Chance me for UCSD, UC Davis, UC Irvine, and NYU please!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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I’m currently a junior from the Bay Area in California.

GPA
UW: 3.7 (top 10% of my class of about 750)
UC GPA (10 & 11): 3.95

SAT: 1970
ACT: 29
SAT II: took World History, will take US History and Literature

Course Load (Honors and AP)
Freshman: English 1 Honors (no APs offered for freshman)
Sophomore: English 2 Honors, WHAP
Junior: AP Lang, APUSH, AP Environmental Science
Senior: AP US Gov & Politics, AP Literature, AP Statistics, AP Psychology, AP Human Geography

ECs
-volunteered at the summer program at the local library every summer since 8th grade (~300 hours)
-reading program to help underprivileged kids from minority backgrounds improve English/reading skills
-secretary of a local teen-run library organization for three years, will be co-pres next year, won “Heroes of District 5” award
-board member of my school’s California Scholarship Federation this year, will be secretary next year
-historian of Environment Club this year
-two years of Speech and Debate Club
-one year in Odyssey of the Mind, won 2nd place in regional and top 10 in state competitions
-four years in Korean Club
-four years in Acts of Random Kindness Club

Work Experience
I worked unpaid at a local tutoring center last summer and plan to again this summer.

Majoring in either Political Science or English!

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Your UC GPA and SAT is about average for UCD/UCI, a little low for UCSD. Your best chances would be at UCI, followed by UCD and then UCSD. No comment on NYU since I am not as familar with NY schools versus CA schools. Your EC’s look good. Work on your essays this summer and make them shine. Good Luck.

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Davis and UCSD waitlisted a lot of kids with better stats than you this year (think 3.9 uw/ 34 or 35 ACT). Many of them were trying for the impacted majors, though (CS and bio). Go look at the threads at each of those schools for who was accepted/denied/waitlisted. If the UC budget is as bad next year you will definitely want a backup plan. (I guess in CC terminology, I’d say you are low reach for at least Davis and San Diego). If you could bring your GPA up a little higher by getting all A’s this semester and then retake either ACT or SAT to bring those up a bit, you’d be in a better position.

(not trying to be all doom and gloom. You have a chance. But you need some safeties that you would be happy with).

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BUMP!