In desperate need of safeties...

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hi! I need some help finding some safety colleges/universities. I plan to major in mathematics and economics. </p>

<p>So far my college/university list consists of:
-USC
-UPenn
-Stanford
-University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
-U of Chicago
-UC Berkeley
-UCLA
-UC Irvine
-West Point</p>

<p>My stats:
GPA: 4.0 (unweighted)
rank: 1/457</p>

<p>AP scores:
APUSH: 4, CALC BC: 5
-will take physics B, marcoecon, and possibly stats in May</p>

<p>SAT I: 670 w, 730 m, 560 r (horrible, i know. i don't know what i was doing during the reading portion. i plan to increase that by at least 100 pts. in oct.)
SAT II:
-history: 690
-chinese: 770
-math IIC: 800</p>

<p>EC activities:
-speech and debate (NFL member: exellence degree)
-peer tutoring
-national honors society
-link crew
-piano
-children's discovery museum (for one summer)
-teaching children's sunday school
-math club (planning to join this year)
-chinese school</p>

<p>other things:
-participated in county's junior miss competition
-participated in NYLC
-participated in West Point's SLS </p>

<p>PS Could you also tell me my chances of getting into the colleges/universities that I have planned to apply to so far? </p>

<p>THANKS A LOT FOR THE HELP!</p>

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<p>spurs21:</p>

<p>Assuming you are a California resident,
UCB: Match
UCLA: Match
UCI: Safety</p>

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<p>i don't think your ecs or SAT scores are high enough for stanford, or UPenn. But you should still apply anyways.</p>

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<p>bump bump bump</p>

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<p>he's not from Cali, He's obviously from NY (west point and stuff)</p>

<p>your SAT's suck, mostly the reading portion. that's going to hurt you badly. Bring it up and bump up your writing score by like 20-30 pts and youll be in a new realm.</p>

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<p>yeah, i realize my SAT score are horrible. that's why i need some suggestions on safeties in case i don't raise my scores (which would be extremely embarassing). </p>

<p>in any case, thanks for all the comments. </p>

<p>btw, im from ca. and i am a girl who like the spurs-hence the userid name.</p>

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<p>do you have AIM? if so, post it, I'll talk to you</p>

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<p>wow, doesn't meatmountain feel dumb now...</p>

<p>and try to avoid saying someone's SAT scores "suck".</p>

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<p>Have you considered Loyola Marymount U? Santa Clara U? USF? Case Western?
What does your GC have to say? S/he should be providing you advice, especially if you're the val in your HS.</p>

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<p>no it's just the READING scores are not very good for being number 1 in her class. even I got better reading scores and I'm probably not near as Dedicated as him.</p>

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<p>meatmountain: check your private messages.</p>

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<p>i don't feel dumb. </p>

<p>her SAT's do suck, because even though she got decent M and W, her CR completely brings it down.</p>

<p>sorry for not being PC</p>

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<p>Spurs - are you not a native English speaker? That would make a difference.</p>

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<p>im a native english speaker. i just suck at reading comprehension stuff.</p>

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<p>bump......</p>

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<p>Your stuff looks really good, except for being such a great student, your SAT scores are a tad low. But that's okay, b/c it is much more important to have good grades than high SAT scores. For safeties, I would apply to some CSUs like Sonoma and Cal Poly and some other UCs like Davis and Santa Cruz. Good luck on everything! :)</p>

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<p>Check out Michigan-Ann Arbor (match) and Wisconsin-Madison (safety).</p>