What are my chances of a school like the UC's or nyu stanford etc...

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<p>Say whatever you feel and also what i could do to increase my chances would be nice too. My feelings don't get hurt so be blunt.</p>

<p>my G.P.A. is somewhere around like 3.6 (no special weighting i think)
A.C.T.-28 (only my first time)
Ec's:student council freshman year, fbla, fca, math honor society, tennis, i'm a leader of my youth group, and i have had part time jobs</p>

<p>my dad is a legacy at princeton for undergrad and stanford for grad so that might figure in.</p>

<p>im a junior taking a decently hard courseload im in precal, ap us history, honors chemistry, ap english 3, trigonometry, and spanish 2. do you think me only taking 2 years of a foreign language will turn into a big deal or do you think i should take a 3rd year of spanish next year</p>

<p>next year i plan on taking ap english 4 ap calculus ap psychology ap european history mcp(microsoft certification) and sports and entertainment marketing class. i plan on majoring in something to do with business so what would you suggest me changing if anything.</p>

<p>so if these colleges are too high give me some examples that might be fitting and also do you think it hurts your chances if you just turn in the ACT to schools or do west and east coast schools prefer the SAT</p>

<p>To be blunt..</p>

<p>UC's = Safe Match
Stanford - :(</p>

<p>afrobllrchrs:</p>

<p>Assuming you are a California resident,
UCB/UCLA: Slight Reach
UCSD: Match
UCI/UCSB/UCD: Safe Match
UCSC/UCR/UCM: Safety</p>

<p>yea but i live out of state does that make it a lot harder</p>

<p>UCB/UCLA: Reach
UCSD: Slight Reach
UCI/UCSB/UCD: Match
UCSC/UCR: Safe Match/Safety
UCM: Safety</p>

<p>Stanford: Far Reach</p>

<p>I would say no chance at Stanford or Princeton even being a legacy. I don't know much about UCs, but from what I keep reading here, you have to have really stats for most if you're oos.</p>

<p>NYU keeps getting harder. I would really try to raise ACT or try SAT. And yews, take the 3rd year of language.</p>

<p>It's hard to tell what you're looking for in a college because the ones on your present list are very different from one another. To see where you have a good chance, look at each colleges stats for admitted candidates. You need to have stats at about the 75% to have a good shot. You have a chance if you're at the 50% and have great recs and essays. Below 50% will be low chance as you are not a hooked candidate and your ECs are average.</p>

<p>afrobllrchrs:</p>

<p>UCB/UCLA: Reach (out of state)
UCSD: Slight Reach (out of state)
UCI/UCSB/UCD: Match (out of state)
UCSC/UCR/UCM: Safe Match (out of state)</p>

<p>out of state uc's:
Berkeley UCLA UCSD: Large Reach (oos)
irvine, sb, davis: reach</p>

<p>instate would make irvine, sb and davis a slight reach/match</p>