Chance a Guy Who is Shooting for UCs and CSUs!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>For my friend who's applying to colleges this fall:</p>

<p>Applying to:
Cal Poly SLO
UC Riverside
UC Santa Cruz
UCSB
UC Irvine
UC San Diego
UC Davis
UCLA
UC Berkeley</p>

<p>California resident
ASIAN
Unweighed GPA(10th-11th)- 3.64
Weighed GPA(UC)- 3.82
No Classrank
Top 50 nationwide high school
Took all UC recommended courses</p>

<p>9th-
PE 1(Not college prep): A/A
Health/Geography: A/B
Biology(Honors): C/B
Algebra 2(Honors): D | Algebra 2(Reg): A
English 9A: B/B
Mandarin 1: B/B</p>

<p>10th-
PE 2(Not college prep): B/A
World History: A/A
Chemistry: B/B
Geometry: A/A
English 10A: B/A
Mandarin 2: A/A</p>

<p>11th-
AP Psychology: B/B
US History: A/A
AP Biology: B/A
Precalculus: B/B
English 11A: A/A
Mandarin 3: A/A</p>

<p>12th-
Digital Imaging
Econ/Gov
AP Environmental Sci
AP Calc AB
English 12A
AP Physics</p>

<p>Tests(Variable Factors)
2050 on SAT1(Projected)
SAT2(All projected):
700 on Bio SAT
750 on Math lvl 2
4 on AP Psych
4 on AP Bio</p>

<p>ECs:
Track(2 years - JV, then Varsity)
Speech and Debate(1 year)
Community Service: 200 hours
Job at Solitec Wafer Processing, Inc(2 years - Assistant to financial manager)</p>

<p>Notes:
Please be honest and realistic with my friend. He needs to know what he has to improve on in his application. Thanks in advance.</p>

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<p>The only thing he can change now is scores.</p>

<p>UCB, LA nd SB will most probably not happen without a miracle. The mid tiers are possible with a strong score. Given his below average GPA and mediocre course rigor I’d be shooting for 2100 plus. </p>

<p>SC, Riverside and SLO look good with a 2000 plus.</p>

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<p>bump 10char</p>

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<p>Sorry don’t know the UC system well enough to tell ya but I’ll give ya s “bump”</p>

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<p>Weak candidate for Berkeley. But who knows!</p>

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<p>“…SB will most probably not happen without a miracle. The mid tiers are possible with a strong score…”</p>

<p>I don’t understand this. SB a “miracle”? Isn’t it “mid tier”?</p>

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<p>My friend made a mistake in writing his resume for me to post. He wanted to mention that Health/Geography is not college preparatory, if that changes anything.</p>

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<p>The only thing you can really do right now is get a good score on your SATs. Pretty decent ECs and courseload.
I really can’t chance you because UCs can be pretty unpredictable, but I’d say you have a good shot at them.
Chance me please? <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/974360-chance-uc-colleges-special-case.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/974360-chance-uc-colleges-special-case.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>another bump</p>

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<p>Given the extensive schedule, solid GPA, commitment to extracurriculars and your projected SAT scores, I would say that AT LEAST Santa Barbara, Riverside and Santa Cruz are a shoe-in. UC Irvine is a definite possibility. Slo…I would need his intended major to give an accurate prediction</p>

<p>UCLA, SD, Davis and Berkeley are iffy… Those are really competetive schools. I think I recall about 5,000 of near 57,000 applicants for UCLA were offered admission, just to give you an idea</p>

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<p>I’ll need to contact my friend about his intended major at Cal Poly SLO.</p>

<p>And it was 10,000+ offered admission at UCLA.</p>

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<p>My friend from Cali, who also has similar stats as your friends, got into Cal Poly SOL. Just keep up the scores and have a kick ass essay for your schools and I’m sure he’ll get into his top choices.</p>

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<p>Cal Poly SLO-high match
UC Riverside- high match
UC Santa Cruz- high match
UCSB- match
UC Irvine- match
UC San Diego- match
UC Davis- match
UCLA- high reach
UC Berkeley- high reach</p>

<p>P.S. If he didnt make up the D he’s getting nowhere. CC is his only chance. Then Transfer.</p>

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<p>Well at this point, he can only improve scores, and dominate the application…
But anyway, UCLA and UCB are reaches, other than that I’d say any of them are possible (but then Im not familiar with the majority of the UC’s or CSU’s, being from the East Coast)</p>

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<p>On the advice part - I guess the big thing is to focus on scores here, since everything is projected/nothing is concrete. Aka: no fallback if they don’t turn out as expected</p>

<p>Using the projected scores/people I know: </p>

<p>Riverside, Santa Cruz - match
UCSB - match
UC Irvine - match
UC Davis - low reach? (not sure)
UCSD, UCLA, UC Berkeley - high reach</p>

<p>Dunno much about Cal Poly, other than if it’s supposed to be tough you’re going in for Engineering/Architecture</p>

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<p>Riverside-Match
Santa Cruz-Match
UCSB-Match to Slight Reach
UC Irvine-Match
UC Davis-I don’t know much about this :confused:
UCSD-Mid-reach
UCLA-High reach
UC Berkeley-high reach</p>

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<p>I don’t know much about the UC system other than UCBerkeley and UCLA and I’d say those were reaches…other than that all I can suggest is making sure your friend hits or does better than his projected scores.</p>

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<p>Honestly i dont know much about the colleges your applying to, but it does look like you have a kick ass resume. so good luck</p>

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<p>People, getting into UCLA isn’t as hard as getting into Berkeley.</p>

<p>I just think you should know.</p>

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<p>the D and C will really hurt for the top schools, berkeley etc… </p>

<p>but tell him to make sure and not guess what scores he will get. I was expecting 2000+ and 700+ on SAT 2. I did the practice tests and all, so make sure you take the tests as early as you can,so you can retake them because high test scores are all he has left</p>