Chances for California Public Schools ~ I'll chance back

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Listed are the schools I applied to and my standing on how I fit in with them as follows:
UC Davis - Match
UC Berkeley - Reach
UC Santa Cruz - Match
CSU Sacramento - Safety, although Community College is a better choice.
California Polytechnic Institute San Luis Obispo - Low match</p>

<p>Declared Major
UC Berkeley - Molecular and Cell Biology
UC Davis - Cell Biology
CSU Sacramento - General Biological Sciences
California Polytechnic Institute San Luis Obispo - General Biological Sciences</p>

<p>Career Plans
Medical Practice
Medical Science</p>

<p>Household Gross Income Last Year
$67,972</p>

<p>UC GPA
3.84 with trend of academic improvement Freshmen through Junior year.</p>

<p>Current enrolled courses
~American Government
~AP English Literature and Composition
~AP Calculus AB
~AP Physics B
~Advanced Madrigal Choir
~Psychology</p>

<p>Volunteer Service
~Participation as an unpaid actor at Civic Theatre West. Performances earn the theatre and staff money, but not the actors. Approx. 110 hours</p>

<p>Awards and Honors
~AP Scholar
~Black Belt
~Versatility Award. Choir award presented to the most dependable student.</p>

<p>Extracurricular activities
~Kovars Karate. 9th and 10th grade. 5 hours a week for 51 weeks.
~Tenor Section Leader for Madrigals. 12th grade. 12 hours a week for 30 weeks.
~Theatre/Drama. 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th grade. 20 hours a week for 18 weeks every year.</p>

<p>Test Scores</p>

<p>SAT Reasoning Test
Critical Reading - 650
Mathematics - 690
Writing - 700
Composite - 2040</p>

<p>SAT Subject Tests
Biology E - 790
Mathematics 2 - 670</p>

<p>College Board AP Examinations
Biology - 5
US History - 3
Chemistry - 3
English Literature and Composition - Intended
Physics B - Intended
Calculus AB - Intended</p>

<p>Ethnicity
White - European Descent
Native American - No maintained tribal affiliation.</p>

<p>Residency
California Resident from birth.
Parents are California Residents, one from birth, one not from birth.</p>

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<p>Well, I would say apply as an undeclared major to Berkeley. Your scores are good, btu your math test scores are going to hurt you if you declared a science-related major. </p>

<p>Chance me!
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<p>I’d say UCSanta Cruz is a low match/safety and Cal Poly SLO would be a high or mid match. Everything elso looks okay. I’m surprised you didn’t apply to UCSanDiego (low reach), since you only have one reach school (UCB), and UCIrvine and/or UCSB (match), since UCD is really your only true match school because UCSC is really more like a safety. Good luck!</p>

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<p>What is your class rank?
Making that 4% ELC cutoff is really important at the top UCs.</p>

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<p>UC Davis - high match
UC Berkeley - high reach
UC Santa Cruz - low match
CSU Sacramento - safety
Cal Poly SLO - match</p>

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<p>I never responded back to this on the results. I was so busy during the school year that I must have forgotten about college confidential.
Here’s what turned out:</p>

<p>UC Berkeley - Declined
UC Santa Cruz - Accepted
CSU Sacramento - Accepted
Cal Poly SLO - Declined
UC Davis - Waitlisted, but then Accepted BAMF!</p>

<p>I’m attending UC Davis this year, and am ever surprised that I got in off of the waitlist considering the attitude I got from most people about actually getting in. You know how it’s basically a “Good luck, kid,” type deal.</p>