Chances at UC schools, several in Boston?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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My gpa is definitely not the best. Its around a 3.0-3.3. I haven’t gotten my recent transcript yet so currently, Im unsure of what my specific gpa is. I did awful freshmen year, but fixed and retook classes and thankfully brought up my gpa a ton (used to be a 2.6, failed a class and got several D’s). Im currently a junior in high school with many extracurricular activities and interests. Im half turkish and half hispanic, family makes less than 60,000 a year (yearly combined income). My essay writing has improved a ton ever since being in AP lang and i am planning to really focus on the personal statements.
My course overview:

FRESHMEN YEAR:
AP Human Geography: C’s both semesters
Pre-AP Bio: A’s both semesters
Algebra 2: A’s both semesters
Advanced Freshmen English: C’s both semesters
Adv Speech/Creative Writing: B’s both semesters
Theatre 1-2: B first semester, A second semester

SOPHOMORE YEAR
AP World History: C first semester, B second semester
Pre-AP Chemistry: C first semester, B second semester (might retake first semester to replace C to A?)
Pre-Ap sophomore english: C’s both semester
Advanced geometry: A first semester, B second semester
Sociology-psychology-A’s both semesters
Spanish1-2: A’s both semesters

JUNIOR YEAR (SO FAR UP TO 1ST SEMESTER)
AP Enviromental Science: B first semester
AP English Language and Composition: A first semester
AP US History: B first semester
Advanced physics: B first semester
Spanish 3-4: A first semester
Pre-calculus: C+ (79%) first semester

SENIOR YEAR schedule for next year:
Advanced Anatomy
AP Psychology
AP ENGLISH LITERATURE
AP SPANISH LANGUAGE
Advanced Government/Economics
AP STATISTICS

Im planning to double major in Education and Marketing. Here is a list of schools I’m planning to apply to:
Boston University
Umass Amherst and Umass Boston
Northeastern University
Chapman University
UCSD
San Diego State
University of Maine
University of New Hampshire
Boston College
University of Oregon

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No chances without test scores.

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Agree with @aunt bea, cannot chance without test scores but looking over your grades, you will be hard pressed to even get into SDSU let alone UCSD.

If you are OOS, you need a minimum UC GPA of 3.4 to apply: https://rogerhub.com/gpa-calculator-uc/

Freshman admit rates for UC GPA of 3.40-3.79:
UCSD: 6%

Freshman Admits for UC GPA of 3.0-3.39:
UCB/UCLA/UCSD/UCSB: 1%

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I still haven’t taken the SAT or ACT. I took the PSAT and scored 1240, didn’t qualify for national merit. Im taking the ACT in February and am currently studying for that.

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You need to take ACT or SAT to be chanced. You’re chances aren’t high right now for these schools. UMaine and UNH are super easy to get into. San Diegio State is a bit of a rich with your GPA, but depending on SAT or ACT you have a shot. The others are far reaches, only one really in range is UO.

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Even if you get the highest test scores, I don’t think you’ll get in BC or Northeastern, and probably not BU or UMass-Amherst.

You could maybe get into UMass-Boston, Maine and UNH? Your list looks very reach heavy.

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I think that you would definitely get into UMass Boston (Im looking there too! haha), bc they usually admit kids with a gpa of 3.5 or lower. I mean you did really well on the PSAT, but it’ll have to come down to your ACT scores for the other colleges.