chance meeeeeee

Colleges & Universities A-Z University of California - San Diego
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<p>Race: Chinese
Sex: Female
Location: SF Area around CA
GPA: 3.6 unweighted, 3.7/3.8 UC weighted
Class Rank: 96/479 (top 20%)
School: public, sends few to ivies, many to UCs a year</p>

<p>Scores:</p>

<p>ACT: 30 composite
SAT II Math 2: 730
SAT II Mandarin: 740</p>

<p>Extracurriculars & Leadership
-DECA Club 2 years
-Top 8 in State at California State Deca Conference '05
-We the People (government civics debate team, simulates congressional hearings)
-Editor in Chief & Web Editor of school newspaper, News Editor last year
-Young Democrats Club Co-President this year
-Speech and Debate 3 Years Varsity Parliamentary Debate, One year officer
-Participated in Washington Workshops for a week
-Amnesty International Webdesigner 2 Years
-Class Council 1 Year
-1 year JV Swimming
-100ish hours of service
-Volunteer at Hillary Clinton's SF branch</p>

<p>Major: Political Science</p>

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<p>in!!!!!!!!!</p>

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<p>I'd say it's a high match/slight reach.</p>

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<p>I wonder what an admin officer thinks when he/she sees a Chinese applicant gets a high schore on a Mandarin SAT II test...</p>

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<p>Honestly it shouldn't even be allowed.</p>

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<p>^Well, it's possible that the student learned it as a second language. Unfortunately, it is common practice for people to assume that knowing the language associated with your ethnicity wasn't an accomplishment, so taking a foreign language SAT II isn't really strategic.</p>

<p>In fact, I saw 2006 Collegeboard statistics for SAT Subject Tests in Korean and Mandarin. The averages were extremely high (~780) hovering around the perfect score, and the standard deviation was very minuscule. If you aren't confident that you're getting 800 on one, then run, Spot, run!</p>

<p>Back to the chancing thing, extra curriculars are great. The 1-year stints are negligible, but some of the longer ones that show continuity are very focused (government). It would've been nice to have SAT II subjects that were more related to liberal arts subjects though. Then again, we're talking about UCSD, so I say match.</p>

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<p>^The OP likely missed one question on the test. I think for Korean that drops you to a 760, and for Chinese a lot more o_o;;</p>

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<p>The thing is that the Mandarin test is so ridiculously easy that a 740 is actually a bad score.</p>

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<p>Yep, because the curve ("equating of the scores") will kill you.</p>

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<p>I am under the impression that UCSD simply plugs numbers into a formula without regard to the source.</p>

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<p>I flat-out failed the mandarin SATII, consequence of flunking round after round of chinese school. but when i applied in 2001, they had three boxes for SATII scores: one writing, one math (your choice), and one miscellany -- wouldn't you put the highest score of the most useful subject for your major? i personally wouldn't put chinese (even if i had done well) for that "oh of course she'd do well, she IS chinese!" assumption.</p>