<p>I'd like to know what my chances are for getting into these schools are:</p>
<p>*UC Berkeley
*USC (University of California)
*UCLA
*Stanford (Just checking here for the lulz. I'm totally gonna frame my rejection letter, though, hahaha.)
*UC Irvine
*Rutger's University (They have biotechnology...)
*UC Santa Barbara
*UC Davis
*Brown University (More rejection-letter-framing lolz)
*Maybe Cornell University? (I can dream. Or not.)</p>
<p>(.... Why are almost all of these UC's? orz )</p>
<p>Gender: Female
Race: Hispanic/Latino (Specifically, Mexican)
Religion: Roman Catholic
HS Type: Large Public
Income Bracket: Lower Middle Class (6 member household making about 48 K annually)</p>
<p>Parents- (They got their undergrads and majored in finances, but they moved to the US and their degrees are unusable here, so I don't know what that counts for.)
Father: Universidad Autonoma de Sinaloa
Mother: Universidad Autonoma de Sinaloa</p>
<p>Junior year classes: (Sciences taken- Biology I Honors, Chemistry Honors, Biology II 1st semester. Our IB schedule won't allow us to take physics because our courses got messed up along the way)</p>
<p>Visual Art IB
IB History of the Americas
English 3 IB
Spanish 3 IB
Trig/Precalc Honors/IB (The classes are combined)
Biology II
Academic Decathlon</p>
<p>Current Year GPA (Unweighted): 3.95
Current Year GPA (Weighted): 4.81
Current Cumulative GPA (Unweighted): 3.92
Current Cumulative GPA (Weighted): 4.68
Class Rank: 3 out of 673</p>
<p>PSAT: 1950 (Or 195, since I forgot if there's a 0 on the end, ahahaha. I know that I just barely missed that National Merit Scholarship, though. :/ )</p>
<p>Intended Major: Biology</p>
<p>Extra:</p>
<p>IB Diploma Candidate
Anime Club - Vice President (Sophmore and Junior year)
IB Club Member
So far about 175 volunteer hours
Academic Decathlon 2010-2011 Regional 2nd Place in Language/Literature
Academic Decathlon 2010-2011 Regional 3nd Place in Social Science
National Honors Society Member
NASA INSPIRE Program Member
(Possibly going to a few summer programs this year)
(Also, for 2010-2011 our Academic Decathlon team went to the state competition, so does this count?)</p>
<p>I can also write an extremely good essay and my SAT/ACT scores should be fine. I don't think my SAT scores will be below 1800, and my ACT scores will probably be at least 30 or higher.</p>