What are my chances?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of California - Irvine
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UC GPA: 3.67
SAT 1: 1500
SAT 2 Subject (Math 2): 760
California Resident
Major: Computer game design
Essays: 7.5/10
EC:

  1. Marching band 4 years / drum major for 1 year (leadership role if you don’t know what it is)
  2. Tennis / 2 years JV, 2 years Varsity/ 1 year JV captain
  3. Piano / 2 years in highschool / recieved level 10 certificate (highest level for CM piano tests)
  4. Drumline/ 1 year
  5. Volunteers at local elementary school teaching kids how to play instruments
  6. jazz band, one year
  7. band/ concert band 1 year, wind ensemble 2 years
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Do you have a reason for a lower than average UC GPA but an excellent SAT score?

UC’s tend to be very GPA focused but your overall application will be reviewed along with your HS course rigor, personal insight essays and EC’s. Hopefully you addressed the GPA/test score mismatch in one of your essays.

Some UC Statistical Data:
Freshman admit rates for UC GPA of 3.40-3.79:

UCB: 1.8%
UCLA: 2.2%
UCSD: 7.2%
UCSB: 10.1%
UCI: 11.1%
UCD: 16.6%
UCSC: 43.8%
UCR: 63.3%
UCM: 88.7%

2018 UC capped weighted GPA averages:
UCB: 4.23
UCLA: 4.23
UCSD: 4.16
UCSB: 4.13
UCI: 4.13
UCD: 4.11
UCSC: 3.96
UCR: 3.81
UCM: 3.71

2018 Data:
25th - 75th percentiles for SAT:

UCB: 1360-1540

UCLA: 1340-1540
UCSD: 1300-1520
UCSB: 1270-1500
UCD: 1220-1480
UCI: 1230-1490
UCSC: 1210-1450
UCR: 1130-1380
UCM: 1020-1280

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@Gumbymom
My highschool is an extremely competitive school and our classes tend to be very difficult. The average gpa at my school is about a 3.5 and the average applicant from my school that gets into UCI tends to have an average gpa of about 3.8.

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A 3.67 UC GPA would mean your unweighted GPA would be around 3.3-3.4, which yeah, would be on the low side for the first and second tier UCs. UCs tend to be a bit more GPA-focused. Not only that, but getting into Bren is much harder than the other schools nowadays as well.

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Then based on this additional information, you would have a better chance at UCI than stats suggest but it still is not a guaranteed admission. Competition any computer related majors is very tough.

Best of luck.