UC Chances Please

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I'm a junior at a super competitive high school ranked in top 100 public schools in California.
Wanting to do pre-med major (possibly minor in music) at a University of California school. I am going to apply to all of them except Merced.</p>

<p>Specs:</p>

<p>SAT - 2150 // C.R. 670 , Math 760 , Writing 720
SAT II Bio - 750
SAT II Math 2 - taking in June, expect high 700s, aiming for 800
GPA: 3.6 unweighted , 3.9 weighted (so far, planning to increase this senior year)
AP Classes Taken/Signed Up for: Biology, Calculus B/C, Economics
Honors Classes: Chemistry, Pre-Calculus, French 4</p>

<p>EC:</p>

<p>National Honor Society - 2 years
200+ hours Community Service from several school clubs
Planning to volunteer for local hospital senior year
Vice President of Rock Club
I teach guitar as a job - 3 years
Drama - 1 year
JV Cross Country - 1 year
Outside of school sports: Basketball - 5 years, Baseball - 4 years
Speech and Debate - 1 year</p>

<p>Classes Taken/Signed Up For + Grades (Semester 1/Semeser 2)</p>

<p>Freshman:</p>

<p>Biology - B/A
Geometry Enriched - A/A
Drama - A/A
Literature and Writing - B/C
Oral Composition - B/B
French 2 - B/A
P.E. - A/A</p>

<p>Sophomore:</p>

<p>Chemistry (H) - B/B (unweighted)
Algebra 2/Trig - B/B
World History - A/B
World Literature - B/B
French 3 - B/A
Weight Training - A/A</p>

<p>Junior:</p>

<p>AP Biology - B/B (unweighted)
American Literature - A/A
US History - A/A
French 4 (H) - A/A (unweighted)
Pre-Calculus (H) - A/A (unweighted)
Engineering Technology - A/A</p>

<p>Senior:</p>

<p>AP Calculus B/C
Physiology
AP Economics (1 semester)
Government (1 semester)
Contemporary Literature</p>

<p>Please chance me for:</p>

<p>UCLA
UC Berkeley
UCSD
UC Davis
Uc Irvine
UCSB</p>

<p>Thanks in advance!</p>

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<p>I think you can get into Davis, Irvine, Santa Barbara, and San Diego. Berkeley and LA seem really random in their selection of applicants.</p>

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<p>I agree with the post above, but probably not UCSD as all of their admits are in the top 10% of their class.</p>

<p>UC evaluation is pretty basic, they look at these things in importance and order:</p>

<p>1) Grades and Difficulty of Courses (ELC really helps)
2) SAT score
3) Extracurricular
4) Essay</p>

<p>Your UW GPA is low, but your SAT is great and EC’s are solid. Probably in at all the UCs, cant say for SD, LA, and Berkeley (probably not though)</p>

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<p>I think you can get into </p>

<p>UCSD
UC Davis
Uc Irvine
UCSB</p>

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<p>I agree with Fortify, although I’m a bit unsure about UCSD–your GPA might be stretching it. </p>

<p>For UCLA and UC Berkeley, your SATs are okay/slightly on the low side, but your GPA is definitely too low.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the quick replies - just wondering, do the UC admissions board ever look at what high school you are coming from? Because at some high schools, it is incredibly easy to get straight A’s, where as others, it is just on the opposite end of the scale.</p>

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<p>what they will look at is the average GPA of that school and the star test scores…
From that they can determine if they school doles out A’s or is difficult in their grading scale</p>

<p>My school for instance has decent, above average overall star test scores and the mean GPA is a round 2.5ish…so typically the 15 out of 499 get into Berkeley and LA</p>