Decision: Admitted
Merit scholarships awarded (if any): None
Major (and division if applicable) applied to: (Pre) Global Studies
Academic stats:
UC Unweighted GPA: 3.92
UC Capped Weighted GPA: 4.1
UC Fully Weighted GPA: 4.45
Eligibility in Local Context?: Yep
Rank, percentile rank, or percentile range (if available): top 5%/280
Comments about course load (including senior year): I picked fairly easy classes with two AP’s, one honors/dual-enrollment, one dual-enrollment, and three classes at CC in my county.
SAT (total and sections): n/a
ACT (total and sections): 31 (32 superscore but uc’s dont superscore)
SAT Subject Tests (if any): Lit - 710, BioE - 670
AP exams (scores in parentheses): Psych (5), Lang (5), Bio (3), Chem, Euro, APES, Gov, Calc
IB exams (score in parentheses): none
CC classes: about 10, I believe
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): nopee
Subjective:
For the following, indicate level of recognition or award (e.g. local, state, national, international) and/or leadership roles: writing contest winner (school), international poetry contest winner (in’tl), published in a literary journal (regional)
Extracurriculars: Founded a donation drive at my school, started a feeding program in the Philippines which fed over 200 people, Rotary-Interact (held office for two years), CSF, Earth Club, Optimist Club, Track, Cross-country, Tennis.
Job/Work Experience: Office Secretary at Kumon, Crew member at a Tastee Freez
Volunteer/Community service: mostly seen above as most clubs are community service oriented
Summer Activities: jobs/practices/community college classes
Essays (topics, details): my experiences growing up in a third world country and why I want to be an international lawyer, how I took advantage of taking college classes while in hs, why writing is important to me, how my disabled father influenced the way I grew up.
Letters of recommendation: nah
Demographics
State (if domestic applicant): CA
Country (if international applicant):
High school type: Public
Gender: Female
Race/ethnicity: Yes
Applied for need-based financial aid?: yep
Pell grant eligible?: yes
Maximum Pell grant (FAFSA EFC = $0)?: Pell - $5000ish, Cal - $12000ish
Highest level of parent education: grad school
Living with both, one, or no parents?: mom and stepdad
Relation to alumni of college: nope
Reflection
Strengths: essays, extracurriculars, amount of extra community college classes I’ve taken
Weaknesses: test scores
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: My application was very consistent with my views and involved my career goals and why I wanted to become that type of person.
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accept: SDSU, CSUN. CalPoly SLO, CSUMB, UCSB, UCSD, and Duke Kunshan University. Waitlist: University of Chicago. Reject: haha like 5 ivys and Duke’s main campus in NC also UCLA and USC (advice from USC experience: don’t start the application the day it’s due).
Bro, I thought my scores were the end of me. Especially because I’m Asian, I thought I’d get reckdt everywhere and I’d have to go to a CC (nothing wrong with that tho). Just be yourself and work hard. Present yourself as the person you want to be and who you are. You’ll get in; just be true to yourself.