<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 670 CR/770 M/770 W (2210)
[</em>] SAT II: 800 Math 2, 760 Bio, 730 Chem
[<em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0):3.92
[</em>] UC GPA: 4.25
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 8/870
[</em>] ELC?: Yes
[<em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Human Geography (5), European History (4), Chemistry (5), English Language (4), Spanish Language (4), Biology (5), US History (4)
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Calculus BC, AP Government, AP Macroeconomics, AP English Literature, AP Physics C, Band
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): none
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Red Cross (Vice President), CSF, Youth Ministry at church with leadership, Marching band (Section leader), concert band
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: none
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: With extracurricular
[<em>] Personal Statement: 6/10
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes with Fafsa
[<em>] Intended Major: Biological Sciences B.S. Alt: Chemistry B.S.
[</em>] State (if domestic applicant): CA
[<em>] School Type: Public in top 1000
[</em>] Ethnicity: Vietnamese (not that this matters)
[<em>] Gender: Proud owner of a Y chromosome
[</em>] Income Bracket: $150k
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.): Nope
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: Grades, test scores, rank
[<em>] Weaknesses: Not enough depth or breadth of extracurriculars
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Good grades, test scores, solid application all around.
[/ul]General Comments: I’m really happy to finally get some news after waiting all these months. I’ve attended classes at UCI before and even ditched high school to go there. I really like the school and I also heard that CHP is really hard. I’m going to wait for my other schools to come out and make a good choice.</p>
<p>My advice to all high school students: Work doesn’t suck as much as failing. Work hard and you will be definitely rewarded. When you make mistakes (like procrastinate on an assignment), learn from them and try to improve yourself as a person. Stay focused and endure through all the tough times. Good luck! </p>
<p>I got the letter as well and it says “Admission to the Campuswide Honors Program is contingent upon your admission to the university.” So technically we didn’t get officially accepted yet i think. </p>
<p>I also got my letter in the mail yesterday. I’m pretty sure those who got the letter are probably accepted seeing that it wouldn’t make sense to offer this program to someone who they are going to reject. Funny how it says log into the my UCI NetID but they haven’t even updated anything! </p>
<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 680 CR/620 M/690 W (1990)
SAT II: none
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.9
UC GPA: 4.3
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 37/515
ELC?: Yes
AP (place score in parenthesis): European History (5), US History (5), English Language (5), Environmental Science (4)
Senior Year Course Load: AP Calculus AB, AP Government, AP English Literature, AP Chemistry, Honors Economics, AVID Senior Seminar
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): AP Scholar with Honors
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): AVID (11 and 12 class president), Guitar lessons, Church member, Gay Straight Alliance member, and freshmen mentor.
Job/Work Experience: Ride Operator at Six Flags
Volunteer/Community service: 100+ hours through Safe Rides, NHS, and Rotary Club
Personal Statement: Genuine and different.
Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes with Fafsa
Intended Major: Economics Alt: Undeclared
State (if domestic applicant): CA
School Type: Public
Ethnicity:White
Gender: male
Income Bracket: $90k
Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.): none
Reflection
Strengths: Grades and personal statement
Weaknesses: Not enough honors courses in freshman year
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: UC GPA
General Comments: UCI has been one of my top choices and I was anxious over whether I’d get in or not. I am beyond shocked that I received one of the February acceptances and got into CHP with my SAT. </p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 740M/750CR/770W
[</em>] ACT: N/A
[<em>] SAT II: 800 Lit, 780 Math II, 720 Chem
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
[<em>] UC GPA: I forget, 4. 17 or something? Close to 4.2
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 10/1070
[<em>] ELC?:?
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Chem 4, Lang 5, APUSH 5
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Physics B AP Calc AB, AP Lit, AP Stats, AP Gov, AP Econ
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Gold Award, Presidential Volunteer Service Award
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
11-2 Research at the UCI Medical Center Neuropsychiatric Ward
9-12 Girl Scouts, (troop president)
Classical piano, MTAC Level 10 grad, regional awards</p>
<p>[<em>] Job/Work Experience:
Piano teacher (6 students)
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service:
Girl Scouts, volunteering at church and in church band
[<em>] Personal Statement: About my experiences being homeschooled
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: Y
[<em>] Intended Major: Mechanical Engineering
[</em>] State (if domestic applicant):CA
[<em>] Country (if international applicant):
[</em>] School Type: Online public charter
[<em>] Ethnicity: Asian(Chinese)
[</em>] Gender:F
[<em>] Income Bracket: 100,000+
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.):
[/ul]Reflection[list]
[<em>] Strengths: Scores, grades, activities
[</em>] Weaknesses:
[li] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected:[/li][ /list][ b]General Comments:[ /b] Good Luck!! </p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I: 740 CR/710 M/740 W, 2190 total
[</em>] ACT: 33
[<em>] SAT II: 780 Math II, 780 Chinese, 700 USH
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.82
[<em>] UC GPA: idk, but 4.62 weighted
[</em>] Rank: top 15%
[<em>] ELC?: nope
[</em>] AP: Chinese (5), USH (4), Psych (4)
[<em>] IB: N/A
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load:
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): AP Scholar, CM Piano Branch Honors, Gold Seal Diploma, CSF Sealbearer
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars: Model UN (17+ awards), Mock Trial (Secretary, lead attorney, clerk), Key Club (Historian, Director of Events), FBLA (Secretary), NHS, NChineseHS (President), NHistoryHS, Mu Alpha Theta, Link Crew, Kiva Group (Founder, President), Piano (Branch Honors, Advanced)
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Media intern at MUN company
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: Library, Chinese School TA, various NGOs including the UN Foundation
[<em>] Personal Statement: super gr8
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: yasss
[<em>] Intended Major: Business Economics
[</em>] State: California
[<em>] Country: Canadian citizen, but CA resident
[</em>] School Type: Competitive public
[<em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[</em>] Gender: Female
[<em>] Income Bracket: ~100k
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.): I have negative hooks.
