Chance me for Georgetown, Berkeley, UCLA, UC San Diego

Chance Me / Match Me!
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I am applying to UCLA, Berkeley, UC San Diego and Georgetown EA. I am out of state for the UC schools.

2290 SAT 800 Math, 780 Reading, 710 Writing

3.83 unweighted gpa
4.35 uc weighted gpa

Class rank is 20/533

I will graduate with 6 AP Classes, 2 each year from sophomore to senior year.
Stats 5
Calculus AB 5
Physics 4
Human Geography 4
Calculus BC and Psychology Senior Year

I am a 4 year varsity athlete in Track, Team Captain 2 years, Varsity 3 years and 1st Team All-League in Cross Country, I lead my team to state for the first time in 15 years. I also tutor students in math (although I didn’t put this on my Georgetown app), coach younger runners in the offseason, do community service for a church food bank (just a small amount of hours ~40). During the summer, I was invited to Scripps Research and the Max Planck institutes, where I learned to program, learned laboratory skills, and did job shadows.

I guess I am mostly worried about GPA and too small amount of community service. Thank you for any guesses and advice.

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Your GPA is low for top UCs and the coursework looks not much rigorous:

UCB/UCLA - reach
UCSD - high match

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^ It’s always funny to read posts like that criticizing a kid with a 2290 SAT score (including a 780 Reading score).

I think you are a match for UCLA and UCSD and a match to high match for UCB.

Good luck!

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Make sure your parents can afford the UCs as an OOS student. Rates will be $55K per year.
UCLA and Berkeley won’t be easy. UCSD is a probable.

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Also forgot to mention I took two subject tests. 770 on Math II and 750 on physics.

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@UWfromCA Yes I agree with you. This kid is 400 points above average for UCLA and 3.83 unweighted is nearly straight As.

Californians view of UCLA is peculiar.

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You should get into UCLA and UCSD, but UCB is a match to slight reach.

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@TurnerT , it is a fairly recent phenomenon. UCLA has always been a great school, but in the mid 1990s, it had around a 50% admission rate. As late as 2004, Cal Poly SLO had a lower acceptance rate.

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/education/2006-11-02-collegerates_x.htm

The kids applying today have it a lot tougher than many of us did in the 1980s and 1990s. Even for the college class of 2008, UCD’s admission rate was 57%, UCSB’s was 53%, UCSD’s was 37%, USC’s was 27% and UCLA/UCB were around 24%.