Chances for UCs (OOS)

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I'm still a Junior, but I have a good idea of what my stats will be next year, so I wanted an early chancing so I know what to shoot for.</p>

<p>Asian male
out of state (Hawaii)
Low income</p>

<p>UC GPA: ~3.8-3.9</p>

<p>excellent upward grade trend (Ds and Fs freshmen year, As with 1-2 Bs sophomore year, to straight As and Bs in AP junior year)
bad class rank
2 APs junior year(one of them online) + a community college course
4 APs senior year</p>

<p>SATs: I got a 2100 on the online practice test with no real Alg 2 knowledge (750 CR 700 W 650 M) so assume I get this score
SAT IIs: Predicting 650-700 Math II, 650-700 Bio</p>

<p>ECs are few but focused, mostly around robotics/computers
- Co-founder, co-captain, website manager of Science Olympiad Team (11-12)
- State Intel Science Fair, team captain, expecting to win (designing an autonomous model airplane with GPS navigator/digital camera) (11)
- Website administrator/online sales manager for parent's company (10-12)
- Botball robotics competition team, expecting to win this year (7-8, 11)</p>

<p>Not sure about a couple of my "ECs", they seem to be dangerously close to hobbies:
- Self-taught HTML, C++, photoshop/graphic design (9-11)
- Game design using a custom programming language/3-D modeling (8-10)
- Independent Lego Mindstorms robotics projects, mostly for fun but I did do some pretty advanced stuff (9-12)
- Model R/C aircraft designing/building/flying (10-11)</p>

<p>0 hours of community service</p>

<p>Intended major: Aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, maybe computer science (prolly not)</p>

<p>Schools:
UCSD (top choice by far)
UCI (i'd be pretty happy here too)</p>

<p>UCB (not expecting to get in but applying anyway I guess)
UCLA (see above^)</p>

<p>A few less prestigious schools</p>

<p>Cal Poly SLO
Cal Poly Pomona
UCR
UCSB</p>

<p>Considering a few schools not in Cali</p>

<p>Georgia Tech
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor</p>

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<p>bump (ten chars)</p>

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<p>sigh, bumping again sorry</p>

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<p>UCSB and Cal Poly are quite prestigious btw.</p>

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UCSB and Cal Poly are quite prestigious btw.

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<p>UCSB, to an extent, since it has the UC name. Cal Poly, not so much -- more so regionally.</p>

<p>Your UC GPA falls a bit below the average, and you're OOS. As such:</p>

<p>Berkeley/UCLA: reach
UCSD: reach
UCI: slight reach</p>

<p>Applying to a competitive major also brings your chances down.</p>

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<p>KyleDavid likes to hate on Cal Poly. Don't mind him, it's a good school.</p>

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<p>UCR - match, even if its OOS</p>

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KyleDavid likes to hate on Cal Poly. Don't mind him, it's a good school.

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<p>Let's not make personal attacks, shall we? (Need I remind you courtesy is in the TOS?)</p>

<p>I'll clear this up: I do not "hate on Cal Poly"; I acknowledge that it's a very good school, easily the best CSU, and on par with many UCs; if it were a doctoral university and thus ranked by US News, I would guess that it'd place well. However, I don't worship it; I acknowledge that it's mainly a regional school, and its prestige does not extend far. In random place X (outside of California), Cal Poly is not very known at all; UCSB, as I said, has the "University of California" name on it. The key point is: quality (of education, etc.) is not necessarily a function of prestige. As such, I don't see why you'd think I'm saying Cal Poly isn't a good school simply because I say it lacks large-scale prestige; it's generally acknowledged that CSUs lack prestige (as most state systems do).</p>

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<p>Wow, kyledavid played the I'm-not-a-mod-but-I'll-act-like-one game. You're cool bro.</p>

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<p>I suppose that if I remind people of the TOS, they might be more courteous, though my efforts seem largely futile.</p>

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<p>Courteous? Seriously dude, grow a pair. His comment wasnt a big deal.</p>

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<p>You're community service is really bringing it down.</p>

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Courteous? Seriously dude, grow a pair. His comment wasnt a big deal.

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<p>This isn't discourteous?</p>

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KyleDavid likes to hate on Cal Poly. Don't mind him, it's a good school.

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<p>Looks like you need to review the TOS also.</p>

<p><a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/faq.php?faq=vb_faq#faq_new_faq_item%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/faq.php?faq=vb_faq#faq_new_faq_item&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>And I'm not saying it was a big deal; I was replying to his comment. Isn't that the point of forums like this?</p>