<p>I am a Senior, I'm Latino, my A-G GPA is 3.8 and I am ELC (Eligibility in the Local Context). I'm going to get a 4.5 GPA for the first semester of my Senior year, I'm an after school tutor. I have 3 AP classes this year (AP European History, AP Statistics, and AP Econ/Gov't) by the time I graduate I will have taken 5 AP classes and at least 10 honors classes, I passed the AP Spanish Language test with a 4, I did poorly on the SAT (1500) I will retake it and get at least an 1800, and I did decent on the ACT (24) I will retake it and get at least a 27, I did pretty good on the SAT Subjects test (600 on U.S. History) and (680 on the Spanish) I am going to take the Literature subjects test as well, I will try my best this year also to pass my AP tests (U.S. History, European History, Government, MacroEconomics, and Statistics) Furthermore I will try to complete 100 hours of community service by the time I send my applications, I played football freshman year, and I am the treasurer of the AVID club, I am also in the spanish honors society club. My personal statements are pretty good if I do say so myself, I also will take some classes this year at a community college, if I pass the rest of my ap tests and get college credit and pass the college classes I take I may be able to enter university with my freshman year done or almost done!!!!!!! any advice would be appreciated I really want to get into UCLA and UC Berkeley. Is there any last minute work I can do to improve my application, I'm revising and revising my personal statement and when it's completely revised I will send it to an admissions counselor to go over it for me, I am done with my UC applications except for the personal statement section, by the way I am also applying to UC San Diego, UC Davis, and UCR I should get into these...I want to double major Political Science and History, but seeing as Political Science is extrememely difficult to get into at UC Berkeley and UCLA I put on my application that my primary major is History and my alternate is Political Science. I'm going to be honest I think the thing that would get me into UC Berkeley and UCLA is my Personal Statement and that I'm ELC and Hispanic, with hard classes and my GPA went from 3.833 1st semester junior yr. to 4.333 second semester, and now I'm going to get a 4.5- I know I'm a lock for all the other UC's because I am ELC. UC Berkeley accepts 66% of ELC students, UCLA accepts 60% of ELC students, and UC San Diego accepts 85% of ELC students. I really, really, really want to go to UC Berkeley or at least UCLA because they are my dream schools. Please help, thank you</p>
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<p>I am a Senior, I’m Latino, my A-G GPA is 3.8 and I am ELC (Eligibility in the Local Context). I’m going to get a 4.5 GPA for the first semester of my Senior year, I’m an after school tutor. I have 3 AP classes this year (AP European History, AP Statistics, and AP Econ/Gov’t) by the time I graduate I will have taken 5 AP classes and at least 10 honors classes, I passed the AP Spanish Language test with a 4</p>
<pre><code>I did poorly on the SAT (1500) I will retake it and get at least an 1800, and I did decent on the ACT (24) I will retake it and get at least a 27, I did pretty good on the SAT Subjects test (600 on U.S. History) and (680 on the Spanish) I am going to take the Literature subjects test as well.
I will try my best this year also to pass my AP tests (U.S. History, European History, Government, MacroEconomics, and Statistics) Furthermore I will try to complete 100 hours of community service by the time I send my applications, I played football freshman year, and I am the treasurer of the AVID club, I am also in the spanish honors society club. My personal statements are pretty good if I do say so myself, I also will take some classes this year at a community college, if I pass the rest of my ap tests and get college credit and pass the college classes I take I may be able to enter university with my freshman year done or almost done!!!
Any advice would be appreciated I really want to get into UCLA and UC Berkeley. Is there any last minute work I can do to improve my application, I’m revising and revising my personal statement and when it’s completely revised I will send it to an admissions counselor to go over it for me, I am done with my UC applications except for the personal statement section, by the way I am also applying to UC San Diego, UC Davis, and UCR I should get into these…
I want to double major Political Science and History, but seeing as Political Science is extrememely difficult to get into at UC Berkeley and UCLA I put on my application that my primary major is History and my alternate is Political Science.
