Admissions drawing close -- Chance me @ UCs and suggest "safety" schools please!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I posted here already, but admissions are drawing in (already applied to Cal Poly SLO today!) and I am getting nervous about this -- I'm worried I'll apply to only good schools and get into none, and while I know how I stack up against those at my high school (very well, to be honest) I have not considered statewide or national averages at many schools.</p>

<p>Please, chance me at the schools I listed, and PLEASE suggest reasonable safeties, the kinds of schools I'd still enjoy, but would attend in a sort of worst-case-scenario setting of not being accepted anywhere I really wanted. Thanks!</p>

<p>I'm about to be a Senior (male, if that matters) in CA.
Chance me at (list is somewhat in order of priority to me):
- UCLA
- USC
- UC Berkeley
- UCSD
- Cal Poly SLO
- UC Davis
- UC Irvine</p>

<p>4.05 GPA weighted (UC GPA)
3.93 GPA weighted (high school/CSU GPA)
3.81 GPA unweighted (something like that)
Class Rank 14/397
SAT I - 2020 // 620 CR 680 M 720 W -- Just got my scores back today, improved from 1930 :)
SAT II - Bio E 600, Math 2 540 (Scheduled Math 2 retake in early December)</p>

<p>Extracurric:
ASB Vice President (1600 student body)
Junior Class President
Sophomore Class Treasurer
An editor-in-chief of the school newspaper (3 total editors for 2010-11) (our newspaper puts out the most issues per year of any high school in my county)
Organized and MC'd Westmont's Got Talent 2009
MC for several Night Rallies, Prom Fashion Show
ASB Videographer (commercials for events for morning announcements)
Interact Club Vice President & Founding Member
4 years tennis team, 2 years on Varsity -- co-captain this year
4 years writing for the school paper, 3 years on staff
1 honors Freshman year
1 AP, 1 honors in Sophomore year
2 AP, 1 honors in Junior year
2 AP in Senior year
3 years on School Site Council
2 albums released to iTunes
Selected by principal to represent my school on a panel to help select next year's principal
Played in multiple bands with over 40 performances, play multiple instruments (mainly drums, which I've played for over 5 years now)
HOBY NorCal Delegate (leadership camp)
California Golden Boys' State Delegate (state-wide mock government camp, all states have one annually)
ELC Delegate (Rotary Enterprise Leadership Conference)</p>

<p>And all of my required courses are complete.</p>

<p>*Note: All 3 of the above camps (HOBY, Boys', ELC) accept only 1-3 students from each school for the program, and Boys' state only selects the top 1 or 2 Junior-becoming-Senior boys from each high school in California.</p>

<p>If there is any information anyone would like to know to help make decisions and the such, please feel free to ask! I am working on a second draft of my essays now -- one is about MCing rallies, the other is about the death of my good friend's mother and my hospital visit before she passed away.</p>

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<p>bumpplzz :slight_smile: Any input appreciated… :)</p>

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<p>anyoooone? :slight_smile: pleasee</p>

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<p>I’d say SLO is a safety along with Irvine and Davis! Did you do the ELC, by any chance?</p>

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<p>I did not get ELC, i missed it by 1 or 2 people in the over all class rank! :(</p>

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<p>id say UCLA and Berkely are reaches, USC is a high match, and the rest are matches</p>

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<p>All right, thanks
anyone else? :)</p>

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<p>tooo theeee tooop!</p>

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<p>I would call the first 3 reaches, SD is 50/50, and the rest you look solid for.</p>

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<p>UCLA- reach

  • USC- reach (in disagreement with heyitsmedude)
  • UC Berkeley- reach
  • UCSD- low reach
  • Cal Poly SLO- match
  • UC Davis- match
  • UC Irvine- match</p>

<p>I don’t think any of these match schools are “true safeties”, although you have a realistic shot at all 3 of them but not as realistic of chances at the schools I listed as reach schools. I would probably add UCSC to your list of UC’s for a really good safety school. It’s in a great location.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the input!
I live really close to SC and don’t really like anything about the lifestyle, the people, the school, or the proximity to home :stuck_out_tongue: Other true safety recommendations, by chance?</p>

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<p>USC, Cal, and UCLA are reaches. UCSD is a high match. the others you are probably in.</p>

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<ul>
<li>UCLA:Reach</li>
<li>USC: Reach</li>
<li>UC Berkeley: Reach</li>
<li>UCSD: Match</li>
<li>Cal Poly SLO: Match</li>
<li>UC Davis: Match</li>
<li>UC Irvine: Match</li>
</ul>

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<p>Thanks guys!! I just submitted my final application, to USC. :)</p>