Rate Junior applying to UCs/ couple privates

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I would really appreciate anyones input on my chances... I am unsure of what to expect when I apply
-18 year old white male
-attend a pretty competitive public school, ranked in the top 50 in California</p>

<p>I am not sure whether I will apply as an engineering or Economics major tt
UCB (cs/econ/prehaas?)
UCSB (econ/cs)
UCI (econ)
UCLA (cs)
USC (econ or prebusiness)
UCSD (cs)
Georgia tech (cs)
UChicago (econ)
Stanford (econ/cs) (I know it’s a total reach >.>)</p>

<p>Test info:
SAT
2310
Read:770
Write:770
Math: 770</p>

<p>SAT II
-World History: 780
-math2:750 (retaking next month)</p>

<p>GPA
UW: 3.68
W: 4.11</p>

<p>school doesn’t calculate ranking, but in the top 15% I figure much higher than this, but it’s hard to tell.</p>

<p>AP tests
-European history: 4
-World History: 4 (Didn’t take the course, or hardly study >.>)
-Will be taking Chem, Calc AB, and US, Econ Senior year</p>

<p>Senior year schedule
-government
-Honors Physics
-AP Economics
-wind ensemble
-ap english literature
-ap calculus BC
-ap environmental science</p>

<p>Extracurriculars/Misc:
-150+ volunteer hours as math tutor
-60+ at county fair
-Play bassoon (first, I guess)
- Will be 4 years of band
- President of Academic Decathlon
Have obtained a couple awards in acadec.
- President of Model United Nations
Secretary of Science bowl (not sure if I should even say this…)
Have obtained numerous awards (3 gavels (first place), over 6 outstandings (top 10%) and another 2 commended (over 20%) in MUN
-took a c++ course in a local community college, got an A
Right now National Merit Semifinalist (228 is good enough in CA), ideally will become finalist</p>

<p>My rec letters will be damn good, already have them lined up from both my counselor (who likes me, I talk to her quite a lot) the AP econ teacher and MUN advisor, and I’m not sure where my third will come from. I could use my AP Chem teacher, but he doesn’t write the best even though he likes me. If I apply econ, I’ll just use my APUS teacher.</p>

<p>My biggest weakness is my GPA. I have gotten two Cs. One in Calc AB, one in Honors Trig. Both (well, second semester AB now) I got up / should get up to a B. I had major back surgery as a freshman, a reasonable amount as sophomore year started, and another heart procedure late sophomore year. My GPA has been meh, but I should pull a 4.1. There has been a lot of family stress, and I had a couple panic attacks this year, which really hurt me. I anticipate I will be able to do well senior year. (parents are getting a divorce, which as sad as it is should help a lot)</p>

<p>once again, please give any insight that you have on my application/chances
Any responses (even if they prove to be incredibly vague) would be nice.</p>

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<p>I’m just going to say that your GPA doesn’t reflect your excellent SAT score, and colleges will see that and think that you don’t try hard enough or are lazy.</p>

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<p>It’s somewhat lame, but it’s true that i"ve had a lot of major surgery, have missed lots of school, so that might somewhat nullify that.</p>

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<p>Ask your counselor to notify your colleges of these circumstances that affected your GPA. Worst case scenario they don’t accept it, but they likely will, and it never hurts to try, especially with such a big part of your life.</p>

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<p>My counselor already said she would, so :)</p>

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<p>Well thats good. If they take that into serious consideration and look at your SAT score and other activities then I would think you have a good shot at these places.</p>

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<p>Yeah… Worse comes to worse (ideally this doesn’t happen) I could appeal based on my senior grades, which I am confident in.</p>

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<p>UCB doesn’t look at freshman grades. Hope that helps…</p>

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<p>I do know that ;)</p>