Well let me start telling you about me. I am an orthodox Jewish teenager with a large family. I go to school 6 days a week, sunday-friday from 7:30 AM through 9:15 PM (except Friday’s), and on Thursday’s we go till 10:15 PM. YES, THIS IS NOT A MISPRINT! And you might be thinking what might we be doing for all these hours. We pray, have breakfast, learn Jewish studies, lunch, Jewish studies, and then english(secular-not Judaism related) and then more learning, dinner, then more education. I maintaned a 3.9 gpa in freshman year, a 3.7 gpa in sophmore year due to taking the most advanced classes available and struggling with my porn addiction, which thank God I overcame( by the way do you reccomend writing about this in my college admission essay on the college application). And then right now in my Junior year I am taking the most advanced classes available( I’m taking Calculus!), and so far this year i have a 4.0 gpa. Also, this is the first year we are allowed to take AP’s, and we have to self-study them in our free time, WHICH IS PRACTICALLY IMPOSSIBLE! So, when i come home at 9:30 i have to stay up finishing schoolwork, and also doing AP’s. I got 81% on PSAT(didnt take SAT yet).I am taking(self-study) AP psychology and AP english language and composition(which i have no idea how to do, please help!). Also, in my freshman summer i went to camp, and helped my mom with her work. Somphmore summer, our school offeres us summer school so i went there.( also planning on going there junior year, and these are the only two years they allow us to take it, I’d take more if they let). I also when i had like winter break, and other breaks in school i helped my Temple raise money(charity). I also spent my summer with our temple in a program where we help young Jewish boys and girls come closer to judiasim. AND our school does not have a counseler so I do not have anyone to really guide me(my parents are too busy) and i am the first child in my family going to college so do you think with all my background info, especially my school hours which restrict me from doing alot of extra-curriculars(also our school doesnt have any groups, and clubs we can be into, the only thing we have is a librarian and i volunteer there for my school), so any tips on what to do, how to do, all the who’s what’s and why’s, just please help me! i am also trying to get into UCLA, i wnat to become a pharmacist. So please help THANKS ALOT! have to get back to studying…
Well, assuming this is not a ■■■■■… I have never heard of an 81% as a “score” for the PSATs.
I assume you are a CA resident? If so, and assuming your “school” is accredited and you have a 4.0 with lots of APs (and that you get 4s and 5s on those tests), you should get into at least one of the top UCs… CAL, UCLA, UCD, or UCSD. No guarantees on which, tho.
I see no problems with your activities, ECs (volunteering for temple counts), gpa and assume your SAT/ACT scores will come out fine as well. So what on earth is your actual question?
In brief: Apply by November of your senior year for the UCs on the Common Application website. Follow the directions. Submit HS transcripts. Submit any LORs. Submit your SAT/ACT scores. And then wait. Also, in Jan/Feb of your senior year apply for FAFSA online as well. All info about these processes can be found on the respective websites. So get reading! Good luck.
BTW - you are NOT a “non-traditional student.” A non-trad student is usually over the age of about 23, or has had a large gap in their college education, is married or has dependents, etc. You are simply an average over-worked high school student. 
With that said, why not post on the UCLA sub-forum instead with your specific questions.
No, I am not a ■■■■■ lol!
By 81%, I mean, I scored 81 percent better that other test takers in the nation- Percintile.
Um, last quick question,… You spoke about AP’s. How many do You think i should take. Currently, I am taking English lang. and Psych. (maybe Calculus, but i highly doubt it).
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There is no magic number. The UCs want to see that a student is maximizing the opportunities that have been made available to the student at their high school. If your high school officially offers zero AP and only honors courses, the UCs want to see that the student took advantage of a rigorous but not impossible number of honor courses. If your high school offers only 4 AP courses total, the UCs would want to see that students tried to take all 4 AP courses or close to it. On the other hand, if the school offers 30+ AP courses, the UCs want to see several taken during junior and senior year. I would guess for a school like that, one would want to take 1 - 4 APs junior year (assuming student is academically ready) and 3 - 5 senior year. It is better to do WELL on the AP classes than take too many AP classes. So there is no magic number of classes.
Note that the UCs generally know the AP stats from the HS a student is applying from–they have stats of how many APs are offered at the HS, what percentage of students at the HS who take the APs, etc. They also factor in economic status of the HS overall, the HS graduation rate, etc. Basically, a student who does really well at a HS that offers very little in terms of opportunity gets to shine in UC application reviews more than a student who went to a HS where everything is handed to him/her but the student held back and did not engage.