Chances - Engineering - Fall 2012

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of California - Santa Barbara
1

<p>What do you guys think?</p>

<p>Weighted GPA: 4.014 (Honors/AP courses add .018 per class per semester)</p>

<p>Grades (7-point grading scale: 93%-100% = A, 85-92 = B, etc.)</p>

<p>Freshman Year:
A A
A A
A A
A A
A- A-
A- A-</p>

<p>Sophomore Year:
A A
A A
A A
A- A-
A A
B+ B+
B+ B+</p>

<p>Junior Year:
A- A
C+ B-
B- A-
B+ B+
B+ A
A- A
A- A</p>

<p>CLASS RANK: 18/153 (Top 11.7% - Competitive private high school)*</p>

<p>ACT: 31 Composite (35 English, 33 Reading, 28 Math, 28 Science, 9 Writing) Will take again</p>

<p>AP CLASSES:
AP Biology - 3
AP Literature and Composition - 4
AP Language (Next year)
AP Psychology (Next year)
AP Macroeconomics (Next Year)</p>

<p>24 Honors/AP Courses through Junior year</p>

<p>EXTRA CIRRICULARS:
-3 Years as Elected Class President
-Editor-in-Chief of award-winning school newspaper (2 years staff writer, editor senior year)
-Michigan Interscholastic Press Association Award for Informative/Investigative piece*
-Elected Peer Minister
-4 Years of Football (3 years as captain)
** * <em>- Division 4 State Champion. </em>
* * <em>- Elected member of team Unity Council senior year
-4 years of Lacrosse (3 years on varsity)
-2 years of Basketball (2 years as captain)
-2-time Bronze award winner - National Spanish Exam
-Winner - Gerald R. Ford Museum Essay Contest
-Winner - Grand Rapids Economic Club Essay Contest
-Trigonometry summer course at Grand Rapids Community College
-Skipped the Seventh Grade
-3-time Superior rating - National Piano Exam
-Repeat participant in Piano Teacher's Guild Sonatina Festival
-Volunteer - No Barriers USA Foundation
</em> * <em>- Guide for Deaf/Blind father
-Founder/CEO of SPAT Performance Footwear</em>
* * *- Developing performance football cleat, worked with * * *manufacturers/designers to eliminate wasteful athletic tape and prevent ankle injuries (Spat</a> Performance Footwear - Cleats, Shoes, Footwear)
-Member of RenegadeCEOs - Incubator for a select group of teen entrepreneurs
-Inaugural University of Cincinnati DAAP Summer Design Experience Participant
-Writer for Teen Economics Blog
-Invited to intern at Nike and take 6 credit hours at the University of Oregon in Summer 2012</p>

<p>William</a> N. Barkeley, 16, Working with Renowned Architect on Prototype for Next Generation Footwear | PRLog</p>

<p>LEGACY:
Michigan State University (mother)
University of Southern California (father and brother)
Miami University (Ohio) (brother)</p>

2

<p>Good chance. </p>

<p>Don’t screw up your senior year. Seriously.</p>

3

<p>Yes it would be advisable to do good senior year. Work hard and develop study skills so you can enter Freshman year confidently.</p>

<p>I wish I worked harder. Senior year I got a 3.0 Weighted GPA =[</p>

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4

<p>I got in for Computer Engineering with less than what you’ve got. It’s really impossible to ever give an accurate prediction on these things, but if you want to go to UCSB it’s certainly worth an application.</p>

5

<p>Take AP Calc–you won’t regret it.</p>

6

<p>agreed ---- a year-long calc class is immensely better than the attempts here to squeeze it into a quarter or two</p>

7

<p>Thanks for all the advice! I’ll try and take Calc if possible. Are there other schools at UCSB that are considerably easier to get into?</p>

8

<p>AP Calc is definitely the most “fun” AP class out there, with the exception of AP Bio :p</p>