I am soo worried please help me :(

Chance Me / Match Me!
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I am a Us citizen but have lived outside the US my whole life. My SATs are really low 1170 :frowning: (630 math 540 English) but I have 1A* 5As 3Bs at IGCSE and 35 predicted IB points 6 in English Lang Lit HL, 6 in Chem HL, 5 in Bio HL. I want to major in biochemistry and I have some impressive extracurricular activities such as soccer for my school and I do voluntary work outside school once a week. Please anyone know which unis I have a shot at getting into? :(((

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Have you tried taking the ACT instead? Some people do way better on it than the SAT (myself included)

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go to the links on the left and find a college that will fit your stats.

and open this link:

http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/1621234-before-you-ask-which-colleges-to-apply-to-please-consider.html#latest

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Itā€™s a bit too late to take them as most of the unis I want to apply to require scores by December. Do you think I can get into any UC schools? What about UF, USF, UW??

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UCs: Merced, possibly Riverside

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But my IB and IGCSE are good, also my references from the school, essays, extra curricular activities. So I have no chance of UCSB?

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Wait for the admissions notices to come out, you never know.
The colleges use the tests (SAT, ACT) to note the level of your academic preparation since some schools do ā€œgrade inflationā€ and others donā€™t. If your scores are lower than expected, you wouldnā€™t be able to keep up with the pace of the other students at higher performing schools.

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What about UF, USF, UW???

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I donā€™t know about OOS schools.

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What is your GPA

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Thing is I do school outside the US so I donā€™t have a gpa, I just have 35 at IB diploma

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Can you afford the UCā€™s? They are $55K per year to out of state residents.

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Yes I can afford them, do you think I have a chance tho?

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Hard to say: UCM, UCR and maybe Santa Cruz if possible.

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Oh thank you, so I should give up on UCSB?

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I donā€™t really know anything about what your IB Diploma would mean in terms of GPA but you should be coming up with a list of at least 5-7 schools so you could put something like:
2 Schools that are hard to get into
2 schools that are strong possibilities for you to get into
2 schools that are pretty easy for anybody to get into.

You seem to only be worrying about difficult schools but have you thought about any back ups?

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http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/campuses/santa-barbara/freshman-profile/

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All the unis Iā€™ve applied to
USCB
UCSD
Uni of Washington
UM college park
UM Baltimore county
Texas at Austin
Hofstra University
Fordham University
USF
UF

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What chances do I have? :(((

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We donā€™t magically have all the answers for you. The best way to gauge your chances is to look at the ā€œadmitted student profileā€ of each school. For example, the one I linked for UCSB. You need to do your own research too.

Because youā€™re international with no US GPA itā€™s hard to statistically predict how competitive you are. If youā€™re really worried and you already applied to those, stop worrying about things you canā€™t change and maybe find some easy admit back-up schools to apply to.