Chance me at UCB/UCLA/UIUC/Rice/etc. please!?

<p>Asian Male
Considered instate in UC's. (7 yrs residence + Valid visa + Cali elementary, jr. high, high school graduation)
International in most other schools.</p>

<p>Public High School in Calif.</p>

<p>GPA: Unweighted - 3.75 Weighted - 4.08
Rank: Top 3% - 14/470
UC GPA: 4.29
UC Rank: 6/470
UC ELC? Yes</p>

<p>Freshman Year Classes / grades:
Eng 9 Gate....B/B
Algebra 2......A/A-
Biology.........B+/B-
Orchestra......A/A
Physical Ed....A/A-
Health Ed......A+ (1st sem)
Intro to Comp.A (2nd sem)
(I Know, I screwed up my fresh yr)</p>

<p>Sophmore Year Classes / Grades:
Eng 10 Gate.....A-/B
Geometry.........A/A
Chemistry........A-/B+
AP Euro. His.....B/A
Spanish 1........A+/A+
Orchestra........A/A
(Better than Fresh yr... but couldve been better)</p>

<p>Junior Year Classes / Grades:
AP Eng. Lit.......A/A
AP Cal. AB........B/A
AP Chem..........A/A+
AP US His........B+/A
Spanish 2........A/A-
Orchestra.........A/A
(Yeah! Finally straight A's in 2nd semester!)</p>

<p>Senior Year Classes:
AP Eng 12
AP Statistics
AP Biology
AP Physics B
Economics
US Gov
Orchestra
(I am skipping lunch because all the schedule doesn't fit... I starve =(...)</p>

<p>I took all the AP's my school is offering except one. Almost hardest classes possible.</p>

<p>SAT Reasoning Tests:
Jan 07 - CR 490 / M 700 / W 600 (1790; I know, horrible)
June 07 - CR 590 / M 780 / W 630 (2000)
Oct 07 - CR 690 / M 800 / W 610 (2100; stupid writing...)
Superscore - 2120
I personally am proud of my improvements in scores... even though they might be embarrassing scores for some of you there =) self-studied.</p>

<p>SAT Subject Tests:
Chemistry................770 (retook 690)
Math 2 ...................800
Korean w/ Listening...800</p>

<p>EC's/Awards/Job exp.:
Chamber Orchestra + Club (4 yrs)
Church Services - Cello (4 yrs)
Jr. Aux (Volunteer) in hospital - ECRMC (4 yrs; 16 hrs a month continuously) (about 500 hrs)
Key Club (3 yrs)
Boys Tennis (4 yrs; JV/Varsity)
ECKC Youth Group - 06/07 Secretary; 07/08 President (religious group)
Computer Techincian in ECKC (OHP, sound system, mikes, etc. control at services)
Mission at Chiapas, Mexico (summer of 05)
Various awards in cello (solo, quartet, SCSBOA, etc.)
AP Scholar with Honor
Math tutor (3 hrs/week)
Cello teacher at ECKS (1 hr a week)
Gig - various weddings, mall, etc.
blah blah rest are not that important to mention.</p>

<p>Essay:
Common App. - about the impacts of immigration. Other essays... topics were different for each schools. I think those essays showed who I am well.</p>

<p>Rec. letters:
One from counselor... he made a copy of it and showed it to me. It was good, but I would not call it the best.
another from my last yr chem and this yr physics teacher. Excellent one. He took time in it.</p>

<p>So... chances at:
UIUC (actuarial science)
USC (pre-dent)
UC Berkeley (chemical bio)
UCLA (biochem)
Rice (didnt apply yet; somewhere bio-chem)
Villanova (pre-dent)
Case (pre-dent)
Marquette (pre-dent)</p>

<p>Please?</p>

<p>other safety schools, I won't mention.</p>

<p>Thanks in advance guys =)</p>

<p>Very slightly weak UW GPA, but good UC GPA (though I'm seeing it at 4.15), good rank, good SAT score (minus the writing score, which could be improved), great SAT IIs, strong ECs, slightly weak honors/awards.</p>

<p>Berkeley: high match
UCLA: match
UIUC: safe match
USC: match - safe match
Rice: high match (assuming your essays are really great)</p>

<p>Cmon... only one reponse.. anyone else please?</p>