sunnybaNANA

Hello!
I really really REALLY wanna go to ucsb for Art History emphasizing Architecture and Environment.. (is this a competitive major..?)
do I have a chance at all??
Thank you so much! (:

General:
- Female
- Asian
- SoCal resident
- DBHS high school (very competitive T__T)

Academics:
- the horrible part: UW GPA: 3.13; UC GPA: 3.3 (I killed my GPA from Junior year and summer school sessions..)
- SAT I: 1850; SAT IIs: Bio: 590, US History: 620, waiting for my Nov SAT II for Lit to come out
- AP classes: AP Bio, AP US History, AP Literature, AP Econ/ Gov
- Honors: English I, II, & III Honors

ECs:
- Class of 2010 Social Chair officer-- 2 years
- CNKR (Committee to help North Korean Refugees) publicity officer-- 2 years
- LEO club member-- 3 years (50 community service hours total)
- Class of 2010 committee-- 4 years
- Link Crew-- 1 year
- Operation Smile-- 1 year
- Part of the school's string orchestra-- 4 years

Awards/ Honors:
- Principal's Honor Roll (3x)
- Dean's List: World History (sophomore year)

Essays:
- Pretty confident about them (:
- I wrote one about my love for art and who inspired me to go into it

So what do you guys think??
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! (:

Emprise

Art history major is prob. not impacted at all.. you'll have an easy shot at getting into the program, but you have to get into the university first. I think you have some chance

countrygentleman

Not much of a chance. I go to UW-Madison but got into UCSB last year out of state with a 1950 sat, 29 act, 4.0 UC GPA, 3.76 GPA. I've met a kid here (Madison) who got denied from UCSB with the exact same stats as me and he got denied outright, and he was in-state.

Still apply cause you never know though!

hi_im_leila

I would go ahead and apply if I were you. It's true that your GPA is not as high as most students applying to UCSB, but I actually do know someone with your exact GPA who was accepted two years ago. It's not a total lost cause.

KINGTUT

don't knock the art history department. especially those attempting to go into an architecture emphasis! those classes are tough, tough, tough. construction is no joke. if you don't get in- apply as a junior after taking all you can in art history at a community college. also, pretty sure UCSB doesn't read the essays... or is that just for transfer students?

brownman777

I have a friend that got in with the same GPA, but had stellar SATs (2150+). Bring ur scores up!!

sunnybaNANA

bummmppppppp please (:

countrygentleman

You do realize that collegeconfidential isn't the admissions right? You could get a thousand people to come on here and say you are a shoe-in and it wouldn't matter. Applying is the only way to find out if you'll get in or not so just wait and see