Hi guys, I would really appreciate it if someone could assess my chances on getting in to UCLA and UC Berk.
I’m a senior entering high school and will be completing an application of my own in a couple months
ACADEMIA
Freshman year-
Spanish 2 (A/A)
Anatomy/Phys (A/A)
Honors Chem (A/A)
Honors Alg 2 (A/A)
Honors English 9 (A/A)
Forensics (speech and debate class) (A/A)
Sophomore year-
Spanish 3 (A/A)
AP World History (A/A)
AP Chemistry (A/A)
Physics (A/A)
Trig/Pre-Calc (A/A)
Honors Eng 10 (A/A)
Junior Year-
AP Physics C (A/A)
AP Biology (A/A)
AP Spanish (A/A)
APUSH (A/A)
AP Calc BC (A/A)
AP Eng Lang (A/B)
Senior year schedule next year will be-
AP Physc
APES
AP Micro/Macro econ
AP Lit
AP stats
and a college level math class (mulitvariable calc if I’m not mistaken)
Also I will be taking an ASL class after school in my senior year (more on that later).
TOTAL UC GPA: 4.7 (my district closed down the portal to view the GPA so I’m approximating here)
Class rank 8/7476
TEST SCORES:
SAT-1960
ACT-30
SAT MATH 2- 710
SAT BIO E- 740
SAT CHEM-790
SAT World History-700
AP WORLD: 5
AP CHEM: 4
Can’t quite view the others until this friday
EXTRACIRRICS
I didn’t cure cancer or anything but I’m much bigger on volunteering than anything “competitive”
Science Olympiad- I went from B to A team in my high school career and won various regional medals, nothing quite spectacular on the state level unfortunately
Math Team- Again, not too many results besides the occasional high school integration bee etc.
Speech/Debate- I did this in freshman sophomore year but quit in junior because I couldn’t stand the team culture (vehement competitiveness etc.)
Ronald McDonald Charity house volunteer-I help familes who have children in hospitals but can’t access their homes because they live too far away. Usually the job entitles sitting front desk but also cleaning and driving a golf cart between the hospital and the house. I’ve also participated in fundraising events, such as concerts raising little more than $200. Since 9th grade.
-The reason I took AP Spanish was because of my work here (LOTS of spanish speakers), should I mention this on the additional comments section?
Break the Barriers- This local organization is basically a gym for the disabled or sickly. I mainly assist elementary school kids from impoverished backgrounds as a swim coach but on other days I help kids and adults with down syndrome in dance/tumbling lessons. I’m working with the founder to start up a class to combo arts and crafts and potential science experiments. I’m fairly positive that this will show good commitment towards a cause
- I'm taking ASL next year as a senior to help communicate with the deaf kids that attend the class
Tutoring- Although I don’t do it as much right now, due to a lack of clients, I have been tutoring math as a paid job. Right now, it filling in for others but I have had 7th graders I tutored for entire semesters.
SUMMERS:
Between 9th-10th I did a fast paced physics course for Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth
Not much happened between 10th-11th
This summer I’m gonna be getting an internship for clinical research at a hospital
MAJORS:
Biochemistry
Bioengineering
Biology
and some other life science related majors if the pop up.
Stuff to point out:
-I’m in state
-Volunteering is most important to me but my only problem is that I don’t have an awful lot of awards and honorable mentions to attach to myself. How detrimental is that to me?
-Although I haven’t quite started on my essays yet, I plan on writing about my time at BtB, hopefully if I get the science class rolling I can mention that. Also the challenges of tutoring younger children.
-Alot of my extracirrics show that I work with children or those that are significantly younger than me. This particularly because I have to watch 2 younger siblings of my own all the time and thus have that knowledge under my belt.
-I may or may not be shadowing various doctors some time between now and application season.
So, what are my chances of CAL/UCLA?