Chance me for UCs please

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of California - GENERAL
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Bio:
-Citizenship: US Citizen living in SoCal
-Class: Upper middle
-Race: Asian (Korean)
-Gender: Female

School:
-Type (Public/private & size): Extremely competitive public, with ~3000 students
-Graduates (How many go to Ivy’s/top 20): usually around 10-15
-AP’s Offered: most of them

Academic Profile:
-Unweighted GPA: 3.7 (Unfortunately, I have a downward trend in my grades, but an upward trend in the difficulty of classes)
-Weighted GPA: UC GPA: 4.2
-AP’s: will have taken 9 by end of senior year
-ACT: 31 (Retaking in September, hoping for 33)
-SAT: N/A
-SAT II: Taking in September
-Rank: Only top 30% because I go to an incredibly competitive high school
-Course Rigor: took the most rigorous possible

EC (In order of importance/commitment):
-Part of the school newspaper, served as Asst. News Editor, News Editor, and Photo Editor (3 years)
-Unification of Disabled Latin Americans district club, served as vice president and president (4 years)
-California Scholarship Federation member (3 years)
-PAWS club, served as secretary (1 year)
-Link Crew Leader (2 years)
-Leo club member (2 years)
-Human Trafficking awareness club member (2 years)

Other Notables (College courses you’ve taken, papers published, created own website, TAing a class, ect):
-Took Biology 101 at a CC

Honors:
-Rookie of the Year award for school newspaper
-President’s award for UDLA
-2 other smaller awards for UDLA
-Editor of the year award for school newspaper
-6th place in critical review for East LA JEA competition
-3rd place in newspaper layout for Southern California JEA competition

Work:
-Summer internship for a small business
-private tutoring for middle schoolers
-hired as a photographer for portraits and events (ex. wedding anniversary)

Schools I’m looking at:
-UC Berkeley
-UCLA
-UCSD
-UC Irvine

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Intended major?
What are your safety schools? What other schools are you applying besides the UC’s listed?

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I’m hoping to do human biology, although I’m still considering other biology majors. I’m applying to all UCs and CSUs.

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Bumping your ACT score to 33+ will help your chances at the top UC’s. As always, UCB/UCLA are tough admits but the rest of the UC’s are within reach. Make sure you write some outstanding personal insight essays.

I do not see a science focus on your EC’s which makes you well rounded but may decrease your chances a bit.

For the CSU’s you look very competitive for all. SLO may be tough due their 14% predicted acceptance rate and that they overenrolled this year, so it will be much tougher next year.

Freshman admit rates for UC GPA (capped weighted) of 4.20 or above:

UCB: 42%
UCLA: 54%
UCSD: 87%
UCSB: 85%
UCD: 91%
UCI: 94%
UCR/UCM: 98%

Best of luck.

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You’ve got some good ECs with leadership positions. The UC app is a funny one giving you lots of chances to show how you excel at different things. PM me if you want more info. Too long to explain here.

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Thank you!