NY student aiming high [98 GPA, 1540 SAT, CS + Econ]

Gumbymom
Tue, 13 Jun 2023 13:24:40 +0000

Congratulations on being a competitive applicant. Hopefully you are aware that the UC’s are test blind and only use 10-11th grades in their GPA calculation although the review 9th for completion of the UC requirements and rigor and Senior courses fir rigor. You will need to calculate the 3 UC GPA’s based on the A-G courses you have taken the summer after 9th to the summer prior to 12th. Please post your unweighted, capped weighted and fully weighted UC GPA’s.

https://rogerhub.com/gpa-calculator-uc/

UC’s offer little to no financial aid to OOS applicants to be prepared to pay around $72K/year to attend. They also do not allow you to apply as a double major initially, so you would need to select a primary major. Both CS and Econ are impacted/High Demand majors at UCLA and UCB.

UCLA does not consider an alternate major in their admission decisions nor LOR’s. UCB does accept LOR’s by invitation only, does allow you to select an alternate major however, no guarantees that an alternate major will be considered for your initial admission review.

Do you have a year of a Visual or Performing art course on your transcript? This is a UC requirement.

2022 CS admit rates:
UCB: College of Letters and Sciences admit rate was 2.9%. For EECS it was 4.5%
UCLA: CS admit rate was 3.8%

2022 Econ admit rates:
UCB: Econ is a High Demand major like CS so you must select either major as a Primary for the best chance. Admit rate was 5.3%
UCLA: The College of Letters and Sciences does not admit by major so the overall admit rate for the college was 10%

Out of State admit rates for 2022:
UCB: 8.6%
UCLA: 8.9%

Best of luck but both schools are definitely Reach schools.