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11-03-2009, 09:58 AM
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Yes. CA resident.
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11-03-2009, 11:30 AM
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UCD is great for bio, but was a tougher admit last year. Students at D1's school usually had Davis as a safety, and there were a lot of very surprised kids and adults when rejections came. Check with your own school's GC to see how students with your D's stats did with these UCs.
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11-03-2009, 11:32 AM
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Slithey: The same thing happened at our school at UCSC.
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11-03-2009, 11:53 AM
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qialah, that's really really scary! UCSC is still a safety for kids at both D1 and D2's schools, which just reiterates to me that it's important to see how students at your own child's school did with admissions last year.
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11-03-2009, 01:12 PM
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#20 | | Senior Member
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UCD denied my daughter with a 4.01 UC gpa and an 1850 math/CR ( I know test scores not fabulous) and I don't remember her SAT2 but they totaled close to 1300. She had applied as an animal science major. Anyway applying to eng. is going to be competitive and I wanted to give a reality check.
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11-03-2009, 01:35 PM
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#21 | | Senior Member
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How about any of the Cal Polys?
Is money no object?
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11-03-2009, 01:42 PM
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You will need to get an application in to U of Pacific very early to be considered for merit money. Her scores look great but watch deadlines for merit awards very carefully.
You might also explore CSU Channel Islands as they are doing some work with Amgen and recently received a large bio-tech grant if I'm not mistaken.
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11-03-2009, 01:48 PM
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#23 | | New Member
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Very important factor for UC admits is the High School attended- if from affluent suburban- the needed stat's are now above 3.8 and 1900 SAT's for all except UCR/UCM. Maybe UCSC for some. So when checking the avg score and GPA's admitted for each UC, factor in only kids from low ranked schools get accepted with the low range stats reported. Any School above an 750 API- the student will need top stat's. The range of reported test scores/GPA and number of AP's taken is misleading to all except the low ranked-inner city school's and/or URM. Just to keep expectations realistic as to what UC is a true match or safety and which ones are reaches. It's all changed in the past 5 years.
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11-03-2009, 01:53 PM
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#24 | | Senior Member
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CPSLO eng is wonderful but it is also one of the toughest in the nation to get in to. fewer than half the applicants are accepted last year. 7906 applied 3384 were accepted the avg gpa was a 3.97 the avg ACT was 30 and the SAT was 1335 CR/Math
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11-03-2009, 02:11 PM
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OlympicLady, could you cite a source for your info? For what it's worth, UC admits have certainly become pickier, but the stat levels you're citing for admission to all but Riverside and Merced are not what I've seen at my children's schools. D2's school is Title I and above 800 API.
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11-03-2009, 02:14 PM
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^ second historymom's assessment of the difficulty of gaining acceptance at Cal Poly SLO, and also note that its bioengineering program is relatively new.
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11-03-2009, 02:46 PM
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#28 | | Senior Member
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Oregon State University has a well regarded bioengineering program that may be a match: Bioe Undergraduate Program Quote:
Admission to the BIOE Program
Like all undergraduate programs in the College of Engineering, the BIOE undergraduate program consists of pre-engineering and professional engineering components. Admission to the pre-engineering program (first and second years) requires no separate application beyond that for admission to OSU. Admission to the professional program (beginning of the third year) is competitive. To be eligible, you must have completed 80 credit hours with a cumulative GPA of 2.25 or better. Moreover, all required pre-engineering courses have been completed with a "C" or better, with a cumulative GPA of 2.25 or better for the required pre-engineering courses. Please also refer to "admissions requirements" at the College of Engineering website: engr.oregonstate.edu/programs/index.html
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11-03-2009, 03:49 PM
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#29 | | Senior Member
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historymom...
Thanks for the input about SLO...I know it's competitive, but I didn't know it would be that hard. yikes!
OK...
Well, what about the top Cal States - CSUF, CSULB, and CSUSD?
If we knew that money wasn't an issue, there are some privates that we could recommend.
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11-03-2009, 05:14 PM
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#30 | | Senior Member
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FWIW: At most all of the CSUs and UCs in most all of the most popular majors a student is looking at at least 5 years to graduate. When deciding public v. private take into account that additional year. We found that when we did that both of our DDs were money ahead by going private.
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