Pundits slam March for Our Lives' David Hogg for 'whining' about UCs. Here's what he actually said.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student David Hogg adresses the crowd during the March For Our Lives rally against gun violence in Washington, DC on March 24, 2018. Galvanized by a massacre at a Florida high school, hundreds of thousands of Americans are expected to take to the streets in cities across the United States on Saturday in the biggest protest for gun control in a generation. / AFP PHOTO / JIM WATSON less Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student David Hogg adresses the crowd during the March For Our Lives rally against gun violence in Washington, DC on March 24, 2018. Galvanized by a massacre at a Florida ... more Photo: JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images Photo: JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images Image 1 of / 30 Caption Close Pundits slam March for Our Lives' David Hogg for 'whining' about UCs. Here's what he actually said. 1 / 30 Back to Gallery

David Hogg, the Florida student and Parkland shooting survivor who went on to help organize the massive March for Our Lives protest, says he was rejected by four University of California system schools: UCLA, UC San Diego, UC Santa Barbara, and UC Irvine.

Some opposed to the March for Our Lives movement, like Fox News contributor Laura Ingraham, are using Hogg's comments to TMZ about his collegiate future as an opportunity for criticism.

"David Hogg Rejected By Four Colleges To Which He Applied and whines about it. (Dinged by UCLA with a 4.1 GPA...totally predictable given acceptance rates.)," she wrote on Twitter.

Another pundit, Bill Mitchell, commented on "the ego on this kid."

Applications for the UC schools were due in November, three months before the Parkland shooting and Hogg becoming a household name. By this month, when he received the rejection letters, he had appeared on the cover of TIME Magazine and received his own Wikipedia page. Hogg says he had a 4.2 GPA and an SAT score of 1270.

Speaking to TMZ, Hogg said he's "not surprised" that he's been rejected from some schools, but says "it is disappointing."

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Ultimately though, college isn't at the forefront of his mind anyway.

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"We're changing the world," he said. "At this point it's too hard to focus on (college)."

Hogg has so far been accepted to Cal Poly (although he didn't specify if that was San Luis Obispo or Pomona), Cal State San Marcos and Florida Atlantic University.

Alyssa Pereira is an SFGATE staff writer. Email her at apereira@sfchronicle.com or find her on Twitter at @alyspereira.

