California Schools for B student??

Shrinkrap
Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:14:13 +0000

Son was declined from UCSC last night too. Declined there AND SLO yesterday, his first rejections, after 8 admissions (many of which are OOS with merit!).

California is a tough audience!

Sad face.

Sounds like Riverside might be a no go too (“UCR has become more competitive and 3.0 won’t get you in… 3.3-3.4 is about as low as they go, barring other factors”, although here http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/campuses/files/riverside.pdf it says, last year, students are in the 3.0-3.29 band have a 75 percent admit rate. Guess they have the other factors.

It also suggests kids with my sons SAT would have close to a 90 percent admit rate, although I guess those kids tend to have higher GPA’s.

He is 3.1/1230/1890