Chances for USC, UCLA, Duke, UC Berkeley

Chance Me / Match Me!
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I am currently a senior in high school and these are my top four schools at the moment.

Colleges - USC, UCLA, Duke, UC Berkeley, Stanford (Rejected REA)
Applying to engineering programs at each

  • **Unweighted GPA** - 3.95
  • **Weighted GPA** - 4.25
  • **# of AP/IB/honors courses**- 11 APs
  • **Class rank/size** - 1/600 (Anyone above 4.0 GPA is #1)
  • **ACT scores** - 34 Composite / 35 Superscore (35 English, 34 Math, 36 Science, 34 Reading)
  • **AP scores** - AP Human Geo (3), APLAC (3), AP US History (4), AP World (3), AP Psych (4), AP Calc (Didn't put on) More to come, won't be on application however since I've already applied
  • **Senior Course Load**:
  • AP Physics
  • AP Calculus BC
  • AP Literature
  • AP Macro
  • AP Micro
  • Civics
  • Oral Communications
  • Community Service Class
  • **ECs**:
  • "Students for Children's" (club I created sophomore year to raise money and volunteer for the local children's hospital, raised $11,000 in first fundraiser)
  • Ambassadors Service and Learning (volunteer within our community at animal shelters, local schools, senior centers, Salvation Army, etc.)
  • Project Graduation (Committee Chair, fun alternative to keep seniors from drinking/driving on graduation night)
  • Prom Committee (Chair)
  • DECA (Business club)
  • ASTRA (Volunteer club)
  • Soccer (All 4 Years, Varsity 3)
  • Bowling (Two years, Varsity/Captain)
  • **Employment/Summer School**:
  • No employment (worked as volunteer at local children's hospital over a summer)
  • Attended Stanford High School Summer College (2017)
  • Attended UCLA Nanoscience Institute (2018)
  • I have been doing fundraisers with my family for the past 8 years for the hospital that saved my brother's life, raised over $250,000
  • **Honors/Awards**:
  • National Honor Society
  • National Spanish Honor Society
  • Science National Honor Society
  • Mu Alpha Theta (Math NHS)
  • AP Scholar
  • Graduate w/ High Distinction
  • National Merit Commended Scholar
  • **Recs/Essays**: I think that my recommendations and essays were pretty good. Most of my recs were from people who knew a lot about the leadership side of me and how I am as a person; I recently got a new counselor, however, so she didn't know me very well. So about a (7-8/10) on recs. I worked very hard on my essays for each school and would put them at about a (8-9/10).
  • **Extra info**:
  • No residency for any school
  • No Alumni relation

Race - White
Sex - Male
Middle Class

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Best chance is at USC. Low reach/high match.

Cal and UCLA Engineering schools are reaches even for students with perfect GPA/test scores plus you’re OOS.

AP scores are kind of mediocre and should not be reported. And they aren’t STEM related.

Your ECs don’t really demonstrate an interest in Engineering except for maybe the UCLA one. No robotics, programming, or math competitions. Not that they are absolutely necessary, but they do help show your interests in Engineering.

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Thank you for the comment; I forgot to mention that one of the classes I took at the Stanford Summer College was CS106A which was Programming Methodology. This was like an intro/freshman class into the java language.