<p>I am in year eleven from California. </p>
<p>GPA: 3.218 unweighted, 3.49 weighted</p>
<p>My SAT score is</p>
<p>1st Time (without studying)
730 M
600 CR
500 W (with 8 essay)</p>
<p>2nd Time
750 M
600 CR
660 W (with 9 essay)</p>
<p>ACT (took it in 9th grade)
Composite = 28
35 Math
23 CR
24 English
28 Science</p>
<p>I will be taking it again-- first time I took it was in ninth grade without my parents telling me.</p>
<p>My parents are divorced-- and I live with my mother who has no income and never went to college. I am also Taiwanese American.</p>
<p>I had no APs, rather I did mainly honor classes that counted as an extra score according to the colleges I looked at
I am in Academic Decathlon, and medaled twice in Division 1 in California, my team did very well.
I have job experience as a life guard which I was paid, a tutor center which I was paid, and I was a coordinator for a music festival which I was also paid.
I have over 1300 hours as a volunteer for the city's civic center-- in the city where I reside in
I would love to major in Communications and pursue Law</p>
<p>what are my chances to mid-tier UCs, like UCI, UCSB, UCD, and low tier UCS like UCR, UCSC
also Purdue University
Penn State University Park
University of Washington Seattle
University of Colorado at Boulder</p>
<p>MY goal is mainly Purdue, also does anyone know about the early admissions for Purdue?</p>
<p>You should also add some CSUs to your list, both for admissions and financial reasons. You can explore the CSU options on the CaliforniaColleges.edu website.</p>
<p>@siliconvalleymom thanks for the suggestion, I forgot to add in, Cal Poly SLO, and Cal Poly Pomona</p>
<p>Is that GPA your UC/CSU GPA? If not, could you please calculate it?
<a href=“Cal State Apply | CSU”>Cal State Apply | CSU;
<p>@Cultclassic yes it is according to the UC/CSU GPA</p>
<p>You are the prime example of affirmative action hurting disadvantaged overrepresented minorities who need help not further disadvantage. It just disgusts me. I’m not too familiar with the mid-tier or lower UC’s sorry I just came to rant.</p>
<p>Oh yes, I forgot to say, I am the “business editor” for Journalism, and has been doing it for two years.</p>
<p>@theanaconda wait you mad at me? i dont understand, are you saying affirmative action is screwing me over, or that somehow im playing it, which im not.</p>
<p>^^ no that it’s screwing you over</p>
<p>Well, I’d say…
Cal Poly Slo: Reach
Cal Poly Pomona: Match
UCD: Reach
UCI: Reach
UCSB: Reach
UCSC: High Match
UCR: High Match
Purdue: High Match/Low Reach
Penn State: High Match/Low Reach
UW: High Match/Low Reach
UC Boulder: Match</p>
<p>The only thing really letting you down is that GPA. Unfortunately, that also tends to be the most important factor in admissions.</p>
<p>Penn State places much importance on GPA, so I wouldn’t get your hopes up. Maybe for a branch campus?</p>
<p>I’m concerned about the financial obstacle of an out-of-state public university, since you are unlikely to get merit aid with your current GPA. You note that your mother does not have any income. Will your father be providing financial support for you to attend college?</p>
<p>@siliconvalleymom yes my father will be paying for the entire college as said on the divorce agreement.</p>
<p>Great. Have you run the Net Price Calculators with your father yet for the schools on your list?</p>
<p>Have you verified with your father that he has the capability to pay for the colleges (particularly the out-of-state ones) on your list? A divorce agreement may not help if he does not actually have the money.</p>
<p>Run the net price calculator on each school’s web site.</p>
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<p>A rather misplaced rant. The OP’s college list includes only two colleges which consider ethnicity in admissions (Purdue and Colorado); the others on the list do not consider ethnicity at all.</p>