So a school like UCLA for example has an acceptance rate of 18%. Is it 18% of ALL applicants get accepted, or is it 18% of applicants who actually meet the minimum requirements? I could imagine a popular school like UCLA getting a lot of applicants. So do they count the people with 2.0s who apply in their acceptance rates?
How would they determine who’s “serious”?
read the post
There’s no such as a non “serious” applicant. All applications are considered.
What do you mean, read the post? I did and had a question, so that’s why I asked. You seem think that having a low GPA makes an applicant not serious. Where’s the cutoff? 2.0? 3.0? 3.5? Who determines that? Why would excluding these people benefit a university?
admit rate = acceptances/complete applications*
*not withdrawn or incomplete.
There’s no “seriousness” threshold. What a strange idea you’ve generated…
“The minimum required GPA is 3.0 for California residents, 3.4 for nonresidents; this is the same at each UC campus.”
Does every school not have minimum requirements?
nope. And you forget that there’s incentive to have a lower admit rate – it makes them appear more popular and less selective. The incentive is to sweep MORE applications into the denominator to decrease the admit rate, not lower the denominator.
I think you meant to say “… it makes them appear more popular and more selective.”
Not being the final authority, I am going to say it is as simple as the number of students accepted divided by the total number of applicants. The acceptance rate has decreased for many universities because the number of students applying to each university has increased dramatically. Far more than the total number of students. I am sure there is a study that would show that not only are there more students applying as freshman, there are also far more students applying to higher and higher numbers of universities. I also believe that except for the most in demand universities that the qualifications of the accepted class is higher than the qualifications of the matriculating classes. Those schools with better reputation have seen their class statistics increase dramatically over the past decades.
Even with those published requirements, exceptions are made. UCLA’s own statistics for last year show 0.3% had a GPA between 2.5 and 2.99. Small number to be sure, but to dreamers that means there is hope. Not to mention that is the recalculated GPA as done by the UC schools. Most people don’t know what their “UC GPA” would be.
To take that further, UC Davis had 1.7% of the class with a GPA in that same range last year. UC Riverside had a student or two between 2.0-2.49. So the minimum appears not to actually be a minimum after all. Therefore I would advise that you not come off as being so sure it is as simple as you think, as you did in the post that was deleted.
And no, most schools don’t have minimum requirements, at least not published ones. The UC system is a bit unusual in that regard, as far as I know.
So you are saying that those who have sub-standard GPA’s but have amazing personal statements, etc should apply? I thought all UC’s disregard any application that do not meet the UC’s requirements.
The below UC requirement acceptances are probably recruited athletes and a rare individual with unique circumstances. As a regular applicant, you need to meet the UC GPA minimum.
So do regular applicants get their application thrown in the trash if they do not meet the GPA requirement?
If you do not meet the UC requirements, GPA/a-g courses … Your application will not get reviewed. Post your stats and posters can help you come up with some good schools to apply. UC’s are the only schools worth looking at.
I assume you mean “UC’s are NOT the only schools worth looking at.” And I am not so sure that all the 1.7% at Davis are athletes. Just saying that there may be other categories of exceptions.
I don’t think there are exceptions at all, too many applicants and too little time. You don’t meet the requirement=automatic rejection.
@StressedOutKid1 http://www.aim.ucla.edu/profiles/cds2.aspx#cdsC I mean, fallenchemist referenced the statistics from UCLA directly… Percent who had GPA between 2.50 and 2.99 0.3 %
Well, only around 17,000 students get admitted out of 90,000-ish. That is only a couple hundred students, does not really make a difference, considering they are most definitely recruits or some special kid you know.
Competition has been growing too tough on UCLA and Berkeley,