Can you chance a current senior with lowish GPA for top schools

Demographics:Black male, California, regular / non-competitive public school. Hooks: (URM, First Gen)

Intended Major(s):Bioengineering, Biomedical engineering, (Computer Science on schools that are hard to switch major into such as UCSB, UCI, UIUC, SLO,etc.)

ACT/SAT/SAT II:
ACT: Haven’t taken
SAT: 1470 /
SAT II: Math II 780 Biology 760

UW/W GPA and Rank:

9-11 W:4.02
9-11 UW: School doesn’t provide
10-11 UW3.75
10-11 W:4.25
UC GPA (Weigted Capped): 4.04

Upward trend from freshman year. Ended the junior year with almost all As.

Top 10%

Coursework:Most rigorous courseload didn’t take fourth year of foreign language though.

Awards: Nothing major just honor roll and science fair

Extracurriculars:
Summer Research Internship at a Biotech company affiliated with LBNL

Summer internship at NASA

NHS (10-12)

Math Club (10-12)

MESA, a STEM club (11-12)

Science Outreach Club, officer my only leadership position, (10-12)

Culinary club (10)

UB summer program at UC Berkley**

Essays/LORs/Other:
Essays idk not the best writer 6-7/10. 8/10 max.

LOR Probably decent not the most impactful student though 7-8/10

Schools: Reaches: REA: Stanford (My Dream), UC Berkley, UCLA, MIT, Cornell, Columbia, Princeton, Harvard, UPenn, CMU, Georgia Tech (EA), USC, Harvery Mudd, UIUC, UMich(EA), JHU

Matches?: University of Washington, Cal Poly SLO, UCSB, UCSD, UCI. RPI. Some of these might be reaches though.

Safeties: SJSU

I’m mainly worried that my lowish GPA will get me rejected from most of these schools. Also I don’t have 4 years of a foreign language, yet I doubt that matters much.

I’m also hoping I can get a good mid year report. So hopefully all As on my mid year report can help.

Thank you for reading, any feedback is appreciated.

Congratulations on a competitive academic record.
URM status not a consideration for the UC’s and CSU’s.

SLO us a Reach for CS at around a 5.6% acceptance rate. BME is slightly better at around 12%. You need to calculate your MCA points for SLO and they use 9-11th grades with 8 honors point cap. https://mca.netlify.com/

UCSB, UCI and UCSD are closer to a Low Reach vs. a Match. I would add UCSC or UCR as solid Match schools.

2018 Freshman admit rates for UC GPA of 3.80-4.19 capped weighted and not major specific:
UCB: 10%
UCLA: 9%
UCSD: 34%
UCSB: 38%
UCD: 41%
UCI: 38%
UCSC: 70%
UCR: 84%
UCM: 95%

2019 UC capped weighted GPA averages:
UCB: 4.23
UCLA: 4.25
UCSD: 4.23
UCSB: 4.16
UCI: 4.13
UCD: 4.13
UCSC: 3.96
UCR: 3.90
UCM: 3.73

2019 Data:
25th - 75th percentiles for SAT totals:
UCB: 1340-1540

UCLA: 1330-1550
UCSD: 1300-1520
UCSB: 1280-1520
UCD: 1230-1490
UCI: 1250-1510
UCSC: 1200-1450
UCR: 1130-1400
UCM: 1020-1290

Best of luck.

You could be an eventual PhD candidate, so consider the ten schools in the Life Sciences column:

https://www.reed.edu/ir/phd.html