Chance me for the UCs and stanford PLease!

<p>Asian/ low income family/ public high school</p>

<p>Sophomore Year:
Honors English A/A
Spanish 2 B/B
Honors Precal A/A
P.E. A/A
AP Bio A/A
AP European H. A/A</p>

<p>Junior Year:
AP English Lang. B/B
AP Statistics A/A
Teacher's Aid P/P
Business A/A
AP US H. B+/B+
AP Environmental S. B/B</p>

<p>Senior Year:
Spanish 3
AP English Lit.
AP Chemistry
AP Gov/Econ
Business 2
Teacher's Aid</p>

<p>Non-weighted: 3.6
weighted: 4.42 (Took some college classes too)</p>

<p>Class rank: 6/271</p>

<p>SAT II Bio: 600
SAT II US H: 600 (will retake)</p>

<p>SAT I: 1590 (retake)</p>

<p>During junior year, I had some family problems so my grades suffered a downward trend as well as my SATs because I had to go help my parents translate during the treatments; which took away a lot of my time. Also had to get a part-time job to compensate for my parent's unemployment due to sickness.</p>

<p>Extracurricular:
Interact~Treasurer
Key Club~President
DECA ~ Secretary Top 5 in DECA State Competition for market management
Red Cross
National Honor Society
Track team
Swimming team (Not at school) 9th-10th</p>

<p>Community service Hours: ~900 hours from all the clubs and helped tutor high school students every day after school. Began accumulating the hours since 8th grade!</p>

<p>What are my chances of getting into the following:</p>

<p>Stanford
UC Berkeley
UC LA
UC SD
UC Davis
also thinking about:
NYU</p>

<p>I would appreciate it if you can give me some feedback on how to get accepted to the high end UCs. I am the first person in my family to go to college. I searched around CC and my grades as well as test results does not seem to be as competitive as others.</p>

<p>To be honest, your entire list appears to be slight reach/reach schools. While your class rank/courseload may be good, your scores (like you said) are not competitive. It would be advantageous for you to explain your family situation and how it affects you. </p>

<p>I'm hesitant to suggest that you apply to NYU because the school is notorious for having lousy financial aid.</p>

<p>I assume you're instate for cali. As your current stats have you right now:</p>

<p>Stanford - rejected
ucla - reach
ucsd - high match
ucd - match
ucb - reach/reject
nyu - reach</p>

<p>Get those SATs up.</p>

<p>Those scores are frankly, really damaging, especially since the rest of your app is good.</p>

<p>I agree with ^ except sd is a reach.</p>

<p>Yes I am studying really hard for the SATs right now. Does anyone have any tips? Ie. Best study book, tips, etc
Currently, I am using the Blue College Board SAT book.</p>

<p>The Barron's SAT Math book is pretty good. The idea is to keep drilling and you'll see improvement.</p>

<p>Assuming you're instate:
Stanford: High Reach
UC Berkeley: Reach
UC LA: Reach
UC SD: Mid Reach
UC Davis: Low Reach/Match
NYU: Reach</p>

<p>Since your weighted GPA and ECs are good, your chances will vary a lot depending on whether you can bump that SAT score a good 200~300 points.</p>