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: ECs, test scores (kinda), course rigor, and my essays
[</em>] Weaknesses: my GPA
[li] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: They chose to be more holistic and maybe overlooked my horrible junior year grades haha[/li][/ul]General Comments: For those who are wondering, you get the CHP letter in the mail. It doesn’t say you’re admitted, but it does on the application portal. That aside, I’m surprised that I’ve been selected for CHP. My GPA seems to be lower than everyone else’s, haha. But this is my first acceptance so far and it’s really exciting!</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): did not send
[</em>] ACT: 34
[<em>] SAT II: Chemistry (710); US History (650)
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): ~3.72
[<em>] UC GPA: ~4.17
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): N/A (School doesn’t rank)
[<em>] ELC?: Nope
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Chemistry (5); US History (4); Biology (3)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Psychology, AP Statistics, CP physics, CP English 12, Robotics, CP Gov/Econ (I honestly can’t survive more than 2 AP classes at once unlike all you brilliant people)
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): AP Scholar
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
-4 years HS varsity tennis team, All-League 3 years, MVP varsity award (Captain 1 year)
-Summer Jr. Tennis Team: won sectionals and went to the national championships one year
-Robotics and Programming
-Origami: I taught to children at summer camps
-Archery: Recreational only
-French Club 3 years
-Poetry
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Heh, what is this “job” you speak of?
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service:
-taught origami to children at summer camps
-helped in a group project to make large module swans with optimistic messages on each individual paper to send to victims of earthquale/tsunami in Haiti and Japan + raised money for the victims
-participated in the Vow of Silence for 3 years to stand up against child labor and stand up for children’s rights to education and clean water + raised money for the organization
[<em>] Personal Statement: 6/10 (good topics + poor write = adequate statement)
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yep
[<em>] Intended Major: Criminology
[</em>] State (if domestic applicant): CA
[<em>] Country (if international applicant):
[</em>] School Type: Public
[<em>] Ethnicity:half Filipino, half white
[</em>] Gender: Female
[<em>] Income Bracket: ~90k
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.): N/A
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths:
ACT score<br>
Maybe weighted GPA?
Leadership position as captain of the tennis team
(I don’t know really)
[</em>] Weaknesses:
Unweighted GPA<br>
only 5 AP classes total including my senior year
not many impressive ECs
[li] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I contribute a large part of getting accepted to my ACT score. I do think it’s a holistic review though. I never had any real low points on my application, some mediocre and a couple high points. I also think my leadership position as captain of the tennis team helped my application. While I didn’t have a lot of ECs, I think tennis stood out as something I was passionate about since I mentioned it in one of my essays.[/li][/ul]General Comments: You don’t have to be perfect to get accepted. You just need to have one or two things that make you stand out. If you have a couple lows, you still have a chance, I think if you have highs they tend to look at those more than your lows. For those who still have time to build up your application, work hard and it will pay off when you get accepted to great colleges where you’ll be spending ~4 years of your life. For AP course load do what you can handle, if that’s 6 APs in one year, go for it, but be careful you don’t bite off more than you can chew. Your ECs don’t have to be significant, colleges just want to make sure you’re not just sitting lazily on your butt all day everyday instead of doing something productive and worthwhile. If you have a passion in a certain activity, go after it even if it interferes with a variety of other activities that you don’t have nearly as much interest in. Having passion in one activity is much better than having no passion, yet participating in 10 different activities. I sacrificed many ECs because tennis was my passion and took up a lot of my time, and so far I am so glad I made that decision. Good Luck!!</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2280 (800 CR, 740 Math, 740 Writing)
[</em>] SAT II: 800 Math II, 780 Literature
[<em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.96 in 10th/11th… about a 3.89 if you include freshman year.
[</em>] UC GPA: For 10th-11th, 4.46 uncapped, not sure what it would be capped or including 9th grade.
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): school doesn’t rank in any way
[</em>] ELC?: No, but I think that’s because I’m at a new school this year. The place on the application website that is supposed to give ELC info doesn’t say anything at all, whereas kids who didn’t qualify got a message telling them that they weren’t in the top 9%.<br>
[<em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): All 5s. Human Geo, World History, Euro History, Lang, French, US History, and Art History.<br>
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Chem, AP Lit, AP Gov/Econ, AP Computer Sci, AP Calc BC.<br>
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Nothing major. I got bronze in the National French exam, won a few local French competitions, and also won a few (not at all prestigious) piano awards. Oh, and National Merit Finalist. </p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Academic Team (9th-12th), French club (9th-11th), NHS (10th-11th grade), Marching Band (9th-10th).
