<p>as a student at a highly competative east coast, OUT OF STATE highschool with a 3.95 W (3.7 UW) GPA and 1980 SATs (probably higher once i get october results)
Track, average EC’s… a few summer jobs ect. is it a pretty safe bet that i will get into UCSC? do i have a chance at all at UCB?</p>
<p>SAT IIs, M2 760, USH 710, Bio 620 <-freshman year, im in AP Calculus and AP Gov this year and all honors classes besides that</p>
<p>Yes, I believe you will make it to UCSC. And Yes, you have no chance at UCB.</p>
<p>Should I even bother applying to ucb… I like it… I think I would get in if I was in-state, too bad im not!</p>
<p>Well, it wouldn’t hurt to try (except for the extra $60 cost). Who knows? Maybe the admissions reader will be drunk when he’s looking over your application and he’ll accept you. But in all seriousness, yes, TRY ANYWAY. I know that if I were you and I didn’t think I’d get into a college, I’d still send my application. I’d rather receive an official rejection letter than living my life with the lingering feeling that just MAYBE I could’ve got in, but never tried.</p>
<p>lol, thats what reaches are for!</p>
<p>OOS admission isn’t really that bad as most people make it out to be. I’m at Berkeley and I have friends from NY who got in with 4.1 UC weighted and 1900 SAT’s.</p>
<p>what is your UC gpa?</p>
<p>UCB is a reach, probably whether or not you’re in or out of state. You have a good GPA and SAT score, but they’re still both under the average for all three of the top tier UCs. You’ll definitely get into UCSC, though, and I would apply to the middle tier ones too.</p>
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<p>Plug in your number and see if your scores are higher than the cut-off point. Keep in mind that it’s year 2004. The cut off will probably be a little higher when in 2007.</p>
<p>my uc gpa is about 4.4</p>
<p>why is the uc gpa so easy?</p>
<p>atnay:</p>
<p>Unless you had straight A’s Soph and Junior years, your UC gpa cannot be 4.4. Remember, only academic a-g classes are included, and the bonus points are capped at 8 semester’s worth. Thus, by definition, a UC gpa of 4.4 means 5 classes per year, all A’s and 8+ honors/AP semesters. For example, </p>
<p>Soph year: 5 academic classes, all As = 40 grade points (5 classes x 2 semesters x 4 grade points)</p>
<p>Jr year: 5 academic classes, all As, and all five of them were UC-approved honors/AP/IB courses = 48 grade points (5 classes x 2 semesters x 4 grade points + 8 max bonus points)</p>
<p>Total grade points = 88</p>
<p>Divide by 20 semester classes</p>
<p>= UC gpa of 4.40</p>
<p>okay… well i guess i dont really understand it then, can u help me?</p>
<p>Sophmore Year</p>
<p>CP A-, A-, A
Honors, B+, A</p>
<p>Junior Year</p>
<p>CP, A-
Honors, A, A-, B+
AP, A</p>
<p>my school only does yearly grades</p>
<p>atnay: </p>
<p>hmmm, only yearly grades, so I’ll make an assumption that the UC will just double them (but, only a guess). Here goes (plusses and minuses don’t count):</p>
<p>soph year…6 CP A’s, 2 UC-approved honors B’s, 2 UC-approved honors A = </p>
<p>6<em>4 + 2</em>3 + 2*4 = 38 + 4 bonus points for a total of 42</p>
<p>jr year:</p>
<p>2<em>4 + 2</em>3 + 6*4 = 38 + 4 bonus points = 42</p>
<p>Total grade points = 84</p>
<p>Divide by 20 semesters of classes… 84/20= 4.2 UC gpa</p>
<p>Igotin is rather harsh. With a 4.2 gpa, you have a chance at Cal. For both in-and OOS, Cal accepts ~40% of students with a gpa of 4.0+.</p>
<p>UCSC would be automatic if you were in-state; for OOS, it is highly likely.</p>
<p>Well, when I posted that, atnay didn’t mention that his/her UC gpa is 4.0+. When I looked at “3.95 W”, I assumed that was the gpa.</p>
<p>atnay:</p>
<p>don’t forget, that the UCs are very expensive OOS – Cal is nearly $45k – and, finaid for OOS students is not very good.</p>
<p>Yeah, I’ll probably end up at Umass paying 10k a year.</p>