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<li>State or Country: NY</li>
<li>School Type: Private</li>
<li>Ethnicity: Asian</li>
<li>Gender: M</li>
<li>Legacy Yes/No: N</li>
<li>Recruited Yes/No: N</li>
<li>Important ECs:
Math Team 3 years-varsity- 1st in the county
Science NHS 2 years- science team participant; tutor
Spanish NHS 2 years- tutor; volunteer
Flag Football 3 years
Asian Cultural Club 3 years
Volunteering 4 years- veterans home, retirement home, YMCA
Tutoring 4 years for math, science, history, english, spanish (through Guidance)
Medicine club 2 years</li>
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<p>Also I'm taking the most rigorous courseload possible.</p>
<p>Also applying to:</p>
<p>Northwestern, JHU, Penn, Duke, Cornell, Rice, UMich, Georgetown, Washington University at St. Louis, University of Chicago, Emory, UC LA, UC Berkeley, Columbia, Cooper Union</p>
<p>Unfortunately, applying OOS for Berkeley and UCLA will reduce your chances. You GPA is great, SAT is pretty average, and they don't even accept letters of rec. </p>
<p>I'd say you have a chance for sure, but there's a lot of in-state kids with the exact same stats they might accept over you. And especially at Berkeley since they're engineering program is tops in the nation.</p>
<p>You'll get in somewhere good though with that profile, so keep your head in the game and you'll do fine :)</p>
<p>Did you fulfill the A-G requirements for UCLA and Cal Berkeley? If you don't know what the A-G requirements are, look it up on the ucla.edu web site. Must fulfill the A-G requirements. Second, you applied to 15 prestigious, hard to get into universities. I don't understand your strategy because you should be applying to at least 2 safety schools. In your case, if you want California state universities, why not apply to a couple of the easier to get into UC schools since it is the same application?</p>
<p>If you REALLY want to go to UCLA, apply into the college of letters and sciences (as opposed to engineering, which makes it harder to get in). I was in the same situation, applied for engineering at the beginning of the quarter, and now I'm in UCLA engineering.</p>
<p>i actually think in your case it might be easier to get into engineering since you have high math and science scores than language, which is something engineering school weighs more... but as everyone said most people applying out of state have good stats but your scores should keep you in the game, good luck</p>
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If you REALLY want to go to UCLA, apply into the college of letters and sciences (as opposed to engineering, which makes it harder to get in). I was in the same situation, applied for engineering at the beginning of the quarter, and now I'm in UCLA engineering.
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<p>How do you know that it made it easier for you? That probably just means you would have made it into engineering right away anyways if you had applied initially for it.</p>