Santa Clara, Cal Poly SLO, UCs

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Junior year of High School completed (Male Student, white)- Planning to Major in Political Science. California Resident</p>

<p>Overall unweighted HS GPA: 3.36 Upward trend from a 2.8 freshman year. Class rank is a horrible 38 of 68.</p>

<p>Senior classes: (With grades, but those grades are not included in the 3.36 average unfortuately)</p>

<p>Jazz Band - A
English 4 - A
Chemistry - A
Physics - A
Christian Living/Bible- A
Trig/Precalc - B
PE - A
Academic Decathlon - A</p>

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<p>SAT Reasoning Scores: Critical Reading- 690 Math- 650 Writing- 640
Overall- 1980/2400
or 1340/1600</p>

<p>Oct SAT Subject (RETOOK DEC, SCORES NOT YET IN):</p>

<p>Lit: 670
Math II: 540
US History: 530</p>

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<p>ECs:</p>

<p>Jazz Band 9th grade, 12th grade (first chair tenor saxophone.</p>

<p>Varsity Golf- Junior year, Senior year</p>

<p>Varsity Soccer- Sophomore year</p>

<p>National Honor Society Member</p>

<p>CSF Member</p>

<p>Journalism/Publications for two years, and continuing senior year and throughout college. High school online newspaper won the NSPA national Pacemaker award for high school newspapers while I was a staff writer. Pacemaker finalist my junior year. Featured on the High School Journalism "National Edition" junior year for a published article (meaning I have an article published on a national medium, and many published pieces of writing on my high school's online and print edition newspapers). One of my articles recieved Honorable Mention at the NSPA competition.</p>

<p>Opinions Editor of above mentioned award-winning high school newspaper</p>

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<p>Refs:</p>

<p>Excellent refs from English teacher and councilor stating that "my GPA in no way reflects by academic ability."</p>

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<p>Essay: Very good essay</p>

<p>Chance me for Cal Poly SLO, Santa Clara University, UC Berkeley, Irvine, Davis- San Francisco State. </p>

<p>Anyone have any suggestions for places to apply?</p>

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<p>Anyone? I'd appreciate it.</p>

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<p>I don't know much about SFSU or Santa Clara, but here's what I think about the rest.</p>

<p>Cal Poly SLO - Slight-Mid Reach based on GPA. Hopefully some of the rest will make up for it, but it's hard to say. How's your GPA weighted?
UC Berkeley - Really sorry, but likely a reject! Again, the GPA. The recs won't cover that much, especially here.</p>

<p>Irvine and Davis are likely slight reaches as well.</p>

<p>The recs may only help if you have an extremely good excuse for the grades, it doesn't have to be cancer, but just not trying despite an upward trend isn't good.</p>

<p>Have you considered UCR or some of the other CSU's?</p>

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<p>all CSUs = automatically in, because you have over a 3.0 GPA.</p>

<p>I think you're out of all the UCs except maybe UCR/UCM... UCs seem to really want people in top 10% of class, if you look at admissions stats 99% of berkeley is in top 10%, and the same pattern follows for irvine/davis/SD</p>

<p>Can't comment on others, but I bet you have a good chance at Santa Clara and SLO.</p>

<p>I'm sure you'll be happy where you go, though. Nothing wrong with a CSU, I've visited SFSU and it was really great!</p>

<p>P.S. Recs don't matter for UCs/CSUs, they don't even accept them or read them.</p>