Chances to UCs?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Order of Preference: UCLA, UCSD, Cal</p>

<p>UW GPA: 4.0
10-11 UC GPA: 4.17
ELC (Rank 4/350)</p>

<p>SAT: 650 reading/720 math/620 writing (1990 composite)
ACT: 32 Composite - 29 English/Writing (10 essay), 30 Math, 34 Reading, 33 Science
SAT II: Bio-M 780/Math 2 730 </p>

<p>Honors/AP Classes taken:
English 1-3 Honors
World History Honors
AP Biology
AP Chemistry
AP Calculus
AP Statistics
AP English</p>

<p>AP tests: Bio - 5
Taking : Literature/Calculus/Statistics/Chemistry this year</p>

<p>EC: Key Club/NHS
President of California Scholarship Federation (Member since 10th grade)
Varsity Tennis Team (MVP Freshman Year)
Rotary Enterprise Leadership Conference (Team President)
150+ Hours Volunteering at police station
40+ Hours at Second Harvest Food Bank</p>

<p>Thanks =]</p>

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<p>I think you are in for UCSD.
You have a chance at UCLA and UCB. What hurts you is your SAT score, but only by a little bit. Your GPA is good.</p>

<p>Chance me back, please? <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/654570-worried-chance-me-ucs-bad-grades-ok-sat-good-ec-i-will-chance-you-back.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/654570-worried-chance-me-ucs-bad-grades-ok-sat-good-ec-i-will-chance-you-back.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Bump! Thanks for the input airplane.</p>

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<p>So you are from CA, right? I think you're in for all of the schools in the CA system, except for UCLA and UCB. I would say that those two are matches for you.</p>

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<p>match for SD
high match/low reach for LA
low reach for CAL</p>

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<p>I agree with others, match for UCSD, but SAT is hurting you with UCLA and Cal (GO BEARS!). </p>

<p>Might want to sit again in the SAT and don't forget, you can always attend community college and transfer. If you hold your GPA and keep up with EC's, you can improve odds for transfer; all the UC's LOVE california community college transfers. UCSD has a transfer agreement program that guarantees admission if certain criteria are met (and they're easy).</p>

<p>I've been involved with a program for community college students, offered by Cal. (Stiles</a> Hall). They help you with your application and essay to improve your chances. It has been great learning what admissions officers are looking for and how to counter balance weak areas of an application.</p>

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<p>Your SAT is definitely your biggest problem. I would say retake it and shoot for 2100+ if you want a better chance at UCLA and Cal. Otherwise your best bet is to write some killer essays where you play up your ECs, talk about some significant challenge you've overcome, or describe some sort of life-changing experience. Good luck.</p>

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<p>apple what are you talking about.... His ACT is equivalent to 2150
And you obviously do not know anything about essays. Not everyone overcomes challenges or has life-changing experiences. You are making challenges seem "cliche". Essays are supposed to reveal who you are.
OP already wrote the essays anyway..</p>

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<p>based only on your SAT and unweighted + weighted gpa stats, you have a 45.0% chance of getting into UCLA, and 61.4% for Berkeley. (strangee)
University</a> of California: StatFinder</p>

<p>this is ignoring essays and everything else... so i would say you will most likely get into one of those, and i didn't even check UCSD. good luck!</p>

<p>chance me?
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/655328-brown-usc-etc-will-chance-back.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/655328-brown-usc-etc-will-chance-back.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>If it makes you feel better, I was invited to Cal's regent scholarship, and according to people that means I'm in, and I have about the same test scores as you (you actually have a bit higher). And getting into Cal gives anyone a good chance of getting into UCLA as well.</p>

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<p>Thanks, but to everyone saying my SAT needs to improve, don't they only look at whichever is higher, your ACT OR SAT? Because my 32 is a 2140 equivalent :>, or did I hear wrong.</p>

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<p>Bump, I'm still confused as to whether they will use the higher of my SAT or ACT or whether they mainly use the SAT =[</p>

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<p>I'm sure they take the higher one, like the subject tests</p>

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<p>Any one else care to give input =x?</p>

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<p>Bumpsies, I know you guys want to chance me =].</p>

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<p>The UCs use what is called the “best single sitting” score for the SAT in admission decisions.</p>

<p>That this means is that if you have taken the test three times, and had the following scores:</p>

<p>SAT CR/SAT Math/SAT Writing</p>

<p>1st time: 560/600/620 (a total of 1780)
2nd time: 580/550/640 (a total of 1770)
3rd time: 600/580/590 (a total of 1770)</p>

<p>then only the first score would count (because it was the highest)</p>

<p>Most other schools (not the UCs) would do what they call “superscore” and take the best of each section of the test. In this scenario, you would have a score of 600 on the SAT CR section (from the third test), a 600 on the SAT Math section (from the first test), and a 640 on the SAT Writing section (from the second test) for a total of 1840 (a total 600 points higher than the UCs would give you).</p>

<p>This is why SAT average scores from a school like Michigan or from Cornell or Duke cannot be compared equally with those from UC Berkeley or UCLA. The scores used at UC Berkeley and UCLA will always be equal to or lower than what the other schools will use in the same admission decisions.</p>

<p>P.S. The UCs will also not “superscore” the ACT–and most other schools do not superscore the ACT either. The UC admission committee will either use the higher of the single sitting SAT score or the ACT overall score, whichever is higher.</p>