Chance a New Jersey kid for UC's

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Class of 2010
Asian male living in OC, CA (moved from NJ back in summer of 05)</p>

<p>PSAT: 181
SAT: 1570 (530 CR, 550 M, 490 W; yes I know it's very poor. going to retake with help of kaplan courses)
SAT II: 620 Math II, 630 US History</p>

<p>10-11 GPA: 3.35 UW, 3.71 W</p>

<p>AP's: World History - 2, Physics B - 1, US History - 4, Lang/Comp - 3</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
Tae Kwon Do (1 year)
Working at aunt's jewelry store (2 years)
Volunteering for middle school tutoring (2 summers)</p>

<p>Clubs:
Key Club (10-12)
Vietnamese Club (9-10)
Martial Arts Club (9-10)
CSF (9-12)
Academic Decathlon (11-12)
Honor Roll (9-12)
Principal's Honor Roll (10-11)</p>

<p>Leadership:
Academic Decathlon (Secretary)</p>

<p>Class Rank 10-12: 41/400 (Top 10%)</p>

<p>Please chance me for ALL the UC's (preferably UCI) and also Cal State Long Beach and Cal State Fullerton</p>

<p>Thanks</p>

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<p>I am not very familiar with most of the UC schools, but I am confident in saying you have almost no chance at Berkeley and UCLA.</p>

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<p>Oh i kinda expected that. Can someone that has knowledge of all the UC’s chance me?</p>

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<p>Riverside and Merced are the only viable options with those SAT scores.</p>

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<p>GOOD LUCK GETTING INTO UCLA, UCSD or UCSB. My son goes to school in California and those are a reach for even kids with 3.8 GPA’s. Maybe they need your out of state tuition, though!</p>

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<p>ohh okay. i know that the top 3 or 4 UC’s will be reaches for me, but will i be able to make it into the middle ones (UCI, UC Davis, etc) if i get a 1900+ when i retake the reasoning?</p>

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<p>You would need to really take the SAT up. Their average GPA at UCI is about 3.9 and average SAT about 1850. Since your GPA is a bit low, the higher you can get your SAT above their median, the better chance you’ll have. UCSB and UCD are about the same.</p>

<p>you’d have a good shot at UCSC by just getting the 1900.</p>

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<p>I just visited Berkeley this past weekend and after the tour they had an admissions session… they told us the minimum gpa for any UC school for in state students is 3.0 and for out of state students it’s a 3.4. I’m not sure if that’s weighted or unweighted, so I’d just suggest checking that</p>

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<p>for hmom5, do you mean UCSD?</p>

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<p>No, she means UCSC. UCSD is more selective than Davis and Irvine. </p>

<p>The UCs are much harder to get into than you think, and being OOS makes it even more difficult (if only slightly this year since UCs are desperate for money).</p>

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<p>Oh wow, its gonna be really tough then. What about the cal states I put down?</p>

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<p>Shouldn’t be too hard, cal states are high acceptance schools.</p>

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<p>Cal States- all besides maybe San Luis Obispo/Long Beach are certain.</p>

<p>UCs- Berk/La/SD: Reject, Irvine/Davis/SB: high high reach, UCSC: low reach, UCR: match.</p>