Chance at All California Schools - Thank You

Chance Me / Match Me!
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UC GPA: 4.54
Cumulative GPA (weighted): 4.43
Cumulative GPA (unweighted): 4.00

I’m in Top 2% of class, ELC eligible (understand that means UC Merced), attended UC for You at UCSD, and financial aid is not needed.

Major: Global Health/Microbiology.

EC: Vice President of Foreign Language Club, Co-President of Elementary Tutors, Member of NHS, CSF, Spanish Honors Society, Played Baseball for High School Baseball Team but had to leave due to injury, Went through Confirmation, Prep Cook at Church Soup Kitchen, Sang Christmas Carols to Elderly during Christmas, Internship at Moores Cancer Research at UCSD. Also, am bilingual :slight_smile:

AP/Honors Classes (9-12): 9
Geometry (took in 8th grade)
Honors 2/Trig
AP Chemistry
Honors Pre-Calc
AP Calculus BC
AP Art History
Honors Human Anatomy/Physiology
AP Statistics
AP Spanish

College Courses Taken Concurrently with these Courses an Accepted as AP/Honors Credit: 4
History 111 (APUSH)
History 112 (APUSH)
Political Science 150 (AP Government)
Economics 201 (AP Econ)
Psychology 101 (AP Psychology)
Physics 110 (AP Physics)

ACT Score: 29 (yes this is why I made this thread freaking out how this doesn’t match my grades)
SAT Score: 1350 (yes this is why I made this thread freaking out how this doesn’t match my grades)

Colleges:
UCSD
UC Berkeley
UCLA
UCI
UC Davis
UCSB
Santa Clara - applied Early Action
Claremont McKenna
Pitzer College
Pomona College
USC
University of San Diego

Thank you all for your help I wanted to give you everything as if you were an admissions officer. It’s alot but it encompasses who I am as a possible applicant and I will appreciate your response.

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What is your UC GPA capped weighted?

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@Gumbymom 4.33 Capped

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Your chances of being accepted into almost every UC is really good. UCLA really only cares about students having good grades, as I see a TON of sites and posts about how it does not care about standardized test score. Even prep scholar shows their average act as around 29. Since you have a strong shot in UCLA, I would say you also have a strong shot at every UC school except Berkeley. I only say Berkeley because it might be a lot different from UCLA, and is somewhat unpredictable.

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@rockydog1 You have a good shot at many of the UCs. I think UCSD has capped both Bio and Health Sciences tho (double check as I’m just going off memory.) The thing that will be the biggest problem is those majors. I think they tend to be oversubscribed at most UCs. You might want to look at the major selection strategically. Not sure if there are ways to approach it that increase your chances.

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ACT definitely a bit low for top UCs.

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Microbiology is a capped major but not Global Health, only Public Health.

Other than your test scores, you are a competitive applicant for the UC’s. UCLA/UCB and UCSD are always tough especially for the Health Sciences majors. The Claremont colleges will be equally difficult due to their low acceptance rate. You have an excellent chance at the rest of the schools on your list.

Good Luck.