UC's are cool. Chance me for them. Please???

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Well, I think due to my poor and lame title, my last chances thread is going into the dead forum graveyard. So please chance me? :)</p>

<p>Asian American (Chinese) Male, lives with a single parent, low income (~15K)</p>

<p>Goes to semi-competetive public school, API is like 810? (I think there were two people who went to Ivies last year, some Berkeley and LA people too)</p>

<p>UC GPA:3.96
10th-11th unweighted: 3.68
9th-11th unweighted:3.562
Class rank: Around 112 / 600 (our district doesn't weigh GPA's for class rank)</p>

<p>Grades:
9th Grade:
Algebra 1: A+/A+
Spanish 1: A/A-
Integrated Science(Forced to take this class due to the stupid school)A/B+
P.E(Just for reference): A/A
English 1 Honors: C+/B
Intro to Computer Science: B/C+</p>

<p>10th Grade:
Geometry: A/A-
Biology: A-/A-
AP World History: B/A
English 2 Honors: B+/A-
Spanish 2: A-/B+
P.E: A/A-</p>

<p>11th Grade:
Chemistry: A+/A
Algebra 2: A+/A
U.S History: A/A
A.P Computer Science A: B+/A-
A.P English Lang / Comp: B-/B
Spanish 3: B+/A-</p>

<p>Courses this year:
AP Physics B
AP Calculus AB
AP Government/Regular Econ (One semester of each)
English 4
Choir 1</p>

<p>AP Scores:
AP World History: 5
AP Computer Science: 4
AP English: 4</p>

<p>SATs:
SAT Reasoning: 1790, I would rather that you disregard this and use my ACT instead.</p>

<p>SAT Subject Tests:
Chinese: 800
Math II: 780
Chemistry: 740
World History: 700
Biology M: 620</p>

<p>ACT:
Composite: 33
English: 33
Math: 35
Reading: 33
Science: 30
Essay: 11</p>

<p>PSAT: 63 R/ 73 M/ 64 W 200 Total(96 percentile)</p>

<p>Award(s):
National Merit Commendation
AP Scholar</p>

<p>Spent 5 years in Taiwan at a regular public school (not an American school)</p>

<p>Extracirricular:
Chinese Club (one of the founders): 9th/10th grades
CSF: 11th grade
Key Club: 11th grade
Christian Club: 10th/11th grades
Church tutoring helper: 10th grade
Church worship team: 11th grade
Church GK (youth leader): 12th grade
NYLF Tech Forum: Summer after 10th grade
Piano (5 years, never had time to take CM examinations though)
Activities director for a new Game Development club.</p>

<p>Works for uncle's company unofficially (computer accesories compnay), does translation and grammatical checking (his company is based in Taiwan)</p>

<p>Chance me for:
UC Berkeley (L&S CS)
UCLA (Engineering), and I would appreciate if you chanced me for non-engineering.
UCSD (Engineering), and I would appreciate if you chanced me for non-engineering.
UC Irvine
UC Davis
Cal Poly SLO Engineering
SJSU Engineering(why not? lol)
Stanford (Questbridge)</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>Assuming in-state and ACT...</p>

<p>UCB/UCLA: Slight reach (engineering), match for non-engineering
UCSD: Match (engineering/non-engineering)
UCI/UCD: Safe Match</p>

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<p>Berkeley: reach (engineering)
UCLA: slight reach (engineering), high match (non-engineering)
UCSD: match
UCI/UCD: safe match - safety
Cal Poly: safe match - safety
SJSU: safety
Stanford: reach</p>

<p>Your GPA is somewhat weak for the top UCs, as is your rank (not being in the top 10% will show in your high school record, even if they don't look at rank); your scores are strong (minus the SAT I), and your ECs are average.</p>

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<p>Anyone else? :D</p>

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<p>how'd you choke that much on the real sat?...act, however, is very impressive</p>

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<p>Um... well I took the SAT at the beginning of my junior year, I didn't study too much, I felt really tired that day, and I took my ACT at the end of junior year with a bit more prep. ;)</p>

<p>And College Board sucks. :D</p>

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<p>anyone else? :D</p>

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<p>post.bump(100);</p>

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<p>w00t taiwan!!!</p>

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<p>Bump bump bump Bump bump bump Bump bump bump</p>

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<p>pretty please? someone else chance me?</p>

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<p>someone chance me please? someone else?</p>

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<p>Berkeley (both): Reach
LA (both): Reach
Stanford: Reach
Everything else: Priceless, I mean, match/safety!</p>