average junior

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I'm a junior and want to know what my chances are at certain colleges. I slacked freshman year and regret it now. I'm a first generation student and asian if that matters.
Major: aeronautical or aerospace engineering/mechanical engineering</p>

<p>freshman year gpa: 2.625, weighted 2.875
sophmore year gpa: 3.745
junior year gpa: 1st semester 4.00
overall gpa: 3.56, weighted 3.65
Note: I didn't take AP or honors during sophmore or junior year only CP, but I will take it senior year. My freshman year I took honors.</p>

<p>PSAT:148
Plan to take SAT and ACT in April. I know I need to improve my score.</p>

<p>ECs:
JV girls soccer-most improved player award
CSF
volunteered at gospel mission and carnival for CSF
science olympiad
academic decathalon
Track-long distance</p>

<p>colleges:
UCSD
UC Irvine
UC Davis
San Jose state
san diego state
Cal poly-SLO
USC</p>

<p>any suggestions of other colleges is appreciated. Thanks
compared to the other kids in the forum, it seems I haven't done alot.:(</p>

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<p>hey I slacked freshman year too...lol :[</p>

<p>UC's AND CSU's DO NOT COUNT FRESHMAN YEAR...lucky us</p>

<p>so take out freshman year, calculate your UC GPA and I expect it will be higher</p>

<p>that gives you a great chance at al these schools</p>

<p>ok 1480 on SAT won't look good. raise to at least 2000 </p>

<p>if you can't </p>

<p>take the ACT and try that</p>

<p>if you have a 2000</p>

<p>then I say you'll get into Davis</p>

<p>2100= UCSD and CAL POLY SLO</p>

<p>2150+ = USC</p>

<p>1700= San jose state and possibly USD</p>

<p>only because none of those schools take freshman year</p>

<p>so don't worry</p>

<p>btw which hs do you go to?</p>

<p>good luck w/ everything :]</p>

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<p>2000 for davis is pushing it, that sounds a little high
same with a 2100 for ucsd, i'm sure it'll be much lower for that school, possibly in the 1800 range</p>

<p>as for 2100 for cal poly slo, even though it's a great school, that's far too high for cal poly slo</p>

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<p>flip259:</p>

<p>UCSD: Reach (Engineering)
UCI/UCD: Match</p>

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<p>colleges:
UCSD - rejected
UC Irvine - admit
UC Davis - maybe admit
San Jose state - admit
san diego state - admit
Cal poly-SLO - they DO count freshman year - rejected
USC - rejected</p>

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<p>um...The CSU people came to my school and said they DO NOT count freshman year, I know Cal Poly is in its own league, but STILL is a CSU</p>

<p>If you are really interested as far as CSU is concerned: <a href="http://www.dwang.5gigs.com/The%20California%20State%20University.ppt%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.dwang.5gigs.com/The%20California%20State%20University.ppt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>its a powerpoint the guy gave us</p>

<p>they DO NOT need SAT II's and they only count Math and Verbal SAT I's</p>

<p>ok, i know those were PSAT's, but 1480 will not even cut it for UCI</p>

<p>if you really want to be competent</p>

<p>get a 2000</p>

<p>The average for UCSD is 1900+ range</p>

<p>UCSD has BECOME a lot harder, there are far tooo many 4.0 2200 students out there</p>

<p>and you will need more than clubs for ec's</p>

<p>if you were majoring in dance for example, I would say good shot as of now</p>

<p>but engineering= ultracompetitive</p>

<p>righ now, you will get into SJU and USD</p>

<p>SAT scores, for the UC's counts quite a bit. You have a solid GPA, make SAT go higher to complement the GPA</p>

<p>:]</p>

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<p>cal poly DOES count freshman year, and algebra I and foreign language if you took it in middle school. trust me. i asked. twice.</p>

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<p>are you sure</p>

<p>look at the link</p>

<p>they DO NOT count it</p>

<p>unless SLO is different from the other CSU's</p>

<p>SLO is a CSU, but maybe since it stands apart the standards are also different</p>

<p>but i don't think it would make sense for SLO to be different</p>

<p><a href="http://www.dwang.5gigs.com/The%20California%20State%20University.ppt%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.dwang.5gigs.com/The%20California%20State%20University.ppt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>look at the powerpoint</p>

<p>it CLEARLY says they DO NOT take freshman year.</p>

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<p>that powerpoint also says that 14 of the top 20 western public universities are CSUs, and on the SJSU slide says SJSU is #1 public. </p>

<p>dont take that powerpoint as if its the bible. </p>

<p>i asked a SLO admissions rep in person, twice, got the same answer, im sticking to it. im not going to argue that any more with you.</p>

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<p>actually, never mind.</p>

<p>for some majors they DO take freshman year.</p>

<p>so you win</p>

<p>lolz.</p>