Low high school GPA & test scores, good extracurriculars. Where can I go?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Intended major: Public Relations
Location: southern california
ethnicity: white and Cherokee Indian (registered)
My stats are:
GPA: 3.58 (weighted high school)
3.5 CSU GPA
3.75 /4.0 at Saddleback College or a

4.75/5.0 at Saddleback College (colleges weight depending on where)
ACT: 24, but 25 superscored. Not retaking
SAT: 1690, 580 CR, 530 Math, 580 W. Not retaking
3 AP classes: AP english language & composition (3 on ap test), AP environmental (2 on ap test), and I’m taking AP literature now
5 college courses at a community college: history of film and cinema (A), sociology (A), psychology (B), real estate (current), biological anthropology (current)
3 years of a foreign language
2 years of writing for the high school newspaper
Co-founder of the hugely successful, award-winning iPad academy at my high school. My school is now projected to become dominantly iPad in years to come.

Co-founder of the Salarrué chapter at Aliso Niguel High School of the Sociedad Honoraria Hispánica (Spanish National Honor Society) and I am the Treasurer and Head of Committee for Spanish National Honors’ Society (nationally recognized)
100+ hours of volunteer work
2015 Esprit de Wolverine award for excellence in the field of Spanish
Nationally ranked figure skater in All Year Figure Skating Club - competitively figure skated for 10 years
6th place at the 2010 Midwestern & Pacific Coast Synchronized Skating Sectional Championships

Im applying to…
USC
UT Austin
SDSU
Chapman
University of San Fran
Cal Poly SLO
UCSB
San Jose State
UCI
UC Davis
UCSC
University of Washington
Fordham University
CU Boulder
Boston University
George Washington University

Should I apply to other Universities? If so, where?

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SJSU: Match
SDSU/Chapman/USF/UCSC: High Match
SLO: Low Reach
USC/UCI/UCD/UCSB: Reach

I see no safeties on your list. I would drop one or two of the UC’s and add a CSU safety such as SFSU/Sac State.
You have excellent EC’s which should help you at the privates but will not make up for the low GPA/Test scores for the UC’s.

Good Luck.

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Thank you! I considered SJSU as my safety school. Do you not think so? The minimum eligibility index for public relations at SJSU is 3700 (SAT) and 900 (ACT), and my EI is 3910 (SAT) and 940 (ACT).

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@collegequartz: Yes SJSU would be a good safety school based on your EI’s. I think you have too many Reach schools on your list and you need some solid match schools. I am only familiar with the California schools and only vaguely aware of the reputations of the OOS schools but if you are in need of FA, your best chances would be in-state schools. UT Austin is a notoriously difficult admit as an OOS applicant.