UCLA + Santa Clara University + Cornell

If you guys could please give me some feedback and I will also chance any who respond if they wish

Will be a senior in HS next year, here is the outline:

Gender: M
College Class Year: 2020
High School: Public
High School Type: rarely sends grads to top schools (Top 5 ranked kids usually get into schools like UCLA, last time someone got into a school of the caliber of Stanford was about 3 years ago, although someone did get into Harvey Mudd this year).

Academics:

GPA - Unweighted: 4.00
GPA - Weighted: 4.80 (Calculated by averaging AP and regular credits, AP Credit is a 5.0 A, regular is 4.0 A, school requires 3 non AP Classes, asked counselor and he said he has never seen anyone graduate with higher than a 4.7 at our school before)
Class Rank: Valedictorian
Class Size: 245

Scores:

SAT I Math: 660
SAT I Critical Reading: 620
SAT I Writing: 630
(Taking SAT again in October, expect 2150)
ACT: 33
SAT II Math Level 2 (IIC): 780
SAT II Biology: (Taking in Fall, expect 800)

AP/H Classes Taken (Got A’s and A+'s in all of them, zero A-'s or below):
not allowed to take AP freshman year
4’s and 5’s on all tests
H English 2 (No Pre-AP offered for this class) (Soph.)
AP Pshychology (Soph.)
AP Environmental (Soph.)
H Pre-Calc (Soph.)
H Spanish IV (Soph.)
H US Hist (H is highest level offered at our school) (Junior)
AP Computer Science A (not offered at our school, took online) (Junior)
AP World History (not offered at our school, had to take online) (Junior)
AP Macroeconomics (not offered at our school, had to take online) (Junior)
AP English Language (Junior)
AP Calculus AB (Junior)
AP Calculus BC (Junior)
AP Biology (Junior)

Classes taking next year (Senior Year):
AP Lit
AP Stats
H Chem 2 (No AP at our school)
AP Physics C (Not offered, will do online)
AP US Gov
AP Microeconomics (Probably will not take class, just take the test because I know I can get a 5 self studying)

College Summer programs at local JC:
Spanish 103 (96 Percent, Freshman year)
Biology 110 (99 percent, Junior year)
Physics (99 percent, Junior Year)

Extracurriculars (Just listed the major ones, more than this but they seemed insignificant in comparison):

Leadership positions:
NHS President, Key Club Vice President, on school’s parliament (gov basically).

Athletic Status - list sport and your level: 3 time junior olympian Alpine Ski Racer (Non-school), Varsity XC, Varsity Track, Varsity Alpine Ski Racing

Volunteer/Service Work: 200 hours, mainly at the local hospital with Physical Therapists, other hours come from club service and doing an independent clothing drive for the local boys and girls club.

Honors and Awards: Nordstrom Finalist (Don’t know if received yet, find out in October I think)
Valedictorian (more than likely)

Other Extracurriculars: California Boys State 2015, started small business (Tuning skis/repair)

Let me know if you would like more information, or would like to be chanced yourself (if so, can just use this template)

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Cornell- reach
UCLA- match to high match
Santa Clara University- low match

Also applying to SCU, don’t like UCLA though.

But I’m not entirely positive on my chance for you, anyone want to back them up or correct my opinion?

Please, your SAT scores are pretty bad @ OP.
Raise them and maybe you have a chance.
SCU- high match
UCLA- reach
Cornell- good luck

Please guys, I would like some more feedback!

SCU: Match
UCLA: High Match
Cornell: Low Reach

Thank you @Gumbymom
Do you think my SAT scores will be that detrimental to my overall application? I know they are very weak, but I’m hoping they aren’t weak enough to ruin my chances at top schools.

You can just report your ACT score instead of your SAT score. UCLA and all UC’s will take the highest of the two scores for consideration so it should not matter. For SCU and Cornell, submit your ACT only.