Cal and UCLA chances?

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I am a junior from the Silicon Valley. Here are my stats (all A’s in all my classes):
Soph: AP Calc BC, Chemistry H, Drama, Spanish 1 (I came to the U.S. in 10th grade, so I didn’t have the option of continuing my previous language), World history (reqd.), World Litt (reqd.), PE 10 (reqd.)
Junior: AP Stats, AP Physics C, AP USH, American Literature honors (max language arts course juniors can take), Advanced Drama, Spanish 3, Calculus TA
College Classes: OOP in C++, Philosophy 101, Macroeconomics
Noncredit enrichment courses: Stanford Math Circle, AwesomeMath Math Camp, AwesomeMath summer program, Duke TIP
I am the president of the quizbowl club, and treasurer of the math club. I was 5th place at CHMMC. I was a bio olympiad semi-finalist. I am also in USA Computing Olympiad Gold (might get to platinum before apps). I also made the PACE National Quizbowl Tournament (along with my team).

I am interning as a data analyst at a finance related startup.

I am fairly confident of good rec letters. I will apply to the L&S schools in both UCs as an econ major. (I am willing to be flexible with the major as long as the major stays withing the realm of stem+finance)
ACT: 35, SAT Math 2: 800, SAT Chem : 800
I also ran for asb treasurer and came in 2nd place, beating the kid who was the social manager of my class for the past 3 years. Keep in mind that I managed to do this (mainly because I had real policies rather than crappy platitudes) even though this was only my second year in my school.

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I’m taking the US History subject test and ACT again in september.

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“I also ran for asb treasurer and came in 2nd place, beating the kid who was the social manager of my class for the past 3 years. Keep in mind that I managed to do this (mainly because I had real policies rather than crappy platitudes) even though this was only my second year in my school.”

Academically you are doing fine … but just make sure that the above attitude does not show up in your essays!

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@uclaparent9 it’s not that I am arrogant about my beating one of the popular kids. In fact, the kid I beat and I are quite good friends. However, I express disdain at the system which often grows to cater to incumbents rather than to people who have real policy ideas. I based many of my policies off the theory I learned from my study. For example, I conducted a market study and analyzed it to show that my school was inefficiently pricing prom tickets. These were really policies that were not being given a place in a system which only helped popular kids. As an immigrant who only had a year to get to know my student body, this was quite hard to pull off. Anyone who has run a successful campaign against an incumbent knows how the system is biased against them. I was merely pointing this out, not trying to be self-aggrandizing. Thanks for te feedback! I’ll make sure I come across better when I write my essays.