<p>Ive been lurking CC for some time, finally decided to post, so here we go...</p>
<p>I'm a white male living in California. I'm want to apply to UCB (MCB), UCLA, UCSD, UCI, UCD. Also please tell me if i have chances anywhere else.</p>
<p>STATS:
current GPA (Unweighted): 4.00
current GPA (Weighted): 4.17 (school required to take lots of useless classes)
SAT I: 630CR; 790M; 700W (2120 total)
SAT II: Math IIC - 800
Chem - 780
Bio - 710
Class rank: top 5% (590 people in the class)
APs: Bio - 4
Stat - 5
Taking Calc AB, Chem, and german senior year</p>
<p>ECs:
-JV tennis for 2 years and continuing senior year, scholar athlete both years
-Peer mediation for 3 years, and continuing senior year
-AATG award for scoring high on the national german test
-50+ hours of community service
-CSF life member (by the time i graduate)
-Been studying guitar for the past 2 years on my own, probably will do jazz band senior year
-Stage Crew for school musicals and for other various shows
-several awards from my community service club, several school department awards (like those mean anything...)</p>
<p>Senior year classes:
AP calc
AP chem
AP german
government & econ
world readings
biotechnology</p>
<p>Interesting?:
-fluent in english and russian, pretty good at german, know a little lithuanian
-immigrated in 6th grade (currently have green card)</p>
<p>I know my ECs are weak and i dont have many APs, but the problem is that my school doesnt let you take APs until soph year, and they dont have many AP classes. We have less than like 10 AP classes total</p>
<p>Also, should i even bother with applying to Stanford?</p>
<p>Your AI (academic index) is 227 and your CRS is 8 out of 9. This means that at the Ivy league schools, 11% to 22% of the students applying will have better grades and test scores than you and 78% to 89% will have worse scores than you.</p>
<p>Since the rate of acceptance at Ivies vary from around 8% at Yale to 30% at Cornell. Your lack of great ECs (I think they are pretty good, just not great) mean that your best chances are at a "lower" Ivy--but probably not at Cornell--which focuses on admitting New Yorkers--and whose best schools are hotel administration, architecture, and agricultural business.</p>
<p>You should consider applying to Brown, UPenn (but Wharton, their business school is a reach for you), and possibly Columbia or Dartmouth, in addition to the University of California campuses. Stanford is a possibility as well, though you don't fit their profile (I won't go into this here).</p>
<p>The Ivies are not cheap--but they do provide good financial aid packages, so consider this route--and good luck to you.</p>
<p>golden bear, i wouldn't lump ucsd with uci/ucd. the admission stats are quite different. ucsd's stats are closer to ucla than they are uci. that being said, your chances are:</p>
<p>Berkeley/UCLA: Match
UCSD: Safe Match
UCI/UCD: Safety</p>
<p>You have an AI of about 214. That is not very competitive for the Ivies. Calcruzer probably used the weighted GPA which greatly skews results and gives you a much higher number.</p>