<p>I'm an OOS with 3.6 unweighted, 4.1 UC weighted, SAT I of 1900, and SAT II of 620 and 780.</p>
<p>As you can see, my stats are very borderline.. but my EC's are extraordinarilly commendable, along with my volunteer hours. </p>
<p>I work 20-30 hours a week; 4 jobs.</p>
<p>I've turned many disadvantages into advantages in life. Through all the personal family traumas I've been through, I have become a more passionate individual to give back to my community. For example, I work 4 jobs at the same time to develope conceptual skills. I founded a strings quartet group, organized English classes for orphans in china, published articles in newspapers, interned at 2 universities, and won some nationally-recognized awards. </p>
<p>Will the new holistic admission benefit someone like me?</p>
<p>Holistic for UC's means they are looking more into your essays and your exc to gauge what type of person you are instead of only what type of student you are. The jobs might help u but not significantly, not as much as essays+exc will. + ur uc gpa is incorrect. with 8 semesters weighted, the max ur gpa can go up (asusming u have 8 semesters of honors/ap) is .4 so at beast u have a 4.0 uc gpa. Sadly the fact your oos and your stats are not above and beyond waht is necessary makes UCLA a reach, and UCSD a slight reach at best.</p>
<p>UCLA always focused on academics, UC's once were purely academic. However, sinc ecompetition has become so stiff, UCLA this year has forced to use an holistic view to weed out studnets who are just the generic 3.8 2200 student. Cal has already jumped to that a year or two ago, so no UC's are actually oging towards more of a Private University view on admissions and in a few years i would not be suprised if legacy and things of that nature will have to play a factor.</p>