College Confidential - University of California - Irvine

Chance me please! :)

thisgirl7-314657 — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:50:15 GMT

Asian female

Major:
Business

Grades
Unweighted: 3.33
Soph: 3.71, 3.43 Junior: 3.29, 3.0
Weighted: 3.71
Soph: 4, 3.71 Junior: 3.71, 3.43

Tests
SAT 1 1750; M=650 W=480 R=600
(Taking in December, aiming for 2,200+)
SAT 2; Japanese =660

ACT 26
Retaking, aiming for 32+

APS
World history 3
US History 2
Psychology 3
Chemistry 2

Courses 9th-11:
4 APS 1 honors; 3 City College Courses which I got A's in.

Senior Classes:
AP Calculus AB
AP English
AP Government
AP Japanese
AP Phyiscs B
AP Economics
Advanced Journalism
college and career
general Business course at city college

Extracurriculars
1. Dragon boat team (drummer, paddler, race captain) 4 years
2. buildOn club (Vice president) 3 years
3. California scholarship Federation (3 years)
4. Peer mentor/coach (2 years)
5. Committee at school (Cochair) 3 years
6. Track and field 2 years
7. Spirit committe 2 years

Awards
- service leader awards
- 1st and 2nd place dragon boat medals
- miss teen chinatown scholarship finalist
- charity princess
- good student award from chinese school

Jobs
- Swimming instructor at ucsf (3 months)
- Senior Companion (3 months)
- Small Business Store (1 year); coached/train employees
- Tutor 2 months + still going

Volunteer
- Volunteers Club 200 hours @ various events (4 years)
- Lagunda Honda (spirit coordinator) 3 months
- Bryant Day Care center 3 months

Summer Programs
-Accounting Career Awareness Program summer residency at UCBerkeley
- Outward Bound Youth Leadership Corps

Thank you!!!<33 xoxo

List of 'easy' classes at UCI

junshik-152222 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:04:09 GMT

Not sure if this thread was already made.

Also, I know we come to UCI for education, and not for the grades.. but there are still those people who only care about GPA... so.. I think we should all contribute to make a list of easy classes that fulfill GE's.

-Anthropology 2A with Douglas
-Oceanography with Druffel

All I know so far.

Chances at UCI

pewpew23-243849 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:19:51 GMT

California Resident
Female- East Indian
Average High School

UC GP: 3.54
OVERALL GPA (weighted): 3.7

AP COURSES and TEST SCORES:
English 2P Honors- no test
AP Bio-1
AP Psych-5
AP English 3P- 3

I took 4 out of the 7 total AP/Honor classes offered for soph. and jr.

SAT SCORES:

MAY 09- 2050
CR 680
W 700
M 670

BIO- 600
LIT- 660
Retaking in December

EC'S:

CSF Seal Bearer
CSF Treasurer
100+ Hours at a Therapeutic Horsemanship Center (helping disabled kids ride horses)
Was a soccer referee for the city league for 2 years, around 100 hours
Soccer Coach this year for the city league
Youth Group Leader all four years- helped kids read, write, and speak Punjabi, very involved in organizing cultural shows and events
One award from Freshman year for outstanding community and school achievements.

Essays, according to the people that read them, are great :)

OTHER:
Family problems were going on around during the beginning of my sophomore year, have tried to make up for it. This is what one of my essays is about.
Upward curve in grades
Sophmore year- 3.17 and 3.5
Junior year- 3.7 and 4.16 [on B+ 89% :( ]

And, I live in a pretty crappy town lol. Our school's avg. SAT score is like 1400 and we live in a very low-income area of central california. Our town was declared the drug capital of the world a few years back and has the third highest teen pregnancy rate in the US.

CURRENT SCHEDULE and GRADES:
AP Calculus- B
Physics- B
AP Environmental Science- A
AP Government -A
English 101A at college-A
U.S History-A

Took Statistics at the college over the summer- A

UCI is my first choice school.. and I know my GPA is what's holding me back :(
Should I give up on UCI and set my sights on the lower UC's?

How is the Business School at Irvine?

californiaguy-298567 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:50:16 GMT

UCI is one of the schools I am interested in attending, and I have researched quite a bit about it. I plan on majoring in business (accounting??), but after searching and researching through a lot of material, I have come across very few resources about UCI's business school. I heard that it is pretty small? Just wondering if anybody can clear this confusion up for me, does UCI have a good business school?

Winter Fees

SheerReflection-140652 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:52:58 GMT

Has anyone fees been paid off yet? It does not show any fee assement for mine yet. Like my cal grant, school grant or even loans haven't been accounted for. Why is this?