<p>GPA:4.23
SAT:1620
SAT2: Math2, 650
physics, 620
US History, 580 </p>
<p>Taken AP Calculus B/C and A/B, AP Physics, AP USHistory, and AP English all junior year.
Passed the AP test for CAL, and Physics. </p>
<p>EC's: Soccer 3 year( Varsity 1 year), baseball, Engineering club, vice-president of the AVID club, ELC, Capital focus( law program), Law bootcamp, Boys State, Math club, Upper bound student club, EAOP, Medical program UC Davis, veterinarian program UC Davis, Math competition, chess club, Honor society, </p>
<p>Family make around 20,000 dollars a year. </p>
<p>Mexican American First Generation. </p>
<p>Have a passion for math and science. </p>
<p>Is there a chance i could make it.</p>
<p>You most likely won’t make it, even considering you are Mexican. </p>
<p>Your SAT scores are very, very low and your GPA is still a notch below the UCLA admitted average of 4.38. Most Africans and Mexicans admitted were at least at the top of their class with high GPAs.</p>
<p>Of course, nothing’s impossible with holistic review. However, if you don’t make either UCLA or Berkeley you are definitely going to either Riverside, a CalState, or worse.</p>
<p>I personally think you have a decent shot. Even though the UC’s say they don’t take into consideration such factors as race into admissions(because it’s illegal in cali for public schools), I think UCLA definitely does. I think their justification for it is what they might call looking at an applicant “holistically”. When your application/essays gives indication of your “status” -low income, first generation, hispanic- those below average SATI scores won’t matter as much.
I say this because I was once admitted as a freshman at UCLA with SATI scores that were basically the equivalent of yours, and with SAT II scores lower than yours. The only SAT II scores I had received a score in the 700s was in Spanish. I am also first generation and Hispanic. In addition to that, my high school gpa had been a 3.9-4.1ish, and I never took more than one AP in my high school academic career. It wasn’t because APs weren’t offered, I simply wasn’t interested in them because my goal in high school had been to prepare for an art school, not a traditional college/university.
Now that I have transferred to UCLA (after having attended art school and community college) I look at such programs like AAP that end up recruiting or contacting you because of your “minority” status(how else would they have known your race if not through the admissions application), and wonder how much of my high school merits/stats(which really weren’t worthy) actually landed me a space when I had applied as a freshman, and how much of it was because I am hispanic.</p>
<p>I think you have a chance. Be sure to include that you are first generation and low income in your essay (and your passion for math and science). And if not, with ELC, you will likely be admitted to UCI, UCSB, UC Davis or UCSD.</p>
<p>You might have a decent chance with that GPA. UCLA weighs GPA far more than SAT scores in admission decisions.</p>