<p>Residency: California Ethnicity: Chinese Major: Undeclared? (but hoping for Biology or Chemistry) UW GPA: 3.846 (3.821 if 2 community college classes included) Rank: 32/589 (22/589 if you include freshmen year?) - school doesn't not weight classes UC GPA: 4.154 (4.107 if CC classes included?) ACT: 27, 25 (it dropped :() SAT: SAT I: 1910; Critical Reading: 580; Math: 650; Writing: 680 SAT II: Math 2: 630; Japanese: 580; US History: 700 (yes, they're embarrassing) APs: World History (5), Calculus AB (5), US History (4), Psychology (3) This year's APs: Physics B, English Literature, Calculus BC, American Government + 2 evening CC classes (Developmental Psychology & Nutrition) Community college classes: Precalculus algebra (A) & trigonometry (A) - included in high school GPA; elementary statistics (A) & English 1A (B) - not on high school transcript ECs:
- Volunteer at local native plant garden for 1 year (100+ hours), member of CSF & Interact club at school (1 year)
- Japanese Language Proficiency Test level 4 and 3 awards (yet I got a terrible SAT II score lol)
- AP Scholar with Honor
- Treasurer of a club this year
- First in my family to experience the stress of college admissions...</p>
<p>(I'm not sure how UCs handle community college courses?) I hope my stats listing made sense.</p>
<p>Hindering chances: Downward trend (2 B's in 2 classes, both semesters of junior year), SAT, SAT IIs, ECs (didn't know it was super important until the end of sophomore year!) Applying to: Cal, LA, San Diego, Davis, Santa Barbara, Irvine, SJSU</p>
<p>hmmmm... your GPA is good. And those SAT II's are nothing to be ashamed of. The SAT I score is a bit under avg for berkeley and LA, but its a match for SD... </p>
<p>SD - Match
Davis - In
SB - In
Irvine - In
UCLA - low reach
UCB: low reach</p>
<p>you say ucb and ucla low reach? heckkk nooooooo. those are high reaches. HIGH HIGH reaches. gonna need at least 2100 to have a chance. also gonna have to raise sat 2 scores.</p>
<p>SD is also a reach. the other uc's u shud be fine.</p>
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<li>Chinese school during freshmen year (it was a waste of money though..)</li>
<li>Low income (...:[)</li>
<li>1 evening class at CC - Nutrition</li>
<li>3 AP classes this year</li>
<li>NHS member now</li>
<li>ELC</li>
<li>Applying to: Cal, LA, San Diego, Davis, Irvine, Santa Cruz</li>
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<p>Possible things to mention in essays: Having a Chinese-Cambodian family (that speaks in an odd mixture of the 2 languages...), loneliness in elementary and middle school (tied to my family's obsession with saving money) and how I've changed since, lack of academic motivation until high school, starting with Algebra 1 freshmen year and working my way up to Calc BC senior year, etc.</p>