Help Chance me please :P

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of California - Irvine
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<p>I'm currently a senior and was wondering if you guys can give me some analysis?
I'd just like to know my chances since I heard Irvine is getting tougher in admmittance.</p>

<p>Asian (Chinese)
Californian Resident
Planned Major: Business (Accounting)</p>

<p>Top 100 in the country's high school. Very competitive magnet high school. Not sure if it makes a difference though. >> It did half kill me, going there.</p>

<p>my school's transcripts gives TWO GPA's, these are Academic only
GPA 9th-12th (unweighted): 3.47
GPA 9th- 12th (weighted): 4.13
GPA 10th-12th (unweighted): 3.32
GPA 10th- 12th (weighted): 4.0</p>

<p>Total GPA (9-12) (unweighted): 3.52
Total GPA (9-12) (weighted): 4.12</p>

<p>UC GPA: roughly 3.7</p>

<p>School doesn't rank but I know I'm in the 30th percentile.</p>

<p>Freshman Classes:
Computer Logic and Algorithms
Fundamentals of Programming
English I Honors
Spanish I
Geometry H
Biology IB SL
Geography IB SL</p>

<p>Sophmore Classes (I traveled to China for the first semester, hence the double classes)
Information Technology in a Global Society IB
English II Honors
Spanish II Honors
Algebra II
Chemistry
AP European History</p>

<p>Sophmore America Classes:
Same as above except
AP Computer Science A (replace ITGS)
Chemistry Honors
Algebra II Honors</p>

<p>Summer of Sophmore Year (because of my China trip, my grades were horrible
Sophmore year, in Algebra II I got a D so I had to retake it):
Algebra II </p>

<p>Junior Classes:
Business and Management IB SL
AP/IB English Language
Spanish IB SL
AP US History
Pre Calculus
Physics</p>

<p>Senior Classes:
AP Government and Politics
AP/IB Biology
AP Calculus AB
AP English Literature
AP Macroeconomics
Drawing and Painting
Accounting for Business
Troy Tech Internship (our school's tech program, we do an intership through this)</p>

<p>SAT I:
CR: 800
Math: 670/700 (T.T failure Asian, failure at math :])
Writing: 690/730
Highest one sitting: 2200
Highest composite: 2230</p>

<p>SAT II's:
Bio/E: 660 (bad, I know)
Math IIC: 690 (T.T fail, I know)
US History: 730
Literature: 650/720 (No idea why theres such a big difference)</p>

<p>No ACT</p>

<p>APs:
Comp Sci A 3 (bleh)
European History 3 (also bleh)
US History 5
English Language 5</p>

<p>Plan to take Bio, Lit, Gov, Econ, Calc this year</p>

<p>Awards (weak here):
Principle's Honor Roll
Honor Roll
California Scholarship Federation member
AP Scholar with Honor
National Merit Commended Scholar (215 :[)</p>

<p>Extracurricular (pretty weak here too)
Swim 10th and 11th, JV
Leo Club 11th 12th grade
Tzu Chi (Taiwanese global community service/volunteer organization) 10th 11th </p>

<p>12th grade
Go/Chinese Chess Club 11th 12th grade
Summer Internship at NOC SELPA (North Orange County Special Education Local Plan blah ><): basically I helped to design and implement curriculum for autistic and special needs middle school children.</p>

<p>All of my community service is probably no more than 120 hours ><</p>

<p>Essays: I would like to think these are pretty strong >< but some of my other classmates wrote pretty DARN GOOD essays.</p>

<p>One essay was about my experience in school in China. I talked about how it made me more independent. It was a pretty strong essay (I hope).</p>

<p>The second essay was about how I wanted to explore the world outside my small city, and that made me want to apply to schools outside of southern california.</p>

<p>I also wrote a short paragraph noting that I had a reaaaally big drop in my GPA sophmore year (2.8 GPA) because after I came back from China, I wasn't really prepared to come back up to the standard of work that my home high school had. But in junior year, I really brought it up with straight A's (and 1 B)</p>

<p>Thanks a bunch for reading through all this!</p>

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<p>Looks like a good shot to me. </p>

<p>Your SAT makes up for your lower GPA.</p>

<p>They don’t look at your AP Scores, so don’t worry about that.</p>

<p>SAT II’s look fine.</p>

<p>EC’s essays look good</p>

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<p>Low Safety (Upward trend in GPA is great)
Honors: Match-Low Reach</p>

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<p>I’m applying to UCI this year and my counselor told me only 100-150 get chosen for business at UCI, so I’d see it as a low reach for you only because of that. Also, UCI raised their GPA, but you have some good stats so you have a chance.</p>

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<p>I’ve also heard that around 150 are chosen for the business major, but I was actually accepted into the major this fall quarter, and my stats were not stellar at all.</p>

<p>In addition, I know that there are more than 250 business admin majors in the current freshman class. </p>

<p>Although business admin is an impacted major, applying as that does not hurt your chances for getting INTO the school. You will just be sent to your alternative major.</p>

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<p>loL, come on this isn’t Haas or Wharton… Plus, he goes to Troy (I think).</p>

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<p>oh dang, howd you figure out that zairair :P</p>

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<p>Wondering if someone here would help chance me too:
SD is probably my top choice</p>

<p>GPA was 2.83 W Freshman year(0 honors/0AP)
3.83 W Sophomore Year(1 honors/0AP)
3.75 W Junior Year(0 honors/2 AP)
3.85 W Senior Year(0 honors/3 AP)
GPA UW: 3.5
UC GPA: 3.79</p>

<p>SAT I:
Math 730
CR 700
Writing 770
Best in 1 sitting: 2200</p>

<p>Best by section: 730 math, 700 reading, 800 writing
Best composite: 2230</p>

<p>SAT IIs: 700 US History, 680 Literature</p>

<p>AP Tests: 5 on Psych, 4 on US History(took both junior year)</p>

<p>Currently taking AP environmental science, AP Economics, AP Gov’t, Pre-Calculus, English</p>

<p>Applied to UCSD, LA, Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Santa Barbara all for Poli-Sci</p>

<p>Had an unpaid internship at a well-known local politician’s office over the summer
4 Years of Varsity Tennis
4 Years - National Volunteer Club
Volunteer Tennis Camp Counselor over the Summer
Religious Fellowship every week
Local Museum Volunteer</p>

<p>First-Chair of a Local Youth Orchestra
High School City League Team Tennis Champions (2x)
All-City Tournament Participant(3x)
CIF High School Tennis Playoffs
Winter Tennis Individual Tournament(USTA Sanctioned)-Semi-Final Round</p>

<p>Had a job with the city for 2 summers during high school
Attended UC Berkeley’s ATDP program for 2 summers during high school</p>

<p>thankss</p>

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<p>falcon, you have a very very good shot at davis, irvine, and sb, and SD as well.</p>

<p>I wouldn’t be surprised if you made it into LA or Berk.</p>

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<p>You said you did the Troy Tech Internship and it was something only your school did and I knew there was a good school out there named Troy and you mentioned it was pretty competitive high school. =)</p>

<p>I know the names of quite of a few SoCal high schools because I used to be really into math and math competitions and particular schools names always pop up, Troy, University, San Marino, North Hollywood, Arcadia etc.</p>