<p>and weighted gpa 4.3</p>
<p>oos? </p>
<p>do you go to gulliver prep in miami, fl?</p>
<p>gulliver1 - Is that weighted GPA or UC GPA? What’s your major? Out of state?</p>
<p>Everyone needs to make sure to post their UC GPA, and not just their weighted GPA (2 different things). Seems to be a common mistake.</p>
<p>If I wasn’t so lazy, I’d go figure out my UC GPA.</p>
<p>I’m beginning to wonder if UCSD actually uses the point system, being that so many VERY qualified individuals have been rejected. Their points from their GPA and SAT alone are enough to get them 7000+. </p>
<p>Also, ELC students are supposedly only supposed to get 300 points for that achievement. I don’t see how this explains that 90 percent of ELC students get in, because some have poor test scores and average ECs.</p>
<p>lazy here too…weighted gpa…in state …northern calif…public school
didn’t bother to calculate uc…</p>
<p>international relations…and my brother got in last year with lower gpa and sats than i had…but he was elc</p>
<p>Your UC GPA is essentially the same as your weighted GPA, but it’s only for UC approved A-G courses and you only get a maximum of 8 points extra for Honors/AP classes. It’s not THAT hard/THAT much effort to calculate it and post it instead of your weighted GPA (which the UC’s DON’T look at, so it’s not helpful at all to those that use these accepted/denied stats as guidance).</p>
<p>oops writing was only 730…
and i’m caucasian female</p>
<p>REJECTED!</p>
<p>2100 SAT I
670 SAT MATH IIC
620 SAT II Lit
4.0 UC weighted</p>
<p>=/</p>
<p>uc gpa 3.9</p>
<p>The pains of being well-qualified…</p>
<p>Guys its their loss. We will be successful whereever we go since we are top students, and maybe they are doing us a favor. San Diego is not meant to be for us, but Los Angeles is or Harvard or MIT or whatever schools you applied to. And undergrad does not matter, remember its Graduate school that is very important. So you can go to a mid-tier university and be the creme of the crop, and then you will get accepted to the most prestigious schools for graduate like Harvard, Yale, UPenn, Brown, Dartmouth, and Stanford of course.</p>
<p>perhaps you were OVER-qualified? I heard some colleges know that you will matriculate berkeley or la so they reject you for being over-qualified. (more room for someone who will matriculate their college) sucks but works out in the end!</p>
<p>UCSD gets pretty terrible rankings on students review, for what it’s worth. The whole no social scene stigma seems to carry some weight.</p>
<p>Anarkii, if you were actually accepted to UCSD, would you have gone? Either you wouldn’t have, or you didn’t transmit that thought across to the UCSD admissions officers in your essay well enough. Apparently a lot of well/overqualified people on this forum were rejected, and I can safely say that probably 2/3rds of them wouldn’t have gone to UCSD even if they were accepted. Big blow to the academic ego? Yeah, it is. Big deal in the grand scheme of things in light of their applications? Probably not.</p>
<p>If UCSD were to accept all over-qualified applicants, their admissions percentage could do one of two things, both of which are undesirable.</p>
<p>1) It could cause the admissions percentage to go up. This would cause people to doubt the selectivity of the school, and cause fewer people to consider it prestigious. </p>
<p>2) It could cause the requisite point total to go up. This would be the most dangerous, because it would cause many otherwise qualified students who actually would go to UCSD to be denied admission, and a bunch of people who used UCSD as a safety to be admitted, but obviously not go. The selectivity of the school goes up, but fewer people who would actually go would go. Just look at Johns Hopkins. The school is incredible, and the selectivity is high, but the yield is a dismal 33% because a lot of people probably use it as a fallback if they don’t get into Ivy Leagues.</p>
<p>Either scenario could be what admissions officers are trying to avoid, and certainly not without reason.</p>
<p>rejected :(</p>
<p>UC gpa: 4.2
SATs: 1930
pretty good extra curriculars:
diving, cross country, vp of spanish club, secretary of csf club, etc…
good essays</p>
<p>do i have any hope for ucla? im hoping so because its not a point system, but what do you think?</p>
<p>is it possible to get in without UC minimum gpa?</p>
<p>@runpunk, not at UCSD, but possibly at UC Riverside (my friend did that) or UC Merced. Depends on how ineligible you are and if you have something that the colleges catch on to. My friend had a lot of APs, so yeah. </p>
<p>@rdviper1, I think that you still have a chance for UCLA, but holistic admissions really only differs from point system in that it allows for special circumstances to resonate more with admissions officers. You UC GPA is well above the average for UCLA (4.12), but your SAT is 73 pts below average, and it would be helpful to know your SAT II scores as well…</p>
<p>REJECTED</p>
<p>UC GPA 4.2ish
SAT 2320
SAT 2 730 730</p>