Chance me, Please! Senior worried about his [UC/USC/NYU/UoP] acceptance!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Information:
Chinese male.
Lives in-state (California).
Attends public high school in CA.
Applied for financial aid.</p>

<p>Overall Weighted GPA: 3.46
UC GPA: 3.4</p>

<p>Classes (including senior year):
3 honors classes in all.
3 AP classes in all.
1 community college course in the summer.</p>

<p>SAT Reasoning Test:
Critical Reading: 650
Mathematics: 660
Writing: 720 (11 on essay)
Total: 2030</p>

<p>SAT Subject Tests:
Chinese with Listening: 750
Mathematics Level 2: 690
Literature: 650</p>

<p>*Offices held and activities and organizations:
*-Member of Class of 2008 Committee (9th-12th grade)
-Participated in AIDS Walk (11th-12th grade)
-Activities Director of school Hip Hop team (11th-12th grade)
-President of my chapter of Eyes Around the World organization (11th-12th grade)
-Basketball League Team Captain (10th-12th grade)
-Vice President of Hoops 4 Hope Club (11th-12th grade)
-Member of Freestylers Club (9th-12th grade)
-Participated in Bottles for the Bay program (11th-12th grade)
-Chinese American Federation (11th-12th grade)
-English Tutor (11th-12th grade)
-Participated in Rosemead Reading Program (11th-12th grade)
-Basketball League Youth Division Coach (11th-12th grade)</p>

<p>*Honors and awards received:
*-National Merit Commended Award
-Most Valuable Player of Basketball League
-Youth Future CEO Award
-Student of the Month
-Principal's Honor Roll</p>

<p>Coursework Other Than A-G:
-Chinese school classes since 5th grade.
-Graphics I course junior year at my school.
-Hip Hop classes 11th and 12th grade.
-Weekend art classes since 5th grade.
-Weekend piano classes since third grade.</p>

<p>*Work experience:
*-Sales Assistant at Mom’s electronics company for 2 years
-Assistant to the President (my Dad’s) company for 2 years</p>

<p>*Essays: *
-Wrote beautiful, personal, moving essays.
-Also wrote additional essay which explained my grades a little better.</p>

<p>Excellent letters of recommendation from:
-Counseler.
-Frehman year history teacher (now the Dean of History)
-Junior year history teacher.
-Freshman/sophomore year math teacher.</p>

<p>Interviews:
Great, personal interview at USC. (Also attended the Open house there)</p>

<p>Please chance me on the following universities!
USC
NYU
UoP
Berkeley
Davis
Irvine
Los Angeles
Merced
Riverside
San Diego
Santa Barbara
Santa Cruz
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo</p>

<p>Thank you in advance for your time!!!</p>

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<p>Berkeley: big reach
UCLA: reach
UCSD: reach
UCD/UCI/UCSB: slight reach (50-50)
UCR/UCSC: safe match - safety
Cal Poly: high match (~60%)
NYU: reach
USC: reach</p>

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<p>^Thank you for your time!
I'd be really happy to get into UCI or UCSB.</p>

<p>Anyone else got an opinion?</p>

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<p>USC:maybe
NYU:maybe
UoP:in
Berkeley:nah...
Davis:good match
Irvine:good match
Los Angeles:nah....
Merced:in
Riverside:in
San Diego:maybe..
Santa Barbara:good match
Santa Cruz:in
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo:in</p>

<p>this is just my opinion...</p>

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<p>i agree with kyledavid. maybe slightly higher chances @ USC, depending on your rank or UW?</p>

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<p>^ My unweighted is around the same as my weighted, since I don't have many classes that add points. =/</p>

<p>Anyone else got input?</p>

<p>And thanks so much, kyledavid80, dnduswo, and FellowCCViewer
for your input.</p>

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<p>bump to the top!</p>

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<p>Well I received my UCR Admissions packet in the mail today, so that's one down haha.</p>

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<p>Well, since no ones replying I guess I'll update again haha.
So far I've gotten into</p>

<p>-UC Riverside
-Cal State San Luis Obispo</p>

<p>No rejections yet!</p>

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<p>congrats on riverside and cal state san luis obispo</p>

<p>id say:
berkeley: large reach
ucla: not as large as berkeley, but still a reach
ucsd: less than ucla, but still a reach
davis/irvine/ucsb: match
santacruz: safety
Cal Poly: near davis/irivine/ucsb
nyu/southern cal: match-reach, same as ucsd</p>

<p>good luck!!!</p>

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<p>You're Chinese and you play basketball? That's pretty awesome right there. I'd accept you.</p>

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<p>^Yes, that's very awesome.</p>

<p>Anyways, thanks rollz4 for the opinion, I'm really aiming for either UCSB or Irvine, so that sounds great. :)</p>

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<p>Bumppp!
Anyone else got an opinion?</p>

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<p>in at riverside, merced, santa cruz, for sure.</p>

<p>edit: you already got into riverside, my bad.</p>

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<p>I got into Merced too!
No rejections yet!
ahahaha..</p>

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<p>Bump...
Bump
Bump</p>

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<p>Sorry about the slightly out of topic reply, but I got into UCI. Was notified by mail and through the website. But I thought the decisions were supposed to be put up on March 27th? Have they preponed it by any chance? Does this usually happen? Thanks!</p>

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<p>^UCI Regents decision is out early.</p>

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<p>Oh damn, basically applying to the same schools as you!
What if I have generally the same thing except 6 APs, 2230 SAT score, and 750 for Math2c, 760 for Lit and Chinese, and 730 for Bio? And a crapload of extracurric art classes (applying as an art major)?</p>

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<p>Oh? But then, I am an international student. Isnt Regents supposed to be only for US citizens or permanent residents?</p>