the start of spring quarter at ucla

hi guys! this is a little reflection/montage type video of how i felt at the beginning of spring quarter at ucla :) hope you guys enjoy!
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[@paindd]

hellooo i watched your "going over my uc app" video and saw that you had a 4.53 weighted gpa. i have a 4.55 weighted gpa for grades 10 & 11 but knowing that uc's also use a capped gpa (only count 8 semesters of ap/ib), i calculated it and it turned out to be 4.17 (way lower than my regular weighted gpa). was wondering if you knew if uc's cared about that or if they prioritized fully weighted gpa's, and if i have a good shot at ucla. thanks :)

[@robjohnston366]

Fully weighted gpa can disguise "lower" grades if you take a lot of honors and AP courses (both of these are weighted in calculating fully wgpa and UCgpa for CA residents, and only the latter are for non-residents, and then for UC gpa, you need effectively the eight classes -- assuming you go to a semester hs -- to have weights which should be pretty easy if you're from CA). If you have too many B's, B-, B or B+, for classes that are included in the gpa calculations, it will be tough to get in. If you get any C's, then that's essentially a killer in being admitted, especially for classes pointing toward your intended major at UCLA. The average unweighted gpa for UCLA incoming freshmen in 2021 was 3.92 and 54% had a perfect 4.0 average for a-g, 10th and 11th grades, and removing plusses and minuses -- that is only 3.0s and 4.0s were used for gpa calculations. If you don't mind me asking, what was you uwgpa with these three things in mind?

[@paindd]

@@robjohnston366 my unweighted gpa is 3.86 currently. I’m in the ib diploma program so I’ve had 14 ib classes in the past two years (6 both years + TOK 0 period) so it’s been really hard lol. junior year I got 2 b+’s both semesters which is why my unweighted gpa is low but my weighted is pretty high (I’m taking the max number of ib classes but getting some b’s as a result of the massive workload)

[@robjohnston366]

@@paindd You have excellent stats; keep up the great work. I'm interested in anyone who's interested in attending UCLA, so I've enjoyed conversing with you. I'm assuming that you're a senior, so you've already marked your gpa for admission. If you've just completed your 1st semester of your last year in hs, then they're going to want to know these grades are along with your spring semester ones and what courses you've planned before your senior year began -- as you doubtlessly know -- as applying season is probably done for the class entering in 2023. They're not going to allow you to improve your uwgpa/UC-gpa/fully-wgpa of 3.86/4.17/4.53, which are excellent, but you do have to maintain minimum standards if you're admitted. UCLA students don't have a lot of senioritis, and are trying to obtain college credits, so they drive through the finish line. If you go for engineering or CS, it'll be a really tough admit. But if you go in through Letters & Sciences, "The College," then you'll have a better shot of admission. (I keep forgetting that you've doubtlessly already sent in your application.) Then if you are admitted and you want something like CS, there are good choices of peripheral CS-type majors, like Math of Computation, Applied Math with Specialization in Computing, etc. Statistics and Data Theory are also extremely popular. All the best...

[@paindd]

@@robjohnston366 yeah I’m aware of senioritis and have done my best to avoid it. in fact this year I’ve actually gotten better grades than last year lol. My only B was in IB physics SL and everything else was an A or A-. I also applied into “computer science and engineering” as opposed to just straight up computer science because I looked the admission rates by major and cs&e was around 3x higher (somewhere around 3% vs 9%. can only wait from here till march though

[@robjohnston366]

@@paindd Btw, sorry, @cloudandreveries for my interrupting your message board of your very nice video, very enjoyable. And if you don't mind my providing some information about UCLA's admissions to Hansen, this should be my last post.
Hansen, I'm assuming you got the admit rates for CS and CSE from the engineering report HSSEAS (UCLA's engineering school) produces at some point during the academic year. They haven't produced the report for the 2022-23 year yet as far as I see. But UCLA's Admissions site has a breakdown of this current year's HSSEAS admits. Here's a breakdown by year:
General Admit/Yield, HSSEAS | AR for E majors
Applications Admits Entrolled AR % Yield CSE CS
2022-23 35,342 1,949 803 5.5% 41.2%
2021-22 31,373 2,519 881 8.0% 35.0% 7.5% 5.4%
2020-21 24,797 2,666 751 10.8% 28.2% 9.9% 8.3%
2019-20 25,804 2,505 772 9.7% 30.8% 7.6% 8.6%
My point, which you doubtlessly know, is that HSSEAS is a tough admit and is getting a lot tougher, so perhaps for 2022-23 the admit rate for CS was 3%. I know you engineering types really can't have your heart set on a particular school, but you should get into a UC E-school for CSE/CSEE, CS or whatever major to which you applied at the other campuses. But by my not knowing if you have your heart set on UCLA or not, you can go to community college if you don't get in from hs -- if you're from CA it'd be a lot easier but for Int'l and out-of-state students it'd be tougher and you should consider going to a 2-year out here in CA if you want to attend UCLA. Again, all the best; you have excellent qualifications that will get you into a good CS-type major at a very good college. (It might be that you might have to view in landscape for your cell phone.)