<p>I did absolutely horrendous freshman year, because I am an immigrant who moved to America and into a bad, poor neighborhood school system initially, so I was not prepared for the student transition to the one of the top public school systems in America.
My Freshman GPA was a 2.5. I was placed in the lower classes, but through hard work and determination I improved my GPA in grades 10-11 with a 3.8 GPA (4.3 weighted), taking 4 APs and 1 Honors, in senior year I am taking 2 more APs which I have already learned over the summer.
I was not athletic whatsoever because partly I am Indian(minority), and never focused on sports, but joined track and Field and have been running it for 5 years trying to improve, now I'm in varsity. Not many Indians do track.
I have played guitar since I was 8.
I am a national merit PSAT semi finalist.
SAT score: 2240 (I'm taking it again and I took an official practice test that predicted at lowest 2300)
I have 30 hours of community service.
I am Robotics captain (lol typical brownie).
I'm fluent in 4 languages: Hindi, English, Spanish, and Japanese.
I live in NJ.
I actually have not decided my major, but I just really want to go and live in LA more than anything and going to college there is my dream.
So... What're my chances</p>
<p>What is your intended major? Have you taken, or plan to take related courses?</p>
<p>My major is undecided.</p>
<p>You need to calculate your UC GPA (only 10th-11th grades), see link: <a href=“Cal State Apply | CSU”>Cal State Apply | CSU; Since you are OOS, you can only use up to 4 AP classes for the extra honor points.<br>
Can you and your family afford UCLA at $55K/year with little financial aid.? You will be expected to pay the OOS tuition at $23K plus your EFC.<br>
Your SAT score is in-line for UCLA and your upward trend in GPA is a plus. I would say you UCLA is a High Match/Low Reach. Good Luck!!</p>
<p>You don’t need to retake the SAT. Getting 60 points higher won’t help.</p>
<p>Writing good essays will. Get started on that.</p>
<p>UCLA is harder OOS, regardless of what people say. I’t a low reach.</p>