Chance Daughter for Psych, 3.9 UW GPA, 1460 SAT [TX resident, top 6% rank]

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  • Demographics (Large Texas Public School, Female)
  • Intended Major(s) Psychology
  • UW GPA, Rank, and Test Scores (UW 3.9, Rank 70 out of 1180, 1460 SAT)
  • Coursework (9 APs, 3 dual credit, all remaining honors)
  • Awards (NHS, Science NHS, AP Scholar with Honors)
  • Extracurriculars (Harvard summer studies for Psych, published research, worked with the Syracuse University Psych department head on two papers which are being presented at Midwest and Southeaster Regional Psych Conferences this March in Chicago and Orlando, peer tutoring, summer mentor for middle school girls at a three-week camp, Special Olympics volunteer hours, actual summer jobs, dual sport athlete in high school)
  • Essays/LORs Excellent essays, short answers and LORs
  • Cost Constraints / Budget None
  • Schools including Safety, Match, Reach (include ED/EA when applicable) Wake Forest EDII, already differed from USC, Michigan, UChicago. Accepted to all safety schools with honors and merit scholarships. Reaches are Vanderbilt, UCLA, Yale, Rice. Praying Wake Forest comes through so we can move on!!!
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Congratulation on being a competitive applicant. I will list some statistical data for UCLA.

  1. UCLA is test blind so your SAT score. This means it will not be used in your application review. UCLA does not accept LOR’s.

  2. OOS admit rate for UCLA overall was 8.6%. Overall admit rate for the College of Letters and Sciences was 11% where the Psychology is housed. UCLA does not admit by major for the College.

  3. What is the Unweighted UC GPA and Fully weighted UC GPA since UCLA will focus on these GPA’s in their application review? GPA Calculator for the University of California – RogerHub

UCLA Freshman profile:
GPA statistics for admitted freshman students|GPA|Median|Middle 25% - 75%|
|Weighted GPA|4.57|4.37-4.74|
|Unweighted GPA|4.00|3.95-4.00|

In general, UCLA should be considered a Reach school for all applicants. As stated, no budget limit but can you afford $74K/year to attend along with possibly attending a Professional or Graduate school after Undergrad?

Best of luck to her.

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I think that she will get into Wake Forest.

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Thank you! That would be our best-case scenario, it’s her first choice, but if I read or hear RECORD INCREASE IN APPLICATIONS one more time, I may go crazy. :slight_smile:

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Certainly you have a chance at Wake - especially given the full pay.

That said, it’s psych - you can do very well from many schools including your safeties (whatever they are) given grad school is likely. The student, not the school, will decide the future and it sounds like the student is very engaged already.

I think the deferrals and reaches are tough - but you never know. I’d say Vandy, for psych, would be your best get - but Wake, even if not ED, would be the easiest get.

Best of luck.

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Thank you for the message. You are 1000% correct with regards to the student, not the school, will decide the future. Her goal is law school, following in her dad’s footsteps. They have discussed her safeties (two top 100 private universities with a ton of merit scholarship money). She is just so in love with Wake, so we agreed to that one ED. The others we will see how it all shakes out. Thank you for taking the time to post.

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Oh yeah - law school - look at Harvard and where they go from. So law school can be done from anywhere - literally.

And it’s expensive - so if budget matters, you can save no.

Good love with Wake…but Psych is a low paid or grad school major and you’ve already said law school and the LSAT and for the top schools today, work experience after will be what matters.

In some ways, an easier school with higher GPA may be an advantage.

Any which way, remind her that there are no dream schools - all schools have issues - whether bad profs, roomies, food, etc. - there’s likely many schools she can love.

Best of luck to her.

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Well, S24 got her acceptance to Wake last night. So happy to have this process behind us!

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Congrats!! It’s such a nice feeling to be done! And psychology is a perfectly fine major, especially if she is planning to pursue a professional degree postgrad.

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