Chances for UC System + Other Private Colleges

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>GPA: 3.94 (UW) 4.28 (W, according to RogerHub's Calculator) (school doesn't allow students to take AP till Junior Year)
SAT: First sitting 2310, second sitting 2330 -> Superscore of 2380, and M + CR in one sitting is 1580
PSAT: 218 both years :(
AP: AP Calc BC (5), AP Comp. Sci. A. (5), APUSH (5) <- these are the three AP's I took Junior Year
SAT II's: Bio E/M (800), Math Level 2 (800), Chemistry (780)
Class Rank: School doesn't do it, most likely top 1-2% (5 to 10 students)
Class Size: 512
ELC Status: ELC status confirmed (but doesn't really matter, just thought I'd add it in here)</p>

<p>Senior Year Course Load:
- AP Bio
- AP Stats
- AP Gov/Econ
- AP French
- VMC (Voices of Modern Culture)
- TA for APCS
- Cooking (can't really take anything else, school district does NOT let us double up on sciences or maths)</p>

<p>Volunteering:
- Volunteer at my Country Library (50 hours)
- Volunteer at my local farm, teaching middle school children about planting, etc (150 hours)
- Volunteer at Kaiser Permanente (150 hours)</p>

<p>Extra-Curriculars:
- Events Coordinator: French Honor Society (4 years)
- Vice President of Competitions: DECA (3 years)
- Competitions Officer: FBLA (2 years)
- Public Relations: Science National Honor Society (founding member, president in 12th grade most likely)
- Stanford Cardiothoracic Surgical Skills Internship (10th to 11th summer)
- COSMOS Program (11th to 12th summer)
- Clinical Anatomy Research Scholars @ Stanford (11th to 12th summer)
- Swimming JV (2 years)
- Swimming @ a club (5 years)</p>

<p>Awards (participating included):
- Google Science Fair (in progress as of now)
- FBLA (1st place in FBLA states in Business Plan, this weekend was when it happened)
- DECA (2nd place in Silicon Valley CDC, 6th place in CA CDC, 11th place in CA CDC)
- Tech Challenge </p>

<p>Hooks(?, more like standouts):
- Leader of a non-profit organization that helps place personalized education courses in schools
- Working on publishing a book in French (a language that is too elegant for me not to love)
- Working on publishing a book in English (probably in e-book format)</p>

<p>Recommendations (on a 10 scale):
- Senior year AP Bio teacher (9 or 10)
- Junior year AP Calc BC teacher (writes very strong rec's, 10)
- Junior year Physics Honors teachers (8 or 9)</p>

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<p>Non-teacher Recommendations:
- Cardiothoracic Surgery Department Head (Paul Chang)
- COSMOS mentor
- Google Science Fair mentor </p>

<p>Essays:
- I love writing, and my VMC teacher has a whole unit on college essays at the beginning of the year)
- I don't think essays will be a problem, since I will be writing about some unique experiences I had in Africa</p>

<p>Keeping in mind that I want to major in Bioengineering/Biotechnology, what are my chances at:
- UCB
- UCLA
- UCSD
- UCSB
- UCD
- uChicago
- Stanford (for the lulz)
- JHU ED (I may or may not have a chance here) BME </p>

<p><a href="http://rogerhub.com/uc-undergraduate-admissions-calculator/"&gt;http://rogerhub.com/uc-undergraduate-admissions-calculator/&lt;/a> <-- this website states that I have an 89% chance at going to Berkeley based on scores alone (first red flag) but I usually tend to not believe these narrow-minded calculators, so I'd appreciate some CC help.</p>

<p>Thanks, and I will chance back when I get the time to do so.</p>

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<p>bump10char</p>

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<p>Wait… you’re a junior or a senior? How would you have AP scores as a junior…</p>

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<p>I’m a junior; the scores are what I am almost 100% sure I’m going to get. My school literally over prepares students for AP tests, and I’m extremely good and have 98+ in all the AP subjects I am taking. Considering that you can fail almost half of the questions on the AP’s and still get a 5, I’m very confident that those AP scores will become realities.</p>

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<p>Haha. That website is awesome. “Did you take the rigorous IB program (if your school offers it), or did you wimp out and pick AP?”</p>

<p>Unfortunately, the website incorrectly predicted my chances for UCSD, UCD, and UCI. It gave me “holy smokes” for all three of them, but I got rejected by UCSD and waitlisted by UCD and UCI.</p>

<p>That website is probably inaccurate because it places too much weight on the SAT scores. Scatterplots from other websites seem to suggest that the UCs completely disregard SAT scores. Also, the UCs view IB and AP classes as equals. The UCs seem to care the most about GPA.</p>

<p>Your GPA is really good, so I think that there is a high chance that you will get into all the UCs.</p>

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<p>bump10char, would appreciate some chances! Will chance back with my limited knowledge if you have a thread/link me to your chances thread.</p>

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<p>bumpitybump</p>

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<p>I wouldn’t trust the calculator. I got <10% for both UCLA and UCB and I got into UCLA for Comp Sci and waitlisted at UCB</p>

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<p>You’re in at all of the UC’s except for maybe Berkeley and UCLA (60% chance for those). UChicago is a high reach (I’d give you 15% chance). Stanford is an even higher reach (10% chance). JHU is just a reach (25%).</p>

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<p>Yeah the calculator is horrible, to an extent. I mean, it calculates decisions based on previous SAT/GPA scores from the UC that you chose on the menu, and SAT/GPA isn’t everything that makes an application.</p>

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<p>One question I had:</p>

<p>When the adcom’s look at your application, will your stats vs. your school’s stats be held in a higher light than your stats vs. all applicants’ stats’? Compared to my school, I’m easily top 3 or 4 students in my class, but I might not look as stellar out of the whole applicant pool pack.</p>