Hi Everyone! I'm a senior looking to be chanced for UCs and a few other colleges :) I'll chance back

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Stats:
-California Resident, Female, Asian Indian (I will not report my ethnicity and my name is pretty ambiguous)
-I attend one of the best high schools in the state, size: around 2400 students
- UW GPA: 3.7
-SAT: 2210, 800 CR, 750 Writing, 660 Math
-My school doesn't rank students
-APs taken by the time I graduate- 3 junior year and 4 senior year: APUSH, AP Bio, AP Comp Sci, AP Gov/Econ, AP english, AP Art, AP Calc AB
-I also self studied AP Art History and got a 5 on the exam</p>

<p>Activities:
-President of Art Club- VP in 10th grade, President in 11 and 12
-President of NHS- Treasurer in 11th grade, President in 12, 100 service hours
-Peer tutor- 3rd year, 1-2 hrs a week at school after school, total hours: around 100
-Reading tutor for elementary school students- 3rd year, 1 hr a week, total hours: 75
-Successful, professional fashion blog
-Winner of a few art and creative writing contests
-Part time job at target- 1 year (I only turned 16 last december)- 3ish hours a week
-Piano classes for 13 years, but I have never won any awards or competed
-Art classes for 6 years
-FBLA, won a few competitions here and there
-Student Senate- 3 years, basically a representative for my soph/jr/senior homeroom
-Interact club- Huge thing at my school, and I am in charge of a specific comittee</p>

<p>My course load freshman and sophomore year was really easy, but I got good grades. Our school doesn't really offer APs or Honors classes until junior year. Many people at my school are advanced in math, but I hope taking geometry freshman year and algebra 2 sophomore year and so on will not hurt my chances. However, my junior and senior schedule was super demanding, so I hope it makes up for it.</p>

<p>I plan on majoring in marketing, and my dream is to be a marketing manager! :) Some of the colleges I am looking to apply to are UC Berkeley, Bowdoin College, Pomona College, Scripps, UPenn, UCSD, Amherst, and Boston College! I'm making this thread not to brag in any way, but I just would like to see if I have a chance of getting in to these schools, and I don't want to apply to a college that is TOO high of a reach. Anyway, just post yours down below and I'll chance you back!</p>

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<p>For the UC’s, calculate your UC GPA. There are several websites for the calculator, just google it.</p>

<p>It looks like you are a competitive applicant for UCB and UCSD. Check their Freshman profiles to see where you stand:
<a href=“Student Profile - Office of Undergraduate Admissions”>http://admissions.berkeley.edu/studentprofile&lt;/a&gt;
<a href=“http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/campuses/san-diego/freshman-profile/index.html”>http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/campuses/san-diego/freshman-profile/index.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Pomona: Low Reach
UCB: High Match
UCSD/Scripps: Match
Not familiar enough on the rest. Good Luck</p>

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<p>Hi- current Pomona student here. I suggest carefully reviewing the course catalogues and majors lists for those schools. For example, Pomona (nor HMC, nor Scripps or Pitzer to my knowledge) does not offer business or vocational majors. You will certainly study skills that are applicable in marketing positions, but there aren’t vocational-style majors here. (You would likely have a different major, like Media Studies maybe, and pursue internships at firms that interest you to learn the ins and outs of the trade–the school funds internships that are not positions paid by the firm!)</p>

<p>This isn’t to say anything about whether or not these are important, worthy or interesting pursuits, just, if this is what you are looking for, you might not find it here. If you want to be in Claremont and pursue a business degree, I think that Claremont McKenna College is your best bet- those guys do more of that sort of thing, though I know very little about their management programs. </p>

<p>I think that your high school resume is impressive and that you should definitely include all the information, but elaborate on the things that are unique about you. Competition this year may be tougher because Pomona experienced higher than normal return on admitted students, that is, normally our classes are 400 students and there are 450 first years right now because so many accepted (smartly! :slight_smile: ) the admission they were offered instead of going to other schools.</p>