Out of Stater..chances UCSD

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I'm going to be a Junior this year am I going in the right direction..what do i need to improve?</p>

<p>State of Residence: TX
Ethnicity- Filipino
GPA: ~97
Class Rank: ~25/210 (Tough Magnet School..One of top schools in the Nation)
SAT: 2200
SAT IIs
Bio: 780 Lit: 770 Math II-780
AP Scholar
Mostly 5's a couple of fours
Course Load: Gov/eco AP, Bio AP, World History Pre-AP(AP not available), English II H, English III, IV AP, Chemistry Pre-AP, Statistics AP, Latin 2,3 H, Physics AP, Precal H, Cal AP ,US Hist AP also not available</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
-Prefreshman Engineering Program- 3 summers Straight
3rd year: 98 ^ High Honors Award
-Honor Roll
-Summer Science Research Program 2005 and UT Health Science Center, 5 days a week during the summer 9:00-5:00..2 months
-HOSA (Health Occupation Students of America) (President)
-Student Council (Representative)
-Latin Club, Proconsul (Vice president)
6th at area, 4th place at State Latin Grammar
1st at area, 2nd at State Latin Grammar
1st Latin Essay at State
NLE Gold Medalist 2 yrs
Cum Laude Pentath
Summa Cum Laude Pentathalon
Started Latin Tutoring Organization, President
-Red Cross Club
-Interact
-UIL Academics Science
6th, 7th place
-Dance club- indian dancing, cultural dancing at festivals
-Choir 2 yrs
-Orchestra-1 yr
UIL Solo- Rating of 1
-Playing viola for 2 yrs
-Mu Alpha Theta
-NHS</p>

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<p>Interesting post, I just don't know too much about out-of-staters and the UCs.</p>

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<p>The one glitch is under top 10%, which as a formula driven state school may well be a problem at UCSD even given a magnet school. The bigger question is why you want to pay nearly $40K for a state school with budget problems when if you can get in there you will get into many fine privates that cost the same. Is UT, for the price, really that inferior?</p>

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<p>im not sure about this one, but i would say
UCSD:Match/Slight Reach (only because you are out-of-state, nothing is guarenteed)</p>

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<p>imacrazyscientist:</p>

<p>UCSD: Match (out of state)</p>

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<p>The UC schools for OOSers is tough. For example, Berkeley accepts about 2-3% OOS; UCLA 3-5% OOs; think it's about the same for UCSD. You'll have to be a top candidate, almost a superstar. You're close and I wouldn't tell you not to try for the UCs (perhaps your chances'll be better at one of the other campuses such as UCDavis or UCSanta Barbara), but you might have better luck with one of the private schools such as USC or you might even try Stanford.</p>

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<p>Well zagat the problem is UT Austin isn't really known for their sciences and I thirst for a good science program!</p>

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The UC schools for OOSers is tough. For example, Berkeley accepts about 2-3% OOS; UCLA 3-5% OOs; think it's about the same for UCSD.

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<p>I'm no expert, but that can't be right. Those numbers seem way too low. Where did you get those stats?</p>

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<p>You are Azn and out of state. I don't think I need to say anything more.</p>

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<p>BigE -- those stats can from the admissions offices at those schools -- they're unpublished, but given to me on the QT & are accurate.</p>

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<p>BigE1508:</p>

<p>You were right to be skeptic...</p>

<p>According to the UCLA Admissions Office website, UCLA accepted 830 out of 3824 out-of-state applications for the freshman class of 2005, making its out-of-state admit rate approximately 21.7%.
<a href="http://www.admissions.ucla.edu/Prospect/Adm_fr/Frosh_Prof05.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.admissions.ucla.edu/Prospect/Adm_fr/Frosh_Prof05.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>According to the UC Berkeley Admissions Office website, UC Berkeley accepted 957 out of 4456 out-of-state applications for the freshman class of 2005, making its out-of-state admit rate approximately 21.5%.
<a href="http://students.berkeley.edu/admissions/freshmen.asp%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://students.berkeley.edu/admissions/freshmen.asp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Flopsy, when putting the accepted OOS applicants in the total general pool of applicants, the figures I cited are not that far off.</p>

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<p>If it helps, my friend got into all the UCs with a 13 something and she's out of state and asian. I think you have a decent shot at UCSD, I have lots of friends who go there who had lower scores than you. But I'm not sure about your ecs.</p>

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<p>I still have junior year to improve my EC's. I'm thinking of starting Science Honor Society at school with a friend..maybe even science olympiad. (I like science..a lot) I planning on doing some volunteer work at a hospital next summer and a week of CAMP CAMP. Plus you never know I might get some other leadership positions this year.</p>

<p>Do you think it's worth a shot to apply to UCLA and UCB? I know my chances aren't so hot..being out-of-state and not being a super star student, but is it worth a try?</p>

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<p>wuts a 97% in UC Weighted gpa</p>

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<p>Oh, I didn't notice that you were only going be a junior, then you have lots of ec opportunities. And you should definitely go for UCB and UCLA. Yeah, how much is 97 GPA on a 4.0 basis?</p>

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<p>I don't know really know how to convert to UC's gpa weighted..but about the highest GPA people have at my school..usually valedictorian is like a 98 or 99...my school is really competitive they do it by numbers like 98.67346..decimals separate rank. 3.9... probably, but the highest GPA at my school would probably be a 4.0 or 4.1.</p>

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<p>imacrazyscientist:</p>

<p>I recommend that you apply for UCLA and UCB, because I think that they're within your reach, even from out-of-state.</p>

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<p>I think you have a good shot. i got in last year with a 4.6 GPA and 1220 SAT from out of state (Nevada)! I think I got really lucky though</p>

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<p>Why would you want to go UCSD if you are out-of-state? Go to a private or your own state school and you'll get a better value.</p>