Here are my stats:
GPA:
9-11 4.36 W 3.80 UW
10-11 4.60 W 3.80 UW
UC: 4.07
-school doesn’t rank
-took most rigorous course load: freshman - 3 honors, soph. - 4 APs, 1 honors, junior - 7 APs (school only weights APs)
ACT: 35 C
AP scores so far: World history (4), chemistry (4), calculus AB (5), psychology (5)
Awards:
-hopefully national AP scholar this year
-hopefully national merit scholar (PSAT 225/228)
I’m mostly looking at:
-UCLA
-UCSD
-UCB
-UCI
-UCD
-UCSB
-UCSC
Intended major: Molecular bio/biochemistry
My top choice is UCSD so I’m really wondering how my chances are there. I’m also really interested in Cal and UCLA. Please chance me for all the UC’s…thank you :o
-UCLA-High Match
-UCSD- Match
-UCB-High Match/Low Reach
-UCI-Low Match
-UCD-Match
-UCSB-Match
-UCSC-Safety/Low Match
Bump…please chance I’ll chance back
You are a competitive applicant for all of them. Even for you, no,UC is a lock. Apply broadly. Good luck.
my stats were lower (i took 2 honors classes and 8 APs), 3.75 UW and a 4.3 weighted with extracurriculars and very good essays (one about writing ((since I applied as an english major)) to memorialize a lost parent and the other about being an LGBT student) and I got into UCD and both the college of letters and sciences and the college of creative studies for lit at UCSB. I chose UCD yesterday because UCSB felt like a bigger commitment to my chosen major and a bigger party school, which isn’t really my thing. Plus UCD offers a deferment program that will let me work abroad for a year.
I only applied to four UCs. I was rejected at UCB and UCLA.
I do know several strong applicants who were wait listed at UCD and a few very unqualified people who got into UCSB, plus UCSC admits a loooot of in state students, if that’s applicable to you.
I’d say try any of them. You sound like you’d fit well at UCSD, and UCLA as a reach (though not unlikely). UCSB also has a very good bio program, and so does UCD and UCI.
It may also be worth looking into honors programs at “lower” ranking UCs (like riverside and merced) since they’re putting a lot of money into renovating their science programs right now. A really motivated student could find a lot of opportunities (big fish in a little pond and all that)
http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/infocenter/freshman-admissions-summary says that for 2015, the admission rates were for applicants with GPA in the 3.80-4.19 range:
83% Santa Cruz
57% Irvine
52% Davis
49% Santa Barbara
39% San Diego
14% Los Angeles
12% Berkeley