Stanford/UCLA/UCB/Ivies...?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>SATs: (assume these are the scores I'm sending)</p>

<p>Top 4% of class (ELC). Competitive San Francisco Bay Area school.
Awesome Couns. rec, pretty good teacher recs </p>

<p>800 critical reading 730 writing 520 math = 2050</p>

<p>SAT IIs:
US History: 790
Literature: 740</p>

<p>UC culmulative GPA weighted: 4.165 unweighted 3.9</p>

<p>Fresh: 4.0/4.0</p>

<p>Soph: 4.1/4.1 (1 weighted: AP European History)</p>

<p>Junior: same grades both semesters. (4 weighted)
AP Art: A
AP English: A-
AP US History: A-
Honors Spanish 4: A-
Algebra II: C <- tried my hardest, but that's what I got.
Chemistry: B </p>

<p>Senior Schedule:
AP Stats
AP Enviro Sci
AP Art
AP English
AP Spanish
Econ/Gov
Gym</p>

<p>School ECs:
Art/Literary Magazine: Editorial Staff 4 years, Art/Photo editor 2 years
NHS
CSF
Science Alliance: 3 years
Speech and Debate: 2 years</p>

<p>* My best ECs:*
Girl Scout Gold Award (same as Eagle): Created educational program about city wildlife and presented it to innercity kids
b]School for Field Studies** Summer environmental science research in Costa Rica/recieved college credit.
Summer volunteer @ the city zoo, 100+ hours
Volunteer at a wildlife museum for 5 years
Illustrated paperback book cover for small illustration company
Named California State Arts Scholar for Animation: Attended State Summer School for the Arts, received college credit.</p>

<p>(some other not as important ECs...)</p>

<p>This is my current list of schools to apply to. Is this too many schools? Too many reaches? Chances?? </p>

<p>Super Reach
1. Stanford (parent is alum)
2. Harvard??? (hahaha, parent is alum/pressuring me to apply, but should I even bother? =p)</p>

<p>Reaches:
3. Brown
4. Columbia
5. U Penn
6. Georgetown</p>

<p>Slight Reaches:
7. UCB/UCLA
8. WUSTL
9. U of Michigan
10. Pomona or Northwestern or U Chicago </p>

<p>Matches
11. UCSD
12. NYU</p>

<p>Safeties
13. UCD
14. Boston University</p>

<p>Interests: Spanish/Swahili, study abroad, international relations, environmental science, history, art...</p>

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<p>For all of those reaches, 1-10 on your list, that 520 math is going to be a huge hump. Even BU, 520 is well below their 25th percentile. I'm not sure BU is so safe.</p>

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<p>Fair enough, but do you think that the rest of my profile would make them overlook that math score?</p>

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<p>jumpingbean:</p>

<p>UCB/UCLA: Slight Reach</p>

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<p>Potentially I think it very well could, but I would consider it highly unlikely at everything above your slight reaches. Those are all top tier schools that, unfortunately for all of us, have a ton of high level rounded students applying to them.</p>

<p>If there's any way you could retake it, it wouldn't hurt. The UCs only take single sitting, right? Even if it lowered your CR score 10-30 points, having a substanitally higher math score would really help you at places like Berkeley and UCLA.</p>

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<p>Alright, thanks for your honesty.</p>

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<p>any other opinions?</p>

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<p>............bump?</p>

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<p>I think at your slight reach schools like WUSTL the 520 will really be an obstacle, same deal with your reaches. Stanford and Harvard are already pretty well categorized . . .</p>