Does anyone have the UCSD comprehensive review formula? The high school counseling department website with green background does not work anymore. UCSD is my dream school. If anyone of you has it, please post it. You help is greatly appreciated
PS. Who else found questions 1-15 on the AP Chem MC ridiculously hard?
<p>um no one?</p>
<p>try to find the thread about being rejected to UCSD, it should be there.</p>
<p>Did you try searching UCSD's website? If UCSD is your first choice, my advice would be to get very, very familiar with the information on their website. Going directly to the source for important information is ALWAYS a better bet than asking people on discussion boards who may or may not know what they are talking about. Here's the link to UCSD's website page on the comprehensive review formula :
<a href="http://admissions.ucsd.edu/dev3/info/comreview.html%5B/url%5D">http://admissions.ucsd.edu/dev3/info/comreview.html</a></p>
<p>thanks carolyn. Thats great. But the formula I was looking for was more detailed. It tells you how points are allotted. For example. If you have 100 hrs comm service, you get 150 points. If you have 300+ you get 300 points. Its alot more detailed than the one of the UCSD website. But thanks alot anyways</p>
<p>To get the GPA and SAT scores, multiply the "UC-GPA" by 1000 and total SAT (1+2) scores by 0.8. I believe ACT scores are converted over to an equivalent SAT score.</p>
<p>Furthermore, UCSD will randomly select 10% of the admitted students to verify at least one of their ECs.</p>
<p>Good thing i got lots of copied i printed.
GPA x 1000
(New SAT + SATII + SATII) x 0.8
33-39 A-G courses is worth 250pts
40 A-G courses is worth 500pts
ELC worth 300pts
Educational Environment worth 300pts
Parental Income < $60k worth 150pts
under federal TRIO low-income cutoff worth 300pts
Parents: Some college = 150 HS or less = 300
Leadership: 150pts for 2 minor roles, 300pts for a major role (President or VP of class, editor-in-chief, eagle scout, girl scout gold award)
Special talents, achievements, awards : 150 single, 300 multiple
Comm. Server <200 is 150pts, >200 is 300
AVID, EAOP given some points
Single Parent household = 250pts
working 20hrs+ week = 250pts
Life altering event = 500pts
Less severe event = 250pts</p>
<p>Aim for 8k+</p>
<p>OMG you r a life saver. THANKS A TRILLION!!!!!!!!!!!1</p>
<p>BTW participating in an educational summer program is given 300 points. What counts? I participated in a internship program every summer and spent more than 60 hrs every summer interning at a company. Do you think they will give me those points. I m a real borderline case so I need all the points I can get!</p>
<p>How many points would I typically need for being an Out-Of-State Applicant?
Also what exactly are A-G courses? ELC? Educational Environment? Less/More serious event? Anything like this for other colleges?</p>
<p>7500+ was the cut off for out of state last year.
A-G classes are a list of classes that count for UC GPA. go to the UC website to find out the full list. ELC only applies to CA residents. If you r in the top 4 % of your hs class, you are guarenteed admissions to 1 UC. Educational environment means if you go to a crappy hs, you get these points.
I am not sure. The UCs resort to this because they get liek 300k applicants each year and they dont have time to look through each file.</p>
<p>Would around ~8500 for an instate, ELC be good?</p>
<p>yea, through comprehensive score, i was off by 127 points because i only had 95 hours of community service when they would awrad 150 for 99.</p>
<p>but i got in through appeal :) good luck</p>
<p>Hey Sammie - I got thru UCSD on appeal too. Did you accept? Did you get guaranteed housing? I didn't because they notified me after the May 1st deadline. Now I'm on a housing waitlist which is a total bummer.</p>
<p>I read on the brochure that they hand out during admit day. if you accept admission after may 1st (due to appeal, etc), then you forfeit the two year guaranteed on campus housing, no exceptions.</p>
<p>wow...that formula stuff is crazy...i'm an 08er Cali-resident and was drawn the thread just because i thought it was ridiculous that UC's use a purely mathematical formula, but I guess I may be wrong.</p>
<p>By that formula, I think I only came out to 8388, but hey, I got into all the UC's I applied to (Berkely, LA, SD, Irvine), Caltech, Stanford, Northwestern, etc., so I'm thinking numbers may be a major thing, but they may make exceptions...as if I only cut off barely @ SD, what about all the other schools?</p>
<p>Key: just make yourself the most unique applicant that you can, and take the whole application-->decisions process in stride (don't get down on rejections, too high on acceptances). Best of luck!</p>
<p>this formula thing is retarded</p>
<p>i heard the formula is different for OOS students..
so only consider it if you are In-state</p>
<p>gigante:</p>
<p>for awards would like Model United Nations awards count as multiple
for eagle scout, would it be redundant to include Boy Scouts
is there any extra points for research programs</p>
<p>The cut off for USCD is not 8500, that is ridiculously high. I've been told it's 7400 last year for instaters and 7500 for outstaters. Because I know several of my friends that got into UCSD whose scores are NOT 8000+, for sure.</p>
<p>THE ETS IS EVIL:
1) I would assume that same award awarded multiple times wouldnt count as multiple
2) don't know
3) That would probably be counted in "Special Circumstances/Personal Challenges"</p>
<p>green_apple:</p>
<p>Thanks for the quick response</p>