what are my chances at ucs...

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Would you guys please tell me [realistically] of what my chances are at these schools?</p>

<p>UCLA
UC Berkeley
UCSD
Lehigh
Carnegie Mellon
Rice
Bucknell</p>

<p>I'm an asian girl in California, which probably does a lot for the UCs. </p>

<p>I have a 4.46 weighted GPA, 3.76 unweighted. I think it is lower, mainly because of my Bs, and my regular English classes. </p>

<p>My intended major is chemical engineering.</p>

<p>My SAT I scores are
760 Math
730 Critical reading
650 Writing (does that hurt much?)</p>

<p>And SAT II
720 Math IIC (... wtvr)
790 Chemistry</p>

<p>9th grade
Geometry H B/B
English 1H B/A
Biology 1H A/A
Health/Drivers Ed A/A
Marching Band A/A
Japanese 1 A/A</p>

<p>10th grade
Algebra 2 H B/B
English 2H B/A
Chemistry 1H A/A
World History A/A
Psychology A (only 1 semester)
Japanese 2 A/A
Marching Band A/A
US History A/A</p>

<p>11th grade
Trignometry H/Precalculus H A/A
English 3 A/A
Chemistry 2 AP A/A [5]
Environmental Science A/A [5]
Japanese 3H B/A
Marching Band A/A
Government A
Economics A</p>

<p>Right now, I am taking
Calculus BC AP
English 4
Physics C AP
Biology 2 AP
Advanced Orchestra</p>

<p>I received the top score at our school for first year students, and fourth overall, on the American Chemical Society's National Chemistry olympiad. I think that's when I decided to pursue chemistry. I TA for the chemistry AP teacher right now, and I tutor some of the students.</p>

<p>I have over 350 hours volunteering at the local hospital, and 40 hours working with the land conservancy. </p>

<p>I don't know if it helps or not, but I play the tuba in orchestra, and was saxophone section leader and a vice president in marching band. I did community orchestra for 3 years, also on the tuba.</p>

<p>Does being a semifinalist count for anything? I read somewhere that UCs aren't recognizing it because it is considered "racially biased"?</p>

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Does being a semifinalist count for anything? I read somewhere that UCs aren't recognizing it because it is considered "racially biased"?

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<p>A semifinalist in what? Speed knitting? Explain.</p>

<p>You sound really good for UCLA and Berkeley. Oh, and the 720 in the SAT II Math IIc might be REALLY good. What's the percentile score on it?</p>

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<p>Semifinalist for the National Merit/PSAT thingy. </p>

<p>And the math IIC was terrible. 66%. I think I should retake. </p>

<p>Do you have suggestions for other schools, that are not in middle america, for chemical engineering?</p>

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<p>Cooper Union and MIT are good ideas.</p>

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<p>MIT and Harvey Mudd are quite out of my ability. I didn't even take post-calc yet.</p>

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<p>Post-calc? Psh. I know people who got into MIT with only Calc BC.</p>

<p>Don't discount yourself just yet.</p>

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<p>moldau:</p>

<p>UCB/UCLA: Match
UCSD: Safe Match</p>

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<p>anyone know about the non-UCs then?</p>

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<p>3.76 is your GPA that colleges will look at. That's your GPA in your academic classes.</p>

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<p>bump</p>

<p>anyone?</p>

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<p>i dont see why people like you are in such a worry, lolz, i mean your like almost for sure into l.a. and berkeley and probably, maybe caltech, i hear caltech is supposedly lowering its standards by a little bit, well anyways you're set, other people are in a situation where they can only hit like 1700 on their sat and their so crapped on college , they'll like shoot themselves if they dont even get into like ucsb, lolz, i just see that with all these smart people, its so much of a brag, i think others would agree</p>

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<p>I wouldn't lolz it up quite yet. While her stats are good/great, they're by no means guaranteed admissions to UCLA. I don't think anyone has that.</p>

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<p>i think it's very certain she will be accepted, on the other hand, im interested to know what your philosophy and opinion of the uc system are, please discuss freely</p>