Bio:
-Citizenship: USA
-State of residence: California
-Class: middle class/upper
-Race: Asian (Indian)
-Gender: Male
High School:
-HIGHLY COMPETITIVE (lool)
-95% asian
-around 450 students in the 2018 graduating class
Academic Profile:
Sophomore year:
Honors English: B+
Chem: B+
Spanish: B
ALG 2: A+
World Hist: A
HINDI: A
(3.5) for both semesters
Junior year: 1st sem
Pre-calc: B+
AP Stats: A
AP World History: A+
APUSH: B
Honors English: B
Digital Imaging: A
2nd sem ( I put in ALOT of effort second sem)
Pre-Calc: A
AP Stats: A
AP World History: A+
APUSH; A+
Digital Imaging: A
Honors English: B+
Macroeconomics: A+ (community college)
Microeconomics: A+ (community college)
(4.5 weighted)(3.83 unweighted) APUSH is considered one of the hardest courses in my school. If I were to make a educated guess, I would say that 20% of the kids that took the course, around 10 kids, got an A. Just to provide a broad scale of where i stand in my school, i would say that a 4.5 2nd sem gpa is placed in the top 10% of my class.
*(I need to take one more science to meet the requirement, so I’m taking Physics next year. On top of that, I’m taking AP Lit, AP Human GEO, APCS, CALC, GOV/ECON)
-Standardized Scores:
-AP’s: 3’s in APUSH and AP Stats (I filled out a form for a re score because I expected at least a 4 for each test)
-ACT: N/A
-SAT: 1450 on the new SAT
-SAT II: 710 Math II, 750 US History (hopefully my US Hist SAT makes up for my AP score)
EC:
2 time gold medal winner of the Presidential service award (I have two letters signed by Pres. Obama)
Over 150 documented Hours of service, 100 undocumented but they counted towards the award
Volunteered at an underprivileged summer camp, food shelter, thrift store. As of right now, I’m volunteering as a Data analyst in a public library
Internship at a startup that creates a fitbit type product
-President of the “Business and law club”
-Played on the school soccer team for 3 years
Schools I’m looking at:
Early admission:
Carnegie Mellon-tepper school of business
Normal:
UC Berkeley
UC Irvine
UC Davis
UC San Diego
UCLA
UC Santa Barbara
Indiana-Bloomington
University of Washington
Emory (stretch school)
UT Austin
USC
-Purdue
MAJOR: ECONOMICS-----MINOR: CS
(I understand that some of my grades aren’t that great, but I’m hoping that some schools will look at my Junior year grades and take that into strong consideration. Please feel free to be as open as possible! Obviously there are a handful of schools on the list that are going to reject me, but I would definitely like some input on my chances! THANKS!!!)
For your academics it would have been nice to see your freshman grades also so a complete transcript could be shown. UC is a for sure. Carnegie is reach. Purdue is safety. Add more safety schools.
@VANDEMORY1342 Thanks for the response! Do you recommend any good safety schools that are worth applying to? I will probably add Ohio State and UIUC as two extra safety schools.
I am a firm believer that you only really need two safety school, and then you’re okay. Why waste time applying for four safeties and four reaches, when you could apply to two safeties and six reaches. Think about it this way. If you apply to four safeties, than you can guarantee you get into four school, most likely a couple of those safeties you won’t even really like. Now, if you picked two solid safeties that you really liked, and everything went wrong, and you only got into those two, then you would be fine, just as fine as if you had gotten into four safeties while not liking two. You can only go to one college. It doesn’t matter if we get accepted into 12 schools or just 2, everyone is picking just one to attend. The only difference is that now, with six reach applications, you have a better chance of possibly getting into a top school, since you have six tickets in the lottery rather than four.
I’m not saying that you shouldn’t have safeties. I’m just saying you really don’t need a lot of them. I only really have one…
And UIUC is definitely not a safety for computer science…Like they are the fourth best CS college in all of America. You also have to apply specially for their computer science program.
No way!! I’m an Asian/Indian with same exact stats. 3.83 UW, 4.50 W, top 10% as well. I’m also looking at CMU, Emory, UTA, and USC for biz/data anlytics/IS as well. You have a fantastic chance at all those schools, good luck
UPDATE: I was able to find out the acceptance rates of my highschool’s graduating class for the below colleges:
Berkeley: 38% (the rate last year was 44%)
UCSD: 44%
Irvine: 45%
Davis: 47%
UCSB: 67%
carnegie: 43%
ut austin: 53%
emory: 8% RIP
Based on this given information, can y’all tell me if my chances are improved for these colleges? Thanks!
Based on posted grades, your UW GPA looks around a 3.5+ and your UC GPA is around 3.8-3.9. You have competitive test scores, but your GPA will hinder you although you do mention you attend a competitive HS.
You have some good EC’s that will help your chances and if you write some compelling essays, they could tip the scale in your favor.
As it stands now,
USC/UCLA/UCB: Reach
UCSD: Low Reach
UCD/UCB/UCSB: High Match-Match
I see no solid safety school and I cannot comment on the rest of the schools on your list but your list looks reach heavy.
Add UCSC/UCR or one or two Cal States onto list as safeties.
I would suggest 1 more SAT test. Given your ethnicity and the demographics of your school (sounds like Mission San Jose/Lynbrook/Monta Vista) you will need that SAT score closer to 1500 or higher.
You will need more than that 1 year of a foreign language for most competitive schools. Also it’s bad form for someone to take a language from their own ethnic group. Which is my kid didn’t follow his friends and decided to take 4 years of French instead of Chinese. Some colleges will regard that as a cop out.
IU Bloomington is a match with your current grades. Purdue as well.
Add UIUC to your list. The other OOS schools are reaches. Texas has their top 12 percent requirement for in-state and it’s going to be tough for an OOS to get in. UW is getting more competitive.
Texas OOS - Reach (there are relatively few OOS spots…)
Emory, USC, Berkeley, UCLA - Low reach
Washington OOS, UCSD, UCSB - High match
Purdue OOS, IU OOS, UCD, UCI - Match
I agree with above posters who recommended adding at least one safety, and in the specific recommendations: Merced, Riverside, SC, and CSUs that aren’t Poly.
Purdue and IU could join Washington in High Matchland if their OOS apps are up.
Finally, with the wealth of public schools in California, unless you can find a real OOS bargain – say, within $5k of the UCs or CSUs – I would seriously question going to an OOS public. For similar quality (Wash, Texas, Purdue, IU on your list…) you are going to pay a lot more.
Schools that offer huge merit awards are another matter, but you aren’t looking at those.
i calculated for u-
UW- 3.58
W- 3.83
UC GPA- 3.83
SAT- 1450
ur UC GPA isnt that high but ur SAT is pretty good.
However most of ur schools are reaches so apply to safeties like UCR/UCSC/CP Pomona/SJSU/CSULB/ SDSU, etc…
