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Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Okay, chance me please for a few California schools? Some of the schools I'm applying to are:
Berkeley
UCSD
UCLA
Pomona
Scripps
Stanford</p>

<p>Female, mixed-race (1/2 white, 1/2 Mexican)
California public high school (New school - I'm in the second graduating class. Only 10% of last year's class was accepted into a four-year college - none went to top schools. I'm hoping class of 2008 fares a little better :])</p>

<p>GPA: 4.53W/4.0 UW
Rank: 1/746
Classes: Tough courseload - this year I'm taking AP Stats, AP Government, AP Biology, and AP English Literature.
AP Scores: 5's on English Language and Psychology, 4 on U.S. History, 3's on World History and Calculus AB</p>

<p>SAT: 2160 (650M/760CR/700W)
SAT IIs: 710 US history, 780 Literature
ACT: 32</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
-Four years of varsity cross country & track (three varsity letters in each)
-A few random community service opportunities
-Assorted school clubs (AP club, College Club, Key Club)
-Photography (REALLY a big hobby of mine. I bought my own camera and I even set up my own little developing lab. I wanted to take AP Photo this year but I had to drop it because of scheduling issues...so this is the next best thing.)</p>

<p>Awards:
-National Merit Commended
-AP Scholar With Distinction
-A few cute sports awards (Most Improved, etc)
-Three-year varsity letterman in cross country and track
-Academic letterman </p>

<p>Recommendations:
The teacher recs, I'm guessing, are fairly strong. The counselor one is probably pretty generic though...</p>

<p>Essays:
For my Commonapp essay I'm writing about record collecting, another hobby of mine. It's not the most academic topic but it's been really easy/fun for me to write, so I think that's a good thing? What do you guys think?</p>

<p>Obviously I'll dress up the ECs/Awards a little more in the applications, but what do you think? </p>

<p>Thanks! :] (And sorry for the long post)</p>

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<p>I'm thinking your in to all of those schools and should be looking at Ivy's</p>

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<p>Note to the wise : Stanford is an ivy. UCLA and Berkley are right up there also. You have a great chance, but I wouldn't include the "most improved" award. Doesn't look too good. Um, you lack community service, but otherwise your stats are pretty darn good.</p>

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<p>In at all, Stanford is kind of iffy, but they're just insane.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the feedback guys!</p>

<p>Haha does a Most Improved look that bad? I know it's a kind of silly/trivial little award, but I like it :]</p>

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<p>If it's just a filler award, then it's not that bad.
You'll take my place at UCLA definitely :D</p>

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<p>@ emthros, there is a class at your school called AP photo? I had no idea that existed. Can you do independent study?</p>

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<p>Standford isn't an ivy... All ivys are in the Northeastern US... You might want to do some more research before you apply to college.</p>

<p>As far as the california schools, being from california makes your chances much much higher. I think you have a great chance at all the schools. Standford will be tough though. Good luck</p>

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<p>Well, it's actually an offshoot of AP Studio Art, I think. There were just so many kids interested in making a photography portfolio that they made a separate class for it and called it AP Photo. But there's not actually an official AP Photography, my mistake :]</p>

<p>And I did talk to the photography teacher about making a portfolio on my own, but she wasn't too keen on the idea. It's probably for the best, though, because it would've been one more thing to stress about. At least now I can enjoy it on my own time!</p>

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<p>Explore your passion. If it's photography, look at UCLA and NYU Tisch.</p>

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<p>Don't listen to your teacher. Teachers are some of the last people I would ever take advice from. If you want to make a portfolio, do it. Nothing can stop you. Try flickr too. It's an awesome place to learn.</p>

<p>Flickr:</a> Photos from Josh McElwee Photography</p>

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<p>Great GPA and rank, great scores, good ECs, okay honors/awards. Being a URM will help at the non-UC schools.</p>

<p>Berkeley: match
UCSD: safety
UCLA: match - safe match
Pomona: high match - match
Scripps: safe match
Stanford: good shot</p>

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<p>Great Chance. </p>

<p>Personal Question: I was wondering if it was true what I heard from a college counseling website that "minorities excluding asians have better chances at ivies" than any other group of individual.</p>

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<p>what the heck soccerstar...... Stanford is NOT an Ivy, though its academics rivals with and even beats that of some Ivys.....</p>

<p>i say stanford would be a reach for you</p>

<p>Stanford: reach school
ucsd: definitely in
UCLA: should be able to get in (getting really competitive very year, because it gets most applicants of all schools) (my SAT was better BUT you had a way better GPA than i did and i got in, i dont think youll have any trouble here) (vu thanh tran is an @$$hole)
Cal: match
Pomona: match
Scripps: in</p>

<p>ur stats are looking very strong. hope ur letter for stanford is kickass</p>

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<p>I thought ALL the UC application ended at Nov 30. Do some UCs offer this late applications?</p>

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<p>^^ some of the majors at UCs are still open (last I checked), but I thought the OP had already applied.</p>

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<p>^^ It seems that she going to apply since she has not finished the common application for other schools. I am assuming that she hasn't finished the UC apps either?</p>

<p>Are prospective students wanting to major in BME or any engineering for that matter still eligible to apply to UCLA? I searched their website and google, but it seems they do not do rolling admission and strictly enforce deadline dates.</p>

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<p>UCs close applications on november 30.... even 1 minute late and its too late</p>

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<p>I am being really serious about my questions regarding UCs application deadlines. I really wanted to apply to UCLA, but because of the early deadline and weak SAT scores, I was forced to take UCLA off my college list. Now that I am hearing that people are allowed to apply almost a month later than the propsed deadline, I am ecstatic! Will they still allow students to apply to UCLA's engineering program around January 1st?</p>