please chance me!

hello! i have no idea what i’m doing and i’d really like a good idea of my chances at the colleges i’m applying to haha

my full college list is:

san jose state university
cal poly san luis obispo
uc berkeley
ucla
ucsd
uc davis
uc santa cruz
uc irvine
uc santa barbara
stanford
usc
santa clara university
purdue
carnegie mellon
occidental
georgia tech
caltech

i’m applying music production to usc and cognitive science everywhere else. i applied early action to purdue, but i’m applying regular decision to all others. my csu application has already been submitted. my dream college is usc.

stats:
sat: 1550 reasoning (780 math, 770 r/w), 5/5/6 essay, 800 on math 2 subject test
gpa 9th-11th: 3.73 unweighted, 3.9 weighted
ap classes: ap chem (4), ap lang (5), ap calc ab (didn’t take exam), ap statistics, ap japanese
honors classes: chem honors, physics honors, pre-calc honors
clubs: member of gsa for 3 years, member of creative writing club for 3 years

ecs:

piano (learned in group lessons for four years, have been self-teaching for another six)
music composition and production (i’ve released one song, a background-music-type thing, on spotify, itunes, and google play)
wrote a novel (been working on it for four years; it’s been sent to agents already and i’m awaiting responses)
i also volunteer at the local library as a tutor for elementary-middle school kids

i’m lgbt and a person of color, in case that changes anything.

thanks so much for your time! :slight_smile:

I will only address the California UC’s and CSU’s.

SLO and SJSU do not have Cognitive Science majors although SJSU has Behavioral Science. What is your intended major at SLO? I am assuming SJSU is your safety school?

What is your UC/CSU capped weighted GPA? https://rogerhub.com/gpa-calculator-uc/

Your SAT score is very competitive with good HS course rigor. GPA a bit low for many of the UC’s and Cal Poly SLO. Overall good EC’s but they seem to be more music focused.

California public’s will not consider Race/Ethnicity or Sexual Orientation in their admission decisions.