<p>please chance me for UCSB and UCSD.
are they reaches?</p>
<p>gpa: 3.7 weighted 3.4 unweighted
sat: 1820 w/ writing (first time)
act: 29 w/ writing (first time)
sat subject test (us history) 650
sat subject test (lit.) 740</p>
<p>ecs:
sports: 2 years frosh/ soft basketball, 1 year girls jv lacrosse 1 year varsity</p>
<p>clubs: 3 year member eagles for choc, two years NHS, club founder of school recycling club, 4 years asb commissioner (head commissioner of clubs and prom).</p>
<p>other:
4 year member of chamber singers.</p>
<p>girl scout. earned silver and gold awards.</p>
<p>earned academic award for french 4.</p>
<p>work experience:
3 years as a lifeguard
2 years swim instructor
trainer of junior lifeguards</p>
<p>Are you from California? If you're out of state, that could hurt your chances. Make sure you calculate your UC GPA: your 10th/11th grade semesters' average. That's the GPA the UCs will look at. However, I might add that your weighted GPA is kind of low. Most applicants with weighted GPA have 3.9+.</p>
<p>Your SATI is okay, your Subject Tests are good, and your ACT is very good, so I don't think you're lacking in that area. </p>
<p>You've got some really good extracurriculars which you could possibly even write about in your personal statement.</p>
<p>I think it's kind of silly to post this kind of question here. If people tell you you're good, do you stop trying to improve your chances? I'd say the average high school GPA of a UCSB Freshman is 4.1, so about half the people get in with a GPA below that, half get in with a higher one. I'm not sure what it takes nowaday. My sister had a 3.9 and didn't get in. I'd say just try to improve all your numbers the best you can with the time you have left and then apply and then cross your fingers. I'm not saying you won't get in, I'm just saying nobody here knows and I wouldn't take anything said here to mean you're safe or that it's impossible.</p>
<p>One of the best things you can do to improve your chances of getting into a UC is to take AVID your senior year. It adds a LOT of points to your application (the UC will calculate how many points you accrue throughout your application). I've heard that AVID is worth a lot. Careful though, it only counts if you took it in your senior year. My friend took AVID his sophomore year, and UC wouldn't accept it.</p>
<p>Don't completely take my word for it, ask your counselor for more information. This is as much as I know about it, though. I wish I had taken AVID my senior year, I might have gotten into SD.</p>
<p>Most students at my school, located in Covina (a city in southern California), look down on AVID students. The program isn't very well explained by our counselors. In fact, our counselors only recommend AVID to students who have free periods, or are not performing proficiently in their classes. The reason is because AVID requires its students to take Cornell style notes in each class, a certain amount of times per year.</p>
<p>It's actually a good program though. For what it can do for your chances at UC, I definitely would have spent the time to just take a couple notes and sit in an extra period.</p>