Mediocre Stats Aiming for UCs

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hey guys, can you please chance me? I am not one of those super geniuses.</p>

<p>User Name: TheReserved
Gender: M
Location: Orange county, California
College Class Year: 2014
High School: Public</p>

<p>Academics:</p>

<p>GPA - Unweighted: 3.97
GPA - Weighted: 4.29
Class Rank: top 1%/Rank 2 out of 552 (Don't know if colleges will see that)</p>

<p>Freshman
English 1
Geometry HP
Biology
Computer Science 1</p>

<p>Sophomore
World History
English 2 HP
Algebra 2/Trig HP
Chemistry
Biology AP
Computer Science 1 AP</p>

<p>Junior
US History
English 3
Pre-Calculus HP
Physics HP
Chemistry AP
Computer Science 2 AP</p>

<p>Senior
US Government (semester)
Economics (semester)
English 4
Calculus AB AP
Physics AP
Photography 1</p>

<p>All A's except Algebra 2/Trig HP in sophomore year, which I got a B on the first semester</p>

<p>Scores:
October ACT 2009: 26
-English 21
-Math 33
-Reading 24
-Science 26
-English/Writing 22 (Essay 9)</p>

<p>April ACT 2009: 25
-English 21
-Math 33
-Reading 19
-Science 28
-English/Writing 20 (Essay 7)</p>

<p>SAT II Math Level 2 (IIC): 770
SAT II Chinese: 770
SAT II Physics: 670
SAT II Biology: 650</p>

<p>AP Scores:
Biology: 4
Chemistry: 4
Computer Science A: 4
Computer Science AB: 3</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:</p>

<p>Significant Extracurriculars:
School Activities
• Robotics Club (11,12)
 Created the club last year
 3rd place in a local competition last year
• National Honor Society (11,12)
• California Scholarship Federation (9,10,11,12)
• Physics Club (11,12)
Secretary
• Interact Club (9,10,11,12)
• JV Badminton (10,11,12)
• Tutoring (10,11,12)</p>

<p>Sports</p>

<p>JV Badminton</p>

<p>Volunteer/Service Work: Community Service</p>

<p>Over 500 community service hours</p>

<p>Other:
Low income family
Okay essay
Did not take a foreign language (but this is covered by my SAT II Chinese)
ELC Student</p>

<p>Colleges: </p>

<p>UCLA - Electrical Engineering
UC Berkeley - Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
UC San Diego - Bioengineering: Biotech (alternate major - CSE: Computer Engineering)
UC Irvine (ELC does not gurantee my major, which is Biomedical Engineering [alternate major - Computer Engineering])
University of Chicago</p>

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<p>im not sure but i think that you can only apply for joint engineering degrees at berkeley only as a tranfer</p>

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<p>Oh really? When I applied, I saw that as an option so I just picked that.</p>

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<p>Bump please</p>

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<p>Bumpppp…</p>

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<p>UCI and UCSD should be matches.
UCLA and UCB are low reaches.
I’m not knowledgeable about UChicago.</p>

<p>Chance me back?</p>

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<p>HAHAHA, what school do you go to?</p>

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<p>Rocky huh?</p>

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<p>Hey its Matt! lol</p>

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<p>Hahahaha, I knew those stats sounded familiar.</p>

<p>UCI: Match
UCSD: Match
UCLA: Low Reach
UC Berkeley: Reach (Just b/c their EEC is impacted and very competitive)
UChicago: Reach</p>

<p>Feel free to chance me.
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