Chance Me For California Schools?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Gender: Male</p>

<p>Location: Massachusetts, but my dad has lived in California for 1.5 years (he's a legal resident, so does this count for anything?)</p>

<p>Ethnicity: Asian-American</p>

<p>GPA: 3.6 UW / 4.13 W / 4.18 CSU GPA (top 15%)</p>

<p>Standardized Tests</p>

<p>-SAT: 2090 - 780 Math ; 660 Crit Reading ; 650 Writing (retaking in October)</p>

<p>-SAT II: Biology E - 770 ; Math II - 800</p>

<p>-AP Biology - 5</p>

<p>Courses Taken
9th: H Geometry, H Earth Science, English I, World History, H Spanish II
10th: H Algebra II, H Biology, H Chemistry, US History I, H English II, H Spanish III
11th: H Trigonometry, AP Biology, US History II, H English III, H Spanish IV</p>

<p>Senior Schedule:
AP Calculus
AP Spanish V
H Physics
AP Psychology
AP English IV
Drawing and Painting</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
-1 year Junior Varsity Tennis
-2 years Varsity Tennis
-Worked for tennis team coach teaching younger kids
-Among the founding members of the Boy's Volleyball Team
-Founder of the Footbag Club
-1 year of work experience as a Technical Support Representative
-2 years involvement with website development and sales
-3 years as a member, and 1 year as president of the Anime Club
-2 years as a member, and 1 year as president of the Trading Card Game club
-4 years as a member of the Science Olympiad team
-Worship team (played guitar) for youth group at church
-Member of the National Honor Society
-260 hours of assorted volunteer work (including missions trip to Dorchester)</p>

<p>Schools I Plan to Apply To
-UCLA (absolute top choice)
-UCSD (second choice)
-all the other UC's
-Caltech and Stanford (for reach)
-NYU (dad went there)
-UMass Amherst (safety)</p>

<p>I've toured UCLA, UCSD, an Caltech and felt most comfortable with UCLA.</p>

<p>So I wanted to know what my chances are at these.</p>

<p>Open to any suggestions, comments, etc.</p>

<p>Thanks a lot in advance.</p>

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<p>With good essays (and possibly an interview) UCLA should be possible for you.
You have good scores, and very good leadership activities. However, the one thing that your lacking is that by looking at your resume I can’t see where you’re going … like what major/area. So you might want to do something to just throw somethings (although time is limited)
NYU should be fine especially since you have a legacy.
Caltech and Standord, honestly, are beyond your reach. I suggest applying to other reaches. </p>

<p>Anyway, good luck.</p>

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<p>Solid GPA and test scores and some pretty good ECs; however, I think some of the UCs will be tough since you’re applying OOS.</p>

<p>-UCLA - slight reach
-UCSD - slight reach
-all the other UC’s - depends, Berkeley will be a reach, the others should be easier
-Caltech and Stanford - crapshoot
-NYU - match
-UMass Amherst - safety</p>

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