Going to a good UC school...

bluebayou
Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:50:18 +0000

you posted in the wrong forum, but I’ll try.

If you are unhooked, to significantly increase your chances for the big two, you should try to take the most rigorous curriculum offered at your HS, including Ap/IB courses. Five academics each year. Four years each of math, science, english, history & foreign language. ECs with, preferably, leadership. Test of 700+ on all five tests. Finally, elc counts bcos it shows high class rank.

UCSD is numbers-driven, so achieving the above would make it a 95% chance of acceptance.