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Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
Haiti Community Service Trip
Volunteer at Braille Institute
Community Service Board (plan community service events)
Retirement Home
Peer Tutor (Sophomore Year0
Spanish Tutor
Piano Tutor
Tutoring Website
JV Tennis (Sophomore/Junior Year)
Varsity Tennis Senior Year
Tennis captain
Coach’s award Tennis
Level 8 Certificate of Merit Piano
National Spanish Exam (Level 2,3 & 4 = silver)
National French Exam (Level 1=gold)
Voices (magazine at school, 1 year)
Sign Language Club (1 year)
Quran Interpretation Group (2006-2015)
Community Service in India
Feminism Club
Diversity Club
Either Linguistics, Spanish and Linguistics, or European Studies
[ California] State (if domestic applicant):
School Type: very rigorous private school, only 35/120 students received 4.0+ weighted
Ethnicity: Pakistani
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: 150k+
Strengths: multilingual (I take two languages in school, I speak a few outside of school, ex. I speak Hindi/Urdu, some Sindhi, Panjabi, Pashto
Weaknesses: low GPA/ACT
FYI: I have 4 years of English, Science (including Bio, Physics, and Chem), History, Math,
1 year of an art
7 years of Foreign Language (AP Spanish up to level 5, and french up to level 2)
The way you formatted your post was incredibly obnoxious. In the future please edit them so the format is at least readable.
Yes, you have a decent chance at UCLA. As you noted yourself, your GPA is a tad low for UCLA but holistically you have a fairly compelling application. I’m concerned that your extracurricular seem more like a laundry list with little leadership but it’ll be up to you to emphasize what you actually show them.
If you look on the UCLA admission website you can find out how they select applicants to the school of letters and science, which is where the linguistics major is. That will answer your question about the chances of being accepted into the linguistics major.