Chances of getting in UCs?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Gender: Female
Ethnicty: Asian (Japanese + Chinese)
School: Public, Located in Southern California</p>

<p>Academics:
GPA: 3.96
UC GPA: 4.0
Rank: 11 out of 450+ students (Top 4% ELC)</p>

<p>Scores:
SAT: 1820 (MATH 680, WRITING 650, READING 490)
Just took SAT 2s, haven't got the scores yet,
but took MATH IIC, LANGUAGE, and BIOLOGY E.
(I will post scores when they come)</p>

<p>Classes + Grades:
Sophomore Year
ENGLISH B/A
WORLD HISTORY A/B
BAND A/A
SPANISH 2 A/A
CHEMISTRY A/A
TRIGONOMETRY/PRE-CALCULUS A/A</p>

<p>Junior Year
AP U.S. HISTORY A/A
AP CALCULUS B/A
AP BIOLOGY B/A
SPANISH 3 A/A
JOURNALISM A/A
ENGLISH B/B</p>

<p>Senior Year
AP ECONOMICS
GOVERNMENT H
AP STATISTICS
ENGLISH
JOURNALISM
PHYSIOLOGY</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
Ecology Club (9,10,11,12)
-- Secretary, Member
California Scholarship Federation (9,10,11,12)
-- Member
Student Government (9,10)
-- Senator (9), Secretary (10)
GATE (9,10,11,12)
-- Member
Journalism (11,12)
-- Staff writer, Sports Page Editor
Band (9,10)
-- First Clarinet</p>

<p>Volunteer:
Local Hospital (Two hours per two weeks)
-- Cared for children
Recycling (Five to six hours per week)
-- Collected recyclables, and place them on trucks to recycling plants.
Tutoring (Two hours per week in summer)
-- Math tutor
Tutoring (Two hours per week)
-- Japanese tutor</p>

<p>Awards:
Student of the Month (9)
-- Science Department
Principal's Honor Roll (10,11)
-- Achieving in academics and extracurriculars
Renaissance Award (10,11)
-- For outstanding academics</p>

<p>Others:
Attend Japanese School on Saturdays
First Generation
Considered Minority due to my ethnicity</p>

<p>Despite its competition, my intended major is Biology, Biochemistry, or anything in the Biology field.
UCLA, UCB, and UCSD are the only schools I'm applying for.</p>

<p>Thank you in advance!</p>

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<p>Your UC GPA is slightly weak and your SAT is a bit below average. I’d say:</p>

<p>Berkeley: reach
UCLA: reach
UCSD: slight reach - high match</p>

<p>I would recommend you apply to some other UCs – UCSC/UCR/UCM for safeties and UCSB/UCD/UCI for matches. I’d say 1-2 matches and 1 safety.</p>

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<p>I’d highly recommend at least one UC safety and one match. You might get dinged by your three choices and do not want to get shut out of the UC system.</p>

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<p>What do you mean “dinged”</p>

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<p>Well, I’m factoring in the ELC which gives you a 57.9% chance at admission into Berkeley and 58.0% into UCLA. </p>

<p>UCSD has a 88.4% ELC admit rate. </p>

<p>I would have retaken the SATs, but there you go. Apply to some safeties.</p>

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<p>kyledavid, maybe 3.96 is her uw gpa?</p>

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[University</a> of California Admissions](<a href=“http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/undergrad_adm/paths_to_adm/freshman/examination_reqs.html]University”>http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/undergrad_adm/paths_to_adm/freshman/examination_reqs.html)</p>

<p>So retake that SAT of yours, like I will. Glad to see someone else doing relatively well on M/W but not CR (like me) ;)</p>

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<p>UCB/UCLA: Reach
UCSD: Slight Reach-Reach
UCI/UCSB/UCD: Match-Safe Match</p>

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<p>I’ve just posted this in another thread, and I’ll say it again. Such logic is too common on CC, and it simply doesn’t work. You can’t evaluate chances based on % admitted in this case because using such probability assumes that the event is random. The event is not random. So even if the acceptance rate is 60%, it doesn’t mean that your chances sit at 60%. You could have ELC status and have a 10% chance of admission (i.e. no ECs or honors/awards, mediocre essays, etc.). To say that % admitted is indicative of one’s chances is to say that someone who got a perfect score on the SAT has about an 80% chance at Harvard (since it admitted roughly that percentage), making it a safe match - safety. That is far from true. (You can have a perfect score on the SAT, but unless you have a really strong resume – great ECs and honors/awards, excellent essays, etc. which perfect-scorers tend to have – then your chances are not nearly 80% and you probably won’t get in.)</p>

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<p>I assumed it was. The UC GPA is what matters, though. (A difference of .04 isn’t good.)</p>

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<p>Is it true if you apply to 4 UCs you have a 90% chance to get in to at least one?</p>

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<p>No… it depends on what your resume is like. That’s like saying, “If you apply to 4 Ivies, you have X% chance of getting into at least one…” Admissions =/= random.</p>

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<p>Thank you very much for all your replies!
I really appreciate your concern.</p>

<p>Here are my SAT II results:
BIOLOGY E - 640
JAPANESE - 710
MATHEMATICS IIC - 790</p>

<p>Does that increase my chances a bit more?
Thanks in advance!</p>