How does UCLA fit in

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I am an Asian-American male, and I am a junior looking at some of the good UC's.</p>

<p>AP's and honors: 1 honors as Junior, 2 APs as senior
classes:
9- PE, English 1, Spanish 1, Technology/health, Integrated science 1, geometry
10- PE, English 2, Spanish 2, Algebra 2, Integrated Sci 2, world history
11- American Dream/ American Novel, Spanish 3, Desktop publishing, chem, US hist.
12- English 4 AP, Stats AP, physics, Govt/econ, Ceramics, Spanish 4
1 college class at a community college over soph/junior summer.
2 more college courses: calculus and sociology over summer</p>

<p>high school GPA: 3.88 weighted
Rank : 96/608</p>

<p>SAT 1: 2210
SAT IIs: Math level 2: 780
Literature: 760</p>

<p>Hospital volunteer: 230+ hours
Church youth group leader/coordinator 2 years
Martial Arts 4+ years black belt 2nd degree
Piano 4+ years
guitar 2 years
key club 2 years
Korean club: 3 years</p>

<p>Awards:
golden state exam achievement awards, attendance, Taekwondo medals, Citizenship, principles honor roll, essay awards </p>

<p>Also, I am planning to take an equivalent of calc AP over the summer at a local college & take stats as senior. Will that look any better or worse on my application?</p>

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<p>decent chances. your GPA is the problem. everything is fine except your GPA. reach. write an AMAZING essay and that should bolster your chances. they take the essay as a big factor in your admission process thingy.</p>

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<p>how are your grades after freshman yr (UCs dont look at freshman yr)</p>

<p>If your grades are wy up from freshman yr, UCLA will be a match. Otherwise, it will be a reach.</p>

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<p>haha forgot to ask about that. yea UC's don't ask for rank. tell us your UC GPA. if its 4.0 +, you are match</p>

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<p>danc5420:</p>

<p>UCLA: Reach</p>

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<p>high school GPA: 3.88 weighted
Rank : 96/608</p>

<p>.....ouch. That does make UCLA reach.</p>

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<p>ebonytear, i thought UCLA doesnt take rank in their apps.</p>

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<p>From what I remember they don't take ranking. Just the essential information like SAT's and things like that. I have one friend who wants to try for UCLA also and he's a junior. Here's his stats:
GPA: 3.8 unweighted
SAT: 2210 SATII: MatchIIC-800, Chemistry-750
EC's: Tennis(9), Key Club(11), Dragon Boat Festival(Summer volunteering), Martial Arts(1st degree).</p>

<p>This year he took: AP Spanish, AP Pre-calc/Calc AB, AP Chemistry, AP U.S., AP English, Computer Science: Java.
As with that trend, he's also taking a full load of AP's next year.</p>

<p>I'm aware of his EC's being really low, but I do know one person who got in with a 4.0 and straight AP's senior year with just basketball on his resume. He didn't receive a scholarship for anything if I may add.</p>

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<p>regardless, a 3.88 weighted is pretty bad GPA....and i'm sure the ranking can be easily estimated to be pretty low with that score. I haven't looked at UC application, but that GPA can pretty much eliminate top 20% at most schools. UCs are really into grades and GPA...and ELC is also reliant on rank, anyway.</p>

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<p>My GPA freshman year is about the same as my GPA now, and My UC gpa is also around there. it is the equivalent of 1 B for every 5 A's</p>

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<p>UCLA is a reach for you. You don't have outstanding extrcurricular activites and you GPA is horribly low. But I think you have excellent chances at all the other UC's except for Berkeley.</p>

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<p>A UC will know if you are in the top 5% of your class or not. How? Well, if you are in the top 5% you are allowed to access the application online before other students. They know. You will get letters from the University of California with passwords and such to do this.</p>

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<p>Your strong SATIIs will really help at UCs, but alas UCLA is a reach. Other than Cal, LA and SD, you stand a pretty good shot with your scores. The real weakness is that you din't take a hard course load.</p>

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<p>Sirwatson1 ..never heard dat before. SO the schools will take the class rank from 9th-11th and see if they are in the top 5 percent just for an early application....rreealy.</p>

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<p>Cali kids know if they are in the top 4% which makes them what's called ELC and those kids are guaranteed admitance to at least one UC (not of their choice).</p>

<p>It's correct that UCs do not ask class rank, but somehow 95 plus percents of admits at all but the very bottom UCs were in the top 10%. UCs know every Cali high school and what your class load and grades mean at each. The UC system was designed to admit the top 12% of Cali grads.</p>

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<p>just got a question about ELC, does it rank from 10-11 or 9-11 for the ranking thing</p>

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<p>I don't know how ELC ranks. They do it separately from your high school.</p>

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<p>guys plz, UCs aren't that hard to get into. Only on CC do you guys make UCLA and Berkeley to be like ivy league schools.</p>

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<p>reeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaallllllllllllllyy...so ur saying an acceptance rate of 20-something percent isnt low? (the acceptance rate of UCLA AND UCB)l........ good one bball87. COme back to us if you get accepted to UCLA or UCB and then tell us if its easy to get into.</p>

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<p>bball87:</p>

<p>If you're not going to contribute to a thread...</p>