<p>SAT: 1840 - first time, but not taking it again.
ACT: 28 - first time, taking it again.
SAT II in US hist - 610
Going to take Math 2 and Physics SAT II.
UW GPA: 4.0
W GPA: 4.44
Class rank: 3
I've taken all AP/honors courses all throughout high school, and got all A's.
My courses next year, as a senior:
AP Eng Lit, AP Gov, AP Calc AB, AP Calc BC, AP Stats, AP Physics, introduction to engineering, and ASB.
I've done ASB for several years, and I will be a life member of CSF.
Over 200 hours of community service.
I have a part time job that I will keep until I move away to college.
I was on my school's cross country team as a soph and junior.
Doing the Science, Engineering, and Technology club at school next year (if that even matters).
I want to go into civil engineering!</p>
<p>Please chance me for these schools (mostly CA):
Cal Poly SLO
CSU Fullerton
CSU Long Beach
CSU Northridge
San Jose State
UC Berkeley
UC Davis
UC Irvine
Stanford
Cal Tech
Univ of the Pacific
Carnegie Mellon (in PA)
Univ of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign</p>
<p>Anything I could do to improve my chances at the more reach schools?
Thank you!</p>
<p>Cal Poly SLO- likely/possible
CSU Fullerton- likely
CSU Long Beach- likely
CSU Northridge- likely
San Jose State-likely
UC Berkeley- high reach
UC Davis- possible/reach
UC Irvine- possible
Stanford- high reach
Cal Tech- high reach
Univ of the Pacific- possible
Carnegie Mellon (in PA)- high reach
Univ of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign- reach</p>
<p>the thing that helps you for the UC/csu system is your performance compared to your peers (class rank). the privates like to see more special things like internships. its great that you know what you want to do and its obvious that you have pursued that through highschool. some schools are reaches obviously sadly with a 5% acceptance rate, its not right to call stanford a possible or likely school for anyone</p>
<p>thank you! if I was accepted to all those schools, I’d probably pick cal poly. I’m about average with test scores for their general admissions, but I know that since engineering is so impacted there that it’s harder to get in to.</p>
<p>^Really? You’d pass up an opportunity like Stanford and CalTech?</p>
<p>I’m not completely sure, which is why I said probably. I know they’re considered better schools, but cal poly just feels like it’d be better for me.</p>
<p>What is your intended major? That would significantly impact your chance at UIUC.</p>
<p>You have a great GPA and your test scores are in range for most of these schools.
CSUF, CSUN, CSULB, SJSU - safety
Cal Poly SLO, UCD, UCI - match
Stanford - reach (it’s a reach for everyone pretty much and your EC’s are a little lacking for this school)</p>
<p>Don’t know enough about the other schools to chance you on, but I’d say you have a good mix of safeties, matches, and reaches.</p>
<p>Oh, I missed the line that you want study Civil Engineering. Then UIUC would be a reach for you. The mid 50 ACT for their engineering school is 31-34.</p>
<p>Why aren’t you taking the SATs and other standardized tests again? Your GPA is good and having a better SAT score would make a huge difference.</p>
your sat/act scores need to improve some, but I’m sure you will be fine 