chance me please on these colleges!!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>The colleges I'm thinking of applying to are: UC Berkeley, UCLA, MIT, CalTech, Cornell, USC, University of the Pacific, UCSD, & Washington University in St. Louis.</p>

<p>I am currently a junior in high school. I'm a California resident living in the valley (my location sucks, so that's a plus), and my school is part of the ELC program. So far, this is how my high school days have been going:</p>

<p>GPA AND SAT SCORES
Current Cumulative Weighted GPA (non-UC): 4.72
Current Cumulative Weighted GPA (UC): 4.13
Current Cumulative Unweighted GPA: 3.8</p>

<p>SAT Score: 1970 (I've only taken it once)
Critical Reading - 580
Mathematics - 720
Writing - 670</p>

<p>Top 4% of my class (ranked #2 as of now out of 170)
Over 400 service hours</p>

<p>E/C's
-Top of my Freshman class award with a weighted GPA of 4.619 average
-4 years Marching Band, Steel Drums, Jazz Band, and piano playing for School Masses. (*I'm very good at playing piano and drumset) I get lots of service hours for this.
-Honor Band percussionist
-4 years Member of a CLC group (Christian Learning Community)
-3 years Hip-Hop Club President
-1 year Junior Class President
-Been playing piano since 2nd grade
-Not doing any sports (mainly because I have asthma that's really bad)
-2 years Academic Decathlon team junior and senior year.
-2 years Link Crew member
-2 years CSF Secretary junior and senior year.
-2 years Student Ambassador
-Tutor</p>

<p>(when I say 4 years, I mean I'm going to do that in total years for the rest of high school)</p>

<p>I'm mainly concentrating on the academics because I easily get asthma when doing sports. I'm really into music though, and I enjoy it.</p>

<p>Any other advice on what I can do to improve my resume? Also, since I'm ranked 2 in my class, would it be a good idea to try to become salututorian? The guy who's number 3 is really close in GPA to me, so I don't want to be disappointed if I end up losing to him. How good of a title is valedictorian / salututorian?</p>

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<p>I’m sorry but I think your SAT’s are weak for some of the schools you’re applying to. The rest of your academics are good though, so I’m confident you can get them higher. </p>

<p>UC Berkeley - reach
UCLA -somehat reach
MIT - huge reach
CalTech - huge reach
Cornell - high reach
USC - reach
University of the Pacific - safety
UCSD - match
Washington University in St. Louis - reach</p>

<p>This is all with your current test scores, of course, if you could get them significantly higher (around a 32 ACT or 1450 core SAT) you would have much higher odds at all these schools. </p>

<p>Have you considered taking the ACT? I had similar SAT scores my first time and then I did wayyy better on the ACT.</p>

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<p>thanks for your opinion. and yea i plan on taking the SAT two more times, and then the ACT next month. i think im more of a math / science person, so i hope i do good on it… do you think i should put more match or safety schools? for me it’s hard to believe that 7 out of the 9 schools i put are reaches.</p>

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<p>Yeah, with your current stats it’d be wise. Don’t get too worried now, though, your scores really will rise, especially if you practice the critical reading.</p>

<p>Remember too that you have a good chance at getting into one reach, just maybe not your favorite.</p>

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<p>yea make sure you bring up your test scores, and try to make yourself stand out in your essay</p>

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<p>bump…</p>