Do I have a chance at UCSB, SDSU, CU Boulder, USF, or UT Austin?

Chance Me / Match Me!
1

I’m a senior currently applying for college and Idon’t have the strongest grades or test scores. I have great essays and extracurriculars. I have 2 amazing teacher reccomendations too! One done by my journalism teacher, and the other by my Spanish teacher of two years and club advisor.
My stats are…
Intended major: Public Relations, Journalism, or Communications
Location: Orange County, Southern California
ethnicity: white and Cherokee Indian (registered)
My stats are:
GPA: 3.58 (weighted high school)
3.5 CSU GPA
3.66 UC GPA
3.8 /4.0 at Saddleback College or a

4.8/5.0 at Saddleback College (colleges weight depending on where)
ACT: 24, but 25 superscored
SAT: 1690, 580 CR, 530 Math, 580 W

3 AP classes: AP english language & composition (3 on ap test),
AP environmental (2 on ap test but retaking),
AP literature (current)

College courses at a community college:
history of film and cinema (A),
sociology (A),
psychology (B),
real estate (A),
biological anthropology (current)

Senior year course load:
Newspaper
AP literature
Badminton
Economics
Statistics
Real Estate (at college)
Biological Anthropology (at college)

3 years of a foreign language
2 years of writing for the high school newspaper

Extracurriculars:
Co-founder of the hugely successful, award-winning iPad academy at my high school. My school is now projected to become dominantly iPad in years to come.

Co-founder of the Salarrué chapter at Aliso Niguel High School of the Sociedad Honoraria Hispánica (Spanish National Honor Society) and I am the Treasurer and Head of Committee for Spanish National Honors’ Society (nationally recognized)
100+ hours of volunteer work
2015 Esprit de Wolverine award for excellence in the field of Spanish
Nationally ranked figure skater in All Year Figure Skating Club - competitively figure skated for 10 years
6th place at the 2010 Midwestern & Pacific Coast Synchronized Skating Sectional Championships, team was called Dynamic Edge

So, what are my chances at getting into…
SDSU-Journalism: Public Relations
UCSB-communications
CU Boulder-strategic communications
University of San Francisco-communications
UT Austin-public relations

2

UCSB is a high reach and SDSU is a reach especially since they dont care about EC’s.cant speak for the others

3

UCSB: Reach
SDSU: High Match
USF: Match

Not sure about the rest. SDSU does not take into account EC’s, so acceptance is based on your GPA and test scores. You need a few more Match schools and a safety on your list.

4

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5

UT is a serious reach with those test scores OOS.

6

I wouldn’t waste time and money applying to UT-Austin if you are from out-of-state, It would be a reach for you if you were a Texas resident, but its statutory mandate for admitting the top 7% from every high school in Texas leaves little room for any but the most highly-qualified non-residents.

7

I’d use your URM status to apply to private schools with holistic admissions too.

8

I’m a student from Boulder, Colorado & and I can say that you have a good chance at CU Boulder.