Chance me fam

MWolf
Sun, 26 Jan 2020 19:45:25 +0000

First of all - great job! Whatever you do and wherever you are accepted, you have already done a lot of which you should be proud.

You are competitive for them all, however, the reaches are reaches for anybody.

UCLA, UCSB, Berkeley - you need to compute your UC GPAs, and see what percent of students with similar GPAs and SATs were accepted to these universities (the info is here: https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/infocenter/freshman-admissions-summary). Depending on your UC GPA, UCLA and Berkeley can be between high reaches to low reaches, while UCSD and UCSB cane can either be high matches to almost safeties. I assume that, based on your GPA, your weighted/capped UC GPA is higher than 3.9.

Stanford, Harvard, Yale, etc - the acceptance rate of unhooked applicants who apply RD is about 2%-5% for any of those, so yours could be maybe double that at most, so consider them all to be high reaches.

As for colleges with a 15%-30% acceptance rate, it would depend on how well you craft your application, what is the acceptance rate of non-athlete from your high school to those colleges, and whether you apply ED. So the chances can be anything from excellent to very unlikely.

Apply strategically - find colleges which are the best fit for you, put together a well crafted application, demonstrate interest in those colleges in which this is important, and I think that you will likely have your safeties, a few of your matches, and a good chance for one of your reaches.

Your recommendation from a university professor is not helpful. Colleges are just looking at what your teachers and counselors say about you. However, doing research at a university does help.

So now it’s time to start setting up your list of colleges.