What are my chances into the UCs

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Information about me:

  1. US citizen that moved from foreign country (South America) since freshman year
  2. Asian American male
  3. Lives in California
  4. Finished his fall semester of junior year
  5. Didn’t do any sports

Major:

  1. Still thinking of business major

Academics:

Freshman year (no honors/ap))
Semester 1: (UW 4.0, W 4.0)
Semester 2: (UW 3.93, W 3.93)

Sophomore year (1 honors, 1 ap)
Semester 1: (UW 3.94, W 4.19)
Semester 2: (UW 3.83, 4.08)
(Two summer classes to skip a math class with A’s)

Junior year (2 honors, 3 ap, 1ib)
Semester 1: (UW 2.95, W 3.78)
First SAT score: 1240 (going to retake in spring)

Extracurriculars:

  1. From march of 2021, around 90-100 hours of tutoring
  2. From august of 2021, around 12-15 hours of homeless shelter helping
  3. 12 hours of other places

Clubs:
Just member in various clubs
Participated in economics competition but didn’t qualify for semifinals

Could you guys help me with my chances and what I need to improve to have a chance of getting accepted? Thank you so much

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No clue but your test score won’t be reviewed. UC is test blind.

Only a few UCs offer business. I think UCB, UCI, and UCR. Others have Econ or other business adjacent majors.

Since UC doesn’t measure Freshman year your chances won’t be great at top campuses. But I’ll let someone more familiar weigh in. I know the always ask for your capped GPA.

Good luck and widen your spectrum. Include CSU and OOS schools.

Good luck.

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Calculate your 3 UC GPA’s using this link at the end of Junior year. UC’s and CSU’s only use 10-11th grades for the a-g courses. Extra weighting for UC approved Honors, AP/IB or DE courses taken 10-11th.

https://rogerhub.com/gpa-calculator-uc/

As stated above, the UC’s are test blind permanently.

Only 3 UC’s have a Business school: UCR, UCI and UCB.

UCB Haas Business school is not a direct admit and you apply during your Sophomore year at UCB.

UCI Business Admin is a direct admit but UCI admits into the University first then into the major, so you should consider an alternate major.

UCR Business Admin is a Pre-Business major and you have to complete GE and Business pre-req to declare the major.

For the other UC’s, you can major in Business Econ, Econ, Managerial Econ to name a few possible majors.

I would definitely include some CSU’s which all have Business majors.

Work hard 2nd semester Junior year to bump up your GPA. Please note your weighted HS GPA is not considered only the calculated UC GPA’s.

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Thank you!

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Thank you for helping me!

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Not your question but, you might try to lighten your load mid year so you can get your GPA back up the second semester. Seriously UCs are really GPA heavy and an A in a regular class beats a C or D in a really tough one.

Also, as major, i really encourage you to widen your perspective and look at some of the CSUs. CPSLO, SDSU, CSULB have great reputations.

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