet.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://bap.ucsb.edu/IR/CommonDataSet.pdf</a> So yes, that's an accurate picture of last years' enrolled freshman class. Also: 96% were in the top 10% of their graduating High School class. I'm not sure how that corresponds to 16% having a GPA below 3.5, but those are the numbers posted. It suggests that at least 12% of last year's freshmen attended high schools where a student with a GPA below 3.5 would be in the top 10% of their class. I'm not sure what high schools fit that standard. In fact, it would be even higher than that, because I'm sure there are students who had a GPA above 3.5 who were not in the top 10% at their high school. The more I think about it, the less sense it makes...</p>