<p>Will be applying to a SCIENCE major. Most likely computer science. Not sure if that's an advantage or not</p>
<p>I'm a junior.</p>
<p>Asian Female, California</p>
<p>GPA:</p>
<p>Unweighted:</p>
<p>school scale: 3.6/3.7
standard scale (out of 4.3?): 3.3</p>
<p>Weighted:
UC Scale: 3.9
(not sure how to weight otherwise)</p>
<p>Rank:
Not shown anymore but I believe it's around top 20% :/ (if you weed out everyone who's taking Math 2 and Art, I should be ranked MUCH higher)</p>
<p>SAT: 2220; 680 R / 790 W / 750 M (missed 9 SC in reading. retake or no?)</p>
<p>Courses:
Freshman year: Every honors course I could possibly take
Sophmore year: Every honors course + AP World + 2 sciences
Junior Year: Honors PreCalc, AP Bio, AP Chem </p>
<p>ECs:
- Varsity Track 4 years
- 70+ hours of community service and still growing
- California Scholarship Federation (CSF)
- Own several websites [since 4th grade]
- Own several businesses
- Websites + businesses making thousands a year<br>
- Shadowing Orthopedic Surgeon (haven't started yet)</p>
<p>(note: I did not completely program my websites/businesses from scratch. It will be submitted as a portfolio for my business but not as something I've done by myself completely. I want to major in Computer Science to be able to make all my ideas real.)</p>
<p>Hook: Double Legacy for WashU? (when you chance me :P)</p>
<p>Schools:
Main UCs (UCLA, UCSD, UCB)
UC Davis
UC Irvine
Cornell
WashU
CalTech (lol)
MIT (lol again. x.x)
USC
Brown</p>
<p>UCLA/UCB around 70%. UCSD/Davis/Irvine/USC around 99%. Cornell I’d say around 50%. Caltech/MIT probably rejected (sorry, just being honest). Brown and WashU I’m not sure since none of my friends really applied there so I can’t tell.</p>
<p>i tink what really makes u a formidable candidate to almost all of these schools (honestly cant say MIT, idrk their game) is your ECs and ur decent SAT scores. if you get those SATs up, keep up the rigors of ur class schedule and continue ur ECs, you have a really good shot at all of these schools. </p>
<p>I think you have a good chance at the mid UCs and a fair chance at the top ones.</p>
<p>For Cornell a lot would depend on which school. CAS, along with MIT and Brown and Caltech take almost no unhooked candidate who was not in the top 10% of their high school classes. Those that are accepted with a lower rank will generally be athletes and URMs, so unfortunately, those are big reaches. Don’t know about Washington U, but I’d bet they’re looking for top 10% too.</p>
<p>2college- hmm since it’s computer science i’ll either be doing CAS or school of engineering I’m hoping my EC might somehow act like a hook. As for top 10%… take out everyone who’s in math 3, art, and foods and i’ll be in or near it :D. unfortunately, i don’t think our school ranking works that way.</p>
<p>i’ll be applying ED to cornell, if that ups my chances </p>
<p>WashU is out of the picture now. I’ve decided that it’s just not the right school for me :-)</p>
<p>UCLA - low reach/high match
UCSD - high match/match
UCB - low reach
UC Davis - high match
UC Irvine - match
Cornell - low reach ED
WashU - in, but i guess not huh
CalTech - reach
MIT - high reach
USC - high match
Brown - low/med reach</p>
<p>your sat is fine for most of these schools
gpa/class rank is really the killer
being a female for engineering helps you slightly, although it’s not nearly enough for caltech/mit
imo your essays/recs will make or break your app</p>
<p>Brown is only a low/mid reach? What about brown ed? :)</p>
<p>Hmm WashU isn’t completely out of the picture, but an ED there most likely is, unless I fall in love with the college after visiting</p>
<p>After some thinking, I realized that I would really love to explore the city - specifically, New York City However, I’m not too sure what my chances are of getting into Columbia… probably nil? :P</p>
<p>I’d say you have a good chance in all of the UCs, with B, LA, and SD as low reaches-high matches only because of your GPA, which your ECs will probably cover up for. The sad thing is that test scores & GPA matter much more than ECs in the UC system. Keep in mind that the UCs have a very unique way of calculating GPA so the GPA you think you have might not be what the UCs say you have.</p>
<p>I recommend you re-take the SAT again just because you have nothing to lose. As for ECs, yours are more than enough for all the UCs, but they aren’t really specialized as MIT and Caltech would expect. I’d say both MIT & Caltech are high reaches because you don’t have any math/science hooks (USAMO, IMO, AIME, etc.) Brown and Cornell are probably reaches. I have no clue for neither WashU nor USC.</p>
<p>P.S. A 2220 isn’t average unless you consider 99th percentile average.</p>
I’m hoping my EC might somehow act like a hook. As for top 10%… take out everyone who’s in math 3, art, and foods and i’ll be in or near it :D. unfortunately, i don’t think our school ranking works that way.</p>
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