Chances for an average URM?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hello everyone! I am just another nervous senior looking for advice. Can you help?</p>

<p>General Info
~ Name: Daniel M.
~ Gender: Male
~ Grade: 12
~ Location: Southern California
~ School Type: Public, semi-competitive</p>

<p>Background Info
~ Ethnicity: Hispanic (full Mexican-American)
~ Family Income: Low Income (<20,000)
~ Family Type: Single Parent
~ Miscellaneous: First Generation, will be applying for financial aid</p>

<p>GPA
~ UW (9-12): 3.559
~ UW (10-12): 3.545
~ W (9-12): 4.324 (*ranking GPA)
~ W (10-12): 4.500
~ Rank: 28/527 (top ~5%)</p>

<p>SATs/ACT
~ SAT I:
620CR 640M 690W, 1950 C
*retaking in October</p>

<p>~ ACT:
31E 31M 30R 25S, 29 C</p>

<p>~ SAT IIs:
690 World History
680 U.S. History
680 Math II
640 Chem</p>

<p>AP Scores
~ World - 4
~ U.S - 4
~ Art History - 4
~ English Lang - 4
~ Chem - 3
~ Spanish - 2 :(</p>

<p>ECs
~ Track and Field: 9-10, 12 JV
~ Cross Country: 10-12 JV
~ Key Club: 9, 11-12
- Vice President 11th, Lt. Governor 12th
- Club was inactive 10th grade
- This club is my passion; I spend countless hours/wk doing work and service
- 100+ community service hours
~ Academic League: 9
~ Mock Trial: 10
~ Spanish Club: 11-12</p>

<p>Courseload
~ Junior year:
AP Spanish Lang
AP USH
AP Chem
Honors Pre-Cal
AP Art History
AP English Lang</p>

<p>~ Senior year:
AP American Gvt
AP Stats
AP Calculus AB
AP English Lit
AP Physics C</p>

<p>Schools
~ UCB
~ UCLA
~ UCSD
~ UCI
~ USD
~ SDSU</p>

<p>Any other suggestions? I'm open to any schools that are within my caliber (even reaches are fine).</p>

<p>Again, sorry for the long post, and thanks in advance!</p>

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<p>UCB and UCLA will be tough, you should be able to get into the others though.</p>

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<p>Thanks! 10char</p>

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<p>Bump 10char</p>

<p>:D</p>

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<p>any other takers before i kill this thread? :p</p>

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<p>What is your “UC GPA”?</p>

<p>Do you have any other preferences? Size? Location? Cost ; will you have to have the entire cost of attendance met with financial aid? Majors? “Diversity”? Extracurriculars?</p>

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<p>I’m looking at Sociology, Pschology, Ethnic Studies, Anthropology…something is those fields as a future major. Size isn’t important and location is only slightly important (preferably CA).</p>

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<p>you never know you might get into all of them, the single parent+your outstanding GPA+low income+first generation can/will probably carry heavy weight. Apply to some IVYs as well, like Cornell. Good luck mate!</p>

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<p>Half-month bump? :/</p>

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<p>Definitely apply to some ivies or similar schools that haves lots of FA.</p>

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<p>Do I really have a shot at Ivys?</p>

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<p>A shot. But not a guarantee. The benefit of making it in outweighs the cost of rejection though.</p>

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<p>A few years ago, I saw something about the UCs not hooking “1st gen” anymore- or reducing the extra advantage to something miniscule . Worth checking. I think they said the pool of 1st gens was so strong that they don’t need to offer special consideration. Ie, plenty get admitted based on their merits. ???</p>

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<p>Hmm, perhaps. I don’t quite know.</p>

<p>Any other takers?</p>