Chance me please? (rather detailed)

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of British Columbia
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<p>I’m a Californian high school student with Canadian citizenship. I’m not sure how much that would affect my admissions chances, but I want to apply to UBC’s Science department. Probably neuroscience, biology, or chemistry.</p>

<p>GPA: 3.63 (unweighted)
*My school doesn’t do rankings</p>

<p>SAT: 2230 (retaking in November)
Math- 770
Critical Reading- 720
Writing- 740</p>

<p>SAT II
Math 2C- 770
Chemistry- 700
US History- 680
*I’m going to retake Math 2C and Literature in October</p>

<p>ACT: 33 (retook in September)</p>

<p>AP Chemistry- 4
AP US History- 4
AP English Language- 5
*Taking AP Physics, AP Spanish, and AP Calculus AB this year</p>

<p>National Honor Society (2 yrs)
Wind Ensemble- Bassoon First Chair (6 yrs)
Marching Band Auxiliary Captain (4 yrs)
Model United Nations (4 yrs)
California Scholarship Federation President (3 yrs)
American Asian Exchange Program Vice President (3 yrs)
High school-college ambassador (3 yrs)
JV Swim Captain (1 yr)</p>

<p>Library Volunteer (2 yrs, 120 hours)
Job at a motel (2 yrs)
Internship at dental clinic (3 yrs)</p>

<p>National Merit Semi-Finalist
AP Scholar
California Scholarship Federation Sealbearer</p>

<p>The thing I’m most worried about is that I got a C in my Pre-Calculus class in the SECOND semester of 11th grade. I feel like that’s going to affect my application a lot, especially since over the course of high school my grades didn’t improve. If anything, they only experienced a downward trend.</p>

<p>10th GRADE
H Alg2/Trig B / A
H Spanish 2 B / B
H Chem A / A
H Political Geo B / A
H English 3 B / A
Band A / A
MUN A / A</p>

<p>11th GRADE
H PreCalc B / C
H Spanish 3 B / B
H Physics B / A
AP Chem A / A
AP US History A / A
AP Lang A / A
Band A / A
MUN A / A</p>

<p>12th GRADE CLASSES
H Calculus
H Civics/Economics
H English
AP Physics
AP Spanish
Band
MUN</p>

<p>How much do you think my C in Pre-Calculus, along with my only average GPA, is going to harm my application? I’m hoping that if I do well in Calculus Honors this year, it might balance out that C. Do I have a chance of getting into UBC? Especially in the extremely competitive science field?</p>

<p>Any help is seriously appreciated (and thanks for slogging through this exhaustive list!)</p>

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<p>Its hard to say. Canadian schools, put wieght on grades more than anything else. If you really want to go to UBC. I’d apply to the faculty of ARTs as your secondary choice. If you do reasonably well, you can transfer to the science department at the end of first year. Usually a 70 average (B- at UBC) is enough to transfer due to an agreement between faculty of arts and faculty of science. You won’t be necessarily behind, since arts students can take every course first year science students take. If you do this I’d take your Physics, Biology, English, and other courses that count towards a science degree</p>

<p>also arts students can double major in science, though its hard to double major at Canadian schools (they require more credits within ones field, than an American school does).</p>

<p>P.S. your grades should get you into Arts no problem.</p>