<p>I have a 4.0 and play for varsity in 3 sports. I've played varsity for 3 years for field hockey and 2 years for lacrosse and soccer. I've also home stayed in japan for 10 days. But the only volunteering I have done would be sports fund raisers and holiday baskets. Would I probably be able to get into a uc school If I applied?</p>
<p>And have lost completed 18 units in a community college with I would like to transfer credits to ucla</p>
<p>Have you taken the SAT? The score matters.</p>
<p>The short answer is, you will probably be able to get into a UC school. Yes. UCLA is never a guaranteed admit, so no one would ever say you will “probably” be admitted there, even with an SAT of 2300+. </p>
<p>Come back with your SAT scores and people will give you a better idea.</p>
<p>SAT scores does not matter much for UCs. You should apply widely, admissions odds change significantly from year to year.</p>
<p>@DrGoogle, how can you say SAT scores don’t matter much? Maybe you are thinking of SAT2 scores, which make less of a difference at many schools. </p>
<p>I’m sure you’ve read that the UCs disregards SAT scores.</p>
<p>Actually no, I haven’t. I’m willing to be enlightened. Can you please give me a link?</p>
<p>Yes you can get into a UC, but it’s difficult to say whether or not you’ll get into UCLA due to the hollistic admission process.</p>
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<p>Which is an incorrect interpretation of what they actually do. What they actually do is weight SAT scores less than courses and grades (though admissions readings are holistic, so that there is not an exact formula).</p>
<p>Dr. Google: FYI, son was admitted to UCLA with an SAT of 2370. At the CS/EE orientation, the panel stated that SAT scores did matter for the school of engineering. 80K applications and less than 9% admit rate.</p>
<p>I read somebody on CC wrote that SAT subject tests matter a lot for UCLA engineering, that maybe what they mean.</p>
<p>Saying the UC doesn’t care about SAT scores us just incorrect. They may weigh gpa more heavily, but the do use SATs. </p>
<p>They do use SATs but they do not weigh SAT score heavily is correct. </p>
<p>@DrGoogle Okay, you don’t even make sense. </p>
<p>I wrote the UCs weight more on GPA and not SAT. That makes a lot of sense to me.</p>
<p>I agree with @DrGoogle that UC’s will weight GPA over test scores just based on my two sons’s experience when applying to the UC’s this past 2 years. It does make sense, since your GPA is a reflection of your academic performance over a 3-4 year period while a test score is just a glimpse of 1 day in that year.</p>
<p>DrGoogle, you originally wrote “SAT scores does not matter much for UCs.” That’s not the same thing as saying that the UCs weigh GPA more heavily than SAT. You need to be careful how you phrase your advice when talking to the kids who come here for help – the last thing any of them needs is to go away thinking that they don’t even have to prepare for the SAT since they’ll be able to get into UCLA even if they tank.</p>
<p>As for weighing GPA more heavily, from what I understand that’s pretty much true for every school. Of course most schools are going to put more emphasis on the number that demonstrates how well you have achieved over your years of highschool classes, rather than on the number that demonstrates how well you happened to perform on one (rather arcane) test on one (or maybe 2 or 3) days out of your life.</p>
<p>To the OP: what is your UC-calculated GPA? That’s what all the UCs will use to evaluate your grades. </p>