Accepted into 0 schools.

Applying to College
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^ Don’t think #18 is true, but anyway,

6 UC’s participate in TAG (transfer admissions guarantee for California CC’s):

http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/counselors/files/tag-matrix.pdf
https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/infocenter/transfers-major

A gap year or NACAC are also possibilities.

Finances not an issue?

What goals did you have after an econ major?

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@FirstGenZ, it’s not a matter of being good enough. It’s a matter of even the mid-level UC’s being competitive to enter now and thus aren’t a guarantee for anyone.

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Thank you for all the responses

  1. I am financially stable and after college I hope to attend law school
  2. I did not have many leadership roles, other than being a president of a club that i created
  3. I was not top 10 percent of my class, I did very poorly in my first 3 semesters before becoming a 4.0+ gpa student
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Then CC and TAG (assuming that you can meet the GPA requirements for you major) may make sense.

Tough to beat that in terms of costs.

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Have you ever visited Lehigh? If not, go. Lehigh will want to see genuine interest and going there in person is the best way to show interest.

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@TypicalKid2000 yeah 3) would probably knock you out for UCB and UCLA from what I hear. 2) probably did you in for the remainder of the UCs that you applied for (as well as UCLA and UCB). It’s a shame, your GPA and test scores are quite good and should have gotten you into at least one of those schools.

Hopefully you’ll get off waitlist at one of the schools. I am going to venture a guess though and say that the number of waitlist clears for UCI and UCSD will be lower than usual this year, based on all the high number of high quality candidates getting waitlisted at those 2 places.

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In post #0, the OP refers to “the poor grades I have during my current semester (senioritis)”, so that his/her academic credentials next year with the worse senior year grades will look worse than his/her academic credentials this year.

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This is the associates degree for transfer program (AA-T, AS-T), which guarantees admission to a CSU campus, though not necessarily the student’s choice if it is too competitive.

http://www.adegreewithaguarantee.com/abouttheprogram/frequentlyaskedquestions.aspx
http://www.adegreewithaguarantee.com/ProgramGuaranteeTermsConditions.aspx

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The UC Universities are not competitive to the level that someone who has a 4.0 (slightly below average) and a 1520 SAT score (very far above average) should worry about being rejected from more than three of them, let alone six of them. I’m convince something might be off on his/her application and if I were in that situation, I would call admissions

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@TypicalKid2000 I’m very sorry that you worked so hard and did not get into any UC’s. Although there is nothing wrong with Community College, I think that your hard work deserves a University. Have you considered Arizona? University of Arizona and Arizona State are still accepting applications. With your stats, ASU will definitely offer you some sort of Merit Scholarship. Good luck.

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UCs tend to weight GPA more heavily than SAT/ACT scores in frosh admissions. In contrast, some other schools like USC may be more friendly to a “test score heavy” applicant.

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People keep mentioning letters of recs as a possible issue, but the UCs don’t want them unless they specifically request them.

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Essays and GPA for the UC’s may explain it. UCSC would have been a good match.
ELC is for Riverside or Merced, would you be ok going there?
I agree with a try at re nacac list in May.
You’re very lucky to be living in California with its excellent network of CCs.