Chances at USC and...

<p>I am a junior in high school and would like to know my chances at USC and some other schools listed below. Also, I would appreciate any suggestions to improve my chances for these schools. I may want to apply as some kind of business major but not sure. Thanks</p>

<p>9-11 GPA: 3.7 (Bad freshman year)
10-11 GPA: 4.31
UC GPA: 4.3
Class rank: Top 15-25%
ACT: 30</p>

<p>(Years reflect senior year too)</p>

<p>-Varsity Soccer (4 years) – Captain (1 year)
4X Varsity Letterman
MVP this year
-Indoor Soccer Intramural (2 years)
-Investments Club (3 years) – President
-Student Council (4 years)
-Internship at Advertising Company (Summer 2006)
-Job at doctors office (2 years)
-Tutoring (1-2hrs/week)
-Web design business (4 years)
-About 100hrs volunteer work</p>

<p>Essays and recs. will be awsome.
I may try to get an interview at USC next year.</p>

<p>Currently I am taking 2 AP classes, 2 honors classes, and 1 college class (all As 1st term). Senior schedule next year will be rigorous. Will complete 4-6 AP classes before graduation.</p>

<p>USC
NYU
Pepperdine
UCB & UCLA OOS (big reach i know)
Carnegie Mellon
(I will apply to safe schools too)</p>

<p>any? (10chars)</p>

<p>Your weaknesses are your class rank and you don't seem to have a focus. Nothing really seems to stand out except soccer.</p>

<p>USC- Reach
NYU- Match
Pepperdine- Match
UCB and UCLA- Reach....majority of undergrads come from top ten percent
Carnegie Mellon- Reach</p>

<p>Are you kidding me??? USC is definitely a match. It's not a hard school to get into. At my school the average GPA UW admitted is 3.5 and SAT around 2000</p>

<p>UCB - Slight Reach
UCLA - Match
USC - Match
NYU - Match
Pepperdine - Safety
Carnegie Mellon - Slight Reach</p>

<p>If memory serves me correct, UCs don't look at class rank, seeing as how my school as gotten rid of them completely from the transcripts and what not. UCLA seems to take people who have a lot of EC especially in the sports and music areas so you're pretty well covered in that area. Only schools I'd be worried about would be UCB and Carnegie Mellon.</p>

<p>Thanks for all the replys! I'll def. try to improve ECs for next year. USC as a match gave me a great confidence boost (that is my #1 choice). Carnegie is just a school I would apply to and see what happens.. no stress there. I'm really surprised I have a good shot at those UCs from OOS i thought it would be nearly impossible. Thanks.. Any other perspectives?</p>

<p>bump (10chars)</p>

<p>any? ......</p>

<p>You are a match at UCLA and match to slight reach at UCB (OOS).
USC - Match (average W GPA here is 4.0 with an average ACT of 29)
NYU - Safe Match
Pepperdine - Safe Match
Carnegie Mellon - Match</p>

<p>The matches at USC are very assuring so i'm glad i do nto have to be too worried about it. The match at UCLA shocked me... i didn't think i would have any chance. Thanks</p>

<p>does everyone else agree with the above predictions?</p>

<p>You are definitely a match at USC</p>

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Are you kidding me??? USC is definitely a match. It's not a hard school to get into. At my school the average GPA UW admitted is 3.5 and SAT around 2000

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<p>Only 25% of the people that apply every year agree with you.</p>

<p>I honestly don't think admission rates are that reliable. If 25% percent get in a X school, but the applicant pool is full of students with a low GPA and low SAT range, its not competitive.</p>

<p>And 25% isnt the correct percentage. Its more around 35%, and its not as a competitive pool like UC Berkeley's or Georgetown's, which are both around 25% admission.</p>

<p>Where'd you pull your admit rate from? It's way off.
Admit rate: 25%
Middle 50% admitted students: 1960-2200
Middle 50% applied: 1660-2050
Average unweighted admitted GPA: 3.8
Average unweighted matriculant GPA: 3.7
<a href="http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/private/docs/admission/Freshman_Profile_2006.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/private/docs/admission/Freshman_Profile_2006.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>You're most off in your analysis of the admit rate. Your analysis on the GPA is subjective and I respect your right to your opinion on its relative competitiveness and won't contest it.</p>

<p>Where'd you pull your admit rate from? It's way off.
Admit rate: 25%
Middle 50% admitted students: 1960-2200
Middle 50% applied: 1660-2050
Average unweighted admitted GPA: 3.8
Average unweighted matriculant GPA: 3.7
<a href="http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergr...ofile_2006.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergr...ofile_2006.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>You're most off in your analysis of the admit rate. Your analysis on the GPA is subjective and I respect your right to your opinion on its relative competitiveness and won't contest it.</p>

<p>Edit: Actually, I take part of that back. If you're a stellar applicant and are consider schools like MIT, Columbia, etc., then I can see your reasoning--that makes USC not that hard to get into. If we're going to be objective, then compared to your average university (Standard state universities that are general below the UC class) USC's pretty selective. Compared to the 10 most selective schools in the country? Not so much, but overall that's an unreasonable standard to evaluate by.</p>

<p>i agree wit hcalcruzer for the most part except nyu...</p>

<p>NYu is no safe match for anybody</p>

<p>its always a match, a reach, orneither</p>

<p>if someone is a perfect student and they apply to nyu (not stern) they could likely be rejected because its not likw they would even attend nyu at all.</p>

<p>um
and
he's definitely not a safe match.</p>

<p>Tonydattiger(a member on the forums) just got a gsp letter from nyu and he had a 3.7 and a 30 act.
and according to last years nyu admissions that would be considered a match, though i think it is getting harder since people with good stats are getting gsped</p>

<p>A bunch of these colleges are somewhat unpredictable.</p>