Chance me please! UCs

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Gender: Male
Ethnicity: Asian
Location: Southern California
High School: Public, competitive, 300 graduating students
Class rank: Top 10%, no ranking</p>

<p>GPA: (9-11): 4.229 W, 3.971 UW
(excluding 9th grade): 4.304 W, 4.000 UW
Honors classes: , Algebra 3-4, Pre-Calculus, United States History
AP classes: Statistics, Music Theory. Also took AP US History exam.
Taking the most challenging classes available except for the sciences (AP Bio, Chem,Physics) because I hate science.
Senior year: AP French, AP Calc B-C, AP Environmental Science, AP US Government. </p>

<p>Test Scores:
SAT I- 2180 (720 CR, 780 M, 680 W), 2100 (670 CR, 730 M, 700 W) 2nd time ouch.
SAT IIs- Math IIc (projected 780+), US History (~700), taking Chinese and maybe French in the Fall</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
(My modest ECs focus around music)
Piano student (11 years since 1st grade)
Piano teacher (3 years)
English tutor at Taiwan (winter break of 2006)
40 hours community service (required to graduate lol)
Hospital work this summer (~3 months)
Yearly piano recital (including all my teacher's students)
Misc. club memberships, no significant leadership positions</p>

<p>Awards:
California’s Certificate of Merit Tests 8 and 10 for the Piano(Honors)
Certificate of Merit Piano Test Panel Advanced Level
Regional festival piano award (freshman year)
There is an extreme lack of competition awards, but I have tried countless of competitions, but lost.</p>

<p>How would I fare in admissions for the UCs, but above all UCLA and UCBerkeley? Thanks</p>

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<p>bump! weak ECs, so I'm nervous about this.</p>

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<p>sports? 10 char</p>

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<p>How can u get a UC GPA of 4.3 when it is capped at about 4.23 or around there? But, besides that I think you have a very solid chance at both, assuming your in state.</p>

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<p>I took P.E., I can't throw a ball straight.
I'm not sure how the UC GPA works, but when I got a recent transcript from my counselor she pointed to the 4.304.
Thanks for the responses.</p>

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<p>Your GPA is good. Your SAT I score is decent. Try at least 2 more SAT II tests. You should definitely work on more extracurriculars not pertaining to music. Music's great, but I'm guessing you want to major in music. Try getting involved in something you're interested other than piano. All the stuff you've done seems like it's been required of you, whether for school or from your piano teacher pressuring you to. You seem to like tutoring English? Maybe start a summer camp for elementary school students for English/math help? Just a thought. Good luck! :)</p>

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<p>Match to Cal and LA and strong match to UCSD. Everything else is a safety.</p>