<p>I am going to be a senior.I attend a competitive high school. </p>
<p>Here's my stats. What are my chances of getting into UCLA, SD, Davis, and Irvine? </p>
<p>Weighted UC GPA: 4.0</p>
<p>SAT 1: 1790 (will improve to at least a 1900 for sure)</p>
<p>SAT 2: 800 and 720 </p>
<p>Honors/AP: 4 (soph and jr), 4 in senior yr
Received 5's on all AP exams</p>
<p>Extracurricular: 200 hrs of volunteering in special care for seniors with Alzheimer, Youth Group leader, president of two clubs, life time member of csf and two other clubs, run a start up company, lab intern at a local biotech start up, bilingual translator and tutor at school, speech contest judge, etc</p>
<p>Awards: won numerous state level speech contest awards (all 2nd place), 2nd place in a biggish piano competition (700 participants, some from foreign countries), numerous academic achievement awards, 2nd place in a regional writing competition</p>
<p>Other background info: immigrated to CA 4 yrs ago, was in ELD in middle school (english as a second language), reclassified as fluent english speaker in high school</p>
<p>You did not give a breakdown of your SAT scores but I am guessing that CR is what brought your total down to 1790 which is marginal for the UCs. You may be a fluent English speaker but you are not a native English speaker and I personally believe the CR portion of the test is only really valid for native speakers. Hopefully, the admissions committees at the UCs you are applying to you will recognize that and not hold a mediocre CR score against you. You may want to use your essay to explain your life story and emphasize that even though it is not your native language, you are proficient enough in English to do college level work.</p>
<p>If you improve your SAT1, with your scenario, you’ll get into every UC you mentioned. I agree about focusing one of your personal statements on your background.</p>
<p>Hopefully you can get your SAT score up to 1900
But even so, I think you can easily get into University of California, Davis.
However, for UC Irvine, I believe it is unpredictable. Same with UC San Diego. UC San Diego is significantly harder. You will need 2000+ SAT scores for that.
UCLA is even higher.</p>
<p>Conclusion: UC Davis is easily your target. Aim for that.
UC Irvine maybe?
UC San Diego probably not
UC Los Angeles definitely not</p>
<p>Are you thinking of applying to privates?
Hope that helps</p>
<p>Where do posters come up with these answers? Davis and irvine have close to identical admit stats. For UCLA you want an SAT over 2050 for a fighting chance. Over 2000 at SD, but for either if you want an engineering or bio major, higher is probably better. For Davis and irvine, 1900 is comfortable for most majors but it just keeps getting harder.</p>
<p>if you just raise your sat score to 1950+ you should be a shoo-in at all the UCs you mentioned. I know people with much lower gpas and sat scores who got into UCSD…you should be golden…chance back?</p>
<p>You should be able to get into UC Davis/Irvine w/o any problem…UCSD- match/reach; UCLA- high reach…for last 2 schools, it really depends on what major ur applying…if ur applying for pop majors (ie bio) you have no chance, but if you have apply for other majors, you should have at least a shot.</p>