Help Me Identify Match Colleges Please

College Search & Selection
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<p>Hello</p>

<p>Recently, I spoke with a counselor about my college prospects, and I left the discussion more confused and lost than ever. </p>

<p>note: Please don't feel that I am a self-deluded snob who has been disillusioned after reality smacked me in the face. The "talk" did not burst my bubble, nor did it render my pride fatally wounded. Right now I am just, like I said, clueless. :)</p>

<p>Before the "talk," I thought UCSD was a match. </p>

<p>Then, all the advice I have been getting tells me that UC Santa Barbara is a match, UCLA is a high reach, and my safety is a California state college. So it seems like I had no idea how to decide what match schools are. :P</p>

<p>Final Question: Can you please tell me the colleges that I match, at best? Thank you so much!</p>

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<p>Stats:</p>

<p>private school GPA (9-11): W 4.12 UW 3.84
UC GPA (10-11): W 4.18 UW 3.72
SAT I: 2320 superscore 2330 (average to below average at my hs)
AP score: tba
SAT II: taking bio, chem, math II, and lit in the fall...so tba
high school: extremely competitive
gender: female</p>

<p>course, grade 1st/2nd semester:
9th
Honors Biology A A<br>
French 1 A A<br>
P.E. A A
Honors Englis A A
Honors Geometry A A
Health/Geography A A</p>

<p>10th<br>
French A A
Honors Chemistry A B+<br>
World History A A
Honors English A A
Honors Trig/Alg. 2 A A<br>
P.E. A A</p>

<p>11th<br>
AP Chemistry A A<br>
AP Statistics B+ A<br>
Honors English A A
Honors Precalculus B B+
AP Biology A A
CP US History B+ B+</p>

<p>12th<br>
AP Art
AP Psychology
AP Environmental Science
AP Calculus AB
Gov/Econ
Expository Reading and Writing Course</p>

<p>awards:
Celebrating Art---nationally published 3x consecutively, with distinction (high merit, top 10, on cover of 2013 series). note:competition has no rank/official grand prize</p>

<p>Creative Outlook---nationally published in magazine </p>

<p>Endangered Species Day Art---national semi-finalist, on display at US Botanic Garden, Wash D.C.</p>

<p>Congressional Art---2012 congressional recognition, 2013 1st place painting</p>

<p>California State Fair Art---2 honorable mentions</p>

<p>Logo Contest---state finalist</p>

<p>UCAA Art---people's choice award</p>

<p>Exploravision---2x honorable mention</p>

<p>clubs:
cancer club---4 years. positions: historian, vice president, president</p>

<p>medical club---4 years. positions: council representative, treasurer, president</p>

<p>other activities (years not disclosed to maintain anonymity):
job shadowing dentist 1 summer (learned that I would never go into dentistry XD )</p>

<p>health training at hospital 1 summer, leads up to major independent project in community</p>

<p>volunteer in charity store 1 year</p>

<p>volunteer teaching developmentally handicapped individuals 2 summers</p>

<p>sports:
none, due to congenital illnesses </p>

<p>intended major:
double major art and bio/chem/biochem (still not decided which)</p>

<p>intended career:
reconstructive surgeon</p>

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<p>Thank you for reading this long post!
I greatly appreciate any advice/suggestions/help I can get. :D</p>

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<p>$4,000 for a college counselor?</p>

<p>Due to the consideration of the essay, UCs are not perfectly predictable based on grades and test scores. But with your grades and test scores indicate a decent chance at UCLA, and a reasonably good chance at the UCs less selective than UCLA. It appears that the $4,000 counselor want to make sure that you have a very safe safety (e.g. UCR, UCM, or a CSU other than CPSLO).</p>

<p>[Profile</a> of Admitted Freshmen, Fall 2012 - UCLA Undergraduate Admissions](<a href=“http://www.admissions.ucla.edu/Prospect/Adm_fr/Frosh_Prof13.htm]Profile”>http://www.admissions.ucla.edu/Prospect/Adm_fr/Frosh_Prof13.htm)
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<p>If you need safeties to be cheap, also consider the following:</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/1348012-automatic-full-tuition-full-ride-scholarships-18.html#post15895768[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/1348012-automatic-full-tuition-full-ride-scholarships-18.html#post15895768&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>You may also be interested in the following:</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/1461983-competitive-full-tuition-full-ride-scholarships-2.html#post15889078[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/1461983-competitive-full-tuition-full-ride-scholarships-2.html#post15889078&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>To those still wondering why I posted this if I already have a counselor, it’s because he/she told me to come up with a list of matches.</p>

<p>any input/tips are still highly appreciated! :)</p>

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<p>Your private counselor has to keep stats on the students who got in to their top choice and what percent they got in to. Therefore, they often only want you to apply to schools where things are 100%. I think you should go for UCSB if that is what you want. I think you are an automatic admit. There is a page off their admissions site that explains automatic admits, which includes test admits.</p>

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<p>Also, my parents paid for a private counselor too for me at one point. They are very ticked too. With my stats, I could go to most great schools. I probably wouldn’t get in to Yale, but still plenty of great schools. My stats are similar to yours, except that my SAT is 2090. My PSAT is 216. Anyway, the counselor came back with schools like Oklahoma school of science and technology and something in Louisiana called Louisiana Centerary or something. I do not recall the exact name.</p>

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<p>Have you looked at the Naviance scattergrams for your high school? It’s a little tricky for the UCs because Naviance uses the school GPA, which can differ significantly from the UC GPA. What did your high school college counselor say?</p>

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<p>Why would your parents pay that kinda money, or any money, just to get advice about state schools? You go to a private, so you should have a decent GC to get advice from. What does your GC say–, he knows where kids from your school get in better. A cheaper strategy would have been to just apply to all the UC’s, only one application. I’m sure you will get into one. That’s really money down the toilet. Are you getting advice on private schools too?</p>

<p>I don’t think anyone should ever consider UCSD a match school. Now you will have to throw an ap or 2 into a CSU. As long as you have money to burn, just check all the boxes when you apply to UC’s. Then you will have a chance to think over where you’d like to go when you get your admissions. No need to come up with a list of matches.</p>

<p>P.S. I’d fire that adviser now and get whatever refund is allowed in the contract</p>

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<p>Undecided,</p>

<p>Your tests scores are excellent but I don’t think that they are as high as you think they are for very competitive schools. I think your test scores are typical of all applicants to competitive schools. I’m not trying to detract from your accomplishment at all. They are very good scores but most applicants to selective schools will have scores in this range. Unless they are a recruited athlete.</p>

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<p>Where is this page? There is a page describing minimum eligibility requirements, but meeting them does not mean that you will be automatically admitted.</p>

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<p>@flyeagle17 we are all Asians at my hs.</p>

<p>Should I include RISD as a high match or is it a reach?</p>

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<p>A 2320 SAT is definitely not average in any high school. It is at the top 2%.</p>

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<p>@xtremepower My school is just weird ok? 1/3 of the people in my class bring in their laptops, play league of legends, and still get 2390.</p>

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<p>I think that for UC’s, your UC gpa is much more important than your test scores, assuming that you have decent scores, really high ones may not really give you a lot of edge.</p>

<p>RISD is a specialized school and is a reach for everyone. You don’t get in on just grades and test scores. They are going to be looking at your portfolio.</p>