Chance for USC,UCLA,UCSB,UNC...

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Hello everyone!
I’m a senior in high school I was wondering if anyone on here would be kind enough to take the time to tell me what my chances look like for getting into my top-choice colleges, and if my criteria would fit any other schools that I don’t list here, please tell me. Thanks!

California Resident
Male

Intended Major: Business or Economics

GPA: 3.875/3.56 (Academic W/Academic UW)
UC GPA: 3.82 (Capped W)

I had a 3.4 GPA sophomore year but a 4.3 GPA junior year… went through some hard times sophomore year and will try to explain in application

HS Rank: 86/560

ACT: 33 (34,33,33,30) 34 superscore (35,33,33,33)

AP: World History(4), Biology(4), English Lang(4), Psychology(5), Calculus AB(5)

Senior classes: 3-D Design, AP Econ/Gov, AP Stats, AP Literature, AP Calculus BC

10 APs and 1 honors course, as well as 4 years of Spanish by end of HS

EC:
-Competitive AAU Basketball - 7 years (Team Captian)
-Soccer-7 years
-National Honors Society-3 years
-Varsity Tennis-2 years
-Investment Club/Team-2 years(founder and president)
-also do other sports like golf and running but for recreational
-Math tutor-4 years

Awards:
National Hispanic Scholar

I also attended a business trade-show for 3 days in Vegas I plan to incorporate in my application

Schools planning to apply:
USC
UCLA
UCSB
Boston College
UNC
Duke
Northwestern
Notre Dame
Michigan Ann Arbor
UCI
Pepperdine
Cal Poly SLO
University of San Diego

Also if there are any other suggestions for schools I should be looking at for my major, please let me know. Thanks!

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I think you have a good shot at USC, UCSB, Cal Poly, Pepperdine, USD, UCI, Boston College, and probably UMich. That National Hispanic Scholar will get you far in a lot of places, and the upward trend junior year is nice.

I would classify USD, Pepperdine, UCI, and UCSB as probable safeties. Duke, Northwestern, and UNC (out-of-state) are reaches for everyone, and they will be tough on you for that GPA. UCLA is also dickish to anyone below a 4.0. Duke though is nice reach, because I actually worked with one of their admissions officers going through a series of mock applications, and yours looks quite similar to one she said she would try to admit.

HOWEVER, declaring business (and not just trying to switch over once in the school) elevates things. USC and UMich would become low reaches because they are top business schools. I’m not well researched on business at the other colleges, but it is still a more competitive major everywhere.

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I agree - you;ll probably get into Pepperdine and USD.

I have a very different take - Your UC GPA is well below average for all the UCs except UCSC (where it is avg) UCM and UCR. I think your ACT and strong essays will probably get you into UCSC but, the rest could go either way - and will depend how compelling your explanation of your sophomore performance is. The same is probably true for USC.

http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/counselors/freshman/profiles/

SLO - could go either way but, since they include your freshman grades which you imply weren’t great, I’d say you’ve 40% chance - as you can see, a higher gpa would help.

http://admissions.calpoly.edu/prospective/profile.html

I don’t know enough about the others to offer more than a guess.

I’d suggest you add a few schools to your application list. SDSU and UCR would be good to look at.

Good luck.

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For UMich, your ACT is within the mid 50 while your GPA is rather low. Their admission average uwGPA is 3.85. Ross pre-admission would be definitely a reach due to the low admission rate and competitiveness. For LSA at UMich, it would also be a reach due to your GPA and the low OOS admission rate.

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Thanks for all the replies! Yeah my GPA is really a killer… But hopefully my ACT/essays will help make up for it

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It may be fine for some schools, but UMich value GPA very much.