OOS chance

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of California - Santa Cruz
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<p>I'm an OOS planning to apply to UCSC can you quickly tell me what are my chances applying to UCSC, I used to live in California for five years before I moved overseas if that helps... I'm enrolled in an international school
Here goes:</p>

<p>9th grade
- english 1
- asian studies
- algebra/geometry 2
- integrated science
- pe survey
- web design (1 semester)
- spanish 1</p>

<p>summer: health</p>

<p>10th grade
- english 2
- modern history
- advance algebra trigonometry
- physics core
- biology core
- theatre technology
- spanish 2
- graphics to multimedia (1 semester)</p>

<p>11th grade
- IB S English A1
- IB H Economics
- IB Math SL
- IB H Biology
- IB H Physics
- Spanish 4
- Chemistry college prep
- IB theory of knowledge</p>

<p>12th grade:
same as above, without chemistry and spanish 4 is now IB S SPanish B</p>

<p>asian female
ACT: 29 (retaking Oct)
GPA 3.80 (not a UC gpa)
major: marine biology and minor is astronomy
SAT II: Math 2C 710 (retake Dec), and either physics or biology e/m this dec
IB diploma
NHS</p>

<p>EC:
- 4-year varsity x-country, and vice captain
- 2-year varsity slow pitch softball (i know its weird!), not including this year yet... starter
- 6-year fastpitch softball in local clubs, community team, made an all-star team. basically weekends are dedicated to softball. Been like this since 6th grade, I hardly can go on vacation
- JV touch rugby (3yr) hoping to make varsity this year...
- Varsity council - helping out in all athletc events, timing, ball-girl, picking up people in the airport, housing kids from other school, etc
- done some community stuff but I won't list it in my resume, its not awfully a lot anyway</p>

<p>this is the only UC I'm applying to. what do you think? I'm really worried about being an OOS...</p>

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<p>Well, out-of-state works against you, of course--but with a 3.8 GPA in an IB diploma courseload and a 29 GPA, I would expect you to have no problem getting in. </p>

<p>The only question is whether you are going to have any difficult because of your choice of major (marine studies), which is the most difficult major to get into (along with Biology). I would expect it not to make a difference in your case--and being able to study marine biology on the Monterey Bay is unparalleled. The deep sea floor in the bay here is second in depth only to the Marianas trench, and the difference is that the water here is probably twice as clear--and has a greater amount of diversity in the sealife. </p>

<p>If you get in--which I expect you will--you will love taking that major at UC Santa Cruz.</p>

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<p>thanks for the reply. yeah thats the main reason why I applied to UCSC. I want to have access to Monterey Bay. I visited this summer and I loved it. definitely a place I can see myself living there
my parents want me to apply to more UCs, but none have as strong program and better location than UCSC. and it has such a lovely campus!
I can't wait for the decisions.
go banana slugs :)</p>