<p>Asian Male
Senior Year
Immigrated at age 11
School API: 924
Passed California High School Exit Exams</p>
<p>GPA: 4.0 weighted
SATI:
March: 1860
October: 2040
M:800 W:620 CR:620 (retaking in December)</p>
<p>SATII:
Math IIC:800
Biology-M:730
Chinese:800</p>
<p>Number of A-G courses: 46</p>
<p>Decent EC's</p>
<p>I am applying to UCB, UCLA, UCSD, UCSB, UCD, and both Cal Poly.</p>
<p>beastmaster:</p>
<p>UCB/UCLA: Slight Reach
UCSD: Match
UCSB/UCSB: Safety</p>
<p>Hey flopsy.
Any chance for me to raise my chances for UCB/UCLA now?
I don't know if UCB and UCLA use the point system as UCSD does, but does the personal statement play a big part?
It seems that for UCSD, the point system alone can judge an applicant's admission.
Thanks.</p>
<p>I would definately take another SAT in place of the Chinese. Administrators will laugh at it if Chinese is your native language.</p>
<p>Scoring less than 800 on the Chinese SAT automatically puts you in the bottom 20 percentile: It's that much of a joke. However, if you were white, their jaws would drop. Take Physics, or if you're a language person cram for the Latin SAT. That would knock them dead.</p>
<p>UC's don't care about the subject of SAT II's. They take only the highest scores. I've been told of this by my college career counselor, history teacher (who used to work at UCI admissions), and an admission officer currently at UCD.</p>
<p>I find it weird that people look down upon Chinese SAT II score. Shouldn't people who were born in U.S. ace the Verbal section of the SAT if the same holds true for those who were born in a Chinese-speaking country and decide to take the Chinese SAT II?<br>
I find it grossly unfair, as the verbal section score and the foreign language score have an indirect relationship. If you weren't born in the U.S., then you are not likely to get a high score on the verbal secton. So, the only offset that is provided for you is a language SAT where you have an advantage. Now, if colleges decide to look down upon a specific language SAT, does that mean the odds are automatically stacked against immigrants?</p>
<p>Well, if almost everyone can get an 800 on the SAT II Chinese, then doesn't that automatically mean that it's not nearly as hard as the verbal section? :p</p>
<p>I don't see how difficulty has anything to do with college's perception of the subject. CB still offers it, don't they? And the curve on it is brutal. Besides, if difficulty is a component, then wouldn't Math IIC also be considered obsolete by colleges?</p>
<p>To beatmaster, the SAT I is used to test your aptitude which is your potential to acquire new knowledge or skills. The SAT 2s are designed to test what you've learned in a subject. These two tests have different goals, therefore it is not fair to compare the english verbal section and the Chinese SAT 2s.</p>
<p>Okay.
So anyone want to tell me chances?</p>
<p>Bump, need more opinions. :)</p>
<p>Need more opinions.</p>
<p>beastmaster</p>
<p>I would agree with flopsy.</p>
<p>Your UC weighted GPA and SAT reasoning are not spectacular (compared to other applicants to Berkeley and UCLA) so write a really wonderful essay!! </p>
<p>Sparknotes had some nice suggestions for the writing portion of SAT Reasoning. Perhaps that will help you raise your score in Dec.</p>
<p>I think you will get into the rest of the UCs and Cal State schools</p>
<p>GREAT SAT Subject scores!</p>
<p>FresnoMom</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>I am working very hard on my essay and SAT right now. Can anyone else give me some opinions?</p>
<p>BUMP
10 characters.</p>
<p>There is not much you can do at this point except write good essays.</p>
<p>Your SAT's are very good considering you immigrated at 11.</p>
<p>How many honors/AP classes have you taken?</p>
<p>Sophomore and Junior: 5
Senior: 2</p>
<p>Some of the UC's are good matches for you and the essays might help with UCB or UCLA.
7 honors/AP will definitely help (considering that they are UC approved honors).</p>
<p>great accomplishment on passing high school exit exams. u should talk about it in ur personal statement and that could probably be a hook for u.</p>
<p>I actually thought that the high school exit exams were rather easy. 99% of the students in my school pass that exam. ._.;
I am planning to write about my GPA jump from 3.5 to 4.57 in my essay.</p>
<p>Thans for your inputs, tambone and surfed_pipeline. :)</p>
<p>surfed-pipeline was kidding about the exit exams. I heard it is about 8th grade level. I go to a private school.
By the way the essay should be a place where you write about yourself not just numbers.</p>