Chances at UCSB! :)

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hey. Okay, so I'm a junior in high school from right now.I'm really hoping to get into UCSB. It's my dream school. I've lived in California my whole life ( I don't know if this gives me an edge lol) Okay well here are some stats hehe: </p>

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<li>Overall Weighted GPA from soph/junior year is 3.85
Freshman year:
Honors Geometry
Honors English 9
Honors Earth Science
PE
French 1
Geography/Health
GPA: 3.7/3.8 </li>
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<p>Sophmore Year:
Honors English 10
Honors Bio
Algebra 2
PE
French 2
Honors World History/World History ( Switched to regular bc of a huge issue with the honors teacher; mom wanted me out)
GPA: 3.0/3.8 ( yah i totally messed up 1st semester :/ )</p>

<p>Junior Year:
Trig/Pre-Calc ( not an honors at our school)
Chemistry ( no ap at our school)
Yearbook
US History
AP English 11
Art 1
GPA: 3.8/3.8 </p>

<p>Senior Year:
AP Bio
AP English 12
Statistics (At the local college)
Art 2
Leadership
Econ/Govt. </p>

<p>EC's
-Varsity swim team since freshman year ( Captain Sophmore year)
-Swimming since I was 8</p>

<p>-Cheerleading 3 years ( Co-Captain Sophmore Year)
-Cross country 1 year ( maybe two, if i'm able to to both cheer and xcountry senior year)</p>

<p>-Friday Night Live- 2 years
-Art Club-Junior year</p>

<p>Jobs:
-Lifeguard the summer after sophmore year
-In-N-Out Burger December 2007-Present</p>

<p>SATS: </p>

<p>Took them in May of this year, and got a 1810 ( 640 CR, 620 W, and 550 M
Going to study my butt off this summer to get it to at least a 1900. And am taking Subjects next year ( Literature, And History)</p>

<p>-Going to be volunteering this summer!</p>

<p>Soooo. What do you think my chances are for UCSB?? And what else should I do to make myself more "competitive" hehe</p>

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<p>Living in CA gives you a way better chance than OOS applicants. -_-</p>

<p>I'd say you're in already. If you can get your SAT scores to at least 1900 and do pretty decent on your SAT II's, you're definitely in.</p>

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<p>How many APs does your school offer? Is their a reason you had fewer honors classes as a junior?</p>

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<p>I don't agree with the above poster that you are already in, but I think you have a good shot. Also, I'm not sure how you calculated your GPA, but you should check the UC list of honors classes that they accept as weighted, because I know for a that Eng H 10th grade isn't weighted, not sure about the other ones.</p>

<p>Well, the best of luck, I'm dying to go to UCSB as well :)</p>

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<p>yeahh. because i wanted to take chem and trig junior year, i wasnt able to take a honors/ap math or science class. the only ap class i didnt take was history, and that was because of an issue i had sophmore year with the teacher, so it kinda scared me off from taking it haha</p>

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<p>Someone on another thread posted a scattergram for UCSB that showed everyone at that school who applied with a 3.5 and 1900 got in last year.</p>

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<p>wait whats a scattergram. where is that located? lol </p>

<p>but really? well then maybe i do have a shot :D</p>

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<p>note that the 3.5 was UNWEIGHTED.
heres the scattergram: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/523317-chances-ucs.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/523317-chances-ucs.html&lt;/a> [post 6, i think]</p>

<p>a scattegram is a chart that shows the number of people accepted/rejected based on their UW GPA and SAT scores.</p>