chances?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I'm a white female from a pretty good public school in Southern California. (Went to 9th grade in a private school but didn't like the people so I left.) 737 in my graduating class. Ranked 76 (10.3%) as of first semester junior year.</p>

<p>W GPA from 9th to first semester 11th: 4.0
UW GPA: 3.6</p>

<p>Since University of California uses it:
W GPA from 10th to (projected) second semester 11th: 4.1
UW GPA: 3.4</p>

<p>Total number of AP classes by end of senior year: 12
Additional honors classes: 3</p>

<p>Test scores:
SAT I June of freshman year: 2200
SAT I November of junior year: 2290
I'm also going to retake the SAT I senior year in hopes of 2300 or better.
SAT II Math 2C: 780
PSAT: 224 - National Merit Semifinalist (Don't know about finalist, etc. yet)
AP Euro: 4
AP Physics B: 3
AP Calculus AB (projected): 4
AP US History (projected): 4
AP Biology (projected): 4
AP Chemistry (projected): 3
AP English Lang (projected): 4</p>

<p>Senior year I'll be taking 4 more APs and 2 (maybe 3) languages</p>

<p>EC:
Varsity cross-country 2 years
Track 1 year
Ballet 13 years
Orchestra only 1 year of high school
French club
I'll be doing habitat for humanity work this summer
Part time job at JPL (branch of NASA) this summer</p>

<p>Chances at:
Reed College
University of California at Berkeley, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz
University of Chicago
Northwestern University
Belois College
Middlebury College
Brown University</p>

<p>Yes those are a lot of great schools and I rarely do my homework so my grades aren't that great, but any help as to ways of improving my chances would be fantastic. Thank you sososo much in advance!</p>

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<p>Reed College--Match
University of California at Berkeley--Match (in-state)
UC San Diego--Match (in-state)
UC Santa Barbara--Safe Match (in-state)
UC Santa Cruz--Safety (in-state)
University of Chicago--Match to Slight Reach
Beloit College (I presume you meant Beloit)--Safe Match
Middlebury College--Match to Slight Reach
Northwestern University--Slight Reach to Reach (UW GPA)
Brown University--Slight Reach to Reach (UW GPA)</p>

<p>Best of success to you (and congratulations on those SAT scores). Just work on getting that GPA up a bit. You are on the borderline for a bunch of schools.</p>

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<p>Thank you so much!</p>

<p>I'm really worried about the GPA because after AP tests most classes don't have a lot of points available to help boost my grades... but we'll see.</p>

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<p>Does anybody else have a take on this? Be as harsh as you want!</p>

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<p>Your UW GPA and Class rank are what are going to be your downfalls. SATs are very good. I'd say Brown, Northwestern, and University of Chicago are slight reaches to reaches and the rest are decent matches.</p>

<p>Good Luck.</p>

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<p>Calcruzer is right on everything he said, but just to let you know there is no way that your gpa is possible.</p>

<p>a 3.4 UW can not turn into a 4.1 W with UC capped 8 semesters weighting sorry.
a 3.4 UW is a 3.8W for the UC's but i still stand by what i said since you have a 2300 on ur sat's. check into your gpa though.</p>

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<p>Ohhhhh that's true..... I completely forgot about it. <em>sigh</em> Do you know if there's a similar cap for the other colleges on my list?</p>

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<p>no there is no cap for the other ones, just the UC's.</p>

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<p>Ok that's good. thanks</p>