| Even among the schools which use a formula, and with the formulas having the same factors, they weight the factors differently. Example: Davis and SD are the only schools whose formulas have been disclosed - Davis officially, SD privately. Both school's formulas start out with UCGPA X 1000. But SD only adds 80% of the combined SAT + SATII scores, while Davis adds 100% of those scores. SD caps points for taking lots of college prep classes at 500, Davis at 1000. Davis also allots more weight to leadership and similar accomplishments than SD does. Result? Two students with identical scores under one formula might have very different scores under the other. If similar disparities in formula details exists in the undisclosed processes used by Santa Barbara, Irvine and Santa Cruz it makes perfect sense that similar seeming students will get different results at different UCs. And with an increasing number of increasingly competitive applicants to all UCs, students who would have seemed to have been shoo-ins in the past will require a boost from some of those extra point categories or may face rejection. |