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<p>I went to a small private school freshman and sophomore year and I did poorly freshman year with straight B's once C and improved sophomore year with mixed A's and B's. I transfered to a big public highschool junior and current senior year and I got straight A's junior year.</p>

<p>9th grade:
English Lit/Comp:b/b
Spanish1:c/b
World History: b/b
Honors Geometry: b/b
Computer lit/comp: b</p>

<p>10th grade:
American Lit/comp: b/a
Spanish 2: b/b
Dramatic Interpretation/Speech: a
Honors Algebra 2/Trig: b/a
Biology:A/A
Dance: A/A</p>

<p>11th grade:
Ap English: A/A
Spanish 3: A-/A
AP US History: A/A
Honors Pre-Calc/Calculus A: A-/A-
Ceramics: A
Honors Chemistry: A/A-</p>

<p>12th grade:
AP Physics
Ap Psychology
Ap Calculus AB
Government/Economics
Bible Literature/Existentialism
Spanish Academic Tutor</p>

<p>[ *] SAT: Math: 690
CR:590
WR:710
[ *] SAT IIs (if sent):US History: 650
Math II: anywhere from 700-750 i hope
Japanese: will be 700 or above
[ *] ACT: 30
[ *] unweighted GPA: 3.53
[ *] Course load (# of AP/IB/H, special courses, etc.): 5 aps total-
US History
Language and composition
Calculus AB
Physics
Psychology
Honors Geometry, Honors Trig, Honors Pre-Calc/ Honors Calc A
Honors Chemistry
Academic Tutor Spanish
[ *] Rank: 35% (my current highschool counts my gpa from my old school so I got very unlucky. If it were only my gpa from my current highschool then i would be in the top 1%)
[ *] Other stats: Freshman GPA-2.89, Sophomore GPA-3.56, Junior GPA-4.0
[ *] Subjective (ECs, special circumstances, etc):
-Began a nonprofit group my junio year that raised money to help underprivileged children in my community. I have then began a club my senior year to raise awareness and recruit more people. I am the President of this club.
-Designed a website to get more involved in the club and group
-JV Swim team (9-10)
-Varsity Swim team (11)
-Academic Spanish Tutor (12)
-volunteer elementary tutor (9-10) (5 hours a week every week)
-Secretary of Invisible Children Club (12)
-Saturday japanese school (1-12 grade) Completely fluent in Japanese
-Intern at Wells Fargo (junior year) (40 hours a week for a month)
-Volunteer at Japanese American Retirement Home (9-12) (20 hours a month)
-Volunteer at Alzheimer's care center in Japan (11) (8 hours per week in August)
-Volunteer at my pre-school in Japan teaching English (8 hours per week in August)
-Member of Delian's Honor Society (11-12)
-2007 received Student Athlete Award (scholarr athlete receiving highter than 3.5 unweighted) and MVP Stroke Specialist Award
-Japanese Speech Contestant(9-12)
-Fashion Club(9-10)
-Science Club (9-10)
-Red Cross Club and Volunteer(11) (50 hours)
-Piano 8 years (6 yrs-14years old quit freshman year)
-Acting, Dancing, Singing Workshop and appeared in theatre productions 6 years (2nd-8th grade)</p>

<p>[ *] Essays: pretty solid
[ *] Teacher Recs:good
[ *] Counselor Rec:good
[ *] Hook (legacy, recruited athlete, etc.): sadly, no
[ *) Location/Person: Born in Japan
[ *] State or Country:California
[ *] School Type: public
[ *] Ethnicity: eurasian. white and asian
[ *] Gender: F
[ *] major strength/weakness: My freshman year gpa is my greatest setback but I have shown improvement in every year. I also have a very strong cultural background and foundation.
Thanks!</p>

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<p>Your EC's look like your main deal, which is good, but your GPA and test scores might be keeping you down. Since you can't really do much about your GPA, just focus on the SAT and maybe take them again, or the ACT. The fact that you're OOS really doesn't help either, but it looks like you and I are in the same boat. I'm from VA trying to get into Cal ;)</p>

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<p>does Virginia consider 9th grade grades into the cumulative gpa?</p>

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<p>do you KNOW what cumulative means?</p>

<p>actually, here at UVa, we take your GPA from 10-12 and add it with your GPA from 1st grade to get your cumulative high school GPA.</p>

<p>p.s. FALSE. you will not give me a cookie. honor code violation. no lying, cheating, and/or stealing here at UVa. :)</p>

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<p>I'm sorry but I don't believe I quite understand you. So at the UVa, when they ask for my unweighted gpa, do I give my gpa from 10-11 or 9-11
i'm sorry i don't understand:( i really appreciate your help thank you so much really.</p>

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<p>i was being sarcastic about the 10-12 thing. You're cumulative high school GPA comes from ALL of your high classes, including grade 9. So, your cumulative high school GPA will include gradess 9-12.</p>

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<p>I have sifted through all your information, and to be honest, it gave me a headache. Nowhere do I see a clear organized profile of a student with a well identified PASSION and academic record to warrant admission to UVA. Sorry. Your, California, OOS status will definitely not help this quagmire.</p>

<p>You are involved in too many things. Aside from all these volunteer hours, you started some club in your senior year, good timing (sorry-sarcasm), and you don't even delve into what that is? You quit piano at age 14 years old, ok, but do you want to advertise that you quit anything on your college application?</p>

<p>Your GPA is low for UVA, and your rank is not competitive. The 710 in your SAT is good, but that's not enough for the whole admissions spectrum. ACT is good though.</p>

<p>I'm glad you are applying to UVA, 'cause no one really knows your ultimate status unless you try. I see that you've posted "chances" on lots of other sites, my advice is>>> Just make sure you have your "reaches" and "safeties" in your college admissions application portfolio.</p>

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<p>I had i think a 2050 (710M/640V/700W), not sure was a long time ago and a 3.7UW in the top 7% and was OOS and got waitlisted. </p>

<p>If i were you I wouldnt send in your SAT score, Id send in ACT instead because that 30 would translate to a 1350 in the eyes of adcoms. And your actual SAT is 1280, so that wont help. </p>

<p>If you want UVA, you're going to first have to get straight A's this year and retake the SAT, as I think UVA likes SAT more...I would shoot for a 1450+ M/V</p>

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<p>from my school nobody with a GPA 3.7 and under(weighted) got in. GPA is the NUMBER 1 thing they check. I say your SAT is good enough. ONLY for engineering though. if you are going for Arts and Science then no way that's good enough.</p>

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<p>I thought admissions standards were the same across the schools, as far as numbers went?</p>

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<p>You're 3.53 GPA and 1280 SAT will not cut it as an OSS candidate. Consider staying IS and applying to the UC's.</p>