<p>3.6 or 3.7 GPA (weighted)
28-31 ACT
Japan summer homestay with AFS
8 AP/Honors courses (Bio SAT II-690 AP World-5)
U.S. Foreign Policy summer course at American University
Global Business summer course at Pace University
China travel program with school
Swim team (not varsity yet)
Thinking of founding a Libertarian political club next year
Snow Shoveling for Seniors community service
VP of Store Operations (school store)</p>
<p>Who knows. What I would say is that I’ve heard that your GPA and SAT scores are pretty much the things you’ve got to have. Think of how many applicants they get. It’s most likely they separate out those in sports, then run the numbers through the system, letting in those with over a certain GPA/SAT and leaving out those with one that’s too low. I’ve heard they generally look at your other stuff only when you’re on the border. </p>
<p>UCSB’s getting tougher and tougher to get into (yay for us that already went through!). I would suggest looking at the thread about “sophomore with a 2.8” or something like that. I suggested taking comm college night school classes while in HS to boost your GPA and such, and I detailed what that does and entails in that thread.</p>
<p>What affect would applying ED have on my chances?</p>
<p>UCSB does not have ED.</p>
<p>If ED means Education, rameezkhan is right in the sense that you can’t major in it, but if you’re interested in it, you can minor in it through the graduate school (weird, I know, but you can do it as an undergrad), but that’s not something you can declare as before you enter the college.</p>
<p>TBH, getting into a UC is like winning the lottery. Not in the sense that you get overwhelmingly happy (well, actually, I did) but in the sense that it can be completely unexpected.</p>
<p>I had a 3.01 weighted UC GPA (UC eligibility calls for a 3.0 UC GPA) and an SAT score of 1820 (UCSB average = 1871). My SAT Subject Tests… were alright. 670 in Chinese, second best score was 630 in math 2. </p>
<p>As you can see, the “primary” things they look at (GPA and SAT) were moot. Now, if you look at the other things I had (EC and Personal Statements) …</p>
<p>Created multicultural club freshman year, remained officer for all four years.
environmental club MEMBER for 3 years
2 years JV tennis
job in senior year
leadership training program at University of New Mexico for 2 weeks</p>
<p>If I were to rate my personal statements… I’d say they were 8/10.</p>
<p>I was probably one of the worst applicants that UCSB received an application from. I was very surprised I got in, I was shouting when I saw the “You’re Admitted!” message on my screen.</p>
<p>I hope this gives you some hope, you already deserve better than me. Good luck!</p>