<p>Unweighted GPA: 4.0, weighted GPA: 4.66
Class rank is unreleased but most likely top 10% of around 300
Have only taken honors classes my entire high school career and 5 ap classes (2 junior year, will take 3 senior year)</p>
<p>Vice Prez of National Honors Society, Legal Society, and Psych Clubs
Part of California Scholarship Federation
varsity volleyball and soccer (captain on jv level for both soccer and volleyball junior year)
150+ Service Hours
Volunteer at a bible camp every summer (head the division I volunteer for), teach/coach at volleyball camps, coach youth soccer</p>
<p>Awards: Top student during freshman year, Defensive MVP for volleyball junior year, won league in soccer two years in a row for jv (soph and junior)</p>
<p>For UCLA/UCB:
You’re gonna need atleast a 2100 SAT, but for UCB get 2200-2300 SATs. Or 33 ACT to 35 ACT
You’re probably not just top 10percent, 4.0 UW probably like top 1percent
Get volunteering to over 300 (over the summer I guess)
I suggest you get some letters of rec from the camps you’re at, so you can exagerrate it better. Same with the coaches you were with during your athletic awards</p>
<p>If you really want to CEMENT your chances, turn yourself from a DJ to a DJ company, and get guys to organize small parties. Small stuff, but the entrepenuor (wrong spelling, i know) would really look good.
Obv. just compare the other colleges’ SAT scores to see what you need for them. Though you should be good for NYU.</p>
<p>Sign up for KAPLAN courses or a similar course near you or at school. Otherwise you have a nice resume. It’s just that if you’re as good of a student as your rank indicates, a low SAT score gives the college the idea that your curriculum is not very challenging-giving you equal weight to a candidate in the middle of the pack at a stronger high school.</p>
<p>I’d like to respectfully disagree with HONORLIONS. It’s true that your SATs are not great, but you don’t NEED a 2100 on them for Berkeley/LA. You have a really good chance of getting ELC (Eligibility in Local Context - top 4% of your class) at your high school with that 4.0 UW gpa, and at least at my school, every single person with ELC got into Berkeley and LA, regardless of whether they had a 1900 or a 2400. Improve your scores if you can, but even if you can’t, you have a good shot at all of the UCs. I feel like people exaggerate the difficulty of getting into UCs too much.</p>
<p>You’re right, but nevertheless, you never know. 2100 opens a lot of doors on the tier 1 list. What if budget cuts make the UC’s suck? It’s frankly, a VERY, VERY GOOD chance. Simply enough, everyone needs options.
Though I counter respectfully disagree with you. It may not be necessary, but it’s better to be safe. God-like stat-ed people who apply ED to places get outright rejected everywhere they apply.</p>
<p>It is a highly unusual high school where everyone who is ELC gets into Cal and LA. It does happen at some which are in rural areas and/or send few applicants to these schools, but this is simply untrue for the vast majority of ELC students at competitive high schools throughout CA.</p>
<p>I’d wager a 2000 would be enough for any of the UCs. With a 4.66 and higher standardized test scores, you’re in at SD. A 2100 would be ideal for Berkeley and LA, though a 2000 would be fine.</p>
<p>I know, Davis High is probably kind of weird. 39 people are going to Berkeley from our class of 550 this year, and that number obviously doesn’t include all of the Ivy/Stanford/UCLA people who turned Cal down. But that’s beside the point. Isn’t the acceptance rate for ELC students like 66% for Berkeley anyways? I realize that being ELC also correlates with a bunch of other things that make for quality applicants, but those chances are still pretty good.</p>
<p>O Hey i’m from DHS as well. according to stats 60 something people got in Berkeley and 50 some got in at LA, while they do overlap, its still pretty good coming out of a class of 550 people. To get ELC at our school, you’d have to be pretty decent, its a weird public school where the top 10% of people are very very competitive. (all kids of professors and what not)</p>
<p>I’m from Davis Senior High too. Hi.
I know many that rely solely on ELC. My friend with a 4.6 (ELC obviously) and 1950 on SAT I got into Cal’s Nuclear Engineering Program and got waitlisted at MIT. He’s Asian by the way, so he didn’t benefit from affirmative action either. </p>
<p>If you improve your SAT I score to around 2100 and SAT II to at least 750 (2 subjects), I believe you will have a good shot at all the colleges you listed. It seems like you have solid extra curricular activities. Make sure to discover what you want to study in college and direct your extra curricular activities, community service, and maybe even subject tests (other than the obvious Math II which everyone takes) towards that field of interest.</p>
<p>If I learned anything from college acceptances/rejections, a high SAT score won’t compensate for your relatively low grades. I had a 2340/800, 800, 770, 750 for SAT I/II, but a 4.4 with 4 B’s total. I guess a lot of colleges didn’t like that. GPA definitely matters more, and you have that down. Keep up the good work and try a bit harder on the SAT.</p>
<p>Thank you everyone, your feedback means a lot. I’ve also heard about the high ELC acceptance rate but from what I’ve heard from some friends that graduated this year it wasn’t too high, in my school at least. Hopefully that changes next year haha. But ya, I agree my SAT scores need to improve but I’ve taken it twice and have received the exact same scores both times. So hopefully I end up being one of those lucky ELC ones, haha.</p>
<p>What did you do to study for your sats?
My first time at the sats was pretty bad as well, but i took like 15 practice tests and retook the sats 2 month later and got a 200 point score improvement. (none of that classes crap, i’m too poor to fork out 5000 bucks for some tutoring) I’m sure with practice, you could do better as well.</p>
<p>I actually just self-studied for the SAT both times, I can’t really afford those expensive classes either. But I’ll admit that I wasn’t too “vigorous” in my self-studying. I’ll try what you did, hopefully it works for me too haha.</p>
<p>Anyone else have anything to say though? :), I appreciate anything that is said.</p>
<p>I would recommend against taking SAT classes as well, I found that the Princeton Review was a complete waste of time and did not realistically replicate some of the questions on the SAT. Bring up your SAT I score and you will have a much better chance</p>