Chances of getting into UCLA/Duke

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I'm currently a sophmore in a Massachusetts Prep School</p>

<p>I am Indian American, but I was born in the US</p>

<p>These were my grades </p>

<p>Freshman Year:</p>

<p>World Civ: A
Honors Algebra II: A
Spanish II: A
Intro to Acting: A+
World Literature I: B+
Honors Biology: A</p>

<p>Sophmore year (After 2 Trimesters)</p>

<p>Honors Spanish III: A
Honors Chemistry: A
AP World History: A-
Acting I: A
Honors Geometry: A
World History II: A-</p>

<p>My junior year classes:</p>

<p>AP US History
Honors Physics
AP Biology
Honors Spanish IV
Honors Precalculus BC
American Studies in Literature</p>

<p>Extra curricular:</p>

<p>Varsity cross country runner my freshman and sophmore year
JV Baseball freshman and sophmore year</p>

<p>I've been playing guitar for three years</p>

<p>Volunteer:
I have 156 community service hours so far
I volunteered at the YMCA as a counselor over the summer
I volunteered 16 hours in an orphanage for disabled kids in India. </p>

<p>What are my chances of getting in and what do I need to improve? </p>

<p>Thanks. </p>

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<p>I think your extracurriculars are a bit on the weak side so if you can think of anything (you still have a year and a half - you have time right?) or get into a few prestigious summer programs that’d help. However, as for your actual chances for these schools, it’s too hard to say without more information (specifically SAT/ACT scores). Duke takes a lot of students that score over 2200 so you should try to get at least that (as for UCLA, I’m not so sure about out of state admissions - it’s harder than in state though).</p>