Chances please?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>The schools that I am applying to ARE:</p>

<p>UC Davis, UC Berkeley, UCLA
Northwestern
University of Chicago
Brown
Cornell
Tufts
MIT</p>

<p>My stats are as follows:</p>

<p>Freshman Year:
GPA - 3.83/3.71 (1 B 1st Semester and 2Bs Second Semester)</p>

<p>Sophomore Year
GPA - 4.0 (No honors or AP Classes)</p>

<p>Junior Year
GPA - 4.43/4.57 (5 AP Classes; 2 Bs in AP Calc and AP History 1st Sem; 1 B in Calc 2nd Sem)</p>

<p>Senior Year 4.57/4.57 (Expected)</p>

<p>My total weighted GPA then, will be around 4.2 .... Is this bad/okay/good for the schools I am applying to?</p>

<p>My SATs are as follows</p>

<p>SAT I - 1950 (CR 610, W 650, M 690)
SAT II: MATH 2C - 760; US History - 690
and expecting SAT II Physics - 700s</p>

<p>AP Exams:</p>

<p>US History 5
Calculus AB 5
Computer Science 3 (terrible teacher).
Planning on taking these exams</p>

<p>English lang & lit, Physics, B and both Cs, Government, Music Theory, Calc BC</p>

<p>I know that my B's hurt my chances a little. I also know that I have terrible SAT scores, and I plan to get them up, because they are from the beginning of Junior year (SAT I).</p>

<p>I also plan on taking the ACT, my expected score being 33 based on practice tests.</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:</p>

<p>Marching Band (4 Years and dedicated!)
Varsity Tennis (3 years).
Symphonic Band (4 years).
Martial Arts - 5 years! Recently got my Black Belt after an 11 hour test.
Volunteer at MATH LAB - at least 100 hours.
Managing Girls Tennis.
President and FOUNDER of "Tennis Club" at my school.
Worked at KUMON learning center for 2 years...will be counted as community service.
Also tutored several people (paid).
Did some gardening for a neighbor (paid).
Games Club - 4 years member, and last year Secretary
CSF (California Scholarship Federation) - 2 years.
ESPACE Academy (difficult science academy at our school) - 3 years.
Volunteer hours total: 400+</p>

<p>That's all I can think of...but I always forget something, so yeah that is pretty much it.</p>

<p>Notes:</p>

<p>Ethnicity: Asian Indian (Immigrant)</p>

<p>Rank: 3...but out of 900 students! Is this good?</p>

<p>Planning to take ACT and SAT to boost test scores (they should be much higher).</p>

<p>I'm the ONLY AP Scholar before I apply at my school. And I have taken all the AP classes that my school offers, with the exception of like Spanish AP, because I'm in French.</p>

<p>Yeah, to emphasize the point again, my school sucks and we don't have counselers for a 3500 student school. <em>sigh</em></p>

<p>Anything else I think of...I will add to the post!
Thank you for reading, and it would be very helpful if you are able to REPLY!!!</p>

<p>THANKS AGAIN.</p>

<p>~manu</p>

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<p><em>bump</em></p>

<p>Come On People!</p>

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<p>Manu2007:</p>

<p>Assuming you are a California resident,
UCB/UCLA: Slight Reach
UCD: Safe Match</p>

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<p>What about the others?
Are they just plain REACHES?</p>

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<p>UC Berkeley--Slight Reach
UCLA--Match to Slight Reach (closer to slight reach)
UC Davis--Match
Northwestern--Slight Reach
University of Chicago--Slight Reach
Brown--Reach
Cornell--Slight Reach
Tufts--Slight Reach
MIT--Reach</p>

<p>Your GPA is fantastic--especially at the UCs since they don't count freshman grades. However, your SAT scores don't help you at all at any of these schools--thus the reason most are slight reaches or reaches.</p>

<p>You need to convince people that you just don't test so well, (or just didn't this one time), but that you can do the work in and out of the classroom.</p>

<p>Your best chances are (in-order) at UCLA, Tufts and Cornell (and of course, UC Davis). These are the schools I would concentrate on with my applications, if I were you.</p>

<p>Best of luck to you.</p>