Chances OOS at California schools

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hey everybody, chance me at some schools and I will chance you back.</p>

<p>I am a White/Asian male(I'm putting down white).</p>

<p>I attend a very competitive large public high school in New York City. It sends many grads to top schools. Actually a recent article in the Wall Street Journal ranked my school as the best public school in the US in terms of percent of students sent to top schools.
I have a unweighted 91 average fairly hard classes (but not the hardest), with an solid upward trend. (Basically 88,91,95).</p>

<p>I don't have a weighted GPA nor a class rank. My school doesn't have them.</p>

<p>My SATs are 1460/2190. (740,720,730)
SAT II: 680 Math I(should I submit this), 720 US History, 710 lit.
All my aps are 4s or 5s.</p>

<p>Can you guys just assume that my extras and essays are pretty average for the schools that I am applying too. ( I know its gonna be sorta hard to judge, but i'll take answers with a grain of salt).</p>

<p>Also, I will NOT request financial aid.</p>

<p>I just really love California and want to go to college there. </p>

<p>So with that what are my chances at (also be really brutally honest):</p>

<p>UCB
UCLA(Top choice)
UCSD
UCI
UCSB
UCR
USC
Pomona
Pitzer
Claremont Mckenna
UNC - I know its random, but I have family in NC, and was just wondering.
Suny Big. </p>

<p>I understand a lot of these are reaches, and please just tell me if they are, and if I have no shot.
Also, will it help at the UCs and UNC that i can pay oos tuition?</p>

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<p>Getting into UCB or UCLA OOS is very difficuult. People from my school in NY with 2300+ SATs and 3.95+ GPAs were pretty much all rejected by the UCs. Similarly, no one from our school gets into UNC either OOS.</p>

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<p>whoah hold on, just look at the data for UCLA:</p>

<p>[Profile</a> of Admitted Freshmen, Fall 2008 - UCLA Undergraduate Admissions](<a href=“http://www.admissions.ucla.edu/Prospect/Adm_fr/Frosh_Prof09.htm]Profile”>http://www.admissions.ucla.edu/Prospect/Adm_fr/Frosh_Prof09.htm)</p>

<p>Out of state have a 27% admit rate, while californians have a 22% admissions rate</p>

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<p>So that says that 11% of accepted students have an unweighted gpa around mine. Also it says that almost 60 percent of students with sats over 2100 get in. So my grades are bad and my sats are good. Where does that leave me?</p>

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<p>Utah_Ace,</p>

<p>The OOS crowd is self-selecting, leading to those seemingly skewed results.</p>

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<p>All the OOS schools will be big reaches for you, but its not impossible. I am also from a large NYC public HS which has never sent anyone to pomona or UNC CH before me, but i got into both. And i didn’t even go to stuy or bronx sci like you probably do.</p>

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<p>I think you have an excellent shot at all the UCs. They need the full paying OOS students more than ever and your scores are way above average for all of them. UCLA actually takes a significantly higher percentage of OOS vs. in state (28% vs. 22%).</p>

<p>Good shot at Pitzer, decent shot at CMC and USC, Pomona will be tough without higher scores.</p>

<p>Do you really want to pay $47K/yr for UCR? I’d leave that one off the list and maybe replace with Occidental or Pepperdine.</p>

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<p>Honestly I’ll probably just apply to a few UCS (I really like UCLA and UCSD). Its compleatly true that I don’t want to pay that much for UCR or UCI, I was just wondering what my chances there were.</p>