Got my scores back: CHANCE FOR BERKELEY, UCLA, AND MORE!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Schools im applying to:
UCB (mech eng.)
UCLA (aerospace eng.)
UCSB (mech eng.)
UCSC (computer eng.)
Cal Poly SLO (aerospace eng.)
ASU (Honors) (Mechanical Eng.)</p>

<p>Background:
White male
Mediocre at best public school in So Cal.</p>

<p>GPA: 4.5
UC GPA: 4.19
UW GPA: 4.0
Scores: (sent both SAT & ACT)
SAT: 590R 700M 680W -1970 total
ACT: 33E 35M 30R 31S - 32COMPOSITE (33 superscore if that matters at all)
SAT II: 750 Math II and 640 Physics
AP: AP Environmental (3) AP US History (4) AP Calc B/C (?) AP Stats (?)</p>

<p>Senior Schedule: IB Hist of Americas, AP Stats, AP Calc BC, English ERW (kinda between ap and normal), Chem Honors</p>

<p>Sports:
Varsity XC (Captain for 1 year)
Varsity Track</p>

<p>Major EC activities: President of School Finance Club</p>

<p>Other EC activities: Environmental Club, Math tutor (5hrs a week), Youth basketball coach (7hrs a week)</p>

<p>Work Exp: Grocery Store Courtesy Clerk 16 hrs a week for about a year.</p>

<p>Awards: Honor Roll, Some random math award for a class, most valuable varsity (XC), most improved varsity (tack)</p>

<p>Personal Statements for UC: Not too crazy about them, but I think they are better than average</p>

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<p>UCB: low reach-reach
UCLA: high match-low reach
UCSB, UCSC: match
Others are safeties.</p>

<p>Comments?<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1575443-chance-me-my-ed-ea-hyp-mit-please-will-chance-back.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1575443-chance-me-my-ed-ea-hyp-mit-please-will-chance-back.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>An unweighed GPA of 4.0 really helps your chances, even if your test scores are a little on the low end.</p>

<p>Cal - reach due to difficulty of being admitted to engineering school
UCLA - high match
SB - low match
SLO, SC, ASU - safeties</p>

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<p>UCB, UCLA: low reach-reach
UCSB,UCSC: match
SLO: safety</p>

<p>Comments?<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1597881-lets-play-prediction-game-shall-we.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1597881-lets-play-prediction-game-shall-we.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>thanks for your predictions thus far!
@bigtimeseller232 thanks for being so optimistic (<em>sarcasm</em>)</p>

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<p>oh! and a question: Technically, what is “high match”!? Percentage wise, is it like 25% chance of being admitted? </p>

<p>the whole “reach/match/safety” deal is a bit ambiguous to me to be honest</p>

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<p>saying “reach is like a reach” is not answering what i asked for, but nice try! Maybe you should reread the question</p>

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<p>sorry, bumping for a real answer to my question/more chances</p>

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<p>Cal Poly Engineering average:</p>

<p>Avg GPA: 4.08
Avg ACT: 31
Avg SAT: 1388 (out of 1600) </p>

<p><a href=“Cal Poly Admissions”>Cal Poly Admissions;

<p>Cal Poly’s engineering admission requirements are higher than UCSB and solidly higher than UCSC. If you get into SLO, you will get into the other too. </p>

<p>Cal Poly is NOT a safety unlike what the other posts said. </p>

<p>Cal Poly - Match
UCSB - Low Match
UCSC - Safety
Cal - Reach
UCLA - Reach</p>

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<p>Bump, i took the sat score off of self report and just have the act score there now</p>

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<p>bumping again, thinking about rushing an app for umich ann arbor… their deadline is feb 1st. Do i have enough of a chance for it to be worth it?</p>

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<p>I don’t know anything about Michigan, but I would give you a 25% chance at cal
and ucla, 50% at cal poly, and 75% at the others. Its tricky because your gpa
is great and test scores are decent, but you are trying for very hard majors (lots
of fierce competition).</p>

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<p>bumping, hopefully one last time. for Umich (aerospace)</p>

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<p>Your academics are solid but your ECs are somewhat weak.</p>

<p>UCB (mech eng.)- low reach
UCLA (aerospace eng.)- low reach
UCSB (mech eng.)- low match
UCSC (computer eng.)- low match
Cal Poly SLO (aerospace eng.)- match (because they don’t care about ECs, but not a safety because they have an incredibly competitive engineering program)
ASU- safety</p>

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<p>I’d say you have great chances at each, especially Cal Poly SLO (which is not that hard to get into, and you have outstanding academics, which they will like for sure)! Advice for you would be to strengthen your ECs but you’re very, very strong and stable academically. Good luck!</p>