Chances at UCLA?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>White Male from Northern California</p>

<p>I'm a junior right now</p>

<p>Very highly acclaimed public high school (#3 or 4 in California)</p>

<p>Not applying for financial aide.</p>

<p>SAT: 1980...first try, took it in March again and expect somewhat higher</p>

<p>Unweighted GPA: 3.88</p>

<p>5 Honors classes by the time I graduate</p>

<p>2 AP's by the time I graduate (AP English Language and Calculus AP)</p>

<p>Extra Curriculars:
-City Youth Commission- 6 years, 3 terms, Treasurer Sophomore year, elected to commission by Mayor and City Council, many, many many Community Service/Teen Program Hours. at LEAST 700+ (I will hopefully be Chair next year)
-Freshman Class Treasurer
-Class Representative Sophomore and Junior Year
-International Thespian Society-3 years
-Classical/Jazz Piano lessons for 6 years
-6+ plays/musicals with School Performing Arts Department (we were privelaged enough to be sent to Scotland to perform at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival last August)
-2+ musicals with local youth theatre company (shows that took all summer to put together)
-Cross Country Team- 2 years</p>

<p>Work
-2 years as Intern to Counselor at Theatre Summer Camp for 6-8 year olds
-Hopefully gonna find a good job this summer and keep it through next year</p>

<p>Chances at UCLA? (my absolute dream)</p>

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<p>Slight reach/Weak match. (Assuming you score 700ish on both SAT IIs)</p>

<p>There's a stickied thread for this in the UCLA forum.</p>

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<p>Match to high match. Although you have few APs, you have a good number of honors, a good GPA, great ECs, and an average SAT score. The question is, did you take the most rigorous courseload possible? What's your rank?</p>

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<p>I did not take the most rigorous course load possible, but it was rigorous enough. I had the choice of being in AP US History, but I politely declined as I knew the work-load was too much to handle with all my EC's.</p>

<p>I also have chosen never to take any AP science classes, because I believe that I should only take AP classes in subjects that interest me. That's just my opinion.</p>

<p>But other than AP US and sciences, YES, it is the most rigorous possible.</p>

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<p>With an average GPA for matrics and average GPA, it's about 50/50. It won't help though that you didn't take many APs if your school did offer them.</p>

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<p>I really don't see the big deal with AP's. Can't colleges wait for you to take college courses IN college?</p>

<p>I mean I'm taking some I just don't see the point in burying myself in books til the wee hours of the morning just to raise my GPA.</p>

<p>but i guess that's just me.</p>

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<p>I would say 60/40 chance.</p>

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<p>"I really don't see the big deal with AP's. Can't colleges wait for you to take college courses IN college?"</p>

<p>APs are not so much about getting credit (especially since many don't take the exams) as about showing to the adcoms that you can handle difficult courses.</p>

<p>Since you didn't take the most rigorous courseload possible (come on, not even APUSH? Everyone takes that one), I'd say slight reach for UCLA.</p>

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<p>whats ur weighted</p>

<p>if its over 4.0
and ur new sats are over 2100
then u got a shot</p>

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<p>your EC's are ivy league standard.</p>

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<p>that by the way is a compliment...i don't foresee much problem with ucla if you can get bring that SAt up</p>

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<p>^^ not really. It seems like a lot, but only the first few things are Ivy-league-ish.</p>

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<p>dude. living in cali gets you into UCLA like 80%.
But just to make sure, do work on your SAT and if i were you, i wouldnt worry bout it.</p>