Will I shame my parents? (Asian)

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Chance me for:
USC
UCLA
UC Berkeley
Rice
Northwestern</p>

<p>Asian Male in California</p>

<p>Education:
• Competitive public high school (top 100 in the nation)
• 9 Honors courses taken.
• 7 AP courses taken.
• Unweighted cumulative GPA: 3.648
• Weighted cumulative GPA: 4.34
• Principal's High Honor Roll</p>

<p>National Standardized Testing Scores:
• SAT: 2160
o Critical Reading: 630
o Math: 730
o Writing: 800 / Essay: 11
• ACT: 31
• SAT Subject Tests:
o Korean with Listening: 800
o Math Level II: 670 (will retake)
o Taking Literature subject test in October
• AP:
o European History: 4
o Environmental Science: 5
o United States History: 2</p>

<p>Honors / Awards:
• National Merit SemiFinalist, 2008 (Most likely Finalist)
• California Scholarship Federation (CSF), 2005-2009
o CSF Gold membership, 2009
• Palos Verdes Peninsula Science Fair, 2008: Honorable Mention Award
• Mu Alpha Theta Log 1 Contest, 2007: 19th Place
• Frosh-soph swimming team, 2006-2007: Most Improved Award
• National Spanish Honors Society, 2007-2009</p>

<p>Extracurricular Activities:
• Volunteer activity at a local hospital, 2006-2009
o 200+ community service hours, assisting patients and families.
• Key Club, 2005-2009
o 40+ community service hours
• School Newspaper, 2007-2009: Staff writer.
• Chamber Orchestra, 2006-2007
o First chair flutist. (I played the flute for 7 years)
• Academic Decathlon, 2005-2006
• Best Buddies, 2005-2007
o Peer Mediator, 2006-07: Paired with a mentally disabled student whom I helped out during the school year.
• Scientific Research, 2007-2009
o 2007-08: Researched the effects of various light frequencies & wavelengths on the development of Vanessa Cardui.
• Math Club, 2005-2007, 2008-2009
• Ping Pong Club, 2006-2007: Secretary, Sophomore Representative
• Consumer Electronic Business Association, 2007-2009: Secretary
• Frosh-soph swimming team, 2006-2007</p>

<p>Noteworthy Events:
• Peace and Reconciliation Tour in Ireland, Spring 2007.
o Traveled to Ireland and Northern Ireland with the EHAP class for 10 days, where I learned about Irish national schism & reconciliation.
• Asian Pacific Youth Leadership Project (APYLP), 2008
o I was one of 50 Asians/ Pacific Islanders across California to be selected for this program, where I learned about the specific processes of law-making (mock legislature).</p>

<p>• Also, excellent essays and rec. letters.</p>

<p>CHANCE ME</p>

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<p>since you are a californian resident, I would say that you have a good chance for those schools. However your GPA is a tad low and maybe you should consider taking the ACT or SAT again and raise it a bit more? If you do that, I think it won’t be reach for the californian schools.
Rice and Northwestern shouldn’t be a problem either.</p>

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<p>I think you have a good shot for all of those schools. </p>

<p>I have no idea why the person above me thinks your GPA is a bit low because I think it’s great.</p>

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<p>Your UW is a little low, as lzhang has already iterated. I would say that with current GPA and SAT they are all reaches, so you should definitely have some safeties selected. You might also want to consider UMichigan (I think this might be a good fit and would probably be a little easier to get into). If you do make Merit Finalist I suggest you apply to Barrett Honors College at Arizona State University. You will likely get a full ride and admission to one of the best Honors colleges in the U.S. (and no, I don’t go to ASU so I’m not trying to mislead you).</p>

<p>Good luck with everything!</p>

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<p>I think youve already shamed your parents by not getting an 800 on the SAT M</p>

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<p>Sorry to break it to the other folks here, but the UC’s are not reaches. The average UC GPA for UCLA and Cal was 4.15/4.18 respectively, and the average SAT scores were 2030 and 2050. His EC’s are great, he is in-state, his SAT II scores are not horrible, which is all that matters for that area. Not to mention the competitiveness at his school, and the UW GPA does not matter for UC’s. It’s the UC GPA that counts.</p>

<p>Matches: USC, UCLA, UCB.</p>

<p>Definitely not reaches, I assure you</p>

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<p>Are you Korean? If yes, then I suggest you take another subject test.</p>

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<p>yeah, I’ve asked the admissions on this before. Don’t take language test of your native language.</p>

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<p>for UC’s, does the UC gpa count towards admission, or is it just used for eligibility?</p>

