Chance for UC Berkeley or UCLA?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hello. I'm an Asian, female, and rising senior. I'm a resident of California. I'm planning on applying for UC Berkeley and UCLA.</p>

<p>My statistics are:</p>

<p>GPA weighted: 4.40 (10th and 11th); 4.42 (9th~11th)
GPA unweighted: 3.76 (10th and 11th); 3.84 (9th~11th)
UC GPA: 4.12
class rank: 9/538 (weighted); 22/538 (unweighted)
SAT I: 1960 (560CR/690M/710W); 1930 (580CR/770M/580W)--will retake in Oct.
SAT II: 760 (Chemistry); 710 (Math 2--will retake in Nov.); 610 (World History); 690 (Biology); 780 (Korean); will take Japanese in Nov.</p>

<p>Courses:
AP: Environmental Science, Biology, World History, Calculus BC, Chemistry, US History, English Language
Honors: English 9, English 10
Language: Spanish for 3 years
will take: AP Statistics, AP Physics, AP English Literature, AP Government, AP Economics
etc: Marching and Symphonic Band for 4 years by graduation</p>

<p>AP scores:
frosh: 2 (Env. Science)
soph: 4 (Bio); 4 (World)
junior: 5 (Chem); 5 (Calc BC/5 AB subscore); 4 (Lang); 4 (US)</p>

<p>Extra Curricular:
volunteered ~100 hours at public library for children and ~20 hours at Korean Resource Center
Treasurer of Key Club
Secretary of Key Club</p>

<p>Would I have a chance of getting in? Please help!</p>

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<p>i would say ur sat will be an obstacle
i have an asian friend he got sat 2050. his didn’t have as many aps as u did but he got good grades. he was not admitted by either ucb or ucla, but went to uiuc
but now that ur an cali resident…ehhhh i really don’t know. give it a shot. good luck!
btw, r u korean? for u have good SAT2korean scores, lol</p>

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<p>ahhh, i know my SAT scores are pretty low for ucb and ucla…hopefully it’ll improve in october.
and yes, i am korean.</p>

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<p>Reach for UCB, slight reach/match at UCLA</p>

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<p>Reaches for both schools.</p>

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<p>what exactly does it mean by “reach”?</p>

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<p>and i’m aware of my low SAT 1 score and am trying to improve. other than that, could you maybe tell me what seems insufficient?</p>

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<p>FYI, put most of ur effort on SAT I. i don’t think u have other obvious shortcomin… uh im only a high school senior now so these are just experiences from previous seniors… however, especially UCLA, u know have many asians are there and how UCLA lowered its threshold recently. so u gonna get it as long as SAT1 is good.</p>

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