Chance Me For Ivies/UCs?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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disclaimer: this is all expected results after first semester senior year

GPA: 3.88 UW/4.43 W (6 Bs sophomore year LOL, but Straight As junior & senior year)
FOR UCs: 3.76 UW/4.36W

Rank: 14/300ish

CC GPA: 3.8ish (took some business & GE courses)

SAT: 1530 790M/740CRW (16/24 essay)

APs: AP Calc AB (4), AP World (5), AP Human Geo (5), will take AP Stats, APES, APUSH, AP Lang, and AP Comp Gov this year (expected 4s & 5s)

Senior Year Courseload: AP Calc BC, AP Lit, AP Gov/Macro, Weight Training, Adulting 101, T/A, some community college courses

Awards: National AP Scholar, NSDA Academic All American, National Merit Commended Scholar, Qualified for Nationals 2x and State 1x in Speech & Debate

Work Experience: interned 2 summers at an Am100 Law Firm (paid)

Summer Activities: internships and a Youth Justice Academy at my county’s DA office after freshman year

Community Service: 150 hours (various events)

ECs: Speech & Debate 10-12 (captain & VP 11-12), Mock Trial 9-10 (captain 9-10), DECA 9-11 (Co-VP 10, Director of Events 11), Badminton Club 10-12 (Treasurer 10-12), Key Club (10-12), Interact (9-12), Track (9-10)

State: CA
School: mid-sized public
Race: Asian (Pakistani)
Gender: Male
Income: 150k+

Applying:
Stanford REA (econ)
Harvard (econ)
UPenn (Wharton)
Emory (biz)
WashU (Olin)
USC (Marshall)
UC Berkeley (Pre-Haas)
UCLA (econ)
UCSD (econ)
UC Davis (econ)
UCSB (econ)
UCI (biz)
UCSC (econ)
Cal Poly SLO (finance)

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You are a competitive applicant. Your stats and ECs are great. You should consider applying to more reaches such as Duke or Princeton. Write good essays and you could get accepted by any of these schools

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bump

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Calculate your UC GPA capped weighted and post. The capped weighted UC GPA is the GPA used by all the UC’s although UCLA/UCB do consider the fully weighted. Almost all the statistical data will use the UC capped weighted GPA.

https://rogerhub.com/gpa-calculator-uc/

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if you take a bunch of AP/honors classes, won’t it bring down your UC gpa bc of the 8 course limit?

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Of the first three schools on your list, by far the best shot would be UPenn if you apply ED

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You have straight As your senior year so you are graduating this year?.. announcements of acceptances have already been made…

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@CU123 The straight A’s are predicted (read the disclaimer at the top :smiley: )

@zaid50

Overall, you are a fairly well qualified candidate for all the top schools. Based on your summer stuff and ECs, you should have a pretty good shot at most schools. This is an estimated list of school rankings for you:

Reach: Stanford REA (econ), Harvard (econ), UC Berkeley (Pre-Haas)
Target: UPenn (Wharton), Emory (biz), WashU (Olin), USC (Marshall: TBH could be a safety), UCLA (econ), UCSD (econ), UCSB (econ)
Safety: UC Davis (econ), UCI (biz), UCSC (econ), Cal Poly SLO (finance)

(Everyone else, feel free to edit the list!)

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Would you be happy at UCSC? If not, you need more safeties.

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@washugrad Agreed. @zaid50 I think that you should consider Drexel and UDub.

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Don’t listen to @redwall3000. Penn Wharton is nowhere near being a target/match, but is rather an ultra-reach. WashU Olin is also a reach, not a target/match. He obviously does not know how difficult those schools are to get into, so take his advice with a grain of salt. You have decent chances at all your schools, but you’re a pretty average applicant no offense so I would focus on your essays and other parts of your application.

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SLO, UCD and UCI are not safeties. UCSC looks like your only true safety if you are happy to attend. Check this years decision threads and see how many high stat applicants were waitlisted or rejected.

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Grades for senior year doesn’t mean much as far as most schools goes, so you should base your GPAs as of end of junior year. With the 6 Bs as a sophomore you’re probably somewhere between 4.00 and 4.05 as far as UC GPA, which gets you into that iffy category with the top 6 UCs, especially since Econ is an impacted major. Still within range though. Stanford Penn Harvard are reaches, even if you were a perfect 4.0. Not sure how much schools take the writing into account, but 16/24 is pretty bad by most accounts and you’ll probably want to get it somewhere north of 20. I don’t see any hooks, so you’re going to have to come up with an amazing set of essays.

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Updated list based on @summerhazed advice

Reach: Stanford REA (econ), Harvard (econ), UC Berkeley (Pre-Haas), UPenn (Wharton), WashU (Olin)
Target: Emory (biz), USC (Marshall: TBH could be a safety), UCLA (econ), UCSD (econ), UCSB (econ)
Safety: UC Davis (econ), UCI (biz), UCSC (econ), Cal Poly SLO (finance)

PS, my bad on the UPenn placement. I thought Wharton was their CS school. :stuck_out_tongue:

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Definitely agree with @summerhazed, but USC Marshall couldn’t possibly be a safety ( @redwall3000 ) given that USC itself had a 13% acceptance rate with stats equal to those of Berkeley (and rank as a national university.), and considering that Marshall hosts all its programs in the top 10 - overall 11 this year and 9 last year. On US News, if you look at ranks, Marshall again equals WashU (Olin), Emory, and Gtown for its business ranking. Not defending Marshall or anything (No personal stake) but I just wanna clear any misconception formed for @zaid50 because I too was considering the school during the season that just passed.

Best of Luck for the cycle. If you’re interested in business look at Stern and Cornell Dyson. Close to wall street with good employment figures. Wharton is an ultra reach like @summerhazed said unless you’re a legacy or get recruited.

Good stats for all though. Best of luck!