<p>Was I too naive to think I was this smart or unlucky in getting into these schools because of the California budget crisis. I would have thought that my SAT scores were my only weakness but not horrible.</p>
<p>I was rejected from:
USC-Kinesiology or Global Health
Berkeley-Public Health
UCLA-Physiology or Neuroscience
Irvine-Pharmaceutical Science or Public Health Sciences
Davis-Exercise Biology or Neurophysiology,…,
Santa Barbara-Physiology or Economics with Accounting</p>
<p>I was accepted from:
U of the Pacific-Pre-Physical Therapy (Accounting)
Santa Clara University- Public Health
Riverside-Business economics</p>
<p>My SAT score:1730
CR:490
Math:650
Writing:590</p>
<p>Subject tests:
Biology:590
French:620
Math 2:630</p>
<p>Extra-curriculars:
300 hours of Sports medicine Internship
100 hours of an internship at a Doctor’s Medical office
Volunteer to feed the homeless once a month
Did Lacrosse my freshman year
4 year member of CSF
2 Year member of UNICEF
150 hours volunteering for the city</p>
<p>Application Essays: the first one was good, the second one was good also, but I think it could have been better revised the first about 4 or 5 times.</p>
<p>The current college plan for me now is Community college which I am okay with, but I just don’t want to repeat the same thing for when I transfer.</p>
<p>Please tell me what went wrong in my whole college admissions.</p>
<p>Depends what your expectations were. If you thought you were getting into Berkeley/UCLA/USC with that SAT score, then you were a bit naive, I’m afraid. It was simply not at the place that it needed to be in order for you to be a serious candidate. The ECs and GPA are probably not at the level that they need to be for those schools, either, but the SAT is the killer.</p>
<p>USC/LA/Berk were basically reaches for me so I knew i had a very slim chance at getting into those, so basically I was going to be happy going to Davis/Santa Barbra/Irvine except i didn’t get in.</p>
<p>*I was rejected from:
USC-Kinesiology or Global Health
Berkeley-Public Health
UCLA-Physiology or Neuroscience
Irvine-Pharmaceutical Science or Public Health Sciences
Davis-Exercise Biology or Neurophysiology,…,
Santa Barbara-Physiology or Economics with Accounting</p>
<p>I was accepted from:
U of the Pacific-Pre-Physical Therapy (Accounting)
Santa Clara University- Public Health
Riverside-Business economics</p>
<p>My SAT score:1730
CR:490
Math:650
Writing:590
*</p>
<p>It looks like you applied to too many reaches for your test scores. Your CR score probably really hurt you.</p>
<p>You should have applied to some CSUs, and UCR and UCMerced.</p>
<p>ECs don’t really make up for test scores. They just help a student stand out from others with similar stats. Unless the EC is something spectacular, you still have to have the strong stats for many of these schools. </p>
<p>Should we assume that the schools you were accepted to aren’t affordable?</p>
<p>If so, it also looks like you didn’t apply to any financial safety schools. It’s unfortunate that you probably spent a lot of time on essays, applications, etc, only to have no schools work out for you.</p>
<p>When you go to transfer after 2 years, if your GPA is strong, then you’ll have better results. however, be sure you also apply to some schools that you know that you can afford.</p>
<p>With those scores, and no athletic hook, 'SC was an auto-reject. USC is BIG on test scores. The top UCs would require an ‘adversity’ essay to overcome low test scores. For PH, one needs related ECs. And what I mean by that is Public Health-related, not medical-related.</p>
<p>The good news is that test scores won’t matter for a juco transfer. Just earn as may A’s as you can. See if your community college has an honors program.</p>
<p>btw: given your apparent interests, a UC may not be the best place anyway. PT/Kinesiology/Accounting are strengths of the Cal States.</p>
<p>Your CR score is very low compared to your GPA. It is in the range of what I would expect for someone who is not a native speaker of English. Have you always had difficulty with this kind of examination? You should talk with your guidance counselor about being screened for dyslexia-type processing issues. Often good classroom grades combined with lower than predicted (relative to grades) test scores is an indicator of previously un-identified processing issues. You want to sort that out before you get much further along in college.</p>
<p>My son has low test scores too. So when applying to schools we had to make sure that we included schools where his scores were at least midrange. However, it’s not just the schools overall average one has to examine, but the scores of those in special programs. </p>
<p>A dear friend of mine was shocked that her son was denied at a college that accepts nearly 90% of applicants. But he was applying to a special program where less than a quarter of those kids get accepted. My son applied as a Musical Theater major to schools where acceptance for him would have been safety level if he wanted to be in their academic programs, but it was a whole other story for the Performing Arts where only 10 kids were selected. At the auditions, just looking at the hundred kids waiting their turn, you could tell the odds were tough since the schools often had multiple audition dates. So for a specialty program, even if you are right in the middle of the college’s accept range or even in the upper levels does not necessarily mean a thing if the program is a competitive one.</p>
<p>As Bluebayou says, it is often doable to transfer into such programs. You gotta do well in the intro college courses that you pick that are parallel to those required by kids who are in such programs. Kids drop out of many of these programs, so spaces do often open up and your high school record and SAT scores are not as important as what you are doing in college as a transfer student.</p>
<p>@mom2collegekids: I was thinking of applying to a couple of CSUs at the last minute but I decided not to because of the cost and I thought that’d I’d at least get into one of the schools I like because I was originally waitlisted at Davis and Santa Barbara, but the final verdict came as a rejection.
It definitely sucks for me because ultimately it leaves me having to start all over again for transferring.
I did get into UCR, but I chose not to attend because personally I did not like the area and the ranking of the program was not good.
I really wanted to go to Santa Clara, but financially it wasn’t affordable for my family once the package came back.
I really was looking into U of Pacific too because it did offer a much better financial package for my family, but again it was kind of the same reasoning I had for UCR.
Additionally, when I was filling out applications back in November to January I had different plans for my future, I wanted to study Pre-Physical Therapy or Pre-Pharmacy, but since about Febuary to March I changed my mind and want to pursue business or accounting.</p>
<p>Also again my parents have had a lot of financial issues the last couple months so almost attending any college would be difficult to pay for. Right now for transferring I’m looking at the community college glass as half full. I’m gonna work hard to maintain a high GPA and ultimately transfer to maybe UCLA if still is possible for me and I really just wanna milk the community college transfer program for what it is worth.</p>
<p>@happymomof1: By the way I don’t really know if I have any dyslexia type issues, maybe some mild ones because ever since I was young I have always struggled with reading a little bit because I guess I rush often, but I always seemed to manage.
I just really didn’t think my CR score would hurt me that bad because I seemed to have fallen in the average score for Davis so I thought that I was pretty much golden for application aside from that set back</p>
<p>everything’s perfect except for your SAT score. I have a friend that got into Santa Barbara with a 1250 on the SAT(math and CR only). You got an 1140, which I think is why you got rejected. Dont worry though, just do really good in your undergrad and apply to UC Berkeley for your graduate as a transfer student. You’ll get in.</p>