Chances With Lack in ECs

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of California - Los Angeles
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<p>I live about an hour's drive away from UCLA, and it is my top choice to go to.
I have a pretty good academic record:
-4.3 GPA
-2180 SAT first try (CR 720 M 780 W 680) but blundered 2nd time around and got a 2100.
-SAT II: 710 US History, 800 Math IIC. Considering trying French this fall.
-Course difficulty: I took almost all AP/Honors classes in my school, except for Bio/Chem/Physics, the major science ones, because I wasn't all that interested.</p>

<p>However my main concern lies in extra-curriculars. How important are they? I come from a competitive school, but my ECs are almost non-existant.<br>
-I joined a couple of clubs here and there, but no leadership positions.<br>
-My main strength is that I have been playing piano for 12 years now
-Taught piano to kids
-Passed Panel CM Exam (highest level for some sort of standardized testing for piano)
-But haven't won any competitions.
That's pretty much it. No sports, no major fundraisers. Piano I think is a pretty bad EC because well, everyone does it. Nothing spectacular.</p>

<p>With that in mind, how is my admissions outlook? Thanks</p>

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<p>yea, ECs are a big problem...</p>

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<p>solid match. </p>

<p>you will probably get in. your extracurriculars are comparable with those of most ucla students, but your sats and gpa are higher than those of many.</p>

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<p>sometimesno:</p>

<p>UCLA: Match</p>

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<p>Try to emphasize your piano talent in your essay, I should think. That's all I could say. I had same GPA, better SAT scores, bleh ECs, bleh essays and I got that supplementary app, which I think means I was borderline.</p>

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<p>Yeah sounds like a match.</p>

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<p>ECs aren't as important for public universities. I say in.</p>

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<p>i remember i was doing the exact chance thread last year...flopsy and fastMED gave me a reach...harsh ppl, harsh</p>

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<p>lmao hater thats not harsh at all, they gave me a reach for UCSB...</p>

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<p>The people on the UC Berkeley forum have a special thread for chances. Can't one of the older people do one for this forum too? Individual chance threads are making it hard for me to find other things.</p>

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<p>we had one but no one use it because they are too lazy to find the thread and also look for responses to them, instead they just want a thread to themself where all the responses apply to them.... but I do agree with you peppers, we really should make one but only the admins can sticky it...</p>

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<p><a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?p=3909382#post3909382%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?p=3909382#post3909382&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>It was closed. I'll make a thread.</p>

<p>OK! [url=<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=393280%5DDONE!%5B/url"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=393280]DONE![/url&lt;/a&gt;] </p>

<p>P.S.: I usually don't post replies to chances but hey the thread had to be made...</p>

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<p>thanks for the thread mme-lin, now we can bet on how many people are dumb enough to ignore the chances thread, we should make a rule like we only respond to chances on the official thread and no individual threads :)</p>

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<p>lol...well, kick, i guess its not so harsh after all, huh?</p>