African- Americans who got into elite colleges.

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>right now ima junior and i wanted to go either</p>

<p>Stanford, UCLA, UCB, USD, UCI,USC. Jus those six. OK so im african- american. i jus wanna kno any otha blacks who got into these schools</p>

<p><em>first 3 schools are the major ones</em>
my stats so far</p>

<p>GPA: 4.4 un weighted
AP's: AP Euro-3, AP Chem, AP Physics B</p>

<p>Class Schedule: always took Honors whenever possible</p>

<p>SAT: 1650 on the first one neva studied jus plan to get it to like 2100 or so..</p>

<p>EC: Young Black Scholars, Black Student Union, FBLA(will hold some minor position next yr), CSF,
Activities: 9th grade- Skull Island, also took AP euro then
Community service: 200 hrs or so...</p>

<p>Awards: Varsity Letter Award for Academics, freshmen yr and sophomore yr, 4th place at FBLA sectionals for Technology Concepts</p>

<p>Reccomendations: At least two from AP physics B teacher and AP chem teacher, will try for AP Euro Teacher</p>

<p>Essay: basically sumthing that will get a tremoundous emotional effect from the admissions officer.</p>

<p><em>anything else that you would like to kno jus ask</em> I wanna see if i can apply for early decision for sum of these schools.</p>

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<p>Your GPA is great, although I'm not sure how yo have a 4.4 UW. Is that still equivalent to straight A's? A 1650 will hurt extremely badly, especially since the UC's don't allow much help for affirmative action. What I mean by this is a 1650 is below the average of all of the UC's and you won't get much of a boost. However, UCI and UCSD are still possible among the UC's. With a 2100, both Berkeley and UCLA will be realistic but not for sure and UCSD/UCI will be near certain.</p>

<p>You will get an AA boost at Stanford and USC, but a 1650 is still too low to be accepted to either, although USC is possible. If you really do manage a 2100, you will be accepted to USC and possibly to Stanford (although Stanford would still be unlikely).</p>

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<p>gohansdemise:</p>

<p>UCB/UCLA: Reach
UCI: Match</p>

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<p>4.4 is like wat i have right now.. jus taking 4 honors classes each yr which are worth 5 points instead of 4. so i should be gettinga 4.6 w/ straight A's which i dont have.</p>

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<p>also doing pre-med....</p>

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<p>URM status means nothing at the UCs.
I think that a 1650 is to low for an URM to be able to look at Stanford.</p>

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<p>Get the 2100 first then ask...a 1650 is not helping at all.</p>

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<p>If you're WEIGHTING honors courses, it is not an UNWEIGHTED GPA. On any note, with a 1650, Stanford, UCLA, and UCB are very big reaches. With a 2100, Stanford would be a reach and UCB and UCLA would be slight reaches.</p>

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<p>Actually, I think you will be solid for the UCs on your list if you can get your SAT to 1950 or better.</p>

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<p>bump bump ***</p>

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<p>What's your class rank like?</p>

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<p>It's impossible to have a 4.4 unweighted GPA</p>

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<p>my bad, my high school gpa is 4.4, my rank is 14/931</p>

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<p>Go Africa! Power To Black America!</p>

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<p>Wow, that's a great rank in a HUGE high school. Your class is more than 900 kids? Excelling in such a big group should make you very appealing to good colleges. Good luck.</p>

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<p>My class is 982...i'm sure we're up to 1,000 by now though</p>

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<p>Having 1000 students in ONE class is very scary.</p>

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<p>Was that 1650 a typo? Did you mean 1550 old SAT or something. If not, you need to do some serious work on your SATs. Also, I'd work on AP tests. Get a practice book with practice tests. Like Barrons. Your grades are pretty good.</p>

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<p>I'll look at what the scholarly blacks at my school got into and give you their stats:</p>

<p>Kid #1:
1720 SAT
3.3 GPA
into: Emory and CMU</p>

<p>Kid #2:
1950 SAT
3.7 GPA
into: Harvard, Yale, Brown</p>

<p>Kid #3:
1890 SAT
3.4 GPA
into: Hopkins</p>

<p>Kid #4:
2050 SAT
3.6 GPA
into: Duke, Penn, Vanderbilt, Wash U</p>

<p>So there you go.</p>

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<p>thanks alot for the feedback... yea unfortunately my score was so low because of the writing part i scored an 8 on the essay yet i scored like 460 on the MC part.. my fault for guessing and assuming too much. I had no studying watsoeva, my pops forced me to take the test.. so yea, this summer its gonan be intense studying.. for SAT I and SAT II math.</p>