Hi!
So Im applying to the uc’s and I’m pretty worried. My counselor said UCSB, UCI, and UCD would be matches according to my hs’s scattergram( basically its a graph with gpa/sat/act) and I fall right by the average. She said UCSD (my dream school :P) was a high match pretty much a 50/50 shot (once again based on the scattergram). Could you guys tell me my chances?
UC capped- 3.82 UC uncapped- 4.1 i think? (i have taken 7 AP’s 10-11, 10 AP’s including senior year, its so low cuz i have A’s and B’s, but I have a lot of B’s TT, i do have a slight upward trend if that helps at all
ACT 31 (eh, its not too great TT)
AP’s- passed all but chem, i took it the year the curriculum changed so my teacher had no idea what was going on, and got fired the next year for having such a low pass rate T_T
EC’s :
Karate:
I have been doing karate for 13 year, and I am now a second degree black belt
Over the past 13 years, I have won over 30 awards
3 time National Champion for the Team Form category in karate
3rd place in nationals sparring
After achieving my black belt, I teach private lesson on Saturdays to help out (50 hrs)
Tennis :
JV freshman year Varsity 10-12, captain, we won CIF’s this year
Scholar Athlete Award from school and Union Tribune for 11-12, only offered to juniors and seniors lol
Singing:
I have been singing Indian Classical Music for 9 years
I have reached a skill level that allows me now to teach Indian Classical music (2014-now) (my paid job)
sung at multiple performances and some competitors, non during high school tho:/
Other:
6th place for Forensics in Science olympiad
Science Olympiad Coach (2013-now) (42hrs) my students won 5th, 6th, 10th, and so on…not really important lol
Balasangam, an organization that teaches indian culture while raising money for Cystic Fibrosis (160 hrs)
Event Coordinator for a club called Hands for Honduras (32 hrs)
VP for a club called Nuptse
Coaching math olympiad classes to elementary/middle school kids who are preparing for the math olympiad contest. (a part of Nuptse) (14hrs)
Member of NHS
I was accepted into UCSD’s Research Scholars Program in which I was able to work under Dr. Komives and her graduate students on protein and cancer research (2015) I just came back to continue under her, and will do so for the rest of the year.
My personal statements I have been told are pretty solid, one is about me overcoming the challenge of being right handed, but playing tennis left handed, the other is about indian classical music
Also! I am a california resident! and my ethnicity is Asian Indian, if that factors into admission in any way