<p>I am getting little help on the Chance Me discussion so I am posting this here as it may be more a relevant forum.</p>
<p>So I finished all my CSU's and UC applications. (Thanks to all the help in the past btw!) In addition, I got a lot of guidance from my college counselors and even some help from people from UCLA and UCI for my prompts.</p>
<p>I'm in love with UC Santa Cruz. Just the campus alone wins it for me. I applied for sociology as my first and community studies as second.</p>
<p>This is my info:</p>
<p>California High School Student</p>
<p>3.7 UC GPA, 10 AP Classes in total
1500+ hours of community service hours
Volunteer Mentor / Volunteer Educator at the zoo and aquarium here in LA
24 ACT / my SAT was not strong so I'm not going to post it up for people to shame me
2 official awards of achievement for community service from the White House - Gold Level
1 award from the House of Representatives for a national poetry contest (it spoke about how the sea ports developing in our world today)- 1st Place
5 Leadership Positions on campus ( Key Club, French Club, California Scholarship Federation, etc) all which I have been in since Freshman Year
Co-founded the first cultural club of its kind on campus</p>
<p>Other things:
First generation, first person in my family to go to college
2 Part-Time Jobs</p>
<p>Demonstrated Interest: I visited the campus and I participated in their online chats they had with the admission officers. Signed up for their newsletters. I have emailed outreach offices multiple times with questions.</p>
<p>Side Note: I have a lot of experience in working with sea animals... People often comment why I don't major in Marine Bio and why I want major in Sociology. I wanted to be a Psychology major, but it is a very competitive major at UCSC. Although I was involved with sea animals and marine experts at my fingertips, I love working with people. Working at local attractions that attract so many diverse kinds of people really exposed me to all kinds of individuals. So I thought sociology would be the best fit for me.</p>
<p>What are my chances for... </p>
<p>UC's:
UCSC, UCI, UCD, and Cal? (Don't waste your time shaming me for applying to UC's please)</p>
<p>CSU's:
SFSU, CSUMB, and Pomona</p>
<p>Already conditionally accepted to Chico and CSULB (I am a LB resident and they lower the EI score for us)</p>
<p>Please only honest opinions! Realistically, I know I'm not the worst candidate out there. People get into UCSC with 1400 SAT scores and 3.3-3.5 GPA's... and it's right on their common data sets. I just want your honest opinion about my chances, basically.</p>
<p>Thanks! </p>