<p>California resident
Asian
High School: The Preuss School UCSD
-Low income family</p>
<p>GPA- 3.8 unweighted
SAT- 2050 on the new SAT
I'm going to take the SAT II soon</p>
<p>Extracurricular:
-National Honor Society- 2 years
-Interact (Volunteer) Club- 4 years (Director of Commitee)
-Future Educator of America- 1 year (Secretary)
-Ecology- 2 years
-Friday Night Live (Drugs prevention) -1 year
-Model UN (Debate)- 2 years
-School Newspaper- 2 years (School News Editor)
-SAVY (San Diego Active Volunteer Youth)
-Mentor at-risk students
-150+ Volunteer Hours
-COSMOS Summer PRogram
-Cal-Soap SAT Program
-Tennis, swimming (I'm not exactly a sport kind of person)
-Volunteer at San Diego City Attorney law office (100 hours)
-Science Olympiad- 2 years
-Math Club- 1 year </p>
<p>AP:
-European History (1)
-US History (3)
-Art History (3)
-English Language - 4
-English Literature - 4
-Government History (3)
-AP Biology (4) </p>
<p>Here are my list of schools. Please put (Accept/Reject or Safety/Match/Reach) on each:</p>
<p>-Claremont McKenna College (first choice)
-Occidental
-Chapman University
-UCSD
-UCSB
-USD
-SDSU
-Pepperdine University
-Loyola Marymount University
-UCI
-Any others (especially in Southern California)?</p>
<p>*Thanks for all your help. I know most of these colleges are a Reach to me...</p>
<p>Claremont McKenna College/UCSD Reach
(UCSD's admit rate for applicants with 3.70-3.99 gpa is 34.4%)</p>
<p>UCI/UCDavis Somewhat Reach
UCSB Match
SDSU Safety (living in SD area)</p>
<p>sidenote on the extrac*
Despite the vast # of extracurricular you have, Interact Volunteer Club is the only thing that saids about your dedication. Most UC look for leadership roles and the # of years you spend on those extracurriculars. It is nice to have a lot of ecs but it is better to have a few ecs where you spend a lot of time and dedication to it.</p>
<p>As for leadership, secretary is a good leadership position but when college admits see that you were only in that club for 1 year, it shows that it is easy to earn that position.</p>
<p>Thanks for your reply. My school is really new (only 5 years old), and most of these clubs began to start in the middle of my high school years. Also, there are only about 500 students, so when a club form....few people join, and the club is then cancelled. That's why I am not in it for all 4 years. How can I explain that on my application? =)</p>
<p>CMC - quite the reach
Occidental - this is a very picky school. you have the stats, but do you have what they're lookng for? theoretically a match, but not a safe match at all.
Chapman - safe match
Pepperdine - Match , could be a safe match if you're a religious protestant invovled in church activities
LMU - safety</p>
<p>"(UCSD's admit rate for applicants with 3.70-3.99 gpa is 34.4%)"</p>
<p>That is UC weighted GPA. With some AP's I bet the OP has a 4.0+. I'd call UCSD a match, and while we're at it...</p>
<p>-Claremont McKenna College (first choice) - reach
-Occidental - match
-Chapman University - safe match
-UCSD - match
-UCSB - safe match
-USD - safe match
-SDSU - safety
-Pepperdine University - safe match
-Loyola Marymount University - safe match
-UCI - safe match</p>
<p>McKenna is pretty tough. Certainly apply there, but I would also give UCLA, UCB, & USC a shot for some other reaches (decent shot at landing one of the four).</p>
<p>My son is in a similar situation. He goes to a small charter school, 350 students, and class of 2006 will be the third graduating class.</p>
<p>Although it is an excellent school, ECs are kind of sketchy for the reasons you mentioned. The sports program is almost non-existent. The clubs don't seem to have much consistency from year to year...you get the picture.</p>
<p>Meet with your Guidance Counselor and make sure that she is explaining all this in her report.</p>
<p>My son read Rock Hard Apps and they mention including a "Brag" sheet or resume with his application. On this application, you list all your ECs and you can also use footnotes to explain anything that might confuse the reader. For example, my son is on newspaper staff this year but not last year. The footnote explains that his school did not have a newspaper last year. Same goes with baseball....my son lists baseball for 11th and 12th grade and has a note that explains there wasn't a baseball program for 9th and 10th, and in fact, he is one of the founding members. </p>
<p>If you have any ECs or hobbies outside of school that you are really involved with, try to find a way to include those too. This could perhaps show that you have a long term interest (passion) in something.</p>
<p>You will have to play with this a bit. Don't just list everything in a haphazard manner. </p>
<p>This might be a little weird for me to bring up this thread two months later, BUT, a bit of advice for some people. Please be aware of putting your school's name in one of your posts, especially if you decide to make up stats. This is why you keep your privacy on CC by not mentioning your school, or posting any personal statements. Also, do not falsify information. Jtang, when you go to a small school, if someone happens to catch you on this forum, it is not hard at all to know who it is.</p>
<p>You should have told people that these are projected stats. Hey, I could be wrong though, you could have taken 6 AP tests for fun that aren't generally self-study AP's (histories). I wasn't aware of any people at your school self studying for AP's or breaking 2100 (one of your earlier posts) on the SAT's. Everyone, keep your privacy, not only because of stats, but because CC is a place that people come to go relieve their academic stresses sometimes, and the last thing you want is for someone you know to see what you're saying on the forum.</p>
<p>^ Completely agree with vu<em>preuss</em>06.
As Preuss's senior class is < 90 people, everyone knows everyone and their stats. As only three people have an SAT I score > 2100, and those people have not taken AP Bio (with exception of one, and the other AP scores do noto correspond with that person). So you cannot be a senior as those AP scores that you listed do not correspond with the HS curriculum, along with the SAT score.
When you list these stats, please tell respondents that these are projected scores.</p>