Chances for Muhlenberg and UCSC?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hi! I've made another thread on chances last month with a larger amount of colleges to chance me for, but I've narrowed it down to two colleges that I would love to attend, I will be applying to both as a Computer Science major. I plan on visiting Muhlenberg over the summer. A link to my previous thread is <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1622682-chances-for-all-uc-s-georgia-tech-george-washington-university-p1.html"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1622682-chances-for-all-uc-s-georgia-tech-george-washington-university-p1.html&lt;/a> and my stats are:</p>

<p>My freshman year grades aren't worth mentioning but I took these academic classes (and two non academic but required classes; PE and an Art)
Honors English,
Honors Geometry
Honors Biology
Spanish I</p>

<p>My courses and grades from Sophomore year up are:
AP World History (3 on AP Test) - B/B
Chemistry Prep C/C (Teacher wouldn't round up my C+ :( )
Honors English 2 B/B
Algebra 2 Prep B/B
Spanish 2 B/B
PE A/A</p>

<p>Junior Year:
AP Art History B/A
Pre-Calc Prep C/A
AP English A/A
Physics B/A
AP USHistory B/A
Spanish 3 B/A</p>

<p>SAT: 2280</p>

<p>Senior Year Classes (aiming for all A's)
AP Calculus BC
AP Psychology
AP Physics
AP English
AP Comp Sci
AP Econ/Gov</p>

<p>I'm going to be taking my SAT II's for Math 2, US History and Physics this year. I'm also taking Calculus 1 and Statistics at my community college over summer. I write very good essays and so I'm assuming my personal statements/essays will be excellent.</p>

<p>ECs:
60+ Community Service hours Freshman year volunteering through Key Club.
Volunteered to tutor kids at the elementary school, 3 times a week (for several weeks)
Did a three week program at a gaming university in Texas, over summer.</p>

<p>Not much sophomore year (personal/family issues)</p>

<p>Junior year (not sure if some of this counts):
Tutor my neighbor's two sons, several times a week.</p>

<p>Help out an OBGYN with general technical related stuff once a week for a few hours.</p>

<p>Tutoring/teaching young usually foreign kids how to read, twice a week.</p>

<p>Helping my father and his friend with their company, developing/improving a program for doctors to store their files on the computer instead of paper. (mainly for private practice as required by the new Obamacare laws)</p>

<p>Self-Taught: Java, C++ and Ruby</p>

<p>Planning on interning at a company over summer, or if that doesn't work out, shadowing a doctor and volunteering at a hospital and working with a few of my dad's friends doing something software related.</p>

<p>Senior Year:
I'm planning on continuing to tutor young kids with their English development, learn another programming language, continue to help out my community and join the Speech and Debate team.</p>

<p>Other information:
I was born in Nepal, both of my parents were born in India.
Can read/write/speak and understand Hindi (First language) and am fully fluent in English.
Moved to the US when I was 6.
Moved 3 times after coming to the US, all in Southern California.
Dad went to an Cornell and University of Vienna, Mom went to Indian college and had to redo her BA/MA here.</p>

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<p>I really hate to chance people or to even look at these threads (for my confidence is always fleeting when I read about some “dreadful” A- that will ruin so and so’s chances at HYP…and the rest of that pointless acronym), but I feel that you should be commended. Your grades have seen an upwards trend and it seems as if you have attempted to work with what you have. Your SAT I scores suggests that perhaps your school is not a bubbling cauldron of easy A’s and inflation. So long as you’ve really told it like it is in your essays, I think you have got a fair shot. It is always a crap shoot…everywhere… This scares me, seeing as I am only a sophomore. But I am anxious as well, since my freshman year grades are actually to horrible to mention (not that one curious kitty cat can’t find them by looking through my previous threads…). So overall, I feel ya. All you need to keep in mind is that you still have senior year. You still have quite a bit of time until the process starts. Make the absolute best out of what you have got. </p>

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<p>Muhlenberg: Match
UCSC: Match</p>

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<p>Thanks for your feedback!
Does anyone know how strong Muhlenberg’s Computer Science department/education is? I really would love to go there, and it’s main selling point for me is their 3-2 program with Colombia (also does anyone know how hard it is to get in there, like is it dependent on your highschool grades or college?)</p>

<p>Also another note: I will be going in as Pre-Med, because I would like to go to medical school after I get my Masters. </p>