<p>anyone wanna give me an answer as to why i was rejected?
3.3 uw, 3.54 weighted
1800 sat, 500s in SAT 2s
300+ hours of community service
STARTED a club and held an office position in 2 other clubs
realllly good essays (or so I, and many people, thought)
major: biology</p>
<p>i already got rejected from davis and sb, the 2 UCs i really wanted to go to =(</p>
<p>gumby3: wow! you got rejected from UCSC too?? but how...? You have a really high SAT Reasoning score and high SAT Subject Scores! Although, your GPA is average....</p>
<p>I'm so sorry to all those who got rejected to those UC's. I feel you!</p>
<p>But...I didn't apply to UC Merced or UC Riverside...I don't want to go either UC. It's not my type of school. I will just stick to Private Universities instead...I have a lot of back up schools..so I'm not worried of which school I am attending.</p>
<p>I got accepted!</p>
<p>rejected for me.....1910 SATs, out of state student with 3.75 g.p.a.......and this was my back up too :P, it really sucks though</p>
<p>I think community college is a better choice. It will be closer to home and cheaper tuition. It will provide you a better chance to transfer to UC in the future. When I came here in 1980, I had only $100 with me. I worked in the restauranet and decided to study at CSU, Sacramento and community college at the same time. Private school will cost more and it is not necessary better than UC. However, what ever your choice is, a right major is really more important than the school you go to unless you go to one of top schools like Harvard etc.</p>
<p>No, I think community college is a waste of time. I would rather attend straight to a 4 year college after I graduate from HS. I don't want to go through the hassle of transferring from a 2 year to a 4 year. I just want to attend a 4 year college, get my degree and become a graphic designer. Money is not really a problem for me. I can do work study, take out some loans, get money from FAFSA, I will do my best to get money to pay off my college tuition. I know that community college is MUCH cheaper, but it is not the right path for me. Attending a community college was never an option for me. Why should i try so hard in high school just to attend a community college? That is just a waste of time and money for me. My goal was always to attend a 4 year and not a 2 year college. Where I attend for college is important to me as well as the right major. UC's are not where I want to attend, as you can see I posted the colleges that I have applied in order of preference and well I visited a few UC's and I fell in love with some of them such as UC Santa Barbara, UCSD, UCLA, and UC Berkeley. Since they do not offer my major, I am not planning to attend any UC...They are like my safety schools..but it still hurts to get rejected...</p>
<p>No offense, but your grades and scores show that you should probably start off at a community college. If you are struggling in writing now, you are going to really really struggle with it at the college level. I'm being very honest here...it is going to be more of a waste of your time and money to fail your English GEs at a university than it would be to start off at a community college. </p>
<p>A safety school is a school that you are absolutely positive that you can get into...UCSB, UCSD, UCLA and UCB are nowhere near safeties for you. </p>
<p>I would take a look at this thread. You can attend a community college in Santa Barbara while living alongside students from UCSB and participating in many many UCSB activities, then after two years, you will no longer be in community college, you will be a junior at UCSB..I really don't see how that is a waste of time and money.</p>
<p>No, I disagree that is not true. I believe that I do have potential to get in Woodbury University...they have an 81% admit rate and a majority of freshmen applicants got accepted there with similar to my stats. Plus, i wrote a pretty good personal statement essay. My english/rhetoric teacher help me out a lot on that essay and I thought it was pretty well-written. Why would I start off in community college?!? I already got accepted to two CSU's already and I could just attend a CSU if I got rejected to my first and second choice for college. It's not like I got rejected to all the colleges that I apply for.
Why would I transfer to UCSB after two years in CC? UCSB is not even my top choice! I just applied there because I like the campus.</p>
<p>decision : accepted</p>
<p>UC gpa : 3.5
SAT : 1890
SATII : 570 US History 610 Math
300+ EC hours
2 varsity teams
im guessing good essays</p>
<p>Gauchos!</p>
<p>I'm sorry, but I stand by what I said. If the UC personal statement was the "hardest essay" you've ever written, then you aren't ready for university English. While it may be one of the most important essays I've ever written, I think it is probably among the easiest...and I believe many would agree with me.</p>
<p>Plus, in half of your posts in this thread you refer to something as a "waste of money and time" so I'm just letting you know that community college will save you time and money.</p>
<p>Skadforlife... I agree with you.</p>
<p>I completely agree with you Skadforlife. The UC personal statement is by far one of the easiest, if not the easiest, essays I have written in high school. The only difficult part about it is deciding what to write. </p>
<p>Asian_Girl2009, maybe it is best if you go to community college. You can transfer out after 2 years and save yourself a bunch of money. Sure you won't get the whole "college experience" but at least you'd be able to attend/graduate from a college that you actually wish to go to.</p>
<p>Yeah, that's why I offered the "backdoor UCSB" post, because you get the "college experience" at the community college price.</p>
<p>I have to agree with Skadforlife as well. I personally believe that going to a CSU that is not cal poly slo, is more of a waste of time. I think it is better to go to a CC and then transfer to a middle/upper tier UC. </p>
<p>You get the same degree as those who graduate from that middle/upper tier UC and you save money.</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>GPA: 3.1 weighted (can you believe I was accepted?); unweighted, I'd think somewhere around 2.9 or 3.0?
SAT Reasoning: 2320
SAT IIs: 730 and 760
ECs: None...except for National Merit Semifinalist...oh, and a job for 3 years
Essays: Pretty good, I've got to say. I'd say since my extracurriculars and GPA are pretty awful, my essays pretty much secured my acceptance.</p>
<p>^I'm definitely impressed. Though your SAT score, definitely helped you.</p>
<p>got into sb undeclared (L&S) with a 3.5 uc gpa, 31 on ACT, 720,660,670 sat2s
decent ecs and good essays imo</p>
<p>I got in pre-psychology, 3.3 UC GPA (illness during junior year), 2150 SAT, 680 and 700 on the subject tests. Average EC's. I really don't know how I got in compared to some of you guys.</p>
<p>Does anyone know the admit rate for this year, or when that information will be released?</p>
<p>^ If it were a serious illness, that probably bumped you up...plus your SAT scores were above average for UCSB.</p>
<p>I had an illness during 1st semester senior year and couldn't attend school, but still managed to finish all my classes...I'm pretty sure that has given my application a little push...because I was very surprised to have gotten into UCSD...</p>