Chances in CA with low SAT, GPA

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Asian at SoCal public with API of 700
Not a citizen [permanent resident]
IB Certificate</p>

<p>SAT:650CR, 710M, 670W [9]
690CR, 680M, 670W [8]
SATII: 730M2, 760USHIST, 700LIT, 660BIO[M]
AP: 5 on European Hist, English Language, US History, 4 on Biology, Calculus AB/BC
IB: 5 on Biology SL
PSAT: 1950, 2070</p>

<p>GPA: 3.6, 4.3 [Top 30]</p>

<p>Sophomore
AP Euro: AA
Chemistry H: AA
English Pre-IB: BB
Spanish 2: AA
Pre-Calculus H:AA</p>

<p>Junior
Theory of Knowledge:AB
AP Calculus BC: BB
AP Biology: BB
English IB: CB
Physics H: AA
Spanish 3: AA
AP US Hist: BB</p>

<p>Senior
AP English
AP Physics
AP Government
AP Spanish
IB Math
IB Latin American History</p>

<p>EC
3rd year in FBLA
--School VP of Communications, Region VP of Communications
--Regional competition: 1st in Intro to Computer Concepts, Technology Concepts, 3rd in Intro to Business Communications, 4th in Economics
--State competition: 2nd in Technology Concepts [qualifies for Nationals]
--attended local, state, and national conferences
--gave all these blahblah workshops
American Cancer Society Youth Council
Cancer Society at school
Only AMC12 qualifier at our school
Nominated for Boys State
40 hours Library volunteer
20 hours random community crap with FBLA</p>

<p>Berkeley [sent CPRS], ClaremontMcK, Pomona, Pitzer, Stanford [I'm doing it for the lulz], USC [sent CPRS], UCLA</p>

<p>Christ, I messed up the next 50 years of my life in one.</p>

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<p>UPDATE
UC GPA - 3.83
Weighted [with PE and health] = 4.3</p>

<p>Class rank: 31/548 at non-competitive high school</p>

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<p>Don’t worry,you didn’t mess up anything. Why does everyone think that because they didn’t get into the perfect college that they’re screwed for life? It doesn’t matter where you go for undergrad. school…not at all!</p>

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<p>99 percent of Americans have never gone to a USNWR Top-25 school, and somehow all these people relegated to the horrors of Podunk State College or CSU-Backwater manage OK.</p>

<p>People put way too much stock in the stupid rankings. Get in where you can, work your butt off, get a degree and get out into life. Remember, just having a college degree from anywhere puts you a leg up on more than two-thirds of America.</p>

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<p>^
Totally agree with FCYTravis99 on the “get into any college, it still owns most people” idea.</p>

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<p>Stanford: Reject
UCLA: Low Reach
Berkeley: Low Reach
USC: Match/Slight Reach</p>

<p>Your scores are relatively low, but your GPA is impressive. Don’t be melodramatic about these applications and suggest your life is screwed. Worst case scenario, you get rejected everywhere and deported to Afghanistan.</p>

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<p>Travis’ point is 100% correct.</p>

<p>Hell, 75% of americans haven’t gone to college…</p>

<p>But more importantly, only about 10% of Fortune 500 CEOs went to Ivys.</p>

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<p>Haha, I know I’m being melodramatic but as an Asian, the peer pressure is absurd. I gave up the wild dreams of being accepted to all the Ivies and whatever junior year.</p>

<p>Berekley is probably my 1st pick. Good location, good business program, good friends there, too.</p>

<p>Thanks for the advice.</p>

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<p>To me, the biggest mistake in life is thinking you’ve got to do what everyone else is doing. Do what you think is right for you.</p>

<p>Worst-case, you can save a bunch of money by getting your lower-division stuff done at a local community college. Get solid grades there and rock your IGETC, and you can pretty much write your ticket into the UC of your choice. There were 13,000 California community college transfers accepted into the UC system last year. (I’d be one of them, if only ANY of the UCs had an undergrad j-school :D)</p>

<p>As a bonus, your classes will be taught by actual professors and won’t be much larger than 30-40 at most, whereas if you end up at Cal or UCLA, get ready for the lower-division stuff to be mostly 500-student lecture hall TA snooze-fests.</p>

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<p>Didn’t you learn anything from the UC/Cal State counselor meeting? Didn’t you get ELC? Because Berkeley’s admit rate is 48% of ELC applicants. That’s pretty high. </p>

<p>Why are you limiting yourself to Berkeley and LA? I’m not saying you should settle for Merced, but have you considered SD? (I don’t think you’d like the Polys). For some reason, your college choice seems extremely influenced by Linville. Please tell me no . . .</p>

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<p>I’m top 6% in the school, so I’m definitely not top 4% in state [unless suddenly our school didn’t suck].</p>

<p>Berkeley mainly for Haas School o’ Business and I’ll have people I know there. I don’t want to go to UCLA. It’s a match-backup because even if I wanted to go, I might not be able to.</p>

<p>I like UCSD but the 6 colleges thing is confusing and I don’t know whether SD is good for bidness [although I’ll probably go undeclared anways].</p>

<p>Oh well, I’ll always have Harvard as a backup.</p>

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<p>Oh, well that’s good. Harvard’s a decent college. It’s no Berkeley, but . . .</p>

<p>The 6 colleges thing doesn’t even really matter. Usually, they’re split up by disciplines, biology is in Muir, engineering/econ is Warren, etc. etc. but that’s only dorms. You’ll inevitably have class with someone from Roosevelt if you’re in Warren. Requirements to graduate are different based on the schools. Some have emphasis on math, some on humanities. I kind of like the idea. But my sister does go there, so not that I don’t love her, but I’d like to be independent.
And was ELC top 4% in state? I didn’t even read the paper.</p>

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<p>My mistake. ELC is top 4% in your high school based on specific 11 classes.</p>

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<p>You should be considering
UCLA–Slight Reach
UCSD–Match to Slight Reach,
USC–Match
UCSB/UCI/UCD–Match; and
Pitzer–Match</p>

<p>Personally, I think UC Berkeley with a 3.83 UC GPA is a big reach and the same applies to Pomona (although your large numbers of APs will play into their decision).</p>

<p>If you want to do business in California, USC’s school (Marshall) is great also–or you can do Economics at UCSD (two nobel prize winners recently). </p>

<p>Remember that getting into Haas doesn’t come into play until junior year, so you can still go to UCSD or another UC and then try to transfer in later. You’ll still need the same 3.62+ GPA or so whether you go to Berkeley or one of the other UCs, but what else is new?</p>

<p>(just my 2 cents, you understand)</p>