Chance me? 3.9

Peppers
Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:41:35 +0000

3.96 is somewhat weak for LA/Cal, but it is already within a “competitive” category when considering admissions there. There is a difference between a 2200/3.96 and a 2200/3.5, that mainly being that the latter is not considered (at least by conservative estimates that we tend to call “matches”/"slight reach"s) competitive against the others seeking admission to the major UC flagships. I can only speak from my own experiences, and barring an admissions officer from Cal/UCLA here, so is everyone else, and my own experience is that a high SAT score and weak but competitive GPA is enough to get into Cal and UCLA. GPA can be affected by so many different factors that on a forum like this its hard to gauge the difficulty being presented. Once a prospective applicant can establish a certain proficiency threshold in the GPA, the school will probably use the SAT as a final measure of their abilities. Obviously, if there is a huge gap between the two indicators (either high GPA low SAT or low GPA high SAT), then scenarios arise that might complicate what I was talking about. In these scenarios, it is my experience (at least with people that I know in college and in high school), that the schools have a predilection towards a high GPA.