aiming for UC Berk, LA, Davis

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I will be a Sen. this fall
GPA
Weighted: 4.64
UW: I don't know how to calculate that, but I'm guessing 3.8+ ???</p>

<p>Rank: 3/400 </p>

<p>SAT I: 1900 (i know. I am DEFINITELY retaking it, so just ignore it for now b/c i am almost sure it will go up)</p>

<p>SAT II: Physics 780, US His 760, Chem 730 </p>

<p>AP: Chem: 4. His prob 4. Phys prob 5.</p>

<p>EC: I am afraid that I do not look "committed" or dedicated enough to one activity. I have dabbed here in and there in mostly leadership and volunteer organizations in the past 4 years, but they are not as important/big as the "building houses for children in Africa" organizations. Also I have NO SPORTS, ART, OR MUSIC TALENT WHATSOEVER!!!!.
My grades have always been impeccable, and I am almost sure I can raise my SAT grades into the 2100's or higher. But are my EC's horribly bland???</p>

<p>Leadership/Volunteer:
-Tomorrow Leader's Today. There were about 50ish people accepted out of a 100+ applicant pool. This is a program where we toured industries and learned about coorporations. It's not a groundbreaking program where I changed the world but it is quite prestigious in my community.
-Work Experience/Volunteer as camp counselor in training every summer. I have a cumulative of approx. 400 hours. I know hours aren't what's important, but just to give you an idea.
-Leadership/Intern training last spring & summer- I helped plan community holiday activities for youth- like MLK day and Chesar Chavez day. </p>

<p>Sports: The only significant one is soccer
-Rec soccer for 3 years (I am not depending on it for anything big b/c i suck at the sport. It was just a great way to get off my butt)
-Jujitsu for 2 years. I made it to yellow belt --yea! (I probably won't include this in my application b/c it's so insignificant)
-JV Track for 2 years. I got minor awards, like for keeping up my grades while doing track but basically I was the slowest at every race :(</p>

<p>Awards: Summa Cum Laude for all years of HS until now.
California Scholarship Member for all HS years.
Will become a Peer Tutor/Mentor at my HS and a Middle School starting Senior Year.
A misc. Essay award.
Key club Member for Freshman Year</p>

<p>That's all..... wow that resume looks hopelessly short. </p>

<p>I also want to apply to some Ivies on top of my CA UC's. From my stats what are some reasonable reach or Ivy schools???</p>

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<p>You live in CA, right? I think that's a near auto for UCLA or Davis, and an above average shot at getting into Berkeley.</p>

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<p>tofulover:</p>

<p>UCB/UCLA: Slight Reach
UCD: Safe Match</p>

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<p>If you live in CA, you'll most likely get into all three.</p>

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<p>First of all, you need to calculate your UC-capped GPA, cause that is what Cal, LA and Davis will look at. Also, definitely break 2000 on the SAT I, and try the ACT which tests a different skill set.</p>

<p>As for the ECs, well I had nothing and no Volunteer hours, and got into Cal so it isn't impossible. Just write a real good essay about how you want to change the world one youth at a time as a counselor or how you want to better your community by helping set up culturally important events. These are just some of my ad libbed suggestions to the open-ended essay topic for the UCs, just write with passion, that always helps.</p>

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<p>For the Ivies, you must move that SAT I score up around 100 to 250 points. Then your odds get really good. As it is, you still have a decent 214 ranking--good enough to give you a 30% shot at the lower Ivies (Penn, Brown, and Cornell). </p>

<p>Moving the score up by 250 points would move the AI up to 222--which would give you about a 50 to 60% shot at the lower Ivies and a 40% shot at the middle Ivies (Dartmouth and Columbia), and a 25 to 30% shot at the higher Ivies (Harvard, Yale, and Princeton).</p>

<p>Actually, for the first time in the past 10 days, I disagree with flopsy (but only to a minor degree).</p>

<p>I rank you as:
UCB--Match to Slight Reach
UCLA--Match
UCD-Safe Match</p>