Yes, I know it’s a little early for this, but it’ll be cool interacting with other people applying here. Post stats, major, and anything else you’d like to mention, like EC/essay topics and other schools you applied to.
In-state
UC GPA: 3.82, huge upward trend since freshman year(2.8/2.6/3.4/3.4/4.0/4.33)
ACT: 31, but taking again(35 English, 28 Math, 32 Reading, 31 Science)
New ACT writing score(out of 12): 10
Major: Linguistics
Alternate major: Philosophy
EC: tutoring special education students, vocal/music teacher for kids, anti-human trafficking writer, creating cooking camp for kids, stand up comedy for elderly people, varsity track (4 years), varsity cross country(2 years), president of philosophy club, family responsibilities(younger brother with autism and a colostomy)
Essays: decent, but I don’t want to say much or I’ll jinx it.
UC Weighted GPA: 3.89 UC Unweighted : 3.67
Test Scores:
SAT: 2240 (Math: 770, Reading: 730 and Writing: 740)
SAT Math 2C Subject Test: 800
AP English Language and Composition: 5
Extracurricular Activities:
High school Varsity Soccer team starter since freshman year - 2013-2017
National Premier League Soccer Player (Extremely high commitment)
Building Computers for friends and family and Teaching basic computer assembly skills to people in the community
Featured Electronic Projects for Maker Faire and Instructables.com
Lead Programmer(high officer position) of the programming club - 2014-2017
Vice President of the Computer and Electrical Engineering club - 2015-2017
100 hours of teaching kids the language tamil at the local tamil academy
Varisty Soccer Starting Striker since freshman year
Currently doing an internship at a local cisco partner startup. I create schematics and foot prints for PCBs, write some basic applications in java, and operate CNC machines.
Awards:
Norcal National Premier League Soccer Champion
Norcal State Cup Soccer Champion
Letter of commendation from the National Merit scholarship program
Additional Info:
All honors or AP classes all 4 years.
Finished Calculus 1 at local community college. (got an A +)
Senior Year Classes:
Ap physics 1
Ap Computer science
Ap statistics
@realbetag I’m really into psych and my best subject is English, especially phonetics/structure. And I’ve worked with a bunch of special ed kids with speech impediments so linguistics could help me become a speech language pathologist or an occupational therapist
UC Weighted GPA: 3.9 UC Unweighted : 3.7
Test Scores:
ACT: 31C (35 E 28 M 32 R 30 S) - Math was rough, made the decision to not take it again anyway
Extracurricular Activities:
First girl to play for my all-male high school varsity football team (all four years)
Founder of a program called Students Promoting Equality and Acceptance through Knowledge
Varsity soccer starting defender (all four years)
Varsity field hockey captain (2015, 2016)
President of the Health Occupations Students Assocation (2015, 2016)
Vice-President of the Health Occupations Students Association (2013, 2014)
Member of the National Honor Society
Certified rock climbing instructor (one of my favorite accomplishments, personally)
Volunteer at the Special Needs Soccer Association for four years
Essays: Pretty good IMO, but who knows really
Additional Info:
5 AP courses, numerous honors courses
Senior Year Classes:
AP Statistics
College Credit English 4
AP Government and Politics
College Credit Biomedical Innovations
On a side note, @ deadroses, my cousin is a notable alum from UCSB for linguistics! Her name is Corinne Seals and she loved it there. Even though she went on to attend Georgetown and eventually teach at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand she always comes back to UCSB for presentations and such!
UC GPA 4.18
Major- psychology
ACT composite 33
ECs a lot of theatre, some academic awards, I’ve been in two national theatre shows, founding club president of NCHS club at my school
AP Psych 4, AP span 3
taken 5 ap classes altogether and multiple honor classes
Also applied to:
UCLA
Berkeley
UC Davis
UCSD
UC Irvine
SDSU
CP SLO
@randomkid98 I disagree that UCSB is a safe school for you. Looking at the freshman admissions statistics from last year, the top 25% of students had at least a 4.23 (vs your 4.18), and a score off 33 or higher on the ACT (equal to yours). It’s not a reach by any means, but with you I would put it at a low match.
UC Weighted GPA: 4.2 UC Unweighted : 3.9
Test Scores:
ACT: 34C (E 34, M 31, R 35, S 35) W 24
AP English Language and Composition: 5
AP United States History: 5
AP World History: 4
SAT Subject Test - US History: 780; Literature: 740
Extracurricular Activities:
Class President - all four years
Mock Trial - 10th thru 12th grades
Student school board member - 11th grade
Youth Council for our city - 11th grade
Peer conflict resolution (invite only) - 11th and 12th grade
Other leadership ECs and volunteering
Additional Info:
6 AP classes and 3 Honors classes (incl. senior year)
Also applied to: Tulane (accepted as Presidential scholar, honors college), Howard (accepted), UCLA, USC, Barnard, Columbia, Fordham, UPenn, George Washington, and Georgetown.
Junior Year-
IB Spanish SL
IB Bio HL
IB History HL
IB Chem SL
IB Math SL (Took online because my school didn’t offer it)
IB English HL
Senior Year-
Mostly all the same classes except no spanish. My school does two years for SL courses.
Senior Editor for School Paper, 4H SET, Treasurer and one of the Founding Members for JSA, JV soccer(new school doesn’t have sports) , Robotics , NHS, Future Medical Professionals, Key Club, Academic Decathlon, Robotics, One of the founding members for Mock Trial, Science Club, Library Volunteer, Did some community service work with a nonprofit organization (Indian Care Association)
Also Applied to:
UCB
UCLA
UCD
UCSD
UCSC
UCR
UCI
SDSU
UOP
CalPoly SLO
UC Weighted GPA-3.93
ACT:32
ECs: captain tennis team, tournament tennis player, VP of Tutoring club, VP of hispanic culture club, 3 internships. Those are the major ones.
UC Weighted GPA- 4.50
Unweighted: 3.94
ACT: 29
SAT: 2400
ECs: ASB President (11, 12), Student Leadership Club (9, 10), STEM Club (9, 10, 11, 12), Cross Country Club (9, 10), Tennis (10), College Fair Club (10, 11), Model UN Club (10, 11).
10 AP’s 4 Honors
