UCLA CHANCE ME!!!: Freshman applying for linguistics

Chance Me / Match Me!
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[ 32] ACT:
[ Spanish: 750, Biology: 730] SAT II:
3.7 Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0):
[ 3.73] UC GPA:
Weighted GPA: 4.1968

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Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
Haiti Community Service Trip
Volunteer at Braille Institute
Community Service Board (plan community service events)
Retirement Home
Peer Tutor (Sophomore Year)
Spanish Tutor (2013-present)
Piano Tutor (2013-present)
Tutoring Website (2014-present)
JV Tennis (Sophomore/Junior Year)
Varsity Tennis Senior Year
Tennis captain
Coach’s award Tennis
Level 8 Certificate of Merit Piano
National Spanish Exam (Level 2,3 & 4 = silver)
National French Exam (Level 1=gold)
Voices (magazine at school about diversity, 1 year)
Sign Language Club (1 year)
Quran Interpretation Group (2006-2015): (outside school; leader)
Community Service in India
Feminism Club (member)
Diversity Club (member)
Summer Arabic Program at local community college
Subway job

Either Linguistics, Spanish and Linguistics, or European Studies
[ California] State (if domestic applicant):
School Type: very rigorous private school, only 35/120 students received 4.0+ weighted
Ethnicity: Pakistani
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: 150k+

Strengths: multilingual (I take two languages in school, I speak a few outside of school, ex. I speak Hindi/Urdu, some Sindhi, Panjabi, Pashto
Weaknesses: low GPA/ACT

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That is a lot of EC’s.

You’ll probably have to trim your list of EC’s when applying, in particular, ones before grade 9.

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low reach/reach high ACT helps but GPA not on target you have a good shot at UCI.

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@shana1 I disagree with MITer. You don’t have to trim out anything. Mention everything. All of your ECs. I think it’s good to have everything on your application so admissions counselors know you from start to end.

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Agree with @MITer94; your extracurricular list is way too long. No admissions counselor wants to learn about every single activity you did in high school. I suggest you either combine some of them (like tutoring) and/or focus on your most impressive activities.