<p>Hey everyone, if you could chanc me it would be appreciated greatly.</p>
<p>Junior in Georgia</p>
<p>GPA(uw,UC):4.0, 5.0
SAT I: 2200: 690 M, 760 W, 750 CR (taking again in March)
SAT II: 760 MII, 780 World History, taking 3 more this summer
PSAT:227
APs: World History (5), taking 5 more this year ( Chem,Lang, Spanish, US history,calc BC) and 5 more senior year...hopefully all 5s lol</p>
<p>ECs: FBLA 9-11 state competition winner 2 times,
Beta Club 10-11,
Habitat for Humanity Club 11,
Spanish National Honor Society, Science National Honor Society, Medical Club founder and president, UNICEF Club treasurer,
100+ hours of volunteering,
2 summer internships at local hospitals,
6-week research internship at Morehouse School of Medicine. </p>
<p>Job experience: Tutoring local highschoolers in various subjects, 11</p>
<p>UCLA
UCB</p>
<p>I'd love to go to UCLA.its my top choice. I also will be paying full tuition if that helps any. Please suggest anything that could make me a stronger applicant.</p>
<p>I think you have a very good shot at both schools. If you can, I would recommend taking the ACT, because that SAT score is fine as it is. I know that private institutions make admissions decisions depending on whether an applicant is willing to pay full tuition, but I don’t know of the policies for public schools. Regardless, I don’t think you need to worry about that because you seem like a strong applicant already.</p>
<p>Thanks guys!! It means a lot! Yeah I’m a junior right now so I’m trying to really figure out what schools to apply to, come senior year. I’d love to apply to maybe even Dartmouth if I can keep up the grades. Do you guys have any suggestions of schools? I know it may sound silly but I’m very open to any good school.</p>
<p>I think you have a good shot at basically every public school in the country. As far as private schools go: if you can get around a 2300 on the SAT and maintain strong extracurriculars, I would definitely apply to Ivy League schools if I were you. You seem like a good candidate for schools like Cornell, Dartmouth, and maybe even UPenn. </p>
<p>As scodesario noted, Stanford is also a possibility; as are Duke, Georgetown and Vanderbilt.</p>
<p>It’s difficult to say, in regards to Cornell and Dartmouth. Your stats are very good, but many people with stats like yourself get rejected. As it’s been said before, the Ivy League is basically a crapshoot. Just apply and hope for the best. If you can raise your SAT slightly and keep up the good work in class, your chance is as good as anyone’s. I like your chances for WUSTL a little more, but it is still very much a game of luck. If I had your profile, I would definitely apply to all of these schools. Good luck, I know you can do it!</p>
<p>This is rather pedantic, but I don’t think it’s possible to have a 5.0 UC GPA even if you took all APs every single year. They only count 8 semesters worth of AP credit.</p>
<p>@BubblesForSale Really? Do you have a source for that by any chance? I’m asking because my brother is applying to UCLA and he has a 4.0 unweighted GPA and I want to tell him, but I don’t want to give him any wrong information.</p>
<p>At UCLA and Berkeley, they use an uncapped UC GPA unlike the other UCs. And the years they use to calculate this GPA (soph. and junior), I took all Honors/AP Courses. So each of these courses receives 1 point for GPA and I received an A for every class.</p>
<p>All UCs use the capped GPA, but the uncapped weighted GPA is also taken into consideration for admission. Unless you’ve taken only 8 semesters of classes during your sophomore and junior years, then your UC GPA can’t be 5.</p>