Chance me for UCLA, UC Berkeley, Stanford, Harvard please?!

Chance Me / Match Me!
1

I will be applying to the UC schools for their Schools of Letters & Sciences - and I am a California resident

I will be a senior at a very competitive high school in California here are my stats

SAT : 2230 (all sections were above 700)
GPA (unweighted) : 3.92
GPA (weighted) : 4.82
SAT II scores : Biology 780, US History, 750
AP Scores : AP Human Geography (5), AP European History (5), AP US History (5), AP English Lang/Comp (5), AP Statistics (5), AP Art History (5), AP Biology (5)

Ethnicity : Indian/Asian
Income bracket : $500,000+

I am currently salutatorian at my high school (#2 out of 808 seniors) - very serious chance of being valedictorian

-Took 5 APs and 6 total weighted classes junior year(next year - 7 APs one weighted class, plus tennis)
-Varsity player on school tennis team that just won league
-President of science club and VP of a club on campus that encourages innovation and thinking, captain of the varsity tennis team
-Play the piano and saxophone at an academy of the performing arts
-Involved in medical research (I’ve had my name published in a few medical journals where I helped in the statistics part of it, but I was definitely part of 3 journals that were submitted internationally)
-Worked in Ghana for a month in a very specialized project to educate people in villages about sanitation, while building an eco-compost toilet for a family to prevent the spread of disease - an amazing project that improves the social and economic conditions of people in the villages
-Volunteer at a local hospital for the past two summers (200+ hours of volunteering experience)
-Shadowing one of the best doctors in the world to gain experience in the medical field this summer

While I do emphasize science and math - I think my ability to thrive in the arts (english, french, art, history) show that I’m a qualified candidate for a liberal arts education

Please be honest, I am realistic and I know that getting into these kinds of schools is NOT easy! I just want some opinions

2

Is your weighted GPA cumulative?
UCLA/UCB: Match
Stanford: Low Reach/Match
Harvard: Reach

TBH, you seem super smart and I feel like you have a pretty strong chance at these schools! What major specifically are you looking to apply to?
Btw, do you have any tips on how to raise your sat score? What tools did you use to study?

3

@collegeugh101, Stanford is usually either just as or more selective than Harvard. Saying an unrecruited applicant has a better shot at one or the other seems a bit misleading.

You’re a qualified candidate for all of these schools, but Stanford and Harvard are reaches for everyone. Good luck.

4

I would echo all the comments above–you present a legitimate application. Your most glaring weakness, is not you per se, but rather as an Asian applicant from California. That subgroup makes it uber competitive, and thus, the more crucial question is how do you make your application standout amongst so many similar applicants…? For those reasons, H and S will still be a reach…

5

For Stanford & Harvard i suggest you to take SATII Math or some Physics as well.
UCLA: match
Stanford: reach
Harvard: reach

6

Also I do not consider your SAT score to be strong enough for your 2 reaches.

7

@collegeugh101 Thank you very much!! I think I will be applying as a bio major!
As for the SAT - I’d say it’s just practice practice practice! I did take classes on it and I’m hoping to increase the score but I’m pretty content with it now…I’ll just try my luck

8

Your SAT score is fine for Harvard and Stanford, anybody that thinks a 2230 will keep you out of either of those scores doesn’t understand how the college application process works at all. There is no reason for you to feel like you need to retake the SAT.

9

Are you premed? If so, then don’t go to Stanford for undergrad (Stanford med school is super amazing tho). There are plenty of very good schools with better advising and premed tracks than at Stanford.