Regents Scholars at UCD--please help!

LostCoast
Tue, 24 Apr 2012 19:34:02 +0000

The chances will vary a lot from campus to campus. At some, they’re very number-oriented and give it to the top several % of their applicants. UCSC has to be different, of course, and invites their top applicants to write an essay for a Regents.

I’m doing some of this from memory, but my daughter’s stats are something like:

GPA: ~4.5 weighted, 3.9+ uw.

Class ranking: 5-ish

SAT: 750/760/710 on her second sitting (forget what her first sitting was)

ACT: 35 (she thought it was trivial compared to the SAT)

AP Classes:
Junior: Calc. BC, English Language, US History (5s on all tests)
Senior: Statistics, French, Government

ECs:
Not too remarkable–Red Cross Club, CSF, French Club. I hesitate to mention the ones really outside of school–she does an unusual combination of sports and music, and I’d rather not give too much personally identifying info here.

Don’t treat these as gospel, as in they’re exactly what you need to get a Regents. I’m sure that better in some areas/worse in others is just fine. I also have no idea how my daughter’s stats stack up against other Regents Scholars.