California Schools for B student??

DunninLA
Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:19:57 +0000

Actually, I just looked up UC Santa Cruz for the 2009 entering class in the UC Statfinder, and get these chances: http://statfinder.ucop.edu/statfinder/default.aspx

UC Weighted Capped GPA 3.40 - 3.59
SAT (single sitting) 1500 - 1799 54%
SAT (single sitting) 1800 - 2099 83%

The UC Statfinder is very helpful in narrowing down chances, by campus, with a combination of GPA and SAT. It is important to adjust for a score not in the middle of a large range (toward the top, higher chance than listed, and toward the bottom, lower chance). It is also important to adjust for Life-Challenged vs. Not-Life-Challenged. Life-Challenged are things like working lots of hours during the school year, Single Parent Home, First Generation College, Low Income, etc. Not Life Challenged would take a person in the middle of the statistical range and move them to the lower edge of the band (a half-band move).