Chance a worried senior

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Asian, first generation (college and high school), low income (well below 30,000 - EFC expected to be 0), goes to an extremely competitive high school with 60% being admitted to the UC system each year</p>

<p>Major: Chemistry, engineering, or something science related</p>

<p>UC GPA: around a 3.5 ~ GPA improvement each year
Class Rank: N/A
SAT: 1810 (retook June - will retake in October)
No SAT subject</p>

<p>EC:
sport analyzing ~ over 1000 hours committed
misc. community work (tutoring, volunteer work) ~ +100 hours
Drama technician with sound ~ 50+ hours
9 years of working in my parents' small business ~ well over 10,000 hours
1 year of Robotics club ~ UC Berkeley competition and FIRST next year ~ 100+ hours in a semester
3 years of Ambassador
~ planning to participate in prestigious NASA internship </p>

<p>Hobbies:
Self Programming for 10 years (PHP, C++, Java, Python) - planning to start a social networking site by the end of senior year
Watching movies and creatively rewriting plot to my liking (weird right?)
Reading Greek philosophical and historical books
Poetry reading for 4 years
Reading economic and political books for fun </p>

<p>Schools:
UC Berkeley
UC Davis
UCLA
UC Riverside
UC Santa Barbara
UC Santa Cruz
Georgia Tech
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
USC
University of Wisconsin - Madison
University of Oregon
University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign </p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>My opinion:
UCB: High reach
UCD: Reach
UCLA: High reach
UCR: Safety (apply early)
UCSB: Match
UCSC: Match
USC: High reach
UofO: Safety
Don’t know much about the others haha. </p>

<p>Your ECs are pretty good.</p>

<p>This of course, depends on the quality of your essays.</p>

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<p>This could potentially make a great common app essay. Not sure if it would fit into a UC essay.</p>

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<p>friendly bump :D</p>

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<p>bbbuuummmppp</p>

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<p>Your EC’s are great. I agree with tedders on his/her responses on the universities. All I can say is that you have good chances over many and continue to work hard.</p>

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<p>UPDATE: eliminated USC, UCLA, UCSB, UMinnesota, UOregon from my list!</p>

<p>Beginning hospital volunteer work, which includes one lucky surgeon internship opportunity !!</p>

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<p>What made you decide against applying to those schools? Your stats are still enough to have a chance.</p>