How heavily do UC's look at Senior classes?

bluebayou
Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:03:11 +0000

Senior class schedule is one of the key admissions criteria after GPA + test scores. Thus, taking a slacker schedule (three academic solids plus study hall) ain’t gonna cut it. Of course, that doesn’t mean you have to take all APs.

Officially class rank is NOT an admission criteria, but they fugde the truth. The UC app reader has at his/her disposal a list of all applicants from your HS, and it shows where your gpa fits in, including UC-gpa, weighted-UNcapped. So, they don’t have the complete HS rank, just the rank of those that applied to a UC.

For apps on the bubble, UC will come back and request additional information, like they did with Silver. It’s called Augmented Review.