<p>JMR_Holland:</p>
<p>UCLA: Match</p>
<p>Live in California
African-American/African/Black (Moroccan..that’s the category under the UC app that I fit into)
Muslim (that’s what I’m going to write my personal statement about)
Trilingual (French, Arabic, English)</p>
<p>UC Weighted GPA: 3.8
in top 30% of class…school doesn’t rank
SAT: 1930 (will take again in October; have been practicing everyday)
SAT2: Biology 570, History 620 (will take both in November again along with French)
ACT: 30 </p>
<p>extras:
Cross-country 2 years
Track 1 year
Volunteered in Morocco orphanage for 1 week in summer
Member of mosque youth club 4 years; public relations officer 2 years
Internship at local newspaper–> had 2 articles published so far
Received scholarship (they chose 30 out of California) for Muslim Leadership Conference
Writer on Illume Magazine, national islamic magazine
tutor for 3 years at after school academic program
Model UN for 2 years—secretary 1 year
French Club (senior year)
Berkeley NorCal Summer Experience (3 day program that they told me to include)</p>
<p>drsarah:</p>
<p>UCLA: Reach</p>
<p>I heard that if you apply to UCLA with an undeclared major that it increases your chances. If this is true, would it make sense for me to apply undecided and then after I get accepted (if I do) to just switch to engineering?</p>
<p>i don’t know if it’s the same case with UCLA (it probably is), but UC Berkeley makes it really hard to switch in between colleges (for example, from letters of arts and sciences to something else). they know that people hear about “how one college of theirs is easier to get into than another” and they prevent that by creating a LONG application process to switch between the two.</p>
<p>and i don’t see how applying undeclared to ucla can increase your chances, because isn’t applying undeclared very very common?</p>
<p>hope that helps :)</p>
<p>I agree with drsarah. From what I hear, if you really want to do engineering, you might as well just apply to engineering. Chances are slim for internal transfer (between colleges).</p>
<p>Applying undeclared does nothing for your application. For better or for worse. It’s a neutral action to take.</p>
<p>User Name: Wangdirty30
Gender: Male
Location: Los Angeles
High School: Public
High School Type: sends some grads to top schools</p>
<p>Academics:</p>
<p>GPA - Unweighted: 3.58
GPA - Weighted: 4.08
Class Rank: top 10%
Class Size: 750</p>
<p>Scores:</p>
<p>SAT I Math: 700
SAT I Critical Reading: 710
SAT I Writing: 730
SAT II U.S. History: 560
SAT II Math Level 2 (IIC): 740
SAT II Biology - M: 640
SAT II Biology - E: 690</p>
<p>AP CALC AB and BC: 5’s, AP BIO: 4, AP PSYCH: 4, AP HUMAN GEO: 4, AP CHEM: 2, AP EURO: 3</p>
<p>ECS: Science bowl member senior year
STK member senior year</p>
<p>Awards: AP scholar with distinction</p>
<p>Hook: I went to Costa Rica and saved many turtles. Therefore, I must be accepted as an environmental science major at UCLA.</p>
<p>Hook: I went to Costa Rica and saved many turtles. Therefore, I must be accepted as an environmental science major at UCLA.</p>
<p>haha, love that line :).</p>
<p>what’s the difference between a weighted and non- weighted UC GPA? Is it that the non-weighted one has the 8 semester cap and the weighted one doesn’t?</p>
<p>drsarah doesn’t stretch past a reach with an ACT score of 30? That’s top of the mid-50. My d was rejected from Berkley experience…sounded good…</p>
<p>hehe :p</p>
<p>Oregon Public (Competitive but not insanely)
rank: 7/667 (predicted -10 drop)
GPA: 4.282/3.998</p>
<p>i gotta rush so i’ll just post this for my schedules.</p>
<p>11 APs (+1 off campus)</p>
<p>chinese, chemistry, biology, physics, statistics, calc ab, calc bc, econ, psych, U.S. govt, english lang, english lit</p>
<p>SAT/ACT 2030/32</p>
<p>some ECs
science bowl (10-12) captain
mun (10-12) OHSIRL committee chair
key club (9-12) bulletin editor
tennis (9-12) varsity team
diabolo - won various talent shows, entered in many public events, paid teaching class on sundays, captain of chinese school team, etc.</p>
<p>i’m not really relying on these chances, but i’m curious to see what people say. :p</p>
<p>within UC: berkeley, LA, san diego</p>
<p>Slight reach out of state</p>
<p>Hi flopsy and others, could you chance me? Thanks!</p>
<p>Asian Female ( ABC ) Senior</p>
<p>Unweighted GPA: 3.60 . Upward Sophomore 3.7, Junior 4.33 ( weighted )
UC 10/11th Weighted: 3.96 ( 8 semester courses )
10/11th total Weighted: 4.04</p>
<p>No ranking. Rigorous public school in S. CA. Close to Disney :)</p>
<p>SAT: 2120 (R740/M720/W660) First try
SAT II: Bio 750, Math 2C > 700 ( expected )</p>
<p>AP Tests: Bio 5, US Hist 4, Physics >=4 (expected )</p>
<p>Taking 4 AP’s this semester : Calculus AB, Physics, Spanish, Politics.</p>
<p>EC many volunteer hours and activities etc, but not too much achievement</p>
<p>I hope to get in the new Environmental degree since I really like green sooo much : )</p>
<p>^ looks like a match</p>
<p>Wangdirty30:</p>
<p>UCLA: Slight Reach</p>
<p>thewu:</p>
<p>UCB/UCLA: Slight Reach (out of state)
UCSD: Match (out of state)</p>
<p>Windstarr:</p>
<p>UCLA: Match</p>
<p>I was wondering…
Latina, single parent family, less than 50,000 a year</p>
<p>W GPA 3.81
UW GPA 3.45
UC GPA 3.51</p>
<p>SAT Reasoning 2010 (CR 730, M 620, W 660)
SAT II: US History 760, Literature 720, French 510 (lame)</p>
<p>AP Tests:US History 4, European History 4, Language and Comp 5, French Language 1 (LOL)</p>
<p>NHRP Scholar Finalist
AP Scholar
8 AcadDec medals not including 1st in the county and 4th in the county</p>
<p>EC’s
4 yr member, 3 yr captain of Academic Decathlon
4 yrs Drama Department
2 yrs French Club</p>
<p>grade: 12
weighted GPA: 96.5
SAT I: 1300/1600
2000/2400
and just retook it
SAT II: chem 670
us hist 690
ACT: 29
Current Courses:
AP Spanish, AP Calc AB, AP Chemistry, AP Literature,
AP US Government, AP Microeconomics
EC:
varsity badminton
future leaders of america
spanish club- president
volunteer at hospital (~150+ hours)
volunteer at nursing home (~50+ hours)
national honor society
spanish national honor society
french national honor society</p>
<p>chances?
Boston University
Boston College
University of Virginia (oos)
Cornell
PennState (oos)
Rutgers (oos)
Syracuse University
University of Michigan (oos)
Barnard
NYU
UCLA
UC Berkeley</p>
<p>all are matches except:</p>
<p>UVa
definitely Cornell
UMich
NYU
UC Berkeley</p>