<p>Here I am senior year, trying to raise my SAT scores and maintain at least a 3.8 GPA, but I think this is what my final app is going to look like.
3.8 UW GPA, 4.0 ish Weighted GPA
SAT 1: 1950
SAT II's : 690 World History, 590 Math (yeah I'm definitely gonna try to raise this)
1 Very Good Letter of Recommendation
1 Potentially Very good/ Good Letter
Very Good Essay Writer( I've got this down)</p>
<p>EC's
Vice President of Japan Club
Have taken Japanese since 6th grade in Saturday School Classes, High School, and College Classes
Part Time Job
Internship at father's law office (does the attorney being my father ruin the appeal?)
Varsity Swimming 3 Years
Varsity Wrestling 3 Years (Captain)
75+ Hours? (have not accurately counted) Community Service
Piano Lessons since 1st Grade
Guitar since 6th</p>
<p>And the colleges are-</p>
<p>UCLA
UCB
UCD
UCSC
NYU
Claremont McKenna
Pitzer College
USC
Occidental
Tufts
Boston University
Santa Clara University
Seattle University
Stanford (just for the hell of it)</p>
<p>So what are my chances? Brutal honesty encouraged. </p>
<p>I understand that this list is really long (I was hoping to save time with the multiple UC's with the same application). If any of these colleges overlap in terms of acceptance rate (high or low) please tell me.</p>
<p>You SATs and SATIIs aren't that good for UCLA, UCB, NYU, Claremont, USC, Tufts and Stanford (especially SATIIs, considering you're supposed to take tests where you're strong at), and your ECs don't really stand out either (but still very solid). Pay extra attention there. Are you instate for the UCs?</p>
<p>About the SAT's. The Reasoning is a toss-up, I may get higher but realistically only to about a 2000-2050. However, for my SAT II's I have a really strong feeling that I will score higher because I didn't have any preparation for the US History and I will the second time around, and I am going to take Lit instead of Math (again, this time with preparation).</p>
<p>Doubt the EC's will change. </p>
<p>Does my Senior Year GPA affect me enough to have to try to maintain a 3.8+, or can I relax a bit?</p>
<p>Your ECs and stats are not marvelous. Don't you have any community service under your belt?</p>
<p>I don't know anything about the UCs, nor about some of the other schools you're applying to, but as far as Stanford and Tufts are concerned they're a near-impossible reach and very, very high reach, respectively. NYU is a high match; BU is probably a match.</p>
<p>Understood. So does anyone suggest anything in terms of improvement of my app besides just cramming for the SAT's/ACT? Thats all I can think of at the moment.</p>
<p>How high would I have to score on the SAT Reasoning/ACT+ Writing to reasonably raise my chances of getting into those UC's? (Meaning what would I have to get to make UCB/UCLA a match, if possible)?</p>