<p>Hey everyone, please chance me!</p>
<p>Already applied to:</p>
<h2>UC San Diego: CSE: Computer Science </h2>
<p>Southern California/Male/Indian</p>
<p>Pretty competitive high school (3 kids sent to Harvard, 1 to Stanford, A LOT of kids to Berkeley and UCLA)
School doesn't rank (thank Bob Saget!)</p>
<p>UC GPA: 3.64 (I didn't try in 10th grade, which screwed me over. I got a 4.2 Junior year though, huge upward trend)</p>
<p>ACT 1st Time: 27
English: 28
Math: 32
Reading: 26
Science: 21
English/Writing: 26</p>
<p>ACT 2nd Time: 29
English: 29
Math: 29
Reading: 33
Science: 24
English/Writing: 27</p>
<p>ACT Superscored: 30</p>
<p>SAT: 1820 (Math: 650, Critical Reading:560, Writing: 610)</p>
<p>SAT II's: MathIIC 700, US History: 680</p>
<p>APs: European Civilization: 2 (10th grade, didn't try that year), Calculus AB: 4, United States History: 4, Biology: 4</p>
<p>Freshman: Honors English 1-2
Sophomore: AP European Civilization, Honors Humanities
Junior: AP Calculus AB, AP Biology, AP United States History, Honors American Literature 1-2
Senior: AP Computer Science AB, AP English Language, AP Calculus BC</p>
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<p>ECs: </p>
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<li>Tennis for 12 years, including 3 years of Varsity tennis at high school </li>
<li>Most Valuable Player Award for Tennis</li>
<li>Piano for 12 years </li>
<li>AP Scholar</li>
<li>I have received numerous certificates for over 20 recital performances</li>
<li>10 year Piano DA CAPO (Dominant Attitude while Creating A Positive Objective) Award</li>
<li>Obtained numerous ribbons and medals at Science Olympiad and Science Field Day activities, and went to the Science Olympiad State Championships in 9th grade</li>
<li>Vice President of the Ping Pong Club</li>
<li>Member of California Scholarship Federation</li>
<li>Have been volunteering several times every month at numerous events (Childcare at the Women's Resource Center, Homework Helpers: Elementary and Middle school Homework Helpers club, Tutored students at library, cleaned up local river, fed homeless, San Diego Food Bank Drive, bowled with mentally ill children) for around 50 hours</li>
<li>Internship/volunteering program at the Attorney's Office of San Diego (over 100 hours)</li>
<li>Engineering internship at Northrop Grumman for 5 months</li>
<li>Runner-Up (2nd Place) in India Scholarship Fund 2006 Tennis Tournament</li>
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<p>My essays are pretty decent in my point of view. My first one is about my love for computers and how I developed this interest. My second one is about my personal quality of humor.</p>
<p>Please tell me what you believe my chances are for UCSD. Thanks a lot!</p>