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: None.
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: I played piano for a church for about 2 years, and also did about 50 hours of volunteering through NHS in both 10th and 11th.<br>
[</em>] Personal Statement: Honestly, I don’t know. I thought they very good at the time, by I’m not so sure anymore…
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: No.
[</em>] Intended Major: I think I put Cognitive Science, but I’ll probably change it.
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): CA
[</em>] School Type: Very good public
[<em>] Ethnicity: White
[</em>] Gender: Female
[<em>] Income Bracket: 200k+
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.): None<br>
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Good SAT/GPA.
[</em>] Weaknesses: Complete lack of leadership positions, weak EC’s.
[li] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: My SAT and GPA are both quite a bit above the UCI average. [/li][/ul]General Comments: I hadn’t really thought much about going to Irvine until today, but the CHP program looks really great! </p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 740 CR 800 M 690 W
[</em>] SAT II: Math 2-790, Chinese-780, Physics-750
[<em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Calc AB (5), Chinese (5), US History(4), Lang (4), World History (4)
[<em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Calc BC, AP Physics B, AP Literature, US Gov, AP Microecon, TA-Algebra I, PE, Music Appreciation
[</em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): none
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): a lot… too lazy to list.
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: none
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: a lot too, variety of different things
[</em>] Personal Statement: good& interesting, but not super great either
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: yes
[</em>] Intended Major: computer engineering
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): CA
[</em>] School Type: boarding school
[<em>] Ethnicity: Taiwanese
[</em>] Gender: F
[<em>] Income Bracket: 200k+
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.): None
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>]Strengths: lots of extracurriculars & leadership positions/awards,
[</em>]Weaknesses: essays .-.
[li]Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: test scores, ecs,[/li][/ul]General Comments: Probably not going to UCI (got into berkeley already) but i like filling these out lol.</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): Reading 680, Writing 690, Math 750 (2120)
[</em>] ACT: 34
[<em>] SAT II: Biology M 800, Chemistry 800, Math II 780
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
[<em>] UC GPA: 4.36
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 11
[<em>] ELC?: yes
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Biology(5) Chemistry (5) Calc AB (5) Calc BC (5) APUSH (4) English Lang (3)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: Calc D/Intro to Differential Equations, AP Government, AP Physics B, ERWC, AP Econ(Micro and Macro), AP Computer Science
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): AP Honor with Distinction, Student of the Month, NHS
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): 4 year varsity golf(Captain), Science Olympiad(President), Solar Cup(President), CSF, We the People
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: None
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: Tutoring, camp counselor, helping elderly(200+ total)
[<em>] Personal Statement: Solid
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: yes
[<em>] Intended Major: Biomedical Engineering
[</em>] State (if domestic applicant): CA
[<em>] Country (if international applicant): USA
[</em>] School Type: public
[<em>] Ethnicity: caucasian
[</em>] Gender: F
[<em>] Income Bracket: ~100K
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.): none
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: essay, grades, test scores, classes.
[</em>] Weaknesses:
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: see strengths
[</em>] Where else were you accepted? UC Riverside
[/ul]General Comments: Good job to those who got in!</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): Critical Reading 670, Math 610, Writing 680, Total: 1940
[</em>] ACT: N/A
[<em>] SAT II: N/A
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
[<em>] UC GPA: 4.29
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 7 out of 610
[<em>] ELC?: Not sure LOL
[</em>] AP: US History (2), Biology (4), English Language and Composition (5),
[<em>] IB: N/A
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP English Lit, AP Stats, and AP Chemistry
[<em>] Major Awards: Don’t feel like saying
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars: Japanese Pop Culture Club (Founding President and president for 2 years), California Scholarship Federation (member for 3 years, current Treasurer), National Honor Society (current Historian), Friday Night Live (founding VP), Associated Student Body (Comissioner of Spirit and Commissioner of Student Recognition)
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Worked the student store during lunch twice a week at school
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: Volunteered an hour a week at my local library since my sophomore year, 6 hours of community service a month with NHS
[<em>] Personal Statement: Talked about how my mom didn’t go to college and how all of her sisters did, plus how they all were able to help us out because of their schooling. Second one was really strong: talked about how I suffer from a chronic medical condition that had me in a depression for a short time last year, however I learned and grew from it
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
[<em>] Intended Major: Nursing
[</em>] State: California
[<em>] School Type: Public high school
[</em>] Ethnicity: African-American and Filipino
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Income Bracket: $40,000-$50,000 a year
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.): too many to list lol
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: Leadership positions, grades, and second personal statement
[<em>] Weaknesses: Hmm, maybe the amount of awards received?
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: My extracurricular, race, background, and my second personal statement
[/ul]General Comments: Super happy to have gotten in!</p>
</p>