<p>Is UCSD considered a safety school or a match for in-state residents?</p>
<p>Er, it depends--it can be a safety for some but a reach for others. If you're an ELC student not applying to a super-competitive program like bioE, then it's a safety.</p>
<p>You may as well apply to all the UCs anyway if you're in-state.</p>
<p>Well, almost 99% of its class is among top 10% of their HS class. Thats the highest I've seen, higher than a lot of the top 15 schools.</p>
<p>UCSD must be smart then huh?</p>
<p>UCSD is generally considered the third best UC, after Berkeley and LA. Some stats for you would be helpful. Generally CCers would be either a match or safety, but for the general population, all the UCs are reaches, and UCSD is actually very selective among the UCs. I personally know a couple bright students at my prep school that are going there and were accepted by a lot of more well-known schools.</p>
<p>@Phead128, considering that the UCs were created to accept the top 1/8 (12.5%) of the best in the state, that is not surprising at all, but yeah, UCSD is definitely pretty good.</p>