Another lame what are my chances post

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of California - Los Angeles
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<p>I'm an Indian-born Canadian citizen living in California. I attend the 9th best school in the State, it's very competitive, we're a feeder school for UC Berkeley, a ton of UCs and we had 5 kids already accepted early to Stanford this year, amongst earlies to Brown, Cornell, 2 to Harvard, etc.</p>

<p>Sat1: M690 V720 Total 1410
Sat2: 2c: 640 Bio: 640 Writing: 800
Unweighted ~3.8 with 6 APs, 2 Honors</p>

<p>AP Bio 4
AP US 5
AP Euro 4
AP Calc AB 3
AP Calc BC TBD
AP Chem TBD</p>

<p>I'm a competitive speaker and debater. Amongst many many many top three finishes at league tournaments in Student Congress, International/National Extemporaneous, Original Advocacy, Parli Debate, Cross Ex Debate I have the following notable accomplishments:</p>

<p>Ranked 3rd in the State of CA in International Extemp last year</p>

<p>Ranked 8th in the State of CA in International Extemp my soph year</p>

<p>National Finalist at the 2004 NFL National Championships in Student Congress (top 20 in the nation)</p>

<p>I have a crapload of finalist finishes at tourneys like Stanford, Cal, i'll be flying to Emory to compete at the Barkley Forum tournament later this month, hopefully I can schedule an on-campus interview. I'm Captain of the Extemp team (the best team in the State), I'm an officer on the speech team. Was cofounder and treasurer of Conservative Club, co-founder and secretary of Indian club, Tech Editor and Assistant EIC of a indepedent student news magazine (much like the economist), I'm a Defense Attorney and Pretrial Attorney on my schools highly competitive mock trial team. I've been a youth group leader in my local temple every week for the past four years. Played volleyball soph year, got a couple of meaningless awards like scholar athlete and mvp.</p>

<p>My slight hook: my parents moved our fam from Canada 4 years ago and they own a few UPS Stores. I've worked at the stores every day for four years, I have like 5000 hours of work experience. Through work, I got in contact with the CEO of a large Indian airline and I've been given an internship for the summer after my senior year.</p>

<p>My essays were decent I guess, I dunno, im a pretty good writer. My recs are impeccable because i've had my eng teacher for two years and my speech coach/teacher also wrote me a letter.</p>

<p>Im not applying for financial aid and im applying undeclared arts and sciences, but my app has a STRONG business/econ theme because of work and the whole "immigrants American Dream thing"</p>

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<p>dinanperformance:</p>

<p>UCLA: Slight Reach</p>

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<p>I see you're making the rounds on the boards dinanperformance!</p>

<p>I have to disagree with flopsy.</p>

<p>Ranked 3rd in the State of CA in International Extemp last year and Ranked 8th in the State of CA in International Extemp my soph year? That means that only 2 other people are in front of him.</p>

<p>And plus, all the ec's? </p>

<p>I say he has an excellent shot!</p>

<p>And plus, he does pre-trial! (I'm a pretrial attorney too).</p>

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<p>hey guys, im a guy, too! haha. thanks for the input</p>

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<p>"My recs are impeccable because i've had my eng teacher for two years and my speech coach/teacher also wrote me a letter."</p>

<p>you dont need recs to apply for UCs so they dont matter</p>

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<p>Sounds like you have an excelllent chance at UCLA :)</p>

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<p>yeah, sorry bout the recs stuff, i copied my 'resume' from another post</p>

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<p>Rating 1 to 10:
10 being Astronomically tough.
5 is a perfect match, expect an offer.
1 being they should pay YOU to go there. </p>

<p>UCLA: 8</p>

<p>For context:</p>

<p>UCSD: 7
UCSB: 5
UCI: 5
UCD: 5
UCR: 3</p>

<p>Your SAT is borderline of their average applicant.</p>

<p>Your GPA is slightly below average for UCLA apps.</p>

<p>Your AP's are very good but not something that will make an adcom excited.</p>

<p>Your EC's and you work history may be what helps put your app over the top. That is what makes you stand out because your numbers don't.</p>

<p>I think you have a good chance of getting in.</p>

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<p>diananperformance: match</p>

<p>i had similar stats and solid EC's too (except instead of speech and debate, my awards came from MUN) and i got in. you stand a pretty good chance actually. </p>

<p>btw, whats the 9th best school in california?</p>

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<p>yes, I'm rather curious where everyone comes up with these high school rankings as well. It seems rather prevalent on these boards to see "one of the best high schools in the country" or "such and such ranked school in this state". Its not like USnews goes around and ranks every high school in the country. The only way I know of schools building up reputation with a university is by sending excellent students their way. Many universities have different people on the adcom who specialize in a certain region who know the schools in that area very well and are able to give a better recommendation.</p>

<p>As for your chances dina, I would say that it is a reach for you. Do you know if you will have to apply as an international student, since you aren't a US citizen (I'm assuming...)?</p>

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<p>oh yea i also wonder how schools get ranked. surely we can name off some very strong schools that consistently send students to top schools, but not all of them show up on the rankings. perhaps this is what's flawed about h/s rankings, just like the USNWR college rankings, in that only certain factors are taken into account, which may not necessarily reflect the overall strength of the h/s. also, some schools may not even report their data. or some schools with strong IB programs will be hurt because their AP programs are weaker and IB program strength isnt taken into account in these rankings.</p>