Could I get into UCLA/Berkeley/USC?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hii! So I'm pretty much taking all AP/honors classes and I'm VERY determined to get into UCLA, but I want to know about Berkeley too because its my second top, as well as USC (my third top). Literally, if there was an early decision for UCLA, I'd apply there in a heartbeat. </p>

<p>So on the UC GPA I have a weighted 4.4 (95.67 soph/junior year on a 100 point scale). As of now, based on the 100-point scale, I have a weighted academic GPA of 94.4 (so including freshman year).</p>

<p>My CollegeBoard exams arent great.</p>

<p>SAT: 1980 combined (getting that fixed ---> 720 Writing/690 Math/570 Reading...the math and reading will undoubtedly go up at least 50 points each).
SAT II: 740 Math II, 680 Spanish, 650 Bio (not submitting prob) and 630 US (def not submitting)
ACT: pending but I feel a 30 or higher
TOEFL (I grew up in America but i was brought up in Russian): 116/120
AP Exams: 3 US history / 5 Calc BC</p>

<p>I have taken Linear Algebra at NYU and gotten 4 college credits and a B+. I also am fluent in Russian and Azerbaijani and took fluency tests from UCI (Irvine) to prove my Russian (Azerbaijani wasn't available). </p>

<p>My classes are the following: </p>

<p>Freshman year:
Honors Spanish II
Honors Algebra 2 (double advanced, honors AKA the highest you could have had in my grade)
Honors Earth Science
My other classes (English/History/TV Broadcasting/Business Law) were regular.</p>

<p>Sophomore year:
Honors Biology
Honors English
Honors Spanish III
Honors PreCalc (the highest you could have as a sophomore)
Regular History
Orchestra</p>

<p>Junior Year:
AP Calc BC
AP US History
Honors English
Honors Spanish IV
Honors Physics
Orchestra
(This junior year schedule being the most rigorous offered in my school).</p>

<p>Senior Year:
Honors Calc II/Multivar (highest degree of math offered in my school)
AP Statistics
AP English
AP Spanish V
AP US Law and Government
Honors Chemistry
(doubled up in math this year)</p>

<p>Also, I'm the secretary/VP of my debate team, my partner and I are the 30 best in the state (Connecticut). I am part of the National Honors Society (impressive in our school. It's a selective process), in the student coalition (with an officer position. executive this year), a volunteer school group, a leadership club, and my own club which I made this year.</p>

<p>So just a few last things. Like I said i'm fluent in 3 languages (russian, english, azerbaijani). I also got a gold medal on a state-wide basis from the National Scholastic Arts and Writing Competition for a scifi short story I wrote. I played piano from age 5 to junior year and have an award (from high school) to prove it and have engaged in 6 out of 8 music theory levels. During my summers I have kept busy, especially the summer after soph year where I worked at an art camp for 2 weeks paid and then 3 weeks volunteered intensely. </p>

<p>So I'm really big on math and im submitting for a Math/Econ major. Do you think i could get in?!?!? Please help!!</p>

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<p>I’m not really in a good position to say but NHS isn’t anything special, whether or not its special at your school</p>

<p>You seem to have some decent EC’s in terms of leadership and the state award, but your scores are really really low for those schools</p>

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<p>To be honest all 3 are reaches as of right now. I recommend that you retake both SAT’s and try to get a 2150/2400 and around a pefect score for the subject test’s.</p>

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<p>First, it’s a good year, both schools are rapidly increasing the number of full pay OOS students. You would look good for many majors with another 100 SAT points.</p>

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<p>Besides his SAT scores which could be better, his HS transcript and EC look quite promising still.</p>

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<p>considering those test scores, i’m thinking more no than yes for UCLA but i think you’re good to go for UCB and USC, especially if your SAT score went up another 100 points like you’re expecting. good luck!!</p>

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<p>I’m not sure if retaking SATs would help. Have you considered taking ACT? </p>

<p>Your GPA is really high and your ECs are commendable, but your standardized test scores are really low for Berkeley. If you can improve that part, you’d be a match for Cal. </p>

<p>Cal wants more OOS so take advantage of that.</p>

<p>What’s your intended major, BTW?</p>

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<p>my intended majors actually a double: math/Econ (which is why i have such a math-geared high school schedule as well as my nyu class)</p>

<p>in addition, yeah I took the acts I thought I put that in there maybe I forgot haha. i just took em on Saturday but I think I got between a 30-32?</p>

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<p>so you’d be applying to the college of arts and sciences (L&S), which is easier compared to other colleges at Berkeley. If you can get 32 on ACT, you’d be a match. a 30-31 would be a low reach. 29 reach.</p>

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<p>EC’s (along with essays) really won’t help you that much with UC admissions (includes UCLA and Berkeley). UCLA and Berkeley are very numbers based, so I would try to raise those scores as much as possible.</p>

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Just a note on UC score submission: The UCs do not currently allow score choice - so all your scores will be sent, but they will only consider your two best subject test scores.</p>

<p>USC, on the other hand, *requests *that you send all scores, but doesn’t seem to care if you don’t.</p>

<p>USC will use your unweighted GPA.</p>

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<p>how did you go from honors precalc to ap calc bc?</p>

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<p>@EC’s (along with essays) really won’t help you that much with UC admissions (includes UCLA and Berkeley). UCLA and Berkeley are very numbers based, so I would try to raise those scores as much as possible.</p>

<p>That is so not true, and whoever told you that is seriously misinformed.</p>

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<p>@typowers101 i dont know haha thats the way our school functions. but i know some schools make you take calc ab and then bc. i just jumped from precalc to bc and still got a 5 on the ap exam. maths totally my thing haah</p>

<p>@kmazza so whats the truth? do ECs have a bigger bearing than people are saying?</p>

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<p>I think you have a good chance at UCLA with these stats. </p>

<p>As for USC, I can’t really say. The valedictorian at my school got rejected from usc, but got accepted to berkley, la, and rice.</p>

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<p>so would like a 30 or 31 for ACTs for those schools be good?</p>