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<p>Low SAT’s I know…I am taking ACT’s Sept…could you evaluate my profile please?</p>

<p>2nd generation Korean-American
Born in Georgia, now residing in suburbs in California
Income bracket <40,000</p>

<p>GPA: 4.0 unweighted, 4.67 weighted
Rank: 4/517 (for now…I think I will be moving up to 2/517 by next year)
PSAT: 190
SAT: ugh…690M, 650W, 640CR----I am currently studying to retake in Oct…my goal is to get 730+M, 700+W, 700CR
SAT II: 660 Math IIC, 670Bio E, 710 US History—retaking in Nov.</p>

<p>Special Circumstances: nothing really, except that I moved from GA to CA in the second semester of my sophomore year and that GA did not offer AP classes to sophomores…so I technically had only 1 semester of AP World History…</p>

<p>10th:
AP World History: A (5 on exam)</p>

<p>11th:
Pre-IB Pre Calc/AP Calc AB: A
AP English Language: A
AP US History: A
AP Biology: A</p>

<p>12th:
AP English
AP Calculus BC
AP Art History
AP Govt
AP Economics
AP Physics</p>

<p>EC’s:

  1. National Honor Society 2 years</p>

<li><p>California Scholarship Federation 2.5 years </p></li>
<li><p>Latin Club 4 years (founder/instructor)
I had previously taken Latin in GA however, moving to CA which did not offer Latin, I decided to create a latin club and teach latin I and the culture to those interested)
I also took the National Latin Exam for Latin I and got bronze medal</p></li>
<li><p>Future Doctors of America 2 years (founder/co-president)
Basically, we bring guest speakers to our club meetings (neurosurgeons to pediatric cardiologists) who talk about their occupations, do volunteer work at local hospitals/Red Cross, and provide hands on experience to those interested in pursuing a medical profession.</p></li>
<li><p>LiNK-Liberty in North Korea 3 years (co-secretary/promotions director/public relations)
Spreading awareness upon the humanitarian crisis in North Korea and doing humanitarian activist promotions (ie: organized an all-day LiNK awareness assembly at school, protests in front of the Chinese Embassy in LA, sending petitions to various embassies and release North Korean detainees, host a benefit concert and raise $5,000 for SAFE Haven orphanages in China that are posts involved in an Underground Railroad to help NK refugees) I am a great advocate for this cause while many ppl in my church have dissapproved b/c they feel that I am simply straining the already tense relations our motherland: SKorea and NKorea and US. Nevertheless, I this issue itself is my passion and energy not only b/c of the horrendous atrocities being committed right under noses but also b/c some of my family members are in NKorea right now…and so, its not only a matter of human decency but of ultimate necessity. </p></li>
<li><p>Model UN 2 years (cofounder/activities director)
My involvement in LiNK led me to intiate our school’s 1st MUN chapter. (our school just opened in 2004…hence our class is the 1st graduating class for 2007!)</p></li>
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<p>100%. Plug your numbers into UCSD's admission formula to be sure.</p>

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<p>dude ur in</p>

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<p>what's the admission formula? I've tried looking all over the place for it! :)</p>

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<p><a href="http://www.geocities.com/kisasong/UCSDComprehensive.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.geocities.com/kisasong/UCSDComprehensive.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>thanks!!!!!!! by the way does anyone know anything about being qualified for the regents scholarship?</p>

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<p>Compared to your grades and your ECs, your SATs (and IIs) are actually very disappointing. What happened there?</p>

<p>Either way, those grades, those ECs, and the low income gets you in regardless of the SATs. Likely UCLA as well. Fix the SATs to be a shoe-in at Cal.</p>

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<p>I really don't know why my SATs are so low, and yes its very disappointing </p>

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<p>ha ha ha. It still makes me laugh when I hear that there are people that study for the SATs/ACT ha ha ha. I didn't know that people did until I found this website. hahahha </p>

<p>There's no doubt you could get in. My stats were way worse than yours in every way and UCSD even called me congratulating me on my "academic achievement" and they told me I should apply there. That was like, last Fall.</p>

<p>Oh yeah, I was wondering, did anyone else ever got a phone call like that before applying?</p>

<p>Good luck with doing better on your standardized tests. Good idea about taking the ACT, I thought that was much easier than SAT. If your scores get closer to perfect, then I think you could get in practically anywhere.</p>

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<p>Nope. I didn't even know that they made calls like that. Thats pretty cool though!</p>

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<p>Bump!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>

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<p>You should definitely be in, unless UCSD decides to drastically roll back admissions or something. But with improved SATs, it shouldn't matter. Regents might be a stretch, because of your SATs, but your lower income situation might help you there. I think you'd at least get financial aid of some sort.</p>

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<p>thanks for your replies</p>