UC schools, University of Washington, Northwestern, any other.

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Currently a junior to be senior.</p>

<p>GPA: 4.4
ACT: 29 (I'm estimating the June score to be about 31-32)
SAT: 1960
Five AP courses (so far): AP Euro (5), AP Chem, AP Comp Sci, AP Lang, and APUSH. Taking 4 again next year.
Haven't taken the SAT II's yet.</p>

<p>Extracurriculars/Awards:
Civil Air Patrol - Freshman Year. Quit because they took it way too seriously + schedule issues.
Cross Country - Freshman and Sophomore years.
Track - Freshman and Sophomore. Advanced to league finals for triple jump last year.
Academic Decathlon - Freshman --> Now. I've won 3 medals, one of them 1st place.
~55 hours of volunteering (Hopefully will be around 75 by summer's end).
Member of Lion's Heart (volunteering organization) for 2 years - Sophomore & Junior.
Awarded President's Award for volunteering last year.
Secretary of Lion's Heart for 2 years - Sophomore & Junior.</p>

<p>I don't know if this is relevant or helpful, but I've also lived in Hong Kong and Australia. Was thinking about tying that into an essay. </p>

<p>Thank you! :)</p>

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<p>bump</p>

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<p>Need to know your UC GPA. Your ACT/ SATs are low for those schools, imo.</p>

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<p>Updated ACT score is 30. Don’t know if I should retake or not. And the UC GPA is a 4.04 apparently.</p>

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<p>Your SAT is low, and you don’t have any EC’s, so I would try developing those. These are reaches, but they aren’t out of this world chances.
Chance me
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1660487-chances-for-ivy-league-mit-berkley-and-uchicago.html#latest”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1660487-chances-for-ivy-league-mit-berkley-and-uchicago.html#latest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Nah…not really qualified. @golf18</p>

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<p>UC Davis isn’t too much of a reach is it? Or UCSB maybe</p>

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<p>If you live in Cali then you have a better chance of getting in. Also if your weighted 4.4 GPA comes from honors and AP classes and you don’t live in california then: "Honors courses are calculated differently. In calculating an out-of-state student’s GPA, UC will grant honors weight for AP or IB courses only, but not for school-designated honors courses. The weight is given to letter grades of A, B, or C. " from the UCLA website. </p>

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<p>My son applied to three UCs from out-of-state. He did not apply to the ultra-selective STEM programs, but to the regular Arts & Sciences colleges. Berkeley rejected him, but Davis and UCSD accepted him. He was waitlisted at UW, which surprised us - it might have been a lack of demonstrated interest, or a spike in applications there following marijuana legalization. He had an unweighted GPA of 3.3-3.4, a UC-weighted GPA slightly over 4.0, ACT/SAT composite scores were 31/2060. With current stats, UCLA and UCB are probably high reaches. After that, you can move down the list of UCs: UCSD high match/low reach, unless you’re applying to STEM programs (then it’s a reach); Davis and UCSB high matches, with same caveat for STEM; Irvine should be a solid match; UCSC a low match; Riverside and Merced are safeties for you. I think Northwestern is a big reach. I presume you meant University of Washington state, not Washington U. in Saint Louis - that would be unrealistic for you, because they are legendarily test-obsessed. Only 25% of their accepted students score under 32 on the ACT or 2100 on the SAT. </p>

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<p>I do live in California. I think my unweighted GPA is around 3.7~. I think my top three choices right now are University of Washington in Seattle, UC Davis/Santa Barbara, and Cal Poly SLO. </p>