<p>Female, Taiwanese, Californian, huge public high school with around 700 seniors</p>
<p>UCB, UCLA, UCSD, UCI, UCD, UCSB, UCSC, UCM all the UC's cept Riverside
Calpoly SLO
San Jose State
Santa Clara U (I was deferred EA)
U of San Diego</p>
<p>Stats
Took all the honors courses offered, decent amount of AP's
GPA: 3.4W overall, getting a really low GPA soph year and continuing an upward trend, ending with a 4.3W this year
SAT: 1310/1940 (CR600, M710, W630 essay 9)
SATII: 740 Math2c, 580 BioM</p>
<p>Rank: Top 25% haha, sad I know</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:
- Flute:
Youth symphony for 4 years (no school band though)
Winner of a international competition (various judges from professors of Julliard!)
Winner of a state competition
Winner of several scholarships
Member of prestigious masterclasses in this area, with professional pianist accompanists
Teachers are ALL professional
Summer classes at a flute institute for several years
ABRSM theory testing
and I will be sending in CD supplements to some UC's that said it was okay.</p>
<ul>
<li>Junior Statesmen of America</li>
<li>Math Club Tutor</li>
<li>National Honor Society</li>
<li>Church Leadership role</li>
<li>Community Service: over 100 hrs</li>
<li>2+ years of work experience, including with the mentally disabled and high school students</li>
<li>Tennis team</li>
<li>Honor Roll</li>
</ul>
<p>All the classes I did bad in were science related: Honors Chem and AP Bio. I don't plan to major in science.</p>
<p>safeties:
UCSC, UCM (merced has plans with their students to have them transfer to other UCs, which is an incentive to many who go there), SLO</p>
<p>Matches:
Davis, Irvine, Santa Barbara</p>
<p>Reaches:
UCLA, Cal, UCSD (i think you have a great shot at UCSD, but if you intend to major in music, i dont think UCSD is not for you. sorry, but its mainly a science school, focused on bio, biochem, and engineering. plus, its the most socially dead of the UCs, everyone just stays in their dorms on weekends. i attend UCLA, which has lots of activities compared to sd.......)</p>
<p>UCSD actually has an excellent music program (sis is a double major in economics/music there at Warren college). Their music programs are not as acclaimed as their science programs, but nevertheless, they do have a very good music program.</p>
<p>Actually there's a stat that says 97% of UCLA students and 99% of Berkeley students graduated in the top 10% of their high school classes. That being said, I don't know anyone who HAS been admitted any worse than top 10% (it seems like the minimum cutoff), but there's always room for exceptions? :)</p>
<p>Yeah, I didn't think I'd make it into UCLA or Cal anyway. I'm really hoping for UCSD, I thought it would be a huge reach for me, but I'm glad you guys think I have a chance at it.</p>
<p>ur probably in for calpoly. good chance at irvine, sb..... i dont think itll ruin ur chances completely for davis. but ucsb has a thing, i have NO idea why. they rejected majority of my friends (similar stats to yours) but they ended up at UCSD, davis, and irvine........... college admissions is a crazy procedure, ill never understand it......</p>
<p>TOP: UCLA, Cal
NEXT: ucsd, Davis
NEXT: sb, irvine
NEXT: sc, riverside
OUT OF THE PICTURE: merced (but merced has this program with the other UCs, where theyll give merced students priority decisions, not necessarily guaranteed decisions, in transferring. this gives students an incentive to attend merced)</p>