<p>Stats:
Ethnicity: African-American (URM)
ACT:34
SAT IIs: Taking Math IIC this saturday aiming at 730+
GPA: 3.46 UW/ 3.8 W(UC GPA) (taking most difficult courseload)
Rank: School does not rank
GPA went on increasing trend each semester</p>
<p>Location/Person:
School Type: Distinct Public School (#1 in California, #3 in Nation)
Ethnicity: URM
Income: Can not apply for financial aid
Gender: Male</p>
<p>ECs: Very good, but too lazy to list them -_-.</p>
<p>I don't know what the last poster is saying. You'll get into all of them -- except maybe Berkeley. Your UC GPA's a little low for Berkeley. Still, I'd say you have at least a 50% of getting into UCB. The others are basically sure things (if you send your application promptly!).</p>
<p>I don't know what the others are talking about. The average admitted UC GPA at Berkeley is a 4.33 (out of a possible 4.4); a 3.8 is considerably less, and UW GPA for Berkeley/UCLA is usually about 3.8-4.0. USC and UCLA are very similar in admissions. UCSD's average for admitted is a 4.04, I think, which would be a slight reach.</p>
<p>That is true, but the average for the ACT is a 28 or 29 and I have a 34 which must compensate for the GPA. Plus the fact that I'm African-American must have a say, I mean I didn't plan it out this way, but I guess I was fortunate to be in this situation.</p>
<p>SAT/ACT scores don't compensate for a mediocre GPA. The UCs stress GPA immensely -- you can see it in their common data sets, and even more in the GPA and SAT distributions (the GPA breakdown is much more impressive than the SAT breakdown).</p>
<p>Well maybe I forgot to mention that I go to Whitney High School in California #1 in California as a public, and UCLA admits around 60 students out of our class of 160 could that help?</p>
<p>That might help somewhat, but a 3.4 is still pretty bad for the top UCs. URM status might help a bit more, but not a whole lot (UCs aren't like top privates, who care about race; the UCs obviously don't care for it a whole lot, as they tend to be ~50% Asian).</p>
<p>I personally think that you should try some of the private universities too. I know an URM at my school who got into two top ten universities but not UCLA!</p>