Aaack, chance me please? UC/CSU

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>So it's almost the UC/CSU app deadline, and I'm starting to get really worried. ;_; The schools I'd considered safeties before might not be as 'safe' as I thought they were - any recommendations for other CSUs to apply to for safeties would be highly appreciated. Thank you!</p>

<p>SCHOOLS - intended major is Japanese.
UCLA (AHAHA- very, very long reach. >< Still going to try, I guess, and hope for a miracle?), UCD, UCI, UCSB, SJSU (don't live in SJ area), CSU Long Beach (maybe? or should I pick a safer CSU?)</p>

<p>RANK: 139/673</p>

<p>GRADES (A-G courses)
Non-weighted GPA 9-12 is 3.41, 10-12 is 3.18. Weighted according to CSUmentor calculator is 3.58.
9th:
EngIA - A/A
AlgII/Trig - A/B
Biology - A/A
10th:
EngIIA - A/B
AP World History - B/A
Honors PreCalc - C/C
Honors Chem - B/B
French I - A/A (school doesn't offer Japanese class!)
11th:
Honors Eng - B/A
AP US History - B/B
AP Calc AB - C/C
AP Biology - C/B
French II - A/A
Drawing - A/A
12th:
AP American Gov't/Economics, AP Stats, Physics, French III, AP Studio Art, English IV.</p>

<p>SCORES
SAT I: 750 CR, 750 Math, 700 Writing--> 2200 (second time)
SAT IIs: 690 Literature, 720 Math II, 790 Chinese
AP: WH 4, USH 4, Bio 4, Calc AB 5</p>

<p>ECs
Really miserable. ;_; Around 97 hours of community service, 60 or so of which was at a one-week international exchange summer camp hosted by the Chinese American Abacus Association.
Chinese zither class - 9, 10
Animation class - 9, 10
Tzu Chi Foundation youth group - 10
Weekend Chinese school - 9, 10, 11, 12
Tennis class - 10
Flute class - 11
TACL-LYF leadership camp - 11</p>

<p>WORK
Worked as an instructor's assistant at a math learning center 10th grade.</p>

<p>AWARDS
AP Scholar with Honors
Certificate of Arts Grade Examination from China Conservatory (for chinese zither)
A couple awards from small/school-wide art contests.</p>

<p>Aand, I think that's about it. D: I'm an asian female if it makes any difference, parents are immigrants, and putting most of my hopes on my essays - I'm writing about Japanese animation for the first UC prompt, my one-week camp counselor experience for the second.</p>

<p>Hopefully that's enough to base some fair chances off of? >>; If anything else is needed, feel free to ask, and thank you so much once again!</p>

<p>P.S. For anyone who celebrated it, Happy Thanksgiving! 8D</p>

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<p>Looks pretty good now tbh. UCLA is a high reach others are definitely low reach to match. </p>

<p>Chance me please
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<p>Thank you so much! I tried to chance back - sorry if I didn’t do such a great job. XD;</p>

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<p>thanks for your chance, ijust saw you are intend to major in japanese. ithink that would greater your chance tbh just like all other foreign languages.</p>

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<p>also try to take sat2 japanese if can,would be a great help. pepperdine is also pretty good but quite expensive, with those scores you can get financial aids.</p>

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<p>Yeah, I was wondering if the major would make any difference - other than the super-competitive engineering/sciences and such, I really had no idea. >>; That’s good to know! SAT II Japanese seems pretty impossible right now, since there’s barely any time to study (and the December registration deadline passed), but I agree. As for Pepperdine, I haven’t really looked at privates (too expensive!); will definitely take a look though. 8D Thanks again for the advice!</p>

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<p>Should’ve known no one would be awake that late. 8D; Bump~</p>

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<p>Are you a recent immigrant or is there a reason behind the grade/score gap?</p>

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<p>@2college2college: Unfortunately, I don’t really have a legitimate reason behind the grade/score gap, other than that the AP classes I took were really difficult, and I often had the hardest teachers. D:</p>