Aspiring Architecture Student Wishing to Know Her Chances

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hi there!</p>

<p>I am applying to Cal Poly SLO and Pomona, USC, and UC Berkeley- all as an architecture major. I know that for the Cal Polys, architecture is an impacted program, so I'm hoping that you guys could give me some insight on my chances. I'm a bit worried that since there are so many students applying and only so little seats available, that I might not be accepted into any of my colleges. :[ </p>

<p>I'm a fairly average student with...</p>

<p>-GPA 4.12W; Ranked 67 out of 533 (~12.6 percentile)
-SAT score of 1880; CR 660 M 620 W 600
-SAT II Math 630 Chemistry 660
-3 Honors; English 1, English 2, Pre-Calculus
-5 AP; Chemistry (3), Language and Comp. (3), Literature and Comp., Statistics, and Physics</p>

<p>and a couple ECs...</p>

<p>-California Philharmonic volunteer (2yrs)
-Red Cross Club (2yrs)
-Advanced Orchestra; Violinist for 5 years
-Honor Society (1yr)
-Student Aide for a past teacher (2yrs)
-200+ hours of community service (odd jobs like Rose Float decorating, Aids walks, hiking trail clean ups, etc.)
-Secretary of student run "Holiday House" business (we sell holiday themed items and gifts!)</p>

<p>For USC arch portfolio; my work is... pretty lame. Just some elementary watercolors and crude drawings. A couple of photographs tweaked with Photoshop.</p>

<p>If it matters, I'm a cantonese (is it possible to avoid being labeled Chinese? xD) female born and raised in SoCal.</p>

<p>I think my grades should be good enough for those schools (minus USC) but the fact that arch is impacted freaks me out a bit. Thanks for at least reading through this. :]</p>

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<p>I'm sorry this question might seem irrelevant but how do you find time to do all these extracurriculars and AP courses and such?? I'm very curious - it seems like all the applicants have extra hours in the day or something...I live in Japan; maybe things are different??
sorry for getting off topic, but personally, I think you will get into any college you want but depending on what you want to do. I believe that certain schools look for certain kinds of applicants, yes, but if you really want to go there it'll come out. But being a college applicant myself, I'm not authority. Wish you the best of luck though!</p>

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<p>Actually, I think I'm not really doing a lot of ECs. I've seen so many others with just such long lists. I have less stuff to do since I like to go to bed around ten, unlike some people I know that only get like 2 hours worth of sleep. </p>

<p>As for AP courses, they've been okay. Seems just like regular classes to me except with the summer, winter, and spring break homework. Oh and the May test crunch time. :D</p>

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<p>bump! Can anyone tell me my chances?</p>

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<p>Could anyone help me out? I need to know if I should apply to more back up colleges.</p>

<p>And I just realized I was stupid and forgot to put alternate majors on my cal poly applications. :[</p>