The Official UC Chance Thread

[Peppers]

^^Match for UCB and UCLA (2330 is very impressive, the slight discrepancy in GPA is hardly going to dent that)

^Berkeley: Slight Reach (what is L&S CS? I thought it was EECS)
UCLA: High Match
UCSD: Match
UCD/UCI: Safe Match

[shortduderay]

^ L&S CS is the major of Computer Science offered at the college of letters and sciences (so it's not impacted).

[Peppers]

^Wow, that's odd.

[veggieheadgeek]

Chance me for UCLA/B please?

General: Female, OOS from very competitive HS in Northern NJ
Major: Microbiology, immunology, molecular genetics

Scores, GPA: 3.75 UW, 4.33 W, 4.28 UC GPA (top 7% of class)
2180 SAT (700 CR, 730 M, 750 W)
33 ACT (don't remember the breakdown, nothing below 31)
730 Math IIC (pathetic), 800 Spanish SATII

HS Classes: All Honors/AP (except for mandatory non-honors classes), including AP English Language (5), APUSH (4), AP Econ-Macro,Micro (4,5) last year, and AP English Lit, AP Calc AB, AP Spanish Language, AP Chem, and AP Stats this year.

Brief EC overview: Varsity FH (2 yrs) w/ All-Conference, All-County Honors, Varsity softball (3 yrs) w/ All-Conference, All-County, All-Region Honors as well as school honors, 4 years club softball, Nat'l Art Honor Society (secretary, VP), Nat'l Spanish Honor Society, CESIUM (Chemists Ending Sexism and Initiating United Movements) Club (founder, president)

Meaningless Awards: Edward J. Bloustein Distinguished Scholar (its a NJ thing), National Merit Commended, AP Scholar w/Honor, Honor Roll every semester

Volunteering: Free, private instruction in softball for girls w/learning disabilities, NJ Dental Hygiene Association clerk

Work (lacking!): Pitching coach's assistant, Spanish/math tutor

Essays: How my family has influenced me to want to become a dentist (very good), volunteering w/challenged girls (decent), why I didn't do too well in algebra 2 (decent)

Please&thanks.

[skateboard0924]

Hey everyone, please chance me!

Applied to these UC's:

Berkeley: Computer Science / L&S
Davis: Computer Science & Engr
Irvine: Computer Science & Engr
Los Angeles: Computer Science & Engr
San Diego: CSE: Computer Science
Santa Barbara: Computer Science
Santa Cruz: Computer Science

As well as:
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
SDSU

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Southern California/Male/Indian

Pretty competitive high school (3 kids sent to Harvard, 1 to Stanford, A LOT of kids to Berkeley and UCLA)
School doesn't rank (thank Bob Saget!)

UC GPA: 3.64 (I didn't try in 10th grade, which screwed me over. I got a 4.2 Junior year though, huge upward trend)

ACT 1st Time: 27
English: 28
Math: 32
Reading: 26
Science: 21
English/Writing: 26

ACT 2nd Time: 29
English: 29
Math: 29
Reading: 33
Science: 24
English/Writing: 27

ACT Superscored: 30

SAT: 1820 (Math: 650, Critical Reading:560, Writing: 610)

SAT II's: MathIIC 700, US History: 680

APs: European Civilization: 2 (10th grade, didn't try that year), Calculus AB: 4, United States History: 4, Biology: 4

Freshman: Honors English 1-2
Sophomore: AP European Civilization, Honors Humanities
Junior: AP Calculus AB, AP Biology, AP United States History, Honors American Literature 1-2
Senior: AP Computer Science AB, AP English Language, AP Calculus BC

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ECs:

- Tennis for 12 years, including 3 years of Varsity tennis at high school
- Most Valuable Player Award for Tennis
- Piano for 12 years
- AP Scholar
- I have received numerous certificates for over 20 recital performances
- 10 year Piano DA CAPO (Dominant Attitude while Creating A Positive Objective) Award
- Obtained numerous ribbons and medals at Science Olympiad and Science Field Day activities, and went to the Science Olympiad State Championships in 9th grade
- Vice President of the Ping Pong Club
- Member of California Scholarship Federation
- Have been volunteering several times every month at numerous events (Childcare at the Women's Resource Center, Homework Helpers: Elementary and Middle school Homework Helpers club, Tutored students at library, cleaned up local river, fed homeless, San Diego Food Bank Drive, bowled with mentally ill children) for around 50 hours
- Internship/volunteering program at the Attorney's Office of San Diego (over 100 hours)
- Engineering internship at Northrop Grumman for 5 months
- Runner-Up (2nd Place) in India Scholarship Fund 2006 Tennis Tournament

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My essays are pretty decent in my point of view. My first one is about my love for computers and how I developed this interest. My second one is about my personal quality of humor.


