Acceptance rate for students with less than 3.0 GPA is about 8% at UC Riverside for Fall 2007.

Check with UC-Riverside and find out what their transfer requirements are. Most universities allow you to take classes at Junior Colleges–up to some specified number of credit-hours–and then transfer in, if you have kept a certain GPA. So, all hope is NOT lost!

You just may need to take your freshman English, History, Math, etc… at a local JC for your first year. Which is NOT a bad thing–it’ll be a LOT cheaper and probably a lot more convenient. Remember, your freshman year–no matter where you go to college–you’re going to take pretty much the same courses, so it doesn’t matter where you take them.

Good luck!

RE:
will i get into uc riverside if my gpa is less than 3.0?

and no, i dont think so. unless youre like a fantabulous person who went through alot, has greatextracurriculars and all, you probably wont get in because UCR is harder to get into than UCM, whose average GPA admitted was like 3.59. and its not really that hard to get intothose schools.

i say, go to a commmunity college and transfer in ur junior year to like UCB or UCLA or wherever.

Just a little food for thought. I did about 3 years at community colleges and found the course material and work load were not that much different than high school – I just had to be more motivated. However, with I transfered to CSU Chico, I was immediately aware that the course material was much tougher and moved at a faster pace, and the professor’s expectations were much higher.