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<p>I know a kid who goes to Palos Verdes High School.</p>

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<p>UC GPA is for admissions and eligibility</p>

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<p>Based on my older friends’ stats (friends who went to UCLA), i can safely say that you’re almost guaranteed to get into LA. to be honest UCLA isnt as hard as everyone seems to make it out to be. unless of course you’re from out-of state which you arent. </p>

<p>Northwestern and Rice are both really possible. If i were you I might consider the low-tier ivies (brown and cornell) as well.</p>

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<p>Direct answer: Nope~</p>

<p>The GPA+SAT -might- need some anti-depressants, but it depends on your parents. You have great EC’s though, so those are probably natural anti-depressants…(I’m doing pysch homework, so don’t laugh at the strange diction)</p>

<p>Anyway, Rice, Berkley, UC Berkeley are all high-matches.
I don’t know about the rest.</p>

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<p>I have to disagree with those who have posted on here and believe that the candidate is a “high-match” or that they are guaranteed to get in at the top UCs and Northwestern.</p>

<p>The GPAs at the UCs listed by junshik (UC Berkeley and UCLA) are for UC GPAs, whereas the W GPA listed by the OP is for all courses. If you don’t know the difference, then you need to learn how the UCs calculate a UC GPA.</p>

<p>With a 3.65 UW GPA, the OP’s UC GPA is probably about 3.95, which means that he/she has a UC GPA that is about .2 lower than the average at UC Berkeley and UCLA.</p>

<p>Also, I’d like to see the best single sitting score for the OP, since that is what the UCs will use when determining admission chances. It is nice to see a 2160 score overall, but if the best single sitting score is only a 2000, then that puts the person only at the averages for the schools (and as pointed out already, the UC GPA is below the averages).</p>

<p>The ECs are okay, but nothing special–the most impressive academic award is an honorable mention in a science competition at his school. There are no academic awards at a county, state or national level–and no award above 19th at the person’s school . There are no leadership positions at all during the school year, so the only “slightly” impressive thing on here is the volunteer work and writing for the school paper. (Travelling overseas in a “so-called” leadership program where there was no competition involved just shows that your parents have some money, not that you are a leader.)</p>

<p>And I don’t think the 800 in Korean is going to mean much (as already explained by others above) to the admissions committee since his parents probably moved here from Korea and he/she speaks Korean at home in addition to English–and that AP score in US History isn’t even sufficient to get college credit for the course.</p>

<p>Look, don’t get me wrong–I do think the OP is a “slight reach” at UC Berkeley and UCLA and Northwestern, and a “match” at Rice and USC–but this person is definitely not a sure match for UC Berkeley, UCLA, or Northwestern.</p>

<p>And this person is dreaming if they think they are getting into Brown. Cornell maybe, definitely not Brown.</p>

<p>P.S. The person listed an overall GPA–and not the GPA by year, or only for the junior and sophomore years (which is what the UCs use). Thus, we have no way of knowing what their true UC GPA is–which makes this chancing difficult. Please read the thread on “How to improve your odds of chancing”, which is the first thread on here, and tells you what we need to know to chance a person correctly.</p>

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<p>Your great great great grandpa just turned over in his grave from this shame.</p>

<p>jkjk</p>

<p>Your definitely a strong candidate for all the schools, but being Chinese does make it harder.</p>

<p>USC - close reach
UCLA - close reach
UCB - reach
Northwestern - close reach
Rice - high match
Low Ivies - reach</p>

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<p>The GPA’s a real downside, but the other elements are strong. </p>

<p>It would be easy to get into USC with your background. </p>

<p>Northwestern is a close reach.</p>

<p>You may get into some of the Ivies (Cornell, Brown, or Penn for example).</p>

<p>UCLA and UCB would be a stretch.</p>

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<p>The subject line of your post caught my eye. Maybe you’re joking, but if not think of this instead…Will you shame yourself? I’m sure not. You’ve done so well :)</p>

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<p>UCLA and UCB are not a stretch for you. Last year, kids from my daughter’s high school who got into UCLA with much less GPA than yours. In fact, these kids have the GPAs in the same band as the kids that got into USC. But most of them did ASB( UCLA seems to like ASB students). The kids with weaker SAT scores(same GPA) got Spring admit to USC(USC likes high SAT scores).
I would not be surprised if you did not get accepted at all of those schools in your list.</p>

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<p>haha yea i was just joking with the title, trying to get ppl to click on my thread.
thanks for all the replies everyone.</p>

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<p>dudes…he’s freakin living in California…all the UC’s are a piece of cake for him… With your GPA and SAT’s, any UC’s will surely be matches</p>