UCSB or Cal Poly SLO?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Caucasian Male
High School Junior.
Lowell High- SF</p>

<p>GPA<a href="w">10+11</a> - 3.75
GPA<a href="w">9-11</a> -3.61 (unfortunate first semester 2.67 freshman year then a 3.83 second semster)</p>

<p>Senior year: (hopefully 4.0 GPA range)</p>

<p>AP Calc (AB)
AP Econ
Euro Lit (possibly doubling up on English- when i toured SLO there was mention of an extra English course helping?)
Gov
(rest is still open, but planning on taking German at SF CC. 3 years of Italian already)</p>

<p>SAT- 2000 660-CR 680 Math 660 Writing (Balance? does that help?) (1st try.)
SAT (math+CR) 1340</p>

<p>EC-
Intership Finance dept. Non profit.
Basketball+Track and Field 3 years. No superstar :P
Volunteer work- 100 hours. Gardening, manual labor etc.
Camp Director. ("bob's camp"- irrelevant?) 2 weeks in summer
Rep of Hapa Club
6 years of guitar.
Exchange Program to Nicaragua 3 weeks- Community Service- English Language Teacher.
Scientific Research Internship.
(hopefully a few more)</p>

<p>With good essays (for UCSB) what are my chances?</p>

<p>And regarding my major for SLO- potentially business or agriculture/architecture
I hear its hard but not impossible to switch majors once accepted into Cal Poly SLO</p>

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<p>Neither looks at frosh grades. </p>

<p>UCSB and Cal Poly are both matches. Try to get better grades, however.</p>

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<p>apparently Cal Poly does look at freshman grades but UCSB does not. yeah the grades have always been a little bit of a problem.
My highschool also is competitive, 51st in the nation with 950 API score, not sure if that has any impact.</p>