UCLA parents: Student services cut

drax12
Thu, 21 Apr 2011 23:06:01 +0000

Regarding:



evidence of someone with 4.5/2300 being rejected.



First of, you probably have to unravel that 4.5 w gpa; second, it’d be helpful to know if that 4.5 is a gpa upon graduation.

Re, 2…we know grades submitted to UC are for soph and jr years. So w gpas haven’t most likely reached their ultimate level in these two years.

If gpa reported is upon completion of the student’s senior year, then w gpa can approach 5.0 and even equal it on occasion at a decent amount of high schools which have a lot of AP. We know that 5.0 isn’t a possible max for the vast majority of students, but their grades can still approach, 4.8-4.9 upon graduation, and these are relatively common. Those with > 4.0 w gpas is often a good portion of some very good schools.

Re, 1…so someone with a 4.5 with weights taken off could have “only” a 3.5 uw gpa. If this were the case, then the student could well be rejected from either Cal or UCLA and probably will be because he/she hasn’t attained his/her best at his/her native hs. This alone, despite this hypothetical student having scored a 2300, would be the cause of a denial, even with lofty near-perfect scores such as this. And we know that UC (more likely UCLA and Cal) isn’t (aren’t) a big proponent of SAT I scores (or high scores without the added component of high grades). This stuff about a-g UC gpa, weighted gpa, etc is nonsense. The admissions reader will look at it all.

Here’s an excellent high school in SoCal, PV Peninsula, that [url= http://www.pvpusd.k12.ca.us/penhi/collegeacceptance/collegeacceptance2010.pdf]documents[/url] its students gpas, both w and u, SAT I’s, along with component scores, SAT II’s, ACT’s if taken, and EC’s; along with their applications to various c’s and u’s, acceptances and denials to them, and at which they eventually matriculate. You’ll see that UCLA, starting on page 64, and Cal, page 49, reject a lot of highly qualified people.