<p>I am wondering about my chances at acceptance to the University of California.</p>
<p>I'm from New Orleans, LA, and I applied to seven University of California schools, every one except Riverside and Merced. </p>
<p>I have a 3.6 weighted GPA, with a D from freshman year and an F from sophomore year. There are also C's scattered throughout my record. That said, I have improved. Second semester of junior year, I received 6 A's and 2 B's. This is similar to my record of first semester of senior year.</p>
<p>I have consistently taken among the hardest courses offered at my school. By the end of high school, I will have completed 12 AP classes.</p>
<p>I received a 2170 on the SAT I on two separate occasions (a 2190 superscore) with an 800 in Reading each time. As far as the SAT II goes, I received a 750 on Literature, a 700 on French with Listening, and a 670 on U.S. History. I took the ACT once and received a 31, with a 36 in Reading. I've taken 7 AP tests: four 5's, one 4, and two 3's.</p>
<p>I believe my extracurriculars and my personal statements are very strong.</p>
<p>Is 3.6 your UC GPA or your overall weighted? UCs look only at their special UC GPA. It includes ALL a-g courses taken from the summer of 9th grade to the summer of 11th. So community college, online courses, any transferable UC units count into the GPA. </p>
<p>Your HS courseload looks amazing, and the fact that you took the AP tests looks great too. They don’t really consider scores all that much but you got good scores so that shouldn’t be a problem anyway. Your SAT is great compared to previous UC freshmen admits.</p>
<p>SAT & ACT scores are above average for all the schools. Good job!</p>
<p>Your only weakness is being out of state. I’ve seen someone with spectacular stats be rejected from UCs because they didn’t live in CA (but then again they also applied to Ivies and UCs never want to be second choice schools). So don’t lose hope! Hopefully your essays are as good as you say. And by strong extracurriculars you better mean you absolutely shined in two and three and were not just mediocre in 5. </p>
<p>Berkeley/LA - High match b/c of GPA
The other five schools you’re golden. Good luck and don’t stress too much. You’ve finished your applications and first semester of senior year! Just relax :)</p>
<p>and why is that? if anything it would be easier for him to get into USC with his 2190 SATs. USC is a SAT whore school.</p>
<p>Berkeley - reach
UCLA - low reach
UCSD - high match - match
UCSB - match – you should go there. it’s a fantastic school in a fantastic location with loads of very nice students.</p>
<p>a 3.6 weighted GPA will really hurt to be honest. I’ve seen TONS of people from years before who had high SAT scores (2100+) but subpar GPAs and they got rejected from most of the UCs (VERY unfair imo). This is primarily because of how stat driven the UCs are…</p>
<p>^^^ You don’t call that, “stats-driven”. Schools that value SATs or ACT more, like USC and many other privates, are what you call stats-driven schools. The UCs value GPA more as the school was established for California students belonging to the top 12% of their high school class. SATs are secondary only to the UCs. In fact, thousands of applicants to Berkeley/UCLA with SATs of 2300 and above are rejected every year. Those rejected students are the ones that get into privates like USC.</p>
<p>Thank you all so much for the responses. If I told you that I was the top Spanish student in Louisiana, would that change your responses at all? (Foolishly, I opted to take French subject test instead of Spanish since I thought I had already sufficiently proven myself in the latter. Where I could have gotten an 800, I got a 700… Now it’s too late for other subject tests.) Thanks again.</p>