UCSF definately looks beyond numbers. There are a number of people in my class who are interesting and very intelligent, but were only offered one acceptance, and that's because UCSF was willing to look beyond a bad year in school or an low MCAT section score to the whole person.
There is a lot of value placed on your personal statement and diversity of experience. And, they are very slow. Unfortunately for applicants, the time quoted is the earliest they will get back to you, not the time they actually will, so sit tight. If you need to call because they are a month later than they said they would be and the website looks wrong, okay, call. But not if they are a few weeks late.
There is one wonderful admissions secr'y, and if you call, you take up her time, and then you slow the process down for everyone, including yourself. So try to balance your need to know (or be told, no news yet) with the amount that you slow the whole office down.
Even though it seems like it will take forever (I got in >2 weeks before the school I was otherwise going to attend started) they do get everything done by the end of the summer.
