Chances for UCLA, UCI, UCSD, Stanford, Berkeley, USC, Harvey Mudd?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Please chance me, you know the deal :)</p>

<p>Me: White, female, junior, not a low income or poor area, but competitive public school. Lived in california my whole life</p>

<p>GPA: (estimated since I haven't finished junior year yet, and everyone that is 4.0+ is considered a valedictorian, even though that kinda doesn't make sense)
unweighted: 3.72
Weighted(UC):4.17
weighted: 4.39
rank: top 10% (something like 40 out of 750, school has 3000 kids overall)
SAT: 1970(w/o studying so will retake in june for hopefully a 2100+)
SATII: going to take chem and math 2(but since i'll have had 2 years of chem and up to AP calc AB that I should do well, will study for both. goal is 700+)
APs/Honors: (not THE hardest course load but definitely tough, APs available is around 16, and was in IDEA program if that helps at all)
soph: AP Euro(4), Honors Precalc
Junior: AP US, AP Chem, AP Calc AB, AP Composition/Language
Senior: AP Psych, AP Lit, AP Stats, AP Gov, AP Physics</p>

<p>ECs: IMPACT mentor program 2 years(mentor, help freshman adjust to high school life and just help them out and teach them the ropes in general)
Marching Band-Trumpet- 4 years(1 year uniform manager, next year will probably be either drum major or section leader), very competitive, and we march in local parades and in Disneyland every year
Jazz Band- 11 and 12 grade
Trumpet- will be 8 years by senior year(concert band for classical music all those years, went to carnegie hall last year, going to england this year)
CSF- 3+ years, i think there is some thing for being in it for a while...
MUN( haven't won or done any leadership though)
NHS
Some type of leadership in following clubs(I got lazy and didn't opt for any leadership this year, oops): Jazz Club, Spanish club, Working Wardrobes Club, might create own club but don't know what exactly it would focus on
Volunteer hours: only at about 30 now, plan on getting it to 60 by application time, mostly really random things like an event through working wardrobes, helping at a 4th of July Parade, etc. will be volunteering at library over the summer)</p>

<p>Major: probably either economy/business, or civil or mechanical engineering</p>

<p>Colleges I'm looking for: UCI, UCSD, USC, UCLA, Berkeley, Stanford, Harvey Mudd</p>

<p>Thanks for anyone that helps!</p>

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<p>I'd say a lot depends on your SAT results.</p>

<p>Stanford is pretty much a reject, but it's still worth applying.
UCI, UCSD, USC are all admits
UCLA, UCB, Harvey Mudd will be tougher but all within range granted that you increase your SAT score and get good SAT IIs</p>

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Volunteer hours: only at about 30 now, plan on getting it to 60 by application time, mostly really random things like an event through working wardrobes, helping at a 4th of July Parade, etc. will be volunteering at library over the summer)

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<p>For UCs, acceptances have nothing to do with SAT results. More like GPA results and ok SAT will get you into most of the UCs. For UC San Diego make sure you have at least 100 hours of community service otherwise it does not help you. They count 2 years from 9-12.</p>

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<p>^^hmm interesting about the volunteer hours, thanks</p>

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<p>..your volunteer hours are quite low. I really hope you get at least 2200 as probably everyone turns up with a 2100. I wouldn't count on Stanford or UCB but great chances for UCS UCSD and Harvey Mudd---assuming you raise that SAT score and get 100 service hours.</p>

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<p>I just got a 33 on the April ACT. :) apparently a 2190 when converted to sat score. but I plan on taking it again just to see if i can go up a point or so since i was super sick that day and could probably have tried harder.</p>

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<p>Can someone explain to me this obsession with volunteer hours listed by hour?</p>

<p>How/where does one put it on an application? How do you list all the things you volunteered doing?...</p>

<p>If the number of hours is what is most important.. what prevents thousands of applicants from doubling, tripling, quadrupling their numbers? Who will catch them?</p>

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<p>for stanford: LEADERSHIP is a big deal... I know of the smartest peoples who got rejected form stanford.. but those who got in were not the ones with the "high" grades and scores.. but the ones who had leadership positions... -_-x</p>

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<p>UCLA - match (70% chance)
Berkeley - slight reach (60% chance)
UCI - safety (90% chance)
UCSD - safe match (80% chance)
USC - match
Harvey Mudd - slight reach
Stanford - reach</p>