<p>Freshman Info:
All academics
First semester GPA 3.1/2nd 3.53</p>
<p>Sophomore:
All academics except AP Euro (Got a 3)
First semester GPA 3.72/2nd 4.0</p>
<p>Junior Year:
All academics except Pre-Cal, Chem H, AP US, AP Art History (Expecting to get 4's on APs)
First semester GPA(Expected) 4.2/2nd 4.3 or .4</p>
<p>Senoir Year:
(Expecting schedule) Cal, AP Chem, AP Gov, AP Spanish (Maybe), AP Elective (Expecting to get 4's on APs)</p>
<p>AWARDS/RECOGNITION (So far)
Medals from wrestling tournaments
Honor Roll awards and some others from Elementary and Middle schools</p>
<p>EXTRACURRICULAR
ASB Head comissioner
A Secretary for a club
Members of: The ping pong club, S.O.S.
JV Wrestling (For soph)
Tennis JV (Hoping for junior)
Tennis Varsity (Hoping for senior)
I tutor my friends.
I work every weekend for about 16 hrs.</p>
<p>COMMUNITY SERVICE:
500+ Helping out the Alzheimer patients.</p>
<p>My chances will be for UCLA (I REALLY WANT TO GET IN), UCI, UC Berkeley, Stanford...
Through the following example format:
UCLA-...
UCI-...
UC-...
Stanford-...</p>
<p>While I'm not qualified to comment on your chances, I think it's excellent that your GPA steadily increases each year. That's a sure sign that you are becoming a stronger, more committed student.</p>
<p>Take the Interstate 405 to the Wilshire Blvd exit. Turn left on Westwood Blvd, and find a place to park. (this might be a bit difficult) Walk up to the campus and voila, you're there.</p>
<p>are my ECs truly garbage? maybe I am wrong but I believe that it is better to show your passion and concentration on things that you devote your time to rather than having a laundry list of ECs. This is just my opinion... well keep chancing me </p>
<p>"your extracurriculars are actually just garbage"</p>
<p>That's like going up to the olympic champion in ping-pong and saying, "you know what? That medal of yours is garbage."</p>
<p>You don't know this applicant. You don't know if he's just in the ping-pong club for kicks or if he's sponsored by a paddle maker. You don't know if his friends have learning difficulties that make the tutoring process ten times harder. You CERTAINLY don't know how hard it can be to tend to Alzheimer's patients for one hour, let alone 500.</p>
<p>What, exactly about this applicant's extracurriculars is "garbage?"</p>
<p>Okay, first of all, the UCs don't care about your freshman grades, just your sophomore and junior grades--the same is true for Stanford. Your grades are good for the regular UCs, but just okay for Stanford and about normal to slightly sub-normal for the top UCs. </p>
<p>Your test scores are great, but the extracurriculars are about normal.</p>
<p>I'd rank your chances as follows:</p>
<p>Stanford--Reach
UCLA/UC Berkeley--Slight Reach (you are really close to admittance to UCLA, not as close at UC Berkeley in my view).
USC/UC San Diego--Match
UC Davis/UC Irvine/UC Santa Barbara--Safe Match to Match
UC Santa Cruz/UC Riverside--Safe Match
UC Merced--100% guaranteed as long as you apply by December 31st.</p>
<p>P.S. It is true you can't major in law at any of these schools--but you can major in criminal justice, political science, and legal studies (pre-law) at some of them. For example, legal studies is offered at UC Santa Cruz, and I think criminal justice and political science is offered at all of the schools on your list. Also, business law may be an option at UC Berkeley, UC Irvine, UC Riverside, and UC Merced (you would probably have to major in business and then request a personalized sub-major concentration). USC also has a business school, but it probably wouldn't allow a business law concentration (go for a management consulting or leadership development concentration in their Marshall business school instead).</p>
<p>To actually practice law, you will eventually need a JD degree from an accredited law school--which you will get after you finish your bachelor's degree.</p>
<p>P.S. My own son is a Business major, with a Legal Studies concentration (he's a junior at Indiana University at Bloomington). He's hoping to go to law school a few years after finishing his own BS degree.</p>
<p>Calcruzer thanks a lot for the thorough explanation, I greatly appreciate it....</p>
<p>I have a question since you guys are commenting on my ECs as being bad to normal... I am in some other clubs that I have not listed, but they are not that active, they meet barely like once every month.. should I still mention these clubs when I am applying?????</p>