<p>OOS- Washington St.
Male, half brazilian/half egyptian
Biological Sciences
very low-income (any difference positively or negatively?)</p>
<p>UW GPA: 3.97
UC GPA: don’t remember probly 4.1-4.2ish?
Rank: about top 3%
avg. public HS, most rigorous course possible</p>
<p>SAT I: 680M/730CR/670W: 2080 Total
SATII: 730 US History, 720 MathII, 680 Spanish</p>
<p>AP Language 5
AP History 4</p>
<p>Senior Schedule:
Med. Terminology
AP Calculus
AP Literature
AP Stats
Physics
AP Gov.</p>
<p>EC (in short)
Swimming- Team Captain, 4-year varsity, districts, state, etc
Water Polo- Team Captain, 3-year varsity, state, etc.
Coptic Orthodox Church- Deacon, youth group stuff, etc
couple hundred volunteering hours at my hospital
hundred volunteering hours at habitat for humanity</p>
<p>a few local awards i put down as well, nothing too significant</p>
<p>just over 100 points on the sat’s will change me from definite reach to match just like that? I know SAT’s are important especially for stats oriented schools but geez i didnt figure them to be THAT significant…</p>
<p>^^Thats a bit of a stretch on things. The average instate matriculating freshman to UCLA does not have a 2003 SAT and a 4.14 UC GPA. To use those numbers to predict someone’s chances even OOS is pretty misleading since UCLA is obviously going to accept people with much higher stats than that (probably a lot since it’s on top of many safety lists), many of whom are not going to matriculate here. A 4.1~4.2 is very much going to be above the standard for OOS, and even a marginally “above average” SAT means that, if he’s rejected, then you’d have to wonder why another person with much lower SATs (It is an average after all) got in instead.
In the end, though, these chance threads are only meant to be confidence boosters anyways.</p>
Dude, you’ll get your whole education paid for through the Husky Promise - why UCLA? (if you’re going for state schools) Remember to apply for Gates Millennium! Anyway, I think you look like a match/slight-reach.</p>
<p>right i know about the husky promise…but i just wanna keep my options open and i kinda wanna move…so hopefully ill get some money from private schools thats what the hope is…i wont go to UCLA or UCB if i cant afford it but id love to go if i can manage a way to pay for most of it</p>
<p>^Slight Reach/Reach. There is nothing that would necessarily pull you out of the “average” pool. UC GPA is low, especially since SATs don’t help much either. The only bright spot is that you’re applying for the College of Letters and Sciences. You’d make a high match/match for UCSD though. Good luck on your apps!</p>
<p>Thanks. I have had some family circumstances though, which I wrote about in my 1st personal statement, so I’m hoping that might help. Will UCLA care that I did well on the writing portion of the SAT I and on the SAT II History test, or do they not correlate those with major choice? Thanks again</p>