California bound...but where??

goomba25
Tue, 23 Nov 2004 00:19:38 +0000

OK, thanks to anyone who reads this and taking the time to think about it.
Going for Berkeley, UCLA, UCSD, UCSB, Davis, Irvine, Riverside, Santa Cruz, Merced, Stanford, USC

CA Resident
UC GPA: 4.33
Rank 33/660
ELC (Top 4% of something): Guaranteed Admission to UCI. Merced says they will accept all ELC’s who apply there.
SATI: 1460 (790V/660M)
SATII: US 790. MathIIC: 700, Writing: 700, Bio 720
AP Scores: Euro:4, US:5,Chem:4, Bio:5

Schedule
Taken most of available honors and APs, except for Calc and Spanish cuz of scheduling conflicts. No honors or AP math except for stats; started in Algebra I in 9th grade
-Current: AP Physics, AP Gov, Spanish 4, AP Stats, AP Econ, AP English Lit.
-Grade Problems: C/B- in trig, B- 2nd semester in Spanish 3-Honors, B+ in ChemAP. All others are A or A-

Clubs
-Band four years. Librarian-organized and repaired music library
-California Scholarship Federation: four years
-National Honor Society: 2 years
-California Scholarship Program (3.5GPA, top 15% on 2 of 3 subjects on state standarized tests): 3 years

Community Service: 239 hours, featuring…
-8 hours as a poll worker in 2004 election
-128 hours over 2 years at IMMEX, creating web sites to help teach grade school science
-18 hours over 2 years helping to put on school jazz festival
-10 hours helping to put together science kits to teach grade school science

Community College Classes in:
-2 Credits: Performance Technique for Band
-2 Credits: Performance Technique for Band
-4 Credits: Algebra 2
-4 Credits: Trig

Honors
-Century Club-100: 100-199 CS hours in my junior year
-National Merit Commended Scholar (below PSAT semifinalist)
-Principal’s Honor Roll (3.5 GPA)
-Top 25 (4.0 GPA for 2 consecutive semesters)

-Will need financial aid for USC and Stanford
-Are the ECs and GPA weak for UCB? Stanford is more like a school that I’ll apply to just to see if I could get in.

Thanks again for replying!