Chances for student with OUTSTANDING citizenship

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>In nearly every class, teachers praise me for my outstanding citizenship. That’s gotta count for something, right? However, I’m not too shy to admit that I’ve received a few “satisfactory” marks in the area of work habits. Will UC schools look down on me for this? How will this affect my chances?</p>

<p>Just kidding. Here’s the real deal:</p>

<p>I’m going to be a senior this coming school year and I plan on majoring in film production when I reach college.</p>

<p>Race/Gender: white/female
College Class Year: 2012
High School: Public
High School Type: sends some grads to top schools
Class Rank: 50/838
Total GPA: 3.7 (weighted= 4.0)
Junior Yr GPA: 3.2 (weighted= 3.6)</p>

<p>SAT I Scores (2010 total):
Critical Reading: 680
Math: 610
Writing: 720</p>

<p>ECs:
-Octagon Community Service Club (4 yrs; ICC representative, publicity, activities commissioner)
-French Club (4 yrs)
-Compact Club (1 yr)
-Political Club (2 yrs; secretary)
-Spanish Club (2 yrs)
-Feminist Literary Club (2 yrs; vice president)
-Bottles for the Bay (2 yrs; ICC representative)
-School Newspaper (1 yr)
-Volunteer work at the county museum</p>

<p>Awards/Recognition:
-Honor Court
-In 7th grade I won first place at the club and zone levels of a speech contest and then second place at the regional level
-In 9th grade I won first place at the club level of a speech contest and second place at zone level
-In 10th grade I won third place at the club level for the speech contest
-Best Original Screenplay at my school’s film festival</p>

<p>AP classes:
-European history
-US history
-Bio
-English Lang/Comp
-Gov/Econ
-English Lit
-Psychology</p>

<p>Colleges of Interest (I’m in-state for all of these):
UC Santa Barbara
UC Santa Cruz
UC Irvine
UC Davis
Cal State Fullerton
USC</p>

<p>As a final note, I have not yet taken the SAT II Subject Test. I plan on taking it in English lit and US history.</p>

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<p>The UCs go by the UC GPA only. Compute this as follows:</p>

<p>Throw out your freshman year grades. Take your junior and senior year grades and throw out any teaching assistant or physical education or student government classes.</p>

<p>Give yourself grade points based upon the normal A=4, B=3, C=2 totals.</p>

<p>For the first 8 semesters of honors/AP/IB course you take during these two years add one extra point (that is, if you take one year-long AP course add two points). In no case should you add over 8 points (so if you take 5 year-long honors courses, only add 8 points, not 10). Take your total grade points and divide by the number of courses you took.</p>

<p>Then tell us this and we can rate your chances better.</p>

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<p>do take the SAT II subject tests. Most colleges require at least two.</p>

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<p>Your rank is so high I'd say you're in at all except USC which cares more about SAT/SATII. Also, you MUST take 2 SATII subject tests so do that!!!</p>

<p>Might want to consider some other higher schools, seems like you're selling yourself short!</p>