Chances into UC's, USC, Northwestern

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>African American, Nigerian from So. California
Weighted GPA: 4.08
Unweighted GPA: 3.49</p>

<p>Freshman year: Honors classes, but got horrible grades, which has held down my GPA from being higher. 4.0 GPA every year except freshman.
Sophomore: 2 AP's, everything else honors
Junior: 4 AP's, Basketball, and Spanish 3
Senior: 5 AP's, and Photography</p>

<p>SAT I: 1980 (740 math, 630 reading, 610 writing). Took it again got 2000 (700 math, 660 reading, 640 writing).
SATII: 660 chemistry, 650 us history, 710 math II
ACT: 33 (35 math, 31 science, 31 writing, 33 reading)</p>

<p>AP World History: 2
AP Calculus AB: 3
AP Statistics: 4
AP US: 3
AP Chem: 2 :(
AP Lang: 4</p>

<p>I played football freshman year, basketball junior year, and track 10th grade till now. I love helping people become successful and my essays mostly focus on that.</p>

<p>I am part of Interact club, debate club, California Scholarship Federation, Science club. I was a section leader in band in 9th and 10th grade. I volunteer on my own as a math tutor during the school year, though not as much as I would like :/</p>

<p>I already have a guaranteed acceptance into UC Riverside, do you think I could do UC Irvine, UCLA, and Berkeley? I am applying to Northwestern, could I get into there as well?</p>

<p>Also both my parents went to USC, could that positively affect me in my application?
All answers apperciated!</p>

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<p>Your GPA is a little low but your course rigor is good, your ACT score is really solid compared to your SAT, and your EC’s are a little thin. Overall, with your URM status, I think you have a fair chance at USC and only an outside chance at NU. UCLA and UCB will be reaches given your GPA, which needs to be calculated using the UC GPA scale. I would only send your ACT scores, if it isn’t too late. Good luck.</p>

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<p>USC weights legacy heavier than almost any other school, I’ve heard. I heard some stat that like 21% of their applicants were accepted because of legacy. Usually I’d call it a reach for you, but because of the legacy, I think you’re in.</p>

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<p>I forgot to add that I spent 3 weeks at Northwestern this summer taking college classes there. would that affect me positively at NU as well?</p>

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<p>It shows “demonstrated interest” and will give you a few “brownie points”.</p>

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<p>Into all UCs EXCEPT
UCB: Match/Low match
UCLA (most likely in): Match</p>

<p>Chance back please? </p>

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