<p>What do u think the chances are for a mediocre instate student? </p>
<p>Rank: 39/508
Current GPA: 4.6
Cummulative GPA: 3.50</p>
<p>Current classes (i’m a junior)
Honors english
Advanced Art
AP Spanish
AP Biology
Honors Algebra 3
Psychology ( Junior college)</p>
<p>Extra Curriculars: … leadership, committee involvement in school board type stuff and the city counsel etc</p>
<p>Other info: i had HORRIBLE freshman year with lots of C’s and one D. </p>
<p>Evaluate me!!! lol</p>
<p>My information is dated (HS grad 1991), but I had horrible freshman grades too like you except I didn’t get a “D”. I had a “C-” so that’s pretty close. 
My GPA at junior year was like yours. Lots of my classmates with much higher GPAs (I was ranked 60 out of 400 or something like that) got rejected to Cal. I got accepted because I had something they didn’t have. I had high SAT scores from doing test prep all summer after my sophomore year. I’m not the smartest tool in the shed but I knew I could change my SAT scores a lot more than my GPA so I concentrated on SAT even at the expense of XC. I hope this gives you some hope.</p>
<p>what are your scores?</p>
<p>make shure you get good sats</p>
<p>I think you’re good, if you can get good scores, if you do, you’ve got a great chance</p>
<p>I havent takent he SAT’s yet. I took the PSAT today actually and i think i did quite well, i’ll get those results in december. In th meantime, what should i do to increase my chances of getting a high SAT score? would u guys reccomend classes or just prep books?</p>
<p>the UCs don’t look at freshmen grades and recalculate your GPA to show that</p>
<p>My SAT-I were V630 M720 but the scoring scale got changed in the mid 90s so the equivalent today would be around 50 points higher. I think my SAT-II were in the high 600s to mid 700s. This is all dated material so you may need to score even higher nowadays.</p>
<p>What do u think is more important, ones cumulative GPA or ones class rank?</p>