My chances at ucla among others

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<p>My chances at Stanford, UCLA, and USC.?
What are my chances for the following schools:
Stanford
Columbia
Harvard
U Penn
Georgetown
Notre Dame
CAL
UCLA
USC</p>

<p>GPA: 4.4
3.8
SAT 1870
ACT 29</p>

<p>Track and Field 11
Youth Camp Counselor leader
Flag Football ref 11 12
Flag Football coach 11 12
Basketball coach 11 12
Soles 4 Soles 11-12 service club
Mathletes 11-12
California Scholarship federation (tutoring)10-12
Italian heritage club 10-12
National Honors )Society 11-12
Latin Club 11-12
President and founder Habitat for Humanity campus chapter11-12
Writer Year Book 11-12
Writer Newspaper 11-12
Students for Others (service club) 11-12</p>

<p>BTW Stanford is my top choice. My great uncle went there and is writing me a letter of rec. how much effect will that have?</p>

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<p>My stats were a little better than you last year when I applied and only got into Cal, UCLA, and USC on that list. I applied to all of the same ones except for Georgetown and Notre Dame (so not sure your likelihood of getting in). I have legacy at Columbia and got waitlisted then denied. You started your clubs a little too late and colleges like to see commitment to a few clubs (like 3 or 4 for three to four years). Anyways good luck!</p>

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<p>Looks like your GPA is pretty good, which will give you at least a shot at UCLA. Your SAT is a bit low, but that will probably matter more at USC and Stanford. It looks like you’ve been in a lot of clubs, which I would personally be suspicious of, but I doubt it will hurt you and it could very well help. UCLA won’t consider your rec letter, but in general having a family member write a letter for you might not look great. If he’s a Stanford alum it might be different, but I couldn’t say for sure (probably depends on whether he’s an influential person and the nature of your relationship).</p>

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<p>For UCLA and USC, you should be fine. Unfortunately, your scores would be on the lower percentage of those admitted to Stanford, if at all. If you go to their site, you can see their admission rate for fall 2010 students and compare. I got a 1950 on the SAT and was barely cutting the 25 percentile of admissions into Stanford, so I doubt that this would be adequate. You still have time to raise that, naturally, and if you do then you would be a really good candidate for all your clubs. You committed in the latter half of your high school career, but all seem to be at least two years.</p>

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<p>Are you a California resident? Are you ELC? With similar stats but a slightly higher GPA and SAT and more varsity athletics, and ELC, my son was accepted to UCLA and CAL but was rejected by Stanford, Yale and USC (he was a legacy at both Yale (grandfather) and USC(mom)). His first choice was UCLA and is very happy to be a Bruin.</p>

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<p>For UCLA and USC, you should be fine.</p>

<p>Unfortunately, you are not “fine”. That word should be reserved only for low reach or safety schools:</p>

<p>I’m going to strongly advise you to add a safety school to this list. I know several kids who were rejected at UCLA, in last year’s applicant pool, with higher SAT and ACT scores. I’m not trying to dissuade you from applying to UCLA, because you have a reasonable shot, but it still is not a good match, imo, because of your test scores. I would perhaps add UCD, UCSB, and Cal Poly SLO to your list. I’m assuming you are a CA resident, so please confirm this. Your current list is too top-heavy, imo. Without doing so, you may possibly be one of those kids who gets shut out of all the schools on your list. I saw this exact same thing happen last year with a friend of my son who also had a 3.8 uw GPA.</p>

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<p>I don’t think he’s fine. I think he’s more likely to be rejected than accepted given his abysmal SAT, which is 160 points below the UCLA admitted average! This isn’t a minor difference you can just brush off.</p>

<p>UCLA is definitely at least a low reach. Berkeley and USC have even higher SAT standards. They’ll be a flat out reaches. Stanford is just way out there. I wouldn’t count on making it.</p>

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<p>Your scores could easily get rejected at Stanford, Penn, Columbia, Harvard, and Georgetown.</p>

<p>As for the letter of recommendation, it depends on if he’s donated, but i wouldn’t count on those. </p>

<p>DONT WASTE YOUR TIME. AIM FOR MICH, VANDERBILT, BOSTON COLLEGE, ETC</p>

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<p>DONT WASTE YOUR TIME. AIM FOR MICH, VANDERBILT, BOSTON COLLEGE, ETC </p>

<p>These schools are not on the OP’s original list of schools and these are all definitely reach options as well (including Michigan if OOS), so I’m not really sure the purpose of your post. There are also financial considerations that may or may not come into play.</p>

<p>One more thing for the OP-- there’s a great link for you to look at:</p>

<p><a href=“http://statfinder.ucop.edu/[/url]”>http://statfinder.ucop.edu/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>There’s no predictive difference between admissions at UCLA and Berkeley. Look at the numbers.</p>

<p>USC has less of an emphasis on GPA, more on SAT, so it’s different.</p>

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<p>UCLA’s acceptance rate is slighter lower than Cal - sorry, it will be hard for you to get into the schools on your list…</p>

<p>Keep in mind that find the right fit is more important than getting into higher ranked schools…</p>

<p>Good luck!!</p>