Chance Me (UCD, UCSB, UCSD, USC Cal Poly SLO)

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Race: Other? I'm 50% Egyptian 25% Hispanic 25% White
In-State (California)</p>

<p>Public School </p>

<p>Major: Mechanical Engineering</p>

<p>SAT: 1930 [680 M 610CR 640W]</p>

<p>GPA Unweighted: 4.00
GPA Weighted: 4.17</p>

<p>I am not confident because I did not take any AP classes Freshmen-Junior Year. I took English 2H which is not weighted and Physics Honors.</p>

<p>Senior Year Schedule:
AP Calc A/B
AP Physics B
English 4H
Principles of Engineering
Government
P.E. for 1 semester (I did not do a semester of P.E. because of a dislocated shoulder)</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
Not much...
JV football sophomore year (had to quit junior year because my shoulder kept dislocating during practice)
National Honors Society/CSF (my school said they were the same thing) all 4 years
Tutored several people (5 hrs/week from 10th-12th year)</p>

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<p>GPA is good,SAT score is ok,but I don’t know about the extracurricular’s.From what I know extracurricular’s are something that you do out of school,an activity you do out of pleasure in your free time.
UCSB:Match
UCSD:Match
USC:Reach
UCD:Reach</p>

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<p>You can check 2013 freshman admission profiles here</p>

<p>[Freshman</a> admission profile | UC Admissions](<a href=“http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/campuses/san-diego/freshman-profile/index.html]Freshman”>http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/campuses/san-diego/freshman-profile/index.html)</p>

<p>ME will have higher average.</p>

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<p>UCD: High Match
UCSB: High Match
UCSD: Reach
USC: Reach
Cal Poly SLO: Reach</p>

<p>ME at SLO going to be your hardest</p>

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<p>okay thanks man</p>

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<p>UCD: match
UCSB: match
UCSD: high match
USC: reach
Cal Poly SLO: match</p>

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<p>The rigor of your schedule is a problem. Only three honors courses and no AP courses until the senior year make your GPA higher than it might otherwise have been. You will be competing against students who have taken higher level courses since freshman year and still have high GPA.</p>

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<p>i know. what do you think are my chances?</p>

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<p>Sorry, but I think your chances are very low at all of those schools. You may want to
change your major to something less restrictive. My son had similar stats 4 years ago and on your list only got in UCSB and waitlisted at UCD. And the UC’s are a lot harder now on admissions. If you are set on ME, add some more schools - Irvine, Riverside, And some more .CSUs. Cal Poly only admits like 50 ? MEs. I also thought New Mexico Tech looked pretty good and low on cost.</p>

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<p>i seem to have the average sat score and above average gpa for most of the colleges so my chances arent VERY low for all these colleges…my main problem is course rigor</p>

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<p>actually, I am saying that your main problem is your major. The ‘average’ SAT is going to be much higher for engineering than the whole school. It may move your SAT to the lower quartile. Your chances would be much different if you were applying for something like econ. Just based on our experience, I also think the number of slots for Mechanical Engineering is just way lower than even other engineering disciplines. So that combined with the rigor
issue is why I said very low. I hope I am totally wrong and you get in everywhere you apply!</p>

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<p>Yeah thats true. Thanks for the response!</p>

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<p>I think it is going to be tough for most of those schools. We know kids with similar GPA and higher test scores who were not accepted to engineering programs at those schools this year.
USC , Cal Poly, UCSD- high reach
UCSB, UCD- high match/reach</p>

<p>You might look at Cal Poly Pomona</p>

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<p>what if i put my major undeclared? or would that hurt me in the long run</p>

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<p>I know UCSD does not admit by major so it won’t hurt or help there. I don’t know about the others.</p>

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<p>okay thanks</p>

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