Well my GPA was actually an estimate... I really don't remember what it was. Also, I think UC's don't really look at your freshman year grades in their calculation... not sure if its still that way. That made a huge difference for me as my grades sucked freshman year of highschool.

I think it took me 2 or 3 tries to get the 1380, and I only had one shot on the SAT II's... but I guess that worked out. The 750 was a complete shock to me, especially since it was in Grammer/Writing... even more crazy considering English is my second language. 700 was in Math and 650 was Bio, which I had taken sophomore year and reviewd a bit. Add a good personal statement, some decent AP scores, and a little bit of extra-carricular activity (pretty much the minimum), and Davis wasn't a problem.

The thing to remember is that UC's are getting harder to get into every year. UCD, especially, is moving up in the ranks. I predict it'll be very close to UCLA as far as admissions in the next 5-10 years.

Your GPA is decent, especially if you did well junior year. Get the SAT up a bit, and deffinately work on those SAT II's. I remember when I was applying to UC's, SAT II's were weighted almost twice as much as SAT I's by the UC admissions. Basically you're assigned a number based on your gpa/scores and at a certain point, they have to cut the list bellow a certain level. If you're bellow, you're not getting in no matter how great your personal statement is or how many activities you participated in... unless maybe you're a football star or something .

Anyway... I'm sure you've heard most of this a bunch before, but in case you hadn't there it is.

-- Ed