Am I too average?

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>What are chances of getting into these schools? Thank you in advance for those who reply and help me out!</p>

<p>I would like to apply to:
UCB
UCSC
Pitzer College
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Carleton College
and my state school as a safety</p>

<p>Intended major: Linguistics
I can speak 2 languages fluently, and Spanish pretty well.</p>

<p>Stats:</p>

<p>GPA: 3.74 UW
Rank: 74/353</p>

<p>PSAT: 1900/2400=(1266)
CR: 59 (have studied, now I usually get around 650)/Math: 65/Writing: 66</p>

<p>EC’s (not so impressive…)
-A sport for 3 years (will be 4) Undefeated all three years thus far.
-MUN, Ambassador
-Peer Tutoring
-Random volunteering
*Hope to get job</p>

<p>CLASSES: Pursuing a partial IB diploma.</p>

<p>Science:
Biology/Chemistry/Geophysical/ going to take Physics</p>

<p>Math:
Alg1-2/Geometry/Adv Alg 3-4/Trig, Precalc/ going to take IB Calculus</p>

<p>English:
Frosh English/Pre-IB Eng/IB Junior Eng/going to take IB Senior Eng</p>

<p>Foreign Language:
Spanish 1-2/3-4/5-6/IB 9-10/ going to take IB Spanish 11-12</p>

<p>Social Studies:
US History/Global Studies</p>

<p>Other:
Ceramics/IB Psychology/IB TOK/Health/PE</p>

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<p>Aw noones posted yet…I’m just looking for advice, if you can help thatd be great</p>

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<p>are u instate cali?</p>

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<p>Unfortunately, no. UCB is definately a reach, I’m sure.</p>

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<p>Indiana=likely, Carleton=superstretch. I don’t know about Cali schools.
I’d recommend Macalester in addition to or in place of Carleton.
They’re both very similar, and in Minnesota. Mac has a linguistics program, and it’s more likely to appreciate your languages and IB program. And believe me, their reputation isn’t far from Carleton’s.</p>

<p>Just get your SAT up and you will be far from average. IB classes are becoming more and more respected.</p>

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<p>Do you know what your UC GPA is?.. (Weighted with honors/AP classes… Just sophomore and junior year…) As it is, without knowing for sure your SAT score… UCB might be a pretty big reach if you SAT isn’t good enough (700-ish in every category would be ideal) and if your UC GPA does not breah 4.0… but I’m not sure how IB would factor into it… UCSC should be a match/safety… have you thought about any other UCs?</p>

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<p>UCB will be a reach but you should get into UCSC. How come those are the only UC’s your interested in? I would take a look at UCI, UCSB, UCR if you want to come to Cali.</p>

<p>Just something to think about.</p>

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<p>Above average GPA and SATs compared to the average student. </p>

<p>But you have below average GPA and SAT scores compared to the average Cal student.</p>