UCLA engineering chance

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>So im going to be a senior in the fall and im going to apply to ucla engineering school oos (from the east coast) for electrical engineering. I have a 3.75 uw gpa and a 4.35 weighted. My school only offers APs to juniors and seniors and there are only a few for juniors. I didnt take any junior year which i regret but i still took honors math and bio junior year and also honors math chem spanish and computer science sophomore year. Senior year im taking AP calc BC AP statistics and AP physics M. I got a 2000 on the sat (M 740, CR 590, W 670 with an 8 on the essay) but im planning on taking the act in the fall. For Math II sat i got an 800 and chem sat i got 670. My ECs are 4 years of the school newspaper and I became sports editor (head of sports) the time we won best sports section in new england. I also played football for 2 years, coached a community basketball team (volunteer) for 2 years with some friends and won coaches of the year one year, peer tutored in chemistry and math for 2 years and played the trombone in the school jazz band for 4 years. In my junior year I also moved twice and now have an hour commute to school which kind of sucks because it was a big change for me but im not sure if and where i should put this in the application. If someone could chance me that would be really great. Thank you so much!</p>

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<p>Please chance me!!! Ill chance back!!!</p>

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<p>I honestly think it’s a reach. A few things against you:

  1. Low unweighted GPA
  2. OOS
  3. Engineering is SO competitive
  4. Low SAT score, even if not engineering. Get SAT to 2200+ or ACT to 33+ for a much better shot.
  5. Your 670 on Chem isn’t helping. You need one Science SAT II above 750.
  6. EC’s that are only “eh”</p>

<p>If you were applying not to engineering, I’d still call UCLA a low reach. At this point, mid reach.</p>

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<p>Since you are OOS, your UC GPA will only be a 3.75 since you will only get extra honors points for AP classes which you state you did not take Junior year. Your SAT is below the average, especially for Engineering.
See Freshman Profile for 2014 and expect that the Engineering STATs were higher.
<a href=“http://www.admissions.ucla.edu/prospect/Adm_fr/Frosh_Prof14.htm”>http://www.admissions.ucla.edu/prospect/Adm_fr/Frosh_Prof14.htm&lt;/a&gt;
You will also get very little aid as an OOS.
UCLA: Low Reach/Reach</p>

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<p>Thanks! Ill try and get a higher act score and ill maybe take another science sat but besides that idk if there’s much more I can do but I’ll still give it a shot. I’m also thinking of applyin to ut austin and uw Madison (both oos) do you think I have a better chance at either of those or no?</p>

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<p>Bump</p>

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<p>Not good. UCLA is even more GPA conscious than USC. A plus for UCLA is that you are going to pay OOS price and they might lower the standard to get your money, but there is plenty of internationals who are willing to pay OOS price also.</p>

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<p>Why are you so insistent on going to expensive public OOS schools? Do you have money to burn? Your SAT is just not competitive.</p>

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<p>Because an engineering degree at my state schools are not worth the money, most don’t offer engineering</p>

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<p>There are lots of OOS schools that are good for engineering but has higher acceptance rate like Georgiatech, UIUC, Purdue, Michigan, etc…</p>

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<p>^^^and lets not forget Virginia Tech, NC state, Penn State, etc. Lots to choose from if you’re fine with paying OOS tuition.</p>

<p>UT Austin is tough for OOS engineering (you have to apply to the college of engineering). Below are the average stats for OOS, but keep in mind that engineering is much more competitive. </p>

<p><a href=“http://bealonghorn.utexas.edu/whyut/profile/scores”>http://bealonghorn.utexas.edu/whyut/profile/scores&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p><a href=“http://bealonghorn.utexas.edu/whyut/profile/outofstate”>http://bealonghorn.utexas.edu/whyut/profile/outofstate&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>You would be a match at UW-Madison:</p>

<p>CLASS PROFILE: FALL 2013
GPA: 3.69–4.00
ACT: 26–30
SAT Score: 1830–2030
Total new freshmen starting in 2013: 6,339
Wisconsin/Minnesota: 4,524
Out of State: 1,423
International : 392
In 2013:
29,675 applied
15,161 admitted
6,339 enrolled</p>

<p>Good Luck!</p>

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<p>@DrGoogle Haha im actually going to apply to all those schools too except purdue because i heard 50% engineering dropout rate there. im just wondering about ucla specifically because i heard it was hard but i just didnt know how hard. it looks like its my biggest reach!</p>

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<p>hate to break it to you but uc’s care a lot about uc’s and u dont seem to have that covered. there are other engineerng schools that u can get into. virginia tech is good and u seem to be qualifired for it. chance me back please: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1674595-chance-me-at-georgia-tech-cooper-union-virginia-tech-and-case-western.html#latest”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1674595-chance-me-at-georgia-tech-cooper-union-virginia-tech-and-case-western.html#latest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>With those scores, you wont get near UCLA, even if you could pay $60K per year.</p>

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<p>I am interested in other things like writing on top of engineering which explains my broad ec list. If I could hear from a current or former ucla student thy would be awesome!</p>