Chances at UCB, Brown, Reed, Stanford, Pomona, etc

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Ok, I'm sure you guys are all sick as hell of these threads, but I'm posting one anyway. Thanks in advance to all those who reply. </p>

<p>GPA: 3.9 Weighted, 3.7 unweighteed, 4.03 UC
By year:
summer school in between 8th and 9th grade: 3.0 (computer careers, not college prep)
9th 3.66 (english, spanish 2, algebra 2, drawing, PE, world cultures)
10th 4.0 (english 2 honors, biology, geometry, journalism, spanish 3)
11th 4.5 (english 3 ap, chemistry, trig, spanish 4 ap, advanced journalism, ap us history)
12th (planned: american institutions, english 4 honors, ap statistics, advanced journalism, physics)</p>

<p>class rank: low 20s out of 414</p>

<p>SAT: 2230, 710 math, 720 reading, 800 writing
ACT: 33 composite, 7 writing (writers block sucks)</p>

<p>ECs: president of progressive club for 2 years, editor of school paper senior year and assistant editor junior year, member of interact (community service) club, 9 years karate (brown belt), 10 years acting, 9 years dancing (hip hop). </p>

<p>White male nonreligious resident of california.</p>

<p>Here's my list of schools: Brown, Stanford, UC Berkeley, Reed, Pomona, Lewis and Clark, Pitzer, UC Santa Cruz. Possibly Amherst, Swarthmore, Comumbia, etc.</p>

<p>So what are my chances? Any other suggested schools? Thanks.</p>

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<p>I can only really comment on two of these schools since I'm only familiar with two...</p>

<p>Lewis & Clark: If their admissions doesn't change any from last year (like suddenly get super hard) then its a really strong match. My stats were somewhat similar to yours and I got admitted with a 10k scholarship.</p>

<p>Reed: Ooh! This is the school I'll be attending. I know that they are somewhat quirky and really do look at the "whole person". I'd recommend searching for this year's acceptance rejection thread. <em>nods</em> And, yes, write a good "Why Reed" essay and make sure you're academic love shines.</p>

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<p>You seem to have some reach schools and some safety schools. You might want to look at some match schools.</p>

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<p>how many APs does your school offer?, just out of curiousity</p>

<p>here's what i'm thinking:</p>

<p>Safety:
L & C
Pitzer
UCSC</p>

<p>Match:
Swarthmore</p>

<p>Reach:
Stanford
Berkely
Pomona
Reed
Brown
Columbia
Amherst</p>

<p>some other possible matches - Colgate, Connecticut College, Claremont McKenna College, Brandeis University, Boston College</p>

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<p>uhhh........collegeboundjen, im pretty sure swarthmore should be in the reach category as well. its pretty equal in admissions with amherst and pomona i thought.</p>

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<p>Your GPA in your freshman year is going to hurt you. However, I heard that UC's recalculate your GPA and exclude your freshman year. Nonethless, UCB is still going to be a reach. I'd suggest applying to UCLA or UCSD for a better chance.</p>

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<p>3.66 isn't low . It shouldn't cause any trouble especially if it's freshman year</p>

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<p>Any suggestions for matches, then? I want to stay on the west coast if possible, east coast is reserved for exceptional schools (like Brown, etc). I'd also prefer liberal-type schools to conservvative-type. I'm planning on majoring in poly sci and going on to law school. Anyone?</p>

<p>EDIT: How about Cornell? Would that just be adding yet another reach? Whitman? I was looking at Claremont McKenna, but I don't think I could survive the capitalistic connservative prevailing attitude there.</p>

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<p>USC, UCSB, Claremont-McK, UCI, UCD</p>

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<p>im guessing 3.66 was your weighted freshman grade, what was it unweighted?</p>

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<p>The same. The only way freshman can take AP/Honors classes (or could when I was a freshman) was to be really, really ahead in math (up to trig). I wasn't, so there weren't any AP/Honors classes available to me.</p>

<p>How about Occidental? How are my chances there?</p>

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<p>Stanford is going to be a real stretch. Brown too unless you do ED.</p>

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<p>I hate to keep bumping my own thread, but I just got my SAT II scores. I got 690 Math 1 and 740 Spanish. I'm going to take Math II and English Lit next fall. I doubt I'll be sending my current math school anywhere. My spanish score is like 75th percentile, but I'm not a native speaker, so does that count for anything? How are these?</p>

<p>And yes, I know Brown and Stanford are real reaches. I might not even apply to Stanford.</p>