Yet Another UC Chance Thread

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I've done one of these before, but some of my calculations in term of my GPA weren't accurate and this is more updated.</p>

<p>California Resident
Public HS</p>

<p>GPA: 4.25W, 3.83 UW, 4.18 UC
Rank: Top 4% at least (ELC)
SAT I: 680CR, 690M, 680W, 2050 total (Plan to retake in December for hopefully a 2100)
SAT II: US HISTORY (670) LIT (650)</p>

<p>EC's:
LEO Club: member in 9th and 10th grade, Publicity Commissioner in 11th, Vice President in 12th
Operation Smile Club:Secretary (Club was created this year)
CSF (10-12)
NHS (9-12)
TAMS
ALS Club member
Anti-Violence Club Member (11-12, club was created last year)</p>

<p>Community Service:
About 100 hours as a professor’s TA (mostly tutoring work)
Almost 20 hours volunteering at a library</p>

<p>Awards:
CSF
ELC
Renaissance Student of the Quarter
Student of the Month
Academic Letter
National Merit Commended</p>

<p>Sophomore Schedule:
AP Chemistry (only AP available to Sophomores)
Honors (Pre-AP) English
Spanish 3-4
Honors (Pre-AP) Pre-Calculus
Honors (Pre-AP) World History
PE (filling requirement, doubt it counts)</p>

<p>Junior Schedule:
AP US History
AP English Language
AP Calculus AB
Physics CP
Spanish 5-6
Psycology/Sociology (1st semster and 2nd semester respectively)</p>

<p>Summer before Senior Year:
Community College: Introduction to Theatre, Calculus (didn’t want to take BC senior year), Statistics. Received As in all of them.</p>

<p>Senior Schedule:
AP Government
AP Economics
AP English Literature
AP Biology
Newspaper</p>

<p>Chance me for:
UCLA
UCB
UCSD</p>

<p>Thanks in advance!</p>

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<p>UCLA and UCB are reaches
UCSD is a match</p>

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<p>Anyone else?</p>

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<p><em>pokes</em>
I'll chance back if you need it.
And if you can tell me how much my chances would improve if I got 2100 on my December SATs, that'd be great.</p>

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<p>I would be a little more lenient than siglio21 </p>

<p>and say that UCLA, UCB are slight reaches to low match</p>

<p>and UCSD is a match</p>

<p>EDIT:: As Shiomi pointed out below me, those SAT II scores are slightly subpar for LA + Berkeley ... but you never know, my friend got into LA with around the same gpa as you, and two 680's on subject tests ... 680+ seems to be a solid score assuming you're other stats are respectable</p>

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<p>You should retake those subjects instead for Berkeley and LA.
And your chances would not be that much better at all if you got a 2100. I think you have really good chances of getting in, because your SAT already meets the standards and your GPA is good enough as well.</p>

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<p>Thanks, that's very helpful. Also, I wrote one of my essays about how my Persian background has driven me to become a civil rights attorney and my other about my experience moving to the US from Germany when I was in the fourth grade.</p>

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<p>So I submitted my application today. I had several people read my essays, one of them being someone who got into Berkeley last year, and they all thought they were really good. The wait begins. Anyone else want to chance me?</p>

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<p>UCLA/UCB are close reaches
UCSD seems good</p>