<p>I posted here before, but I've updated info.</p>
<p>Chances at...
UCLA
UCD
UCB
UCSD
NYU
Dartmouth
Cornell
Northwestern
USC</p>
<p>GPA: 3.59 UW, 3.94 W
Rank: 103 out of 500</p>
<p>ACT: 30 (Going to retake and hopefully get 33ish)
SAT I: 1910 (670 M, 670 W, 570 CR)
SAT II: 620 Bio M, 730 Math IIC, 560 US History
Going to retake Math and History in the fall. Also going to take Mandarin and expecting a high 700 on that.
AP: 3 Bio</p>
<p>ECs/Activities (as of next year):
Speech and Debate Club Publicity and Secretary
Speech and Debate Club Member 3 Years
National Forensics League Member
DECA Member 2 years
DECA State Competition (CA) Top 8 in 2006
Editor in Chief of Newspaper (previously News Editor)
JV Swimming 2006
French Honor Society 3 years
Amnesty International Webdesigner
French Club
We the People 08</p>
<p>Sex: Female
Location: CA
Race: Chinese</p>
<p>Probably going to major in Business or political science.</p>
<p>I would really REALLY love to attend UCLA, USC, and NYU, but right now I don't know if I could get in. Anyone have any tips on how to raise my chances for these particular schools?</p>
<p>Thanks in advance.</p>
<p>I think your EC's are your stronger points. Your SAT scores might be a little low, CR mostly. I would retake SAT I if you honestly think you can improve. Also your SAT II scores are decent except American. Being in-state for the CA schools will help out a lot.</p>
<p>Are there a lot of APs offered at your school? Are you taking them? If not are you taking hard courses?</p>
<p>I think the Ivies are pretty far reaches, the UCs would be matches if you bring up CR and make sure you are taking tough courses next year. Same thing for NYU but try to get that 700+ on Mandarin and improve the other SAT IIs.</p>
<p>Here are all the courses I've taken with my grades.</p>
<p>9th Grade
Alg2/Trig Honors A/A
Health A/A
PE Pass/Pass
Eng 9 Honors A/A
Biology Honors A/B+
French 1 A/A</p>
<p>10th Grade
Geometry Honors B/C+
AP Biology C/C (B weighted)
World History Honors A/A
English 10 Honors A/A
French 2 A/A
PE Pass/Pass</p>
<p>Junior Year
Precalculus Honors B/B
AP English 11 A/A
AP US History A/A
AP French 4 A/A
Chemistry B/B
Journalism A/A</p>
<p>Senior Year (and projected grades)
AP Government/We the People A
AP Psychology A
AP French 5 A
AP English Lit A
AP Calc AB A
Journalism A</p>
<p>Also, I'm thinking of taking the ACT again and just submitting that score and letting my SAT score rot. After all, they consider the higher one anyways.</p>
<p>I think that you've got the greatest chance of getting in to UCD, UCSD, and NYU. As said above, your ECs are one of the better traits you've got going for you. You really need to be consistently scoring 650+ on the SATs to even be competitive at the Ivies. Your grades look great but colleges might be concerned about inflations since you aren't in the top 20% but just barely ;(</p>
<p>Hope this helps, chance me if you get a chance!
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=364370%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=364370</a></p>
<p>If it helps, for class rank, my school, unfortunately, does not weight our classes. :( I think if I took easier classes, I would have a higher rank. I'm not sure what my class rank is, it may be higher since the last time I checked was after first semester my junior year.</p>
<p>Bump. anyone else? Please?</p>
<p>for dartmouth and cornell, you have a horrible rank and bad test scores. add that to mediocre ECs. reject.</p>
<p>i am not absolutely certain of the bar for instate admissions for UCB and UCLA. but i say reject by those two</p>
<p>accept at the others</p>