junior looking at possible colleges

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hey This is my first post, and Im just starting to look at colleges... so here goes:
Gender: Male
Resident: California
Race: white
School: Granada Hills Charter High School (one of the better Los Angeles Public schools)
Rank: 79/922
Courseload: Really Hard</p>

<p>GPA w/ Freshmen:
3.59 UW
4.05 W </p>

<p>GPA w/o Freshmen
3.47 UW
4.04 W</p>

<p>Sophomore year:
H. Chem
H English
AP World
H Alg2/H Trig
Robotics
Digital Imaging</p>

<p>Junior Year Schedule: (First semester...only difference is now I am in Calc A)
Adv. Chem Lab: B
AP Chem: C
H Math Analysis: B
H US History : B
AP English Lang: A
H. Physics: A
Adv. Robotics: A</p>

<p>Senior Year Schedule
AP Physics C
AP Calc BC
AP English Lit
H. Gov/H Econ
Adv. Robotics</p>

<p>SAT:
1820 Math CR: 600 M: 670 Wr: 550</p>

<p>Haven't taken the SAT 2 yet..</p>

<p>AP Tests taken:
AP World: 4</p>

<p>EC's
Robotics Team for 4 years (will be on it next year)
- held executive positions for 3 of those years</p>

<p>Magnet Student Council for 4 years (will be on it next year)
- 9th grade senator, 10th grade senator, Historian</p>

<p>100+ hours of service
-at habitat for humanity (build houses for the impoverished)
-at wheels for humanity (fix wheelchairs to send to 3rd world countries)
-also a little at Operation Gratitude (send off packages to support the troops)</p>

<p>Travel/homestay/language study
-summer 8th-9th: Went to Spain for a homestay program where I took language classes as well
-summer 9th-10th: Went to Japan for a different homestay program where I took language classes (in Japanese this time)</p>

<p>Summer 10th-11th: I took a design class (Preferred major) for 5 weeks</p>

<p>Awards:
- Optimist Essay Winner
- Art Center Design Scholarship
- Presidential Award for 60 volunteer hours
- Bach Festival Alternate
- Honor Roll All 3 years so far</p>

<p>Chances At (in order of preference):
Carnegie Mellon (Early Desicion)
Penn
UC Berkley
UCLA
USC
Cornell
Brown
UCSD
UC Davis
Clark U.
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Reed</p>

<p>Are there any colleges you would suggest for someone with my grades? Not the best, but not definitely not the worst either...
Thanks so much!
Jonathan
PS Thanks LLpitch...I sorta copied your setup</p>

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<p>bump please chance me!!</p>

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<p>Your grades and SAT score aren't really high enough for the Ivies and other prestigious schools. With that being said....Carnegie, Penn, Berkeley, Cornell, and Brown are definitely reach schools. The others are anywhere from slight reaches to matches. I would say that if you increased your SAT score to above a 2000, your chances would be much greater at some of the schools that you listed. </p>

<p>Now as for suggestions, I would definitely apply to more safety schools because you seem to have a lot of unlikely reaches in there. The other UCs (most of 'em anyway) would be great.</p>

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<p>bump...anyone else???</p>

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<p>bump...again. Thanks to anyone who'll take time to chance me!!</p>

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<p>bump- please, anone?</p>

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<p>You need to add more safeties and matches to that list.</p>