Chance me for these California universities (OOS)!

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<p>Demographics:
Out of state
Asian American
Second generation college student (first generation undergraduate - don't know if that changes anything)
Family Salary - about 100k</p>

<p>Academics:
GPA - 3.9 (UW), 4.02 W (.5 weight for both AP and honors courses)
SAT - 2310 (710 CR, 800 Math and Writing)
SAT II - Math II (800), Chem (800)
PSAT - 231 (73 CR, 80 Math, 78 Writing)</p>

<p>Freshman year
Accelerated English - (B) overall
Honors Algebra 2 - (A) overall
AP Human Geography - (A-) overall
AP Biology - (B) overall
Latin - (A) overall</p>

<p>Sophomore year
Accelerated English - (A-) overall
Honors Pre-calculus - (A+) overall
AP European History - (B+) overall
AP Chemistry - (A-) overall
Latin - (A-) overall
Honors Intro to Programming - (A) overall</p>

<p>Junior year (current year)
Accelerated English - (A-) current grade
AP BC Calculus - (A) current grade
Accelerated US History - (A) current grade
AP Physics C: Mechanics - (A+/100%+) current grade (not likely to change)
Latin - (A) overall
AP Computer Science - (A) current grade</p>

<p>Senior year courseload
Accelerated English
AP Statistics
AP Government/AP Macroeconomics (two half year courses)
AP Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism
AP Latin Vergil
Possibly MIT OCW in Differential Equations/MVC</p>

<p>School Clubs
-Future Business Leaders of America (since freshman year)
9th grade - 8th place at states level
10th grade - 8th place at states level
-Math Olympiad (since freshman year)
9th grade - AMC10 school winner
10th grade - AMC10 school winner, participated in AIME
11th grade - AMC12 school winner
-Science Olympiad (since junior year)
Participated at regionals junior year
-Video Game Production Club (started senior year)
Founder of club, plan to start for senior year</p>

<p>Other Clubs
-Junior Achievement (students create their own company and run it)
Freshman and sophomore years</p>

<p>Sports
-Swimming - YMCA team for 10 years, Varsity member since freshman year for high school
-Tennis - JV member for high school (only freshman and sophomore years)</p>

<p>Awards
-FBLA - 8th place (see above) x2
-AIME participant
-AMC school winner x3
-Distinguished Honor Roll every semester</p>

<p>Volunteering
-Local hospital - 2-3 hours every week since start of junior year
-Swim team - once or twice every year, about 6 hours each time
-FBLA - small school events (about 5 each year), about 2-3 hours each time</p>

<p>Hobbies
-Creating a video game with my friends, plan to sell and market it in my senior year (aka go to video game conventions such as E3, etc.)</p>

<p>Plan to major in computer science, with concentration in game development
Interested in:
University of Southern California (Viterbi - Computer Science with Concentration in Game Developement)
University of California: Berkeley - Computer Science
University of California: LA - Computer Science (I would join their club)
University of California: San Diego - Computer Science (I would join their club)</p>

<p>Thanks for all of your feedback!</p>

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<p>Looks like you will be a National Merit Finalist–that’ll be a huge help with USC, which offers an automatic half-tuition scholarship to NMFs who are accepted. Go to the National Merit subforum (from the financial aid forum) for more info. Viterbi might be a tougher admit, but it is a wonderful program. Folks on the USC forum can answer questions about that.</p>

<p>Berkeley, UCLA and UCSD are unlikely to be affordable for you as an out of stater. Run the Net Price Calculators to check. Save yourself the application fees if the school would be too expensive for you.</p>

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<p>As long as you don’t need financial aid, you will get in at full fees to the publics. </p>