<p>I would really appreciate anyone's input on my chances... I am unsure of what to expect in March and this would help me.</p>
<p>-17 year old Asian Indian Male
-attend a pretty competitive public school, ranked in the top 50 in California</p>
<p>I'm applying to the following schools:
UCI (Chemistry)
UCLA (Chemistry)
UCD (Biomedical Engineering)
UCB (Environmental Sci/Nat Res)
UCSD (Environmental Chemistry)
University of the Pacific (accelerated Pre-Pharmacy)
Cal Poly SLO (Biomedical Engineering)
Cornell U (Chemistry)</p>
<p>Test info:</p>
<p>ACT composite: 32
-science:34
-math:34
-reading:27
-english:31</p>
<p>SAT II
-chemistry:770
-math2:760</p>
<p>GPA
UW: 3.79
W: 4.115</p>
<p>school doesnt calculate ranking, but in the top 10%</p>
<p>AP tests
-European history: 3
-Chemistry: 5</p>
<p>Senior year schedule
-government
-economics
-ap spanish language
-wind ensemble
-ap english literature
-ap calculus ab
-ap environmental science</p>
<p>Extracurriculars/Misc:
-100+ volunteer hours
-been playing saxophone for 6 years
-first chair saxophone in the school's wind ensemble
-Tri-Valley Science and Engineering Fair, 1st place
-4 years of high school marching band, saxophone section leader (willing to do marching band in college too)
-4 years of playing on my school's tennis team (1 year jv, 3 varsity. EBAL all-league player)
-member of National Honor Society (tutor and volunteer)
-volunteering in Key Club for past 3 years
-vice president of the school's rubik's cube club
-taught tennis to people between the ages of 4 and 16 for the city of san ramon for the past 3 summers, 17 hours each week during the summer
-took a psychology course in a local community college, got an A</p>
<p>cornell and uop essays:
using the idea from my uc #2 (seen below)</p>
<p>also, i havent heard from any of my schools about admission, but i did receive an email from uop saying that i am a finalist for the powell scholarship (the most prestigious scholarship at the school), and that they want to interview me for this.
dont know if this means anything.</p>
<p>UC Personal Statements (pretty good)</p>
<h1>1: writing about how growing up as an identical twin has affected me</h1>
<h1>2: writing about a tutoring experience for NHS. For the past 3 months i have been tutoring two spanish-speaking exchange students that do not speak english. i helped them prepare for the mathematics portion of the california high school exit exam (spanish is not my native language, but i was able to use the spanish i have been learning during the past four years to successfully communicate with them, teach them what they needed to know)</h1>
<p>for private schools, i will have AMAZING rec letters.</p>
<p>once again, please give any insight that you have on my application/chances
i really appreciate it.
thanks.</p>