Chances please (I'm a junior)

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of California - Los Angeles
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<p>1st generation college student
Korean-American
Freshman:
Geometry: C/B
Biology: B/A
Honors World History : B/B
English 1 : A/A
Spanish 1: A/A
Chem: B/A
<em>family hardship during that year</em></p>

<p>Sophmore:
AP Bio A/A
AP World A/A
Honors English A/A
Alg. 2 A/A
Spanish 2 A/A</p>

<p>Junior year grades (1st semester only finished)
AP Environmental Science- A
AP Eng. - A
AP US- A
Trig/Math Analysis -A
Spanish 3 -A</p>

<p>I believe my UC GPA is around 4.4 - 4.5ish so far</p>

<p>SAT: 2070 (620 CR 730 M 720 Writing- essay 11)
SATII: Biology 680, World History 700, going to take SAT IIC if I don't get into USC RHP
AP scores: AP Bio- 4 AP World History-5</p>

<p>EC's-
-Editor in chief of newspaper (revived it) (25-30 hours a week)
-President of Volunteer Services at a volunteer organization (not school related and around 14-16 hours a week)
-President of Journalism club (4-5 hours a week)
-President and founder of Debate club (10-12 hours a week)
I have around 1000 community service hours (not sure if it is a hook)
Awards: lots of volunteer awards from president to mayor and couple writing awards (one writing award from a council member in LA)</p>

<p>just curious about my chances. I am applying to USC RHP ( a program that allows people to skip senior year). UCLA has been my dream school for a long time but the USC RHP program is too tempting. If I do not get into USC, I plan to apply to UCLA. (Pretty much the only school I will apply in my senior year)</p>

<p>thank you</p>

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<p>id say ur a match because you have really good EC's and a really good UC GPA. Your SAT scores are average (btw take math 2c) but you should have a really good shot.</p>

<p>as a side note, i suggest you actually go through with senior year. It's definitely a good break/buffer between high school and college.</p>

<p>anyways good luck!!</p>

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<p>UC's don't look at freshmen year grades so nothing to worry. Your grades are impressive. Take SAT IIC Math and you're pretty much in. Your ec's are good, so if your gpa. UCLA does a holistic approach now. You have scores above the average and your EC's are way above average. Your SAT score is average for UCLA, I believe, but your EC's and GPA overshadow that part of the application.
SAT II scores are decent, not too impressive though. Make sure you nail the SAT IIC math
Apply to some privates: Stanford/Ivy's/etc. Also, don't forget safties.</p>

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<p>MrxPenguin:</p>

<p>UCLA: Match</p>

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<p>You sure you're not exaggerating those EC hours? As it is listed is looks like around 8-10 hours a day (estimating ~30 min/day for service hours), including weekends. Adding school, that looks like around 14-17 hours per day. When do you eat???</p>

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<p>Mx, you work on ECs as much as my parents do for their full time job and my parents work 10-12 a day.</p>

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<p><em>Daniel</em>
PM me if you want a schedule of my daily life.</p>