I am a white female and a junior in high school. I come from an upper middle class family and I live in California. I would love to go to either UCSB or UCSD and maybe USC, and I would be thrilled to get into UCLA. What do you think my chances are of getting into any of these three schools? I aspire to major in linguistics and UCLA has the best linguistics program in the world; I even took linguistics 1 at UCLA this summer and got an A.
I have taken the SAT twice so far, but I only got my score back for the first one. I got a 1910 (640 CR, 660 W, 610 M) on my first try but I DEFINITELY did better on my second try, i most likely got around 2050. I’ve heard the Writing score doesn’t matter much but since I want to get into the linguistics field I believe it will have some more weight. I also intend to get my scores up by at least 50 points each.
I am not sending in my ACT score.
These are my grades from sophomore year each semester:
Spanish 2: A, A
AP Euro: B, B
Honors English 2: B, B
Honors Physiology: A, A
Honors Algebra 2: B, A
These are my grades so far in junior year (first semester)
US history (CP): A
Honors English 3: A
Spanish 3: A
Honors Pre-Calculus: B
Honors Chemistry: A
Extra:
I got a 3 on the AP Euro test
I have been working at a children’s art studio for 4 years
I have done Pilates for 3 years
I am working on becoming a certified Pilates instructor
I have had perfect attendance in school since kindergarten (I’ve neither been tardy nor absent a day in my life)
I finished Linguistics 1 at UCLA over the summer and got an A (4 units)
I plan on taking an intensive Hebrew class at UCLA this summer (12 units)
I partake in Link Crew at my school (help freshmen transition to high school)
I am rge secretary of the UNICEF club at my school
I understand UCLA is a huge reach given my SAT and GPA but I hope they account for my interest in linguistics.