<p>Half white, half Asian
California Resident
Attended a private Christian High School
Moved to California from Hong Kong in 2004</p>
<p>Planning to Major in Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering</p>
<p>Applying to:
UC Berkeley
UCLA
UCSD
UCI
UCD
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo</p>
<p>UC GPA: 4.1
SAT: 1900
ACT: 30
Subject Tests: Bio 670, MathIIC: 630, tested again and waiting for scores, Physics: waiting for scores (I feel pretty good about the MathIIC and physics subject tests)</p>
<p>12th grade courses:
(AP) Calculus AB
(AP) American Government
(AP) Physics C
(AP) Statistics
(H) Economics
World Literature
String Orchestra</p>
<p>Awards:
Biggest Upset at K12 Nationals Chess Tournament
1st place for 11th grade at scholastic chess tournament
National Honors Society
Principals List (>4.0 GPA)
Outstanding Improvement for Cello</p>
<p>EC:
Active church member and in the youth group
Chess Club for grades 10-12
Concert Band for 9th grade (We performed at Carnegie Hall)
Men’s Soccer for grades 9-11
String Orchestra from grades 10-12 (Learned the cello from scratch)</p>
<p>Community Service:
Orchestra performed at Childrens Hospital
Traveled to an orphanage in Mexico and played/took care of the kids
Helped school host a series of chess tournaments (20 hours so far)
Helped run a chess camp in the summer (25 hours total)
Helped run a soccer camp in the summer for 2 years (50 hours total)</p>
<p>Jobs:
Chess teacher (I teach at local elementary schools for their chess clubs)
Set Up and Take down ( I am responsible for setting up the stage and chairs on Saturday for church. After worship on Sunday, I have to take down the stage and stack the chairs)</p>
<p>AP test scores? According to your scores, you have a fair chance on most, except UCLA, UCB (reach), and UCSD (match, maybe slight reach). If you’d only have done better on the SAT I & II s…</p>
<p>I met with a berkeley representative and they say that they look at ACT and SAT equally, though I dont really believe that 100%. And according to the UC conversion chart, a 30 is around 2050-2080. And like I said before, I think I did pretty well on my November SAT subject tests. Hopefully both over 700.</p>
<p>huutuyet was tripping no joke, kyledavid80 got it right.
UC Berkeley - reach
UCLA - slight reach
UCSD - slight reach/match
UCI - match
UCD - match
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo - safety</p>
<p>By the way, ELC means nothing for Berkeley; they look more at your course selection and GPA and from there can derive where you’d place in your class (which is how they end up with 99% students who were in the top 10% of their graduating classes).</p>
<p>ELC MEANS A LOT TO BERKELEY KYLE DAVID
By the way, ELC means nothing for Berkeley; they look more at your course selection and GPA and from there can derive where you’d place in your class
^ 60% OF ELC APPLICANTS ARE ACCEPTED INTO BERKELEY
THIS IS WAY HIGHER THAN THE 20ISH% for all regular applicants.
60%? thats pretty good
which gives him A MATCH AT CAL.</p>
<p>UCSD: slight reach - high match
UCI/UCD: match
Cal Poly: match
this is wrong.
UCSD accepts 90% ELC applicants
UCI/UCD accepts around 95% of ELC applicants.
hes practically in at those places</p>
<p>UC Berkeley has actually stated that ELC isn’t taken into consideration. Berkeley is not a guaranteed school for ELC applicants, and it doesn’t need the ELC label to tell whether the student would be in such a range – the admissions committee can tell by the students’ classes and grades.</p>
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<p>You can’t go by % admitted for this – that’s simply not how math works. You can do chances like that if the event were random. The event is not random. Thus, you can’t justifiably say “because the acceptance rate is 60%, he is a match at Cal.” Please, learn probability theory.</p>
<p>Not to mention a match is usually defined at 70%, so 50-60% is bordering on slight reach. And by your logic, a perfect score on the SAT would give a person roughly an 80% chance at Harvard (since that’s about what percent get in), making Harvard a safe match - safety. Right.</p>
<p>Further, the OP isn’t even an ELC applicant, so this is all pointless.</p>
<p>Lastly, COULD YOU PERCHANCE TAKE OFF THE CAPS LOCK? It’s somewhat ANNOYING TO READ.</p>
<p>OP, my D attends a Christian School in CA ( and apparently could care less about how to compete for admission). I wonder about the impact on SAT 2’s. Too bad there is none in religious studines given the number of classes you end up taking, perhaps at the expense of advance classes that would prepare for SAt 2’s. I think that is an interesting context for ELC. Any thoughts?</p>
<p>Yea i had to take 4 years of theology classes (which takes up a lot of time) in order to graduate from my school. But I don’t think it’s necessary to make a whole SAT 2 on religions…</p>