What are my chances at these colleges in CA, AZ, NM, TX?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hi! I’m new to College Confidential here. I want to know what my chances are at the colleges I’m interested in applying. This’ll be a long post, so bear with me here.</p>

<p>My Stats: I live in a middle-class house and suburb of Los Angeles in the San Gabriel Valley. I am a 1.5 generation??? Mexican-American male, Mexican-born housewife mother, native-born construction engineer father; I go to the best high school in the district with pretty good stats compared to other public high schools in the area. Financial aid is a moderate concern.</p>

<p>I am currently a junior.</p>

<p>GPA: 3.26 unweighted 9th grade on Current Rank: 108/478
3.10 unweighted 10th grade on (my HS doesn’t weigh GPAs for Honors and AP courses) Current Rank: 123/478</p>

<p>My Course List (P stands for college prep)
Summer School 2003:
Health</p>

<p>9th Grade-both semesters
Biology Honors
Composition & Literature I Honors
World History Honors
Geometry P
Spanish I P
PE (non-academic)</p>

<p>Summer School 2004:
Art Appreciation 1 P
Art Appreciation 2 P</p>

<p>10th Grade-1st Semester
AP World History
Chemistry Honors 1st sem, Chemistry Concepts P 2nd sem (dropped Chem H because I got a D)
Composition & Literature II Honors
Algebra II P
Spanish II P
PE</p>

<p>Summer School 2005:
Intro to Computer Applications
Computer Applications</p>

<p>11th Grade-Both Semesters
AP Biology
AP US History
Advanced Art P
Composition & Literature III P (didn’t make it into AP Lit)
Trigonometry & Pre-Calculus P
Spanish III P</p>

<p>My Planned 12th Grade Schedule:
AP Environmental Science
AP Macroeconomics/AP US Government
AP Spanish
Composition & Literature IV P
Statistics P
Psychology P 1st semester; Speech P 2nd semester (maybe)</p>

<p>Also, I may take a speech class at the community college over the summer.</p>

<p>Test Scores:
I am planning to take the SAT in June, but here are my PSAT scores:</p>

<p>Verbal: 61
Math: 44
Writing: 67</p>

<p>SAT IIs:
World History: 720
Future SAT IIs: I will take Biology and US History in May and possibly Spanish in the fall.</p>

<p>ECs:
Awards: None
Sports: None
Clubs: Key Club, Spanish Club, Crackdown</p>

<p>What are my chances at these colleges? I am planning to stay in the sunny West. My specific states are California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. I want to apply to no more than 8 colleges. It’s pretty long, but I still have time to eliminate. My planned majors are sociology, marketing, or business administration, and I may minor in economics or urban studies.</p>

<p>Arizona State
Cal Poly Pomona
Cal Poly SLO
Cal State Fullerton
Cal State Long Beach
Cal State Northridge
Loyola Marymount
Occidental College
San Diego State
San Francisco State
Santa Clara University
University of Arizona
University of Houston
University of New Mexico
UCLA
UC Irvine
UC Riverside
UCSB
UCSC
UCSD
USC (my aunt is an alumni)
University of San Diego
University of San Francisco
UT Austin
Whittier College</p>

<p>Also my dad is giving me info on other colleges that I most likely don’t want to go to. What are my chances at:</p>

<p>Point Loma Nazarene
Pomona College
Pitzer College
University of the Pacific
University of Redlands</p>

<p>Thanks for any help, and please be honest!</p>

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<p>Oh, and I also wanted to know which ones are reach, match, or safety.</p>

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<p>if you up your SAT scores:</p>

<p>Cal Poly SLO, UCLA, and UCB are reaches
Santa Clara, UCSD, USC, and UT: Austin, UOP are slight reaches</p>

<p>rest in CA are matches/safeties</p>

<p>out of CA i have no idea.</p>