<p>My major is going to be Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or EECS
I am a male at the most competitive high school in the area. I am a Senior.</p>
<p>Academics:
-Cumulative GPA (Unweighted):3.75~3.8 (grade change being made)
-Cumulative Weighted GPA: 4.3 or 4.4 (not sure)
-UC GPA: 4.08 (capped at 8 classes)
- Taking the most difficult classes offered at school
- Doing the full IB Diploma programme
- Have taken IB Physics & IB Economics
- Extended Essay (Research Paper) to be done in Computer Science
- Upward trend in grades since freshmen year
- Taken AP Calculus AB (Only AP offered at school due to IB Programme)
- Took Calculus II at a local CC (Goes farther than Calculus BC received an A)
- Have taken computer courses at CC in past summers (Received As)
- Taken 2 years of Physics (higher difficulty levels)
- Senior Year I am taking 5 IB Courses (3 Higher level & 2 Standard Level) as well as an Honours Course
- Possibly taking Calculus III at a CC during the school year</p>
<p>SAT: 720 Math, 620 CR, 600 Writing (Retaking, practice tests show around 2050~2200, if it counts) </p>
<p>I know I need to bring up the SAT....Subject tests have been taken but retaking.</p>
<p>ECs:
- Participated in Speech & Debate for four years, taken up leadership positions and won awards (Regional & national) - attended Nationals as a Sophomore
- Member of FBLA (Qualified to states but unable to attend due to robotics conflict)
- Went to the World Championships in Robotics and won the award for best programming - Lead progammer
- Treasurer of Robotics Team
- Member of Moot Court (I am consistently top 16 in the national competition) - Captain senior year
- Member of the Academic Decathlon team (Used to be treasurer)
- CSF/NHS member
- Volunteer/Intern at a local organisation that builds new computers and donates them to low income families
- Interned at Robotics teams - Helped bring another Robotics program to a high school near San Francisco.
- Been on the Varsity Boys Golf Team for four years
- Learning Tabla (Indian Instrument)
- Have learnt some programming languages on my own but no accredidations
- Youth Commissioner in the local city government committee</p>
<p>Unique Characterisitics:
- Fluent in five languages (English, Hindi, Kannada (South Indian), Sanskrit, and Japanese</p>
<p>Wow. Sorry. I don’t know, your stats are EXACTLY like my friend’s, who is a co-captain with me for our moot court team. It is quite scary actually… S&D and robotics. IB… AP Calc is the only AP course offered.</p>
<p>He is also Indian… I found the place that differs and that is golf. WOW…that is REALLY weird. Besides your numbers, you guys have the exact same courses (took IB Economics and IB physics)… so sorry for mistakening you for someone else. There are not really that many moot court teams out in Cali. I’m from the other Cali school in National MC. So weird. Awkward misunderstanding, sorry.</p>
<p>Very competitive applicant pools in your intended majors-- low reach based on your current test scores for Cal as others have said. Assuming you are a CA resident, are you an ELC applicant (top 9% in your graduating class)? If ELC, your chances improve for Cal. Check out the link below by clicking on “Custom Tables”, answer some questions, and enter up to 3 mean characteristics at a time to see what the admit rate is at the various UCs:</p>
<p>But looking at everything, you definitely have a shot at UCSD and others. UCLA and UCB may be a high match/low reach. Your UC GPA is a bit low (is it IB Bio 1?) My friend had great ECs with national rankings in MC and S&D, high SAT, but a 4.2 GPA and she got squat rejected from all UCs. There was probably another factor that caused her not to get accepted, but from what I’ve been hearing, UCs weigh GPAs heavily. Work hard first semester of senior year and I think you should be fine. Plus, you’re from Socal, yes? UCLA will be relatively easier for you to get in. This is because UCLA tends to accept Socal students and UCB tends to accept norcal students
I don’t know why, but that is just the way it rolls… all of these may just be myths. They are just things I’ve heard, but I don’t know if they’re exactly true.</p>
<p>Candidheart: Don’t worry about it. Yeah SoCal has a lot of IB schools so I’m not really surprised there. Its kind of scary knowing someone is out there with my stats. At least there is something to differentiate us. Thanks for you’re chances! btw, I think your friend with the 4.2 gpa had something else because Davis & Irvine’s GPA is like 3.9 (Weighted UC). Also I think that the UCLA-SoCal thing is myth, most of the people from my school end up going to SD or Berkeley. Thanks for the chances! its always good to hear new rumors! The GPA isn’t cause of IB Bio, its because I’ve gotten B’s before…</p>
<p>Jshain: I’m not ELC…barely missed the cutoff and thanks for the link!</p>
<p>Oh hahaha, I go to MLHS… dunno if you know. It’s a school in norcal. I don’t know, it seems that a larger pool of students who get into UCLA come from socal and same thing for UCB.</p>
<p>By the way, I believe refreshe4 meant HIGH match and not low match as he stated in post #4. Think of it as setting the bar high, or a high jump bar you have to leap over to get in, when using the terms low and high.</p>