<p>Hey, I'm a 17 year old out of Southern California applying to several different colleges this fall. My top choices at the moment are UCLA/Berkeley, and USC; however, I'm not too sure about my chances.
Brag Sheet:
VP of my school: (VP of ASB at my school)
VP of Political Awareness Club: (Debate Club)
Student Leader at my local hospital; (I manage a group of over 15 volunteers in completing tasks given to us by the hospital departments and the patients themselves)
12 Years of Classical training in Piano (Reached level 9 in Certificate of Merit in both Piano Theory/Performance)
Took almost all honors classes (Honors Physics/Bio/Algebra/Eng/Chem/ Adv Comp...etc) with an exception of the 8 AP classes I took. (APUSH,AP Art History, APES, AP Eng Lang, AP World History, AP Gov, AP Calc A)
UC Uncapped (the one that UC Berkeley/LA use??? Am I right?): 4.250
UC Capped: 3.850
Unweighted GPA: 3.5
SAT: 2010 SUPERSCORE: 2080
Passed all my AP exams too.
Thanks for the responses
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<p>BTW my brother goes to USC and I come from a family that doesn’t make much money 20k<… :-< </p>
<p>I’m not quite sure about the difference between Uncapped and capped (I’ve never heard of it before. Care to explain? I will be applying to Cal, too), but your SAT might be a little low, since as you probably know, the UCs place a lot of weight on test scores.</p>
<p>By the way, are you Asian? Because, that might hurt you too.</p>
<p>No, I’m not asian I’m Middle Eastern. I heard that UCLA, UC Berkeley, as well as UC Irvine accept your uncapped GPA, a GPA that isn’t limited by the other UC school’s policy of giving you only 8 semesters of AP credit…</p>
<p>BUMP :)) </p>
<p>Very low chances with your uw GPA.</p>
<p>is the unweighted GPA really such a determining factor?</p>
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<p>Technically, it is.
Many UC school applicants have near perfect or perfect GPA, so that 3.5 GPA will be quite hurtful.
By the way, you being a middle eastern has no bearing in UC admission…race consideration is banned.</p>
<p>yes those top UCs rarely take people with more than a few Bs. USC is getting there.</p>
<p>UCLA/UCB: Reach
USC: High Match/Low Reach </p>
<p>As a CA resident, you might have an edge, but UCLA and UCB are probably reaches. They do not super-score SATs. My son had slightly higher test scores and similar weighted/unweighted GPA. He did not get into Berkeley (didn’t apply to UCLA), but did get into UCSD and Davis, from out-of-state. He knew that Berkeley was a reach, and that his chances were not very good. I have to agree with the other assessments here. </p>
<p>I think it’s the opposite, you get more chances a full paying OOS.</p>
<p>I looked at past statistics: although out-of-state applicants had higher acceptance rates at upper-tier UCs, they had higher stats, also. That is simply a matter of numbers, and the admission programs solely available to CA residents (e.g. “local context”). It could be, though, that the out-of-state figures are skewed by very highly-qualified international students. </p>