Chances for UCLA, UC Berkeley, Occidental and Others

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I'm a rising senior from Virginia, with the dream of going to college in California.
Caucasian, Upper middle class, Female</p>

<p>Unweighted GPA: 3.9
Weighted GPA: 4.7
My school doesn't rank, but I'd guess I'm about 10/200. Definitely top 10%</p>

<p>Freshman Year:
H. Geometry- A/A
H. Algebra 2- A/A
H. Chemistry- B/A
H. Literature- A/A
H. World History- A/A
Chinese 1- A/A
Religion (Required at my school) - A/A</p>

<p>Sophomore Year:
H. Trig/Precalc- A/A
AP Chemistry- B/A
H. Biology- A/A
H. American Lit- A/A
AP World History- A/A
H. Chinese 2- A/A
Religion (Required)- A/A</p>

<p>Junior Year:
AP Physics B- A/A
AP Calculus AB- A/A
AP English Language- A/A
AP Psychology- A/A
US History- A/A
H. Chinese 3- A/A
Religion (Required)- A/A</p>

<p>Senior Year (Planned)
AP Physics C
AP Calculus BC
AP English Literature
H. Philosophy
AP Government
MATLAB (semester)
H. Environmental Science (Semester)
H. Music Theory </p>

<p>150+ hours of community service </p>

<p>High Honor Roll-every year
National Honor Society
Music Honor Society
School Jazz Band-every year
Section leader in jazz band- junior year
Local teen orchestra-every year
Section leader in orchestra- sophomore & junior year
Freshman mentor- junior year
Independent Science Research project- junior year
First place in county science fair- junior year
Second place in category in regional science fair- junior year</p>

<p>SAT (First try at the end of junior year. I'm planning on retaking them at the beginning of my senior year.)
660 CR
670 W
740 M</p>

<p>I'm planning on taking the following SAT II's in the fall.
Chemistry
Math II
Physics
Chinese</p>

<p>AP Scores:
Chemistry- 3 I took this and World History sophomore year and didn't really take the tests seriously.
World History- 2
Physics B- 4
Calculus AB- 5
English Language- 4
Psychology- 5
Physics C- TBD
Calculus BC- TBD
English Literature- TBD
Government- TBD</p>

<p>My plan is to major in chemistry or math and minoring in music. </p>

<p>Please chance me for the following colleges:
Occidental College
UCLA
UC Berkeley
Pepperdine
USC
Claremont McKenna
Pomona College
UCSD
Santa Clara University </p>

<p>Thank you so much!</p>

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<p>If you have a chance to retake the Chem ap exam, you should. Colleges would look down upon your score since you’re a chem major. Retake your SAT, try getting a score of 2200. your ECs are quite cliche as well, nothing really stood out to me, so work on those! Also, you don’t show any interest in your major (ap scores/ECs), but you should consider that.
Santa Clara- high match/match
UCSD- high match
USC- low reach
UC Berkeley- reach
UCLA: reach
Pomona- low reach
Good luck!
Please chance me back: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1672761-chance-me-for-stanford-university.html”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1672761-chance-me-for-stanford-university.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Phenomenal. :slight_smile: GPA Person I see~</p>

<p>Occidental: Match
UCLA: Reach
UCB: Reach
Pepperdine: Match
USC: Match
Claremont McKenna: Match
Pomona: Match
UCSD: Match
Santa Clara: Safety</p>

<p>If those are your only colleges, GET IN SOME SAFETIES, you will need them. But good luck with admissions! :)</p>

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<p>Thank you! Those aren’t the only colleges I’m thinking about, but they are some of the tougher ones to get into. I didn’t list my safeties, but I do have more. </p>

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<p>UCB, UCLA, and USC seem like low reaches. My friend got into All the UC schools (including UCB), but got rejected from UCLA. He had a 1760 SAT, 27 ACT, fewer extra curricular activities than you, no hooks. He had an amazing essay, though. He didn’t pass one of his AP tests, either. Majored in bio-something. Goes to show that essays might be the key in these cases. good luck, and don’t let anybody tell you that you can’t go where you want to! :D</p>

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<p>Just wondering. why are you taking so many SAT II’s? You’re better of studying for and taking one or two and doing well in them, rather than taking four and doing so so in all of them. I’d say you are a match for most of these schools; UCLA, Berkeley and CMC are reaches.</p>

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<p>Can you afford the UC’s? No financial aid for OOS with California public universities: UC’s and CSU’s; you will be full pay.</p>