Anyone Wanna Chance Me?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Vitals
First-Generation American
URM (African-American/Black) Male</p>

<p>In-State for UCs and CSUs </p>

<p>UNW GPA: 3.769
W GPA: 4.187
UC GPA: 4.09</p>

<p>Rank:
UNW: 42/385
W: 28/385
(might have changed slightly due to fluctuations in class size)</p>

<p>Pretty rigorous schedule, besides band I guess (Honors is no joke though)
Tests
PSAT: 228</p>

<p>SAT Reasoning:
MAY 08: 2210 (800 CR, 670 M, 740 W)
OCT 08: 2290 (800 CR, 780 M, 710 W)</p>

<p>Superscore: 2320</p>

<p>SAT II:
780 Bio M, 710 Math IIC, 690 US History
Will (re)take some combination of Math IIC, Spanish w/ Listening, Literature, and US History in NOV, only two of them though. </p>

<p>ACT: 32 (Should I send this?)</p>

<p>AP: Bio 5, US History 4, Calc AB 4
Only 2 APs this year, Calc BC and English Lit (schedule problems), does it hurt?</p>

<p>Awards
National Merit Scholarship Semifinalist (12)
National Achievement Scholarship Semifinalist (12)
Scholar Athlete (10)
Biology Award (9)
P.E. Award (9)
AP Scholar (12)
Spanish 1 Award (10)
California Scholarship Federation/Academic Letter (9, 10, 11, 12)</p>

<p>And…</p>

<p>Fantasy AP Bio All-Star! (11) (My best award, obviously)</p>

<p>Stuffs
Band (9, 10, 11, 12) Section Leader 9 (Have played for 7 years) 2 years in Honors
JV Soccer (10) Starter (Played club soccer for 9 years)
Guitar (on my own) 1.5 Years
Science Bowl (11, 12)
Science Olympiad (9, 10, 11, 12) (Co-captain 12 maybe) </p>

<p>Play Guitar once a month at local nursing home in a group
Christmas Caroling at Eskaton (9,10)
Organized said Christmas Caroling at local nursing home last Xmas, will do next Christmas as well
Volunteered at library once a week
Paid tutor in library after school this year.</p>

<p>Major: Biological Sciences or Pre-med or Immunology, or maybe just straight up BIOLOGY (I might try for medical school)</p>

<p>Schools
Sac State
San Diego State
UC Davis
UCSD
UCLA
UC Berkeley
Duke
Stanford
Yale
Harvard</p>

<p>Thanks for the chance, in advance!</p>

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<p>Sac State Safety
San Diego State Safety
UC Davis Safety
UCSD Safety
UCLA Low Match
UC Berkeley Match
Duke low Reach
Stanford low Reach
Yale low Reach
Harvard low Reach</p>

<p>The top schools, Duke, Stanford, Yale, Harvard, are always a crap shoot, so even though your test scores are pretty good, the fact that your GPA is kinda low for these schools hurts you. I would say you're probably in to most of the others, maybe not Berkeley or LA, because your ECs aren't that great (not too much leadership) and your GPA is below their averages (Berkeley = 4.2 average UC GPA)</p>

<p>Chance back:
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/584915-berkeley-ucla-ucsd-columbia.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/584915-berkeley-ucla-ucsd-columbia.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>I agree completely with darkdude.
Sac State Safety
San Diego State Safety
UC Davis Safety
UCSD Safety
UCLA Low Match
UC Berkeley Match
Duke low Reach
Stanford low Reach
Yale low Reach
Harvard low Reach</p>

<p>Your stats look great. Schools like Stanford, Yale, and Harvard absolutely love first-generation students as well, especially African-American students. Congratulations hotjava64 on all of your achievements. If I were to take a guess I would say that you are in at least one of Harvard, Stanford, or Yale.</p>

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<p>bump</p>

<p>Thanks for the chances. Anyone else?</p>