"Reach Schools" -- Stanford, USC, UCLA, Berkeley-- can someone chance me?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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ACT: 31 comp, 34 English, 31 Math, 30 Rdg, 27 Science
AP’s: 5 on English, 4 on APUSH, this year taking AP Lit, AP Calc AB, AP Macro, and AP Gov
GPA: Weighted 4.406 Unweighted 3.938
Major: Looking to Major in something business related (schools w/out business programs taking Economics route)

Extra Curriculars:
4 Years of playing basketball, 3 year varsity athlete
4 years of doing track and field, 3 year varsity athlete
4 years of Student Council-- Frosh and Soph Class President, Jr. and Sr. Student Body President-- organized first annual “Color Run” for school, teaming up with Oracle to donate 40 water filters to “Safewater Kenya”
2 year Link Crew Leader (freshman mentor program; helping freshman get adapted to high school)
4 year ACE (Athletes Committed To Excellence) member – program consisted of athletes speaking out in the community and schools about dangers of drugs and alcohol, promoting safe and healthy environment
Worked 2 years as a Basketball Camp Counselor in summer
Winner of 2012-13 and 2013-14 Metra Safety Poster Contest-- designed a poster about train safety for Metra Train Company
4 Years of playing club AAU basketball; team qualified for the National Tournament and finished in the top 25
2 years Intern at Eastern Star Trading Company as office assistant; data, filing, and mailing duties
Community Service includes about 8 times a year volunteering at “Feed My Starving Children” and “Bernie’s Book Bank” packing food formula for children in need and donating and packing books for children in the Chicagoland Area.
Taken Private Piano lessons since I was 5 years old up until now

Ethnicity: Asian-American

Applying out of state to all of these schools along with UCSD, UCSB, Cal Poly.

Thanks so much for the help, it is much appreciated!

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I don’t think Stanford is realistic for you with a 31 on the ACT, but I’d say retake it and try and get in the 33-34 range and you have a chance at any of the others. I don’t see Stanford happening though.

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Like others have said, get the ACT to 33+. Do you have any SAT Subjects?

Can you be recruited for basketball? If so, your chances go way up.

With your scores as is and without recruitment, your chances aren’t very high at Stanford. USC, UCLA, and UC Berkeley are still low reaches since they look at your numbers first, but you should be able to get into at least one of them.

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Your extracurriculars and GPA seem solid, however your ACT score and AP’s might be troublesome in the long run. Since Stanford has the lowest admission rate in the country at only 5%, you probably won’t make it into Stanford. My guess is that you should make it into either USC or UCLA.

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Thank you for the perspective-- Stanford seems next to impossible, but I have heard that USC, UCLA, and Berkeley all look at applications pretty holistically-- would you guys agree with that? I think I’ve given up on ACT, as I already took it 6 times, so I don’t think it will go any higher.

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Have you tried the SAT?

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Stanford requires that you send in all six test scores so that alone I think you work against you.

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I did poorly on the PSAT, so I opted out of taking the SAT-- unfortunately test taking isn’t my strong suit lol…