<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>