<p>its not hard. if you do average in school, you'll get in. pretty much.
take advantage of all your academic opportunities and things will go your way.</p>
<p>so lets say by 2010, i have a 3.25 uc gpa and 1990 on the sat in a very good public school taking lots of honors classes and a few aps. would that make it??</p>
<p>it does not take much... I got in with a 2.8, 1700 SAT and some low ass SAT 2's. I just finished my 2nd year here and just got accepted to Davis and UCSD as a transfer so... bye bye UCSC!</p>
<p>lol, ya i'm Chinese, and i came here in 7th grade, so i should get 800 on Chinese easily. But one of my friend is same as me, but got 790 on Chinese, so we just laughed at him for not getting perfect score. ^^</p>
<p>If you can get a 3.5 weighted UC GPA, a 1700, 600s in your SAT2s, and decent community service and extra curriculars, there is no reason you won't be a shoe in.</p>