kaobeikaobei

What's required by UC's other than SAT scores being sent and the online application? I'm not sure if AP scores are needed.
Also, do UC's look at first semester senior grades?

berkely, LA, irvine, davis sandiego
LA top choice


THAnks gusy

taiwanese from an asian dominated school in socal

SATI:
Verbal: 750
Mathematics: 800
Writing: 580
Total: 2130

Second time: 2090

SATII:
Chinese with Listening
Score: 770
Mathematics Level 2
Score: 790
Molecular Biology
Score: 720

Biology
Score: 5
Calculus AB
Score: 5

International Baccalaureate Student
History SL
Score: 5
Economics SL
Score: 5

Awards/EC/Comm. Serv.
CSF 1.5 semesters, Foreign Language Awards, various academic
(bad EC's)
wrestling one year, wushu one year, chinese american student association 3 years, best buddies one year, youth leader committee 1 year: officer position
>250 hours community service
downtown soup kitchen, tutoring high risk underpriveleged hispanic child, relay for life, volunteer at a missionary in Tijuana
Parttime tutor 1 year

unweighted GPA: around 3.55, mainly because of freshman year.

Freshman year:
Geography A
World History (H) B B
English 1 (H) B B
Algebra 2 (H) B B
Biology (H) B B
Chinese 1 A B
PE A A

10 grade
English 2 (H) B A
Math Analysis (H) A A
Chemistry (H) A A
Chinese 2 A A
Visual Communications B B
PE A A

11
U.S. History IB SL (H) B B
English 3 IB A B
Calculus AB (AP) A A
Biology (AP) B A
Chinese 3 (IB) A A
Economics IB SL A A
TA A A

12
U.S. Government (AP)
English 4 IB HL (H)
Math HL (Calc BC AP)
Biology IB HL
Chinese 4 IB SL
Theory of Knowledge IB
Wrestling

Personal statment: fairly decent. pm if want to read

THNAKS

hye345

All the UCs need your scores for any AP exams taken.

All the UCs need your final, spring transcripts. I think that some of them also ask for mid-year transcripts.

As far as your chances:
UCR, UCM, UCSC: safety

UCI, UCD, UCSB: match

UCSD: match/slight reach

UCB, UCLA: moderate reach

kaobeikaobei

does anybody know which UC's do look at first semester grades?

hye345

I was just about to post the same question...

kaobeikaobei

anybody?

and more chance?

CA2006

Cal may ask for 1st semester grades, don't know of any other UC that does.

kaobeikaobei

anybody know if LA does?

Chance

avoidingwork

hye345's response was perhaps a bit confusing. Once you have been accepted and have submitted your SIR to a particular UC, then you report your AP test scores and final HS transcript to that campus (not to all of the UCs)

At the time of application, you need only send in the application and SAT/ACT test scores.

I've heard that some campuses will sometimes ask for additional information such as first semester senior grades to help in making a decision. I don't know which ones do it, and how common it is for them to request additional information.

kaobeikaobei

so its only until after that you're accepted that they look at your senior (first or second) grades, if they do at all?

someone else chanke ceme

kaobeikaobei

bun p
anybody?

hye345

Just curious: what is your weighted gpa? If we knew that, more of us would respond.

Seiken

am I the only one who thinks he has a good shot at getting into all of the UCs? he seems a lot "better" off than most of the students from my school that got into there. (15 total) especially if the school does not way the writing section of the SAT as much as the "original" 2

kaobeikaobei

lol
dont know how to calculate it

hye345

I wouldn't say all of the UCs. At least not until I knew his/her weighted GPA. However, your SAT scores are probably good enough for all the UCs. Your ECs aren't bad either.

hye345

Actually, if they ask for first semester grades, I'm guessing that you need to get it to them before they accept you. Here is why:

You get your first semester grades at the end of January; UCs make their decisions in march. It wouln't make sense if they asked for your first semester grades two months after you got them. Even if this were the case, you need to know that your spring final transcripts that all UCs need already include your first semester grades, so again, it wouldn't make any sense. In my opinion, they use the first semester grades to make their decisions about whether or not your accepted.

By the way, to calculate your weighted GPA, give each grade from an AP class one extra point (except if you got a D or an F in the class). So for example, instead of an A being worth 4 points, it is now 5.

Good luck.