What are my chances of getting into the schools listed below?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<li>Stanford (Just a dream)</li>
<li>UC Berkeley</li>
<li>UCLA</li>
<li>UC San Diego</li>
<li>UC Irvine</li>
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<p>I am a sophomore that is about to become a junior in 2 days and am quite worried about my chances at getting into my dream school. I want to become a Psychologist for anybody wondering what I am looking to major in. (That's the reason Berkeley is my number 1 choice.) </p>

<p>During my freshman year, I took all Regular Classes and I got straight A's in them, both semesters. However, I greatly underestimated my sophomore year, in which I took 4 Honors Courses, and my 1st semester grades were A in PE, A- in Korean 2, D+ in PreCalculus Honors, A- in World History Honors, B- in Chemistry Honors, and a B- in English 2 Honors. I worked something out with my counselor about my D+ and arranged it so that during junior year I could retake the class. During 2nd semester, I decided to work harder, but to my dismay, I am about to end the school year with an A- in Korean 2, a B-/C+* in Precalculus Honors, a B in Chemistry Honors, a B- in English 2 Honors, and an A+ in Golf. I think I was just not at par with what I should have been this year.</p>

<p>*I have a borderline B- (80%) in that class right now so it all depends on my finals, which I think I didn't do to well on, so it might be a C+ as of now...</p>

<p>The classes I signed up for junior year are PreCalculus/Golf, Korean 3, AP Calculus AB, AP US History, Physiology Honors, AP English Language, and AP Psychology. During senior year, I plan to take are Biotechnology 1, Korean 4, AP Statistics, AP Civics/Economics, AP Biology, AP Literature, and Golf. During junior and senior year, I will step it up as much as need in order to get mostly A's and some B's.</p>

<p>As for my Extra Curricular Activities, I am in Golf and am on the track for Varsity during senior year. For my clubs, I am in Interact, Red Cross, and my friend and I plan to make a club during junior year. Outside of school I plan to volunteer with my friend at a local hospital and I am on the lookout for any job opportunities next year. I also do MMA and participate in tournaments if that is of any relevance.</p>

<p>What score do you think should be the bare minimum on my SAT's with these grades? What SAT II Subject Tests do you recommend?
What clubs should I look out for to join?
What other activities outside of school should I start to begin?
What are things in general I should be doing to make up for my horrible sophomore year?</p>

<p>I really need to get into a good college. My sister didn't turn out the way my mom expected and now my mom is directing all her hopes and expectations on me and I really don't want to disappoint her.</p>

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<p>I really don’t know much about California schools, but I just want to say this:
There are plenty of amazing schools out there and dont feel pressured to just get into the very top. The prestige of the school may seem like it matters a lot, but it is pretty insignificant, it matters that you study what you love, are good at it, and what you do with your degree after college. A person that goes to Irvine could become ten times more successful than a Stanford grad if one is focused and hardworking after school and the other isn’t.</p>

<p>Good Luck!</p>

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<p>Junior year is the most important year. Take the most rigorous course load you can handle. Could you provide a rough weighted and unweighted estimate of your GPA?</p>

<p>What score do you think should be the bare minimum on my SAT’s with these grades? 2200+ (let’s see what everyone else says)</p>

<p>What SAT II Subject Tests do you recommend?
based on your grades, World History and Korean (I personally haven’t taken them though and don’t know how difficult they are, again let’s see what people say)…maybe a couple others</p>

<p>What clubs should I look out for to join?
whatever you’re passionate about and want to devote time to. it doesn’t have to be a school sanctioned club. do something spectacular…volunteer for a political campaign, start a nonprofit or charity, volunteer…something like that </p>

<p>What other activities outside of school should I start to begin?
woops, my bad</p>

<p>What are things in general I should be doing to make up for my horrible sophomore year? do REALLY REALLY well, meaning straight A’s, this year and study extremely hard for SAT 1 and 2</p>

<p>again, i’d get second opinions on everything. those are my thoughts.</p>

<p>definitely write the best essays you can and get the best teacher recs you can, do the best you can on your app, and go for it with all of those schools!</p>

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<p>ya… i got a C+ in PreCalculus 2nd semester… will a bad sophomore year but a good junior and senior year still make me elligible for the top 3 UCs?</p>

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<p>I wish my school had Asian Language Courses :frowning: Anyways, just do great junior year and senior year and the colleges might overlook the dismal sophomore year.</p>

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<p>i think that the UC schools actually have a system where they mainly look at 11th and 12th grade grades? can anyone else confirm?</p>

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<p>i have always heard that it was sophomore and junior year, which is the reason for my distress over a bad sophomore year :/</p>