I’m going to be honest I think the thing that would get me into UC Berkeley and UCLA is my Personal Statement and that I’m ELC and Hispanic, with hard classes and my GPA went from 3.833 1st semester junior yr. to 4.333 second semester, and now I’m going to get a 4.5- I know I’m a lock for all the other UC’s because I am ELC. UC Berkeley accepts 66% of ELC students, UCLA accepts 60% of ELC students, and UC San Diego accepts 85% of ELC students. I really, really, really want to go to UC Berkeley or at least UCLA because they are my dream schools. Please help, thank you
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<p>bump, come on guys I’m really desperate</p>
<p>Honestly, it’s still hard to read, put it into a list form and you might get more responses. I know nothing too detail wise about the UC’s though…Berekely is a major reach though with your SATs.</p>
<p>ELC students often have SAT scores that correlate with their high GPAs, so it’s not so much that these schools are accepting ELC students as that they are accepting high stats students.</p>
<p>You can see on the below chart that even an 1800 SAT is considerably below average at these 3 schools as is your GPA. </p>
<p>[UC</a> Admissions Statistics](<a href=“http://www.ophs.opusd.k12.ca.us/uc_admissions_statistics.htm]UC”>http://www.ophs.opusd.k12.ca.us/uc_admissions_statistics.htm)</p>
<p>That makes them reaches. However, these schools sometimes seem to ignore the no AA mandate and let in URMs with lower stats, so you never know.</p>
<p>[For</a> an illegal immigrant, getting into UCLA was the easy part - Los Angeles Times](<a href=“http://articles.latimes.com/2009/feb/02/local/me-freshman2]For”>http://articles.latimes.com/2009/feb/02/local/me-freshman2)</p>
<p>yeah, you need to bring those SATs up for LA, Berkeley, and SD. Davis seems like a match since u have a really high GPA. Riverside is a guarantee in. Essays will also play a big part into ur chances as well, so kick ass in those. Good luck!</p>
<p>damn, that article didnt have a happy ending. i hope shes doing fine now…</p>
<p>O don’t worry I’m going to retake the SAT and get at least an 1800 (Shooting for a 2000) and I’m going to retake the ACT and get at least a 27 (Shooting for at least a 30) I’ll list my stuff better, thanks, any advice for the best way to raise my SAT and ACT scores, and ya my Personal statement is pretty good but their is always room for improvement</p>
<p>Yes, but the average at all three is over 2000, so have good backups. The mid tier UCs–UCI, UCSB and UCD are even reaches with below a 4.0/1850.</p>
<p>ELC students are guarnteed at UC Davis, UCI, UC Santa Barabara, UC Santa Cruz, UC Riverside, and UC Merced
UCSD will be a reach, I believe and UCB and UCLA are just hard as heck to get into
I’m applying to:</p>
<p>UC Berkeley: Reach if I improve my SAT to at least 1800 and act to at least 27-also if I get straight A’s (4.5) 1st semester senior yr
UCLA:Reach if I improve my SAT to at least 1800 and act to at least 27-also if I get straight A’s (4.5) 1st semester senior yr
UCSD: Match if I improve my SAT to at least 1800 and act to at least 27-also if I get straight A’s (4.5) 1st semester senior yr
UC Davis-Guaranteed
UCR-Guaranteed
Any other UC’s-Guaranteed, but I only want UC Berkeley and UCLA</p>
<p>ELC guarantees only one UC, and it’s whichever one they want, From a CA high school Q & A:</p>
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<p><a href=“http://www.ophs.opusd.k12.ca.us/Counseling/College%20Counseling/ELC%20(2).pdf[/url]”>http://www.ophs.opusd.k12.ca.us/Counseling/College%20Counseling/ELC%20(2).pdf</a></p>
<p>Reread the chart, a school is only a match if you have at least their average UC GPA and SAT scores.</p>
<p>good point but I would bet my bottom dollar that I can get into any UC except for UCB UCLA and maybe UCSD- the others are easy</p>
<p>That is so creepy that you picked that school out of all the schools in California, hmom. That is the school I go to. Haha.</p>