What are my chances? HELP PLZ

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I'm a senior at a Military Academy. I never got a B, always A's. I'm the Valedictorian of my class. I want to study Nuclear Engineering. I want to know what are my chances of getting into the following colleges:</p>

<p>UC Berkeley, UCLA, Rensselaer Polytechnic institute, Georgia Tech, University of Michigan, and University of Wisconsin at Madison.</p>

<p>Accomplishments</p>

<p>9th grade:</p>

<p>1) Top 5 % of my class
2) Sports: Soccer & Basketball
3) Class vice president
4) Soccer team captain
5) Basketball team captain
6) The creator of the Religion club
7) Thinking techniques (Hat club) member
8) High level of academic achievements award </p>

<p>10th grade:</p>

<p>1) Sports: Soccer varsity (CFI 2010), cross-country JV, and swimming JV
2) Citizenship award
3) High GPA cord</p>

<p>10th grade repeat:</p>

<p>1) Sports: Soccer varsity and cross-country varsity
2) Squad Leader
3) Interact club
4) Photography TA (Teacher assistant)
5) Harvard Model School
6) Citizenship award
7) High GPA cord
8) Selected to join the Officer Candidate Course with only a few other juniors
9) Graduated from the Officer Candidate Course and became a JROTC officer
10) Award in English Literature
11) Award in Science
12) National Honor Society </p>

<p>11th grade:</p>

<p>1) Clubs: Key club (Secretary), California Scholarship Federation (Vice president), Interact club, and multicultural club<br>
2) Selected by the core of cadet to be come a member of the Honor Councilor for the up coming school year.
3) Selected by the core of cadet to be come an ASB class officer for the up coming school year.
4) Platoon Leader
5) Quad (dorm) leader
6) JROTC Officer
7) 2st lieutenant rank
8) Award in mathematics
9) Merits cord
10) National Honor Society</p>

<p>12th grade:</p>

<p>1) Valedictorian
2) Honor Councilor member
3) ASB class officer
4) Key club President
5) Company Commander
6) ESL teacher assistant
7) JROTC Officer
8) Will graduate with a rank of Captain<br>
9) National Honor Society</p>

<p>I'm an ESL student although I'm a U.S. Citizen, I lived all my life in the middle east. My SAT is the not so great: R-490, M-540, W-450.</p>

<p>Thank you!</p>

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<p>You need to study and retake the SAT. Even if English wasn’t your first language, your math score should compensate for it. And sorry, but I don’t see you getting into any of the universities that you listed. You need some safety schools. Now get your head up and retake the SAT.</p>

<p>Good luck.</p>

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<p>What do you mean by 10th repeat? Did you fail 10th grade? If so, I thought you said you got all A’s…that aside, your extracurriculars are strong, but those SAT scores are going to hurt you. ESL might help that out a bit, but make sure you write a very strong essay, and if at all possible, focus on how your experiences in the middle east effected you. Are you in a military family?</p>

<p>Sorry, but your chances don’t look very high. I don’t know much about the other schools, but I doubt you’ll get in at UCLA or UC Berkeley. </p>

<p>Is getting in the only problem? Or do you need to get scholarships, too?</p>

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<p>You have an incredible EC section to your application. But don’t flood all those activities into your college app ; instead choose the few activities in which you had put your heart in and in which you have a considerably strong profile. I’m not aware of Rensselaer Polytechnic institute, but the remaining are few of high-notch schools. The admissions are extremely selective in most of them. As I said, your EC’s are really good, but you definitely need to improve your SAT scores…There is no way you can get into them with the scores you mentioned above. So, my advice to take SAT again(above 2000 is safer).</p>

<p>Good Luck!!!</p>

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<p>I did not fail 10th grade, I got straight A’s. I took 9th grade in Saudi Arabia thereofre when I came to the US they did not give me any credit for my freshman year, so I decided to repeat a year so I can get more credit for colleges. No, I don’t need a scholarship.</p>

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<p>I took lots my math classes in high school: Algebra I, AlgebraII, College Algebra, Pre-calculus, AP Calculus, AP calculus BC, and AP Statistics.</p>