Stressed Senior. Chances?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Financially stable family, Asian-American that lives in Northern California. (Silicon Valley). Very good school, I'm pretty sure top 100 public in the country. </p>

<p>GPA. around 3.5 weighted. I finally forced myself to forget my unweighted GPA since its too painful for me to remember. (Above 3.0 though)</p>

<p>Classes:
APs and Honors: Chemistry AP, Biology AP, Chemistry Honors, Statistics AP, English Literature 12 AP, English 11 Honors.
Currently taking two science classes (Bio AP and regular physics) and taking calculus at a night class.</p>

<p>SATs/ACTs
Best SAT I Combined: 2100
ACT: Currently 32, writing portion hasn't come through yet.
SAT IIs: 790 Chemistry 780 Math IIc.
APs: Currently, 5 in AP Chemistry. Plan to take AP bio, stats, and lit test.</p>

<p>EC:
- JV tennis freshman year, Varsity tennis sophomore year, but stopped playing for team junior/senior year.
- Piano for around 9 years
- Kendo for around 2 years. Black belt and won 2nd place in national tournament
- Volunteer at a church every saturday</p>

<p>Not sure if I missed anything...</p>

<p>I'm planning on applying to UCs (I, D, SD, SB), Boston College, Boston U, NYU, Northeastern, and USC.</p>

<p>Much thanks guys</p>

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<p>i dont know that much about the UCs, but id have to guess</p>

<p>UCSD- slight reach (in state)
UCD- match (in state)
UCI- match (in state)
UCSB- safety (in state)</p>

<p>BC- reach (though you have a shot because BC is known for SAT>GPA)
BU- match/slight reach (you would at least get into CGS)
NYU- (assuming youre not applying to stern)- slight reach
Northeastern- safe match</p>

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<p>is nyu a slight reach because of the gpa?</p>

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<p>yea, that gpa is a little low for NYU, but their general studies program is easier to get into</p>

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<p>ckmets, I'm assuming you are a freshman at BC. It's fine if you don't feel comfortable sharing, but what was your SAT and GPA when you applied?</p>

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<p>SAT: 2180/1500 (790 m 710 cr 680 w)
Rank: 38/449 (gpa was a 94.6 UW, i think i converted it to about a 3.85</p>

<p>BC was far from my first choice though</p>

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<p>Might want to add Tufts and Holy Cross both very good in chemistry.</p>

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<p>Your GPA, even weighted, is too low for Tufts. You can try, but know that it's a huge reach. Good luck!</p>

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<p>tufts would even be a bigger reach than BC</p>

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<p>Wow thanks everyone :D</p>

<p>Well, if I assumed that I did get into NYU, Boston C, or UCSD (Probably my top choices), I plan to major in Biochemistry. I heard that NYU isn't very strong in stuff like biochem, is that true? And what about BC? </p>

<p>Thanks again</p>

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<p>yea youre right about NYU, the medical sciences arent the strongest there. </p>

<p>Biochem is actually really good at BC, we are getting very committed to improving the sciences here, and bio is already arguably the best department at BC. its definitely a good choice</p>

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<p>L0ki:</p>

<p>UCSD: Slight Reach
UCI/UCD/UCSB: Match</p>

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<p>I've got a question, if one were to put a numerical value for reach and match, what would it be? Would reach be like 50-50 for a 'mediocre' reach or would it be more like 30-70? (This is a bump in disguise :))</p>

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<p>UCSD: reach
UCI/UCD/UCSB: slight reach/match</p>

<p>Reason: UC's are really number based. Your SAT is good, but your gpa is a bit too low for some UC's, although UCSB has accepted people with your gpa before so..you never know. Maybe if you write a really good essay, also your EC's are awesome, so I say go for it! :] btw, UCI and UCD have great bio programs...especially UCI, they're amazing.</p>

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<p>I think youd be fine getting into BU.</p>