USC Chances

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Projected Application
I am from Washington State

GRADES (1st semester/2nd semester)
Freshman Year:
-AP Human Geo (B/A)
-Algebra 2 (B/A)
-Honors Freshman English (B/A)
-Chemistry (A/A)
-PE (A/A)
-Foundations of History/Computer programmming (A/A)
-Spanish 2 (A/A)

Sophomore Year:
-PreCalculus (A/A)
-Physics (A/A)(DID NOT TAKE AP SCIENCE)
-AP World (A/A)
-Honors Sophomore English (A/A)
-Spanish 3 (A/A)
-PE (A/A)
-Art 1/Health (A/A)

Junior Year
AP Comp Sci (A/?)
AP Physics C Mech (A/?)
AP Calc Ab (A/?)
US History (A/?)-(DID NOT TAKE APUSH)
Junior English (A/?)-(DID NOT TAKE AP LANG)
PE/Computer Tech (A/?)
Sat Prep/Art 2 (A/?)

Senior Year (Projected Schedule)
AP Comp Gov
Senior English-(NOT TAKING AP LIT)
Advanced Calc
Ap Chemistry
Cisco networking (2 classes)

My school is very good public high school and offers maybe around 30 Ap classes
I passed on a lot of AP Classes, which I feel is my biggest problem in getting to UCLA. I want to apply as an engineering major, so I did not feel the relevance in taking AP classes such as AP Lang.

Tests:
October ACT-32 (Composite) 36 (Writing)
Plan on taking ACT again in April, hopefully 34

Taking SAT Subject Math II in May (should get 800)

ECs:
-robotics (freshman, sophomore, junior, senior) will be a programming mentor/co-lead for incoming freshman
-NHS (sophomore, junior, senior)
-Key Club (sophomore, junior, senior)
-table tennis club(junior, senior)

Going to get a job during the summer
140 hours community service at a local food bank

MY MAIN QUESTION IS HOW BIG OF A PROBLEM IS IT THAT I PASSED ON SO MANY AP CLASSES?

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I think you got enough APs until now but your senior year is rather light!

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For engineering your schedule is not too rigorious! I think you need to take AP Cal BC in senior year!
My daughter who were admitted last year, took BC in junior year, escaping AB altogether (though that resulted to her only single B in her entire high school !). Her reasoning at the time was that the very top candidates were doing the same! And she was only applying to Biology!
I don’t intend to scare you but that is the attitude expected from candidates for top UCs.
Having said that, still I think if you finish the rest with all A’s and get better score (ACT 34+) and TWO (not one!) SAT II (760+) you could “possibly” make it even with your planned schedule!

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Wait you took AP Physics C(Calculus Based Physics your junior year) and you’re going down to AP Physics 2(Algebra Based Physics). That’s like taking Calc BC Junior year and Calc AB Senior year

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I actually managed to apply and get accepted with only 5 APs between Junior/Senior year… but I had some very impressive ECs. If you can make up for it elsewhere, you should be fine. That said, low acceptance rate means low chances and really it’s hard to predict exact odds without an SAT score to base off of.