Chance Assessment: Advice Please

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I'm basically a junior who's lost on what's going on. I'd love some advice on my chances for the colleges I am considering. It's a bit worrying, although I'm sure it's all a part of the experience. Hopefully that one C I had hasn't completely mauled me.</p>

<p>Current Cumulative High School Weighted GPA: 3.892
Current Cumulative High School Unweighted GPA: 3.622
Current Class Rank: 60/418 (tends to vary between 45-60)</p>

<p>SAT I 2006: 218 (97th percentile) CR:71 M:77 W:70 (Essay: 12)
PSAT 2005: 204 (97th percentile) CR:66 M:68 W:70 (Commended)
SATIIs: MathII, Physics, US History (will take Chinese Listening just for kicks)</p>

<p>Honors/APs: English I-III, APUSH, AP Physics, AP Economics
Senior Year APs: English, Biology, Calculus AB, Spanish, US Gov/Comparative Gov, Chinese</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
Newspaper (1 year) - Opinion Editor, graphic artist
Swimming (2 years HS, 7 years total) - Freshman and JV, I no longer do this
Academic Decathlon (2 years) - Scholastic Team, Honors Team
Science Olympiad (3 years) - Shadow Team, I no longer do this
Museum Volunteer - 28 hours and ongoing
Jobs: Peer Tutoring, building computers, translating between Chinese/Engish
Chinese (Capable speaking/listening, 3 years reading/writing)
Spanish (6 years)</p>

<p>Misc awards:
CSF - 6 semesters
Academic Letter - 3 Years
6th Place - Chinese Bilingual Web Design Contest
1st Place - Wildlife Management Category Biotechnology Challenge 2005
1st Place - Genetically Modfied Foods Biotechnology Challenge 2006
3rd Place - Academic Decathlon Regionals: Essay</p>

<p>Career Interests: International Relations, Journalism/Comunications, Languages, Physics/Engineering, Biology
Other: California resident, Asian-American, <$40,000 Income Level. I hope for strong, or at least good, teacher recs, but my counselor is unreliable.</p>

<p>Considering:
UCs (Berkley, San Diego, LA, Davis, Irvine, or any)
Georgetown
Columbia
NYU
Cornell
Brown</p>

<p>Definite reaches (but would it be worth it to try at all?)
Caltech
Stanford
Yale</p>

<p>Please and thank you in advance.</p>

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<p>Your EC's seem to be a bit weak. Someone looking at your EC's would have no idea what your interests are. I think Columbia, Caltech, Stanford, and Yale are big reaches.</p>

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<p>FemmeFatale:</p>

<p>UCB/UCLA: Slight Reach, Reach (Engineering)
UCSD: Match, Slight Reach (Engineering)
UCI/UCSB/UCD: Safe Match
UCSC/UCR/UCM: Safety</p>

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<p>^Thank you.</p>

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<p>I see what you mean and I was hoping to address it in an essay perhaps. It's always been a bit of a problem that I'm not solely a math/science student or English/social science focus.</p>

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<p>I feel that although you ECs are weak, you do tend to show that you have a interest in many different subjects creating a well-rounded personality. I think if you portray that correctly, it would be a very good quality. Good SAT scores but of course it could be better. I see that you have taken a nice selection of APs which can only help you, how did you do on them by the way? And finally, a C might not kill you but if you have a fair amount of B and not a lot of A you might be in trouble. Best wishes</p>

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<p>I'm not quite sure how I've done on AP or SATII's yet as I have just taken them, but thank you for the feedback.</p>

<p>Perhaps if I express my dedication to my current ECs? I thought I was going one direction and I suddenly decided to switch gears this year with what I do with my time. I was pretty miserable doing Sci. Oly and swim team, but I've found something I enjoy in Aca. Deca and working for the newspaper. In fact I've won recognition awards for it despite it only being my first or second year. Is that something I could express well without seeming like I'm just trying to add to my app. even though I haven't been a part of something for a long time?</p>

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<p>your weighted/unweighted gpas are going to hurt.</p>