Do UCs prioritise Grades or ECs?

StudentSchool
Fri, 01 Dec 2017 06:42:05 +0000

There’s a rumour going around in my school that the UCs prioritize ones SAT scores and AP/IB Predicted Grades a looooot more than your essay questions and extra curricular activities. I was wondering if I could get all of your opinion on the extent to which this is true?

Furthermore, the reason for me asking this is because I am applying to UCB and while my ECs are probably better than most applicants in my school, there are a few here and there (applying to UCB) that may have better SATs and/or subject sats than me. Given what I said earlier do I still have a realistic chance?

Cheers