Please tell me what you believe my chances are for the colleges I have already applied to. Thanks a lot!

[bartleby]

Big reach for UCLA and UCB.
Reach for UCSD.
Match at UCSB/D/I.
Safety at Merced and Riverside.

[tisthemorning]

veggieheadgeek

UCLA: mid-reach
UCB: mid-reach

[collegemom16]

veggieheadgeek:
4.28 UC GPA (earned at a strong high school)
NMS commended
2180 SAT's all above 700
ACT 33
excellent SAT 11 scores
AP scholar/ w honor
rigorous schedule
EC's strong w/leadership

I think despite being OOS that you have excellent chances at both schools. Congratulations on your MANY great achievements.

[tisthemorning]

Yeah, my bad -- I thought the UW was her UC gpa

[anisha08]

Female
South Asian (Indian)
I attend a VERY competitive high school in NorCal.

GPA: 3.1 uw/3.3 uc gpa
Rank: unknown

SAT:
660M 660W 560CR = 1880
650M 750W 600CR = 2000

SAT2:
620 Bio 620 Lit 670 Math IIC

ECs:
Speech and Debate- Varsity Member and Co-Captain (3 yrs)
Community Service-100 hrs (4 yrs)
Model United Nations- Officer and Head Delegate (2 years)
School Newspaper (1 year)
AVID (4 years..I've heard that this gets bonus points from UCs)

Awards:
-4th place on Congress
-Outstanding Community Service award (was one of two students chosen from entire school by the Optimist Club)

Please chance me for:

UCSD (I know it's probably a super mega humongo reach)
UCI
UCD
UCSB
UCSC
UCR
UCM

[anisha08]

Hmm why can't I edit my post?
Anyways, I just wanted to add AP scores:

AP Bio: 5
AP Eng Lang: 3

[Peppers]

^
UCSD: Reach
UCI/UCD/UCSB: High Match
UCR/UCM/UCSC: Match

If your high school were really extremely competitive, that would be reflected in your SAT scores. While arguably that is the case, since 2000 is rather solid, that's probably not going to forgive a 3.3

[Arctic]

I'm instate / ELC
White male, first generation immigrant from Ukraine

class rank 28/446

Major:

Either Computer Science or Cognitive Science

UC GPA - 4.33

SAT 1: 1940

SAT 2:

Math 2- 600
World History - 450
Literature - 450

EC:
varsity tennis - 3 years
1440 hrs of community service @ summer camp

Work Exp:

2 years at local hospital, scanning medical charts
worked as camp counselor over the summer on campus at UCSD

awards:
scholar athlete
physical education award
certificate of honor in computer science
superior academic achievement
community service award

clubs:

rubiks cube club
russian club
computer service club
ultimate frisbee

other info:
taking calc 1 and 2
ap world hist -2
ap environmental science - 2
taking ap gov and ap literature
bilingual - russian

UCs applied to:

San Diego
Davis
Los Angeles
Irvine
Berkeley
Santa Cruz

[Peppers]

^Match for all.

[youarecorrect]

UC GPA: ~3.7 Unweighted: ~3.2

SAT I: 2100

SAT II: Math IIC: 780
Biology: 690

Ethnicity: Asian, California Resident

APs: Chinese AP, Biology AP, Calculus AB AP, Literature AP
Honors: Trig/Precalc H, Chemistry H, Chinese 4 H, Orchestra 5H

Extracurriculars:
Cross Country (10th)
Track (10th)
Key Club (9-12)
Bridge Club (9th)
Orchestra (9-12)
Choir outside of school (10 years)
Piano for 12 years, + Advanced lvl 10 CM music award
Boy Scout - Eagle Scout Award

(Side Note: I also plan on interning somewhere over the summer)

I know i can't get into Cal, LA, but can you chance me for SD, I, D, SB?