You Got to Chance me for UC Davis, UC Irvine, UC San Diego...

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Overall Unweighted High School GPA: 3.6
UC GPA (10th-11th Grades) : 3.5</p>

<p>I am a senior graduating 2011</p>

<p>SAT 1910 (CR 640 M 670 W 600) Will try to take again.</p>

<p>SAT 2 Math - Yet to take in October
SAT 2 Chem - 730
SAT 2 Bio - 700</p>

<p>What are my Chances for UC Irvine, UC San Diego, UC Davis, UCLA, UC Berkeley ?</p>

<p>Thanks! :D</p>

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<p>Well I can tell you your chances at UCLA and Berkeley are next to none but you probably already knew that. The average unweighted GPAs of the universities are ~3.85 and the average SATs are approximately 2030 and 2080 respectively. -.-</p>

<p>(Of course if you’re an URM, anything’s possible.)</p>

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<p>How about the other colleges? </p>

<p>URM?</p>

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<p>Underrepresented Minority (african american, hispanic)
UCLA and UCB are reaches but worth a shot.
UCSD low reach
UCD high match
UCI high match</p>

<p>Your UC GPA is kind of low.</p>

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<p>UCs do not practice affirmative action, so whether the OP is URM or not doesn’t matter.</p>

<p>If your ranking is good, then you have a decent shot at UCSB and UCI, with UCSD being a slight reach.</p>

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Or so they claim… but from the stats of URMs across campus, its quite evident they do practice affirmative action. Some speculate that the universities will lower standards for students from school districts with a high percentage of URMs.</p>

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<p>i’m not sure what ranking i am. but i go to Arcadia High School, CA if that matters…</p>

<p>Asian</p>

<p>and I thought the UC GPA was used just to see if you are eligible. Don’t they look at your entire GPA freshman through Junior for accpetance?</p>

<p>Do you think UCI or UCD would be a high match?</p>

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<p>You should apply to Riverside, Santa Barbara, and Santa Cruz. LA and Berkeley are high reaches. SD is a reach. Irvine and Davis are high matches/low reaches.</p>

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<p>Have you seen these? Download the PDF’s for the “odds” associated with various factors.</p>

<p>[University</a> of California - Admissions](<a href=“http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/undergrad_adm/selecting/camp_profiles/camp_profiles_ucd.html]University”>http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/undergrad_adm/selecting/camp_profiles/camp_profiles_ucd.html)</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/pdf/ucd_chart.pdf[/url]”>http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/pdf/ucd_chart.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>i.e. 600+ on each SAT = 60%admit rate at UCD; 3.5 UC GPA = 20% admit rate.</p>

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<p>U have decent chance at ucsd if u dont go for bio or engineering. Remember, UCSD has 6 colleges, so if u dont do engineering, u have decent chance</p>

<p>also, if u really wanna go to UC Berkeley, try for College of Natural Resources. It’s by far the easiest. Then transfer to another school. altho forget transfering to Chem or engieering</p>

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<p>i want to get into irvine or davis.</p>

<p>what does high match or low match mean? and how does it apply for me to these two schools</p>

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<p>“U have decent chance at ucsd if u dont go for bio or engineering. Remember, UCSD has 6 colleges, so if u dont do engineering, u have decent chance”</p>

<p>^ Not true. You’re accepted to UCSD first, then assigned to a college based on space and preferences.</p>

<p>high match/ low reach means the school is not necessary a match but you still have a decent chance of being accepted, although I think Davis and Irvine are both reaches due to your GPA. Your best bet would be the SAT.</p>

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<p>Davis and Irvine as reaches?</p>

<p>I feel as if they are my match schools.</p>

<p>and what if I manage to get a higher SAT score around (1980-2000s) would my chances improve?</p>

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<p>Yes, breaking 2000 would really help in this case. The reason why I say IMO they are reaches is because the average GPA is 4.0ish, and SAT’s around 1880 something. (At least for Irvine, tho I imagine Davis is similar)</p>

<p>UCI common data set:
<a href=“http://www.oir.uci.edu/campus/CDS2009_10.pdf[/url]”>http://www.oir.uci.edu/campus/CDS2009_10.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>UCD common data set (this one is kind of old from 2007…)
<a href=“http://www.sariweb.ucdavis.edu/commondataset/cds20072008.pdf[/url]”>http://www.sariweb.ucdavis.edu/commondataset/cds20072008.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>GL with your applications!</p>

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<p>yes hopefully i will get in to both those uc’s or maybe even uc santa barbara.</p>

<p>btw, is ucsb easier to get into than uci or ucd?</p>