Just a Junior guy looking for opinions

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hello all :) Thanks for taking the time to read this. I live in California and my overall goals for places I would like to go to college are either UCLA, UCSD, West Point, or the Air Force Academy. I was wondering about some of your guys' opinions on what my chances look like so far, and what I should do to help myself.</p>

<p>I currently am a Junior enrolled in the International Baccalaureate (The</a> International Baccalaureate offers high quality programmes of international education to a worldwide community of schools) program at my school, and my classes this year are currently:
(with 1st and 2nd semester grades)</p>

<p>AP Calculus AB - B,A
AP Physics 1 - B,C
IB Economics - B,B
AP European History - A,A
Honors American History (AP is not offered until Senior year) - A,A
and AP Spanish 3 - A,A</p>

<p>I currently have a 4.50 (weighted) GPA this year and around a 3.7 (weighted) cumulative GPA (I struggled during freshman year and got a 3.0, but since then I have gotten at least a 4.3 a semester.)
I received an 1870 on my SAT with a 700 in math, 620 in reading, and 550 in writing. I am not planning on taking the ACT and am awaiting my Math 2 and World History subject test scores. I am also ranked around 9% in my class.</p>

<p>I also have been on the varsity waterpolo and swim teams at my school for 2 and 3 years respectively, meaning I have lettered in both 5 times total and have been a team captain for both.
However for swimming, I have made 1st Team All-League 3 times, Competed in CIF Finals (state championships for California), and have reached qualifying times for being a High School Swimming All-American (for a relay team).</p>

<p>I also have been selected by my school to be it's delegate to California Boy's State this summer.</p>

<p>I also try to do as many outside-of-school activities and community service as possible.</p>

<p>I am not really a part of any major clubs at my school because most of my time is taken by academics and athletics.</p>

<p>My Senior year schedule would look like this:
IB Higher Level Math
AP Literature
IB World History
IB Theory of Knowledge
IB Spanish 4
and either AP Physics 2 or being in my school newspaper.</p>

<p>Any thoughts on my chances to getting into one of the mentioned schools would be greatly appreciated :D</p>

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<p>i only know anything about UCSD and UCLA, and honestly your GPA and SAT are more middle UC material (UCD/UCI/UCSB). if you’re cumulative 10-12 GPA is closer to 4.0 you’d have a great shot at middle level UC’s but UCSD and especially UCLA will be big reaches. good luck!!</p>

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<p>Thanks for the response. I thought that would be the case concerning the upper-level UC’s. I’m hoping that I could maybe show that I would swim for UCSD and that may be able to help my application, because I could definitely a part of their team.</p>

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