Chance me for UCLA and other UCS and privates [3.88 UW, 35 ACT, Aerospace Engineering]

Chance Me / Match Me
1

Schools I want to be chanced for: UCLA(Top Choice), UCI, UC Berkley, USC, Purdue, Stanford, Caltech, CalPoly SLO, Purdue, University of Chicago, MIT(Caltech and MIT are more reaches)

Demographics Gender: Male, Race/Ethnicity: Asian (Indian), Residence: California, Type of School: competitive public high school

Intended Major(s) Aerospace engineering

Academics (10-11 GPA)3.88 UW/4.54 W, 13 AP Weighted Courses(Eventually will take), 9 Honors Courses
Test Scores 35 ACT, 1490 SAT(1st try, taking again in March, looking for 1520-1540)

Extracurriculars

Made it to the finals of an international competition, StellarExplorers, with 250+ teams, 1000+ students, the top 10 teams made it to finals. Placed top 10 throughout qualifying rounds, top 5 in Semifinals round, and going to finals in April, held in Denver

Led the creation a robotics competition for Orphans/Underprivileged kids, and for high schoolers, collaborated with OAF(Orphan Assistance Fund) and UCI, and offered scholarships and awards. 7k budget, and led a team of 20+ people to create this project to raise stem awareness to underprivileged youth.

First Robotics Club - Hardware Lead for one year, Was part of CAD/Hardware Subteams for 3 Years

Led the creation of a robotics competition for Orphans/Underprivileged kids, and for high schoolers, collaborated with OAF(Orphan Assistance Fund) and UCI, and offered scholarships and awards. 7k budget, and led a team of 20+ people to create this project to raise stem awareness to underprivileged youth.

First Robotics Club - CAD Lead for one year, Was part of CAD/Hardware Subteams for 3 Years

Speech and Debate - Joined Freshman year, took break Sophomore year, president for Junior and Senior year

Created a product, GPS car tracker, developed it over a year and got a patent for it

Science Olympiad - Sophomore-Senior Year, got top ten/top five a couple of times in regional

Assisted with Research with UCI/UCLA professors

Tennis Coaching for 4 years

JV Tennis for three years, Varsity for one(projected for next year)

Awards

AP Scholar with Distinction

National Merit Scholarship(Gold)

Finals in International Comp(^)

2

Great record.

Why U Chicago ? I don’t believe has engineering beyond molecular.

That’s a heady list. Certainly Purdue is possible but which is your safety ?

Congrats on what you accomplished. You are worthy and your test will help where it can - not at UC. You do need one beneath.

Just in case.

Best of lock.

3

If that is your real name, please consider changing it to something more anonymous. You can find out to do that here: How Do I Change My Username?.

A few questions:
Are the GPAs you posted your UC GPAs? You can use this calculator to calculate/confirm your UC GPAs. Make sure you read the instructions below to make sure that the courses you are weighting are truly weighted by the UCs and CSUs.

I assume you are a junior and will be applying next year. Is that correct?

What is National Merit Scholarship (Gold)?

4

Congratulations on being a competitive and qualified applicant. I am going to list some statistical information for the UC’s and SLO to help you determine your chances.

Aerospace Admit rates:

Campus Aerospace
UC Berkeley 4.5%
UC Irvine 18.4%
UCLA 3.7%
Cal Poly SLO 12%
UC San Diego Estimated <20% Capped major

2023 Admit rates overall based on the Capped weighted UC GPA and not major specific.

Campus 4.00+ 3.70-3.99 3.30-3.69 3.00-3.29
Berkeley 17% 3% 1% 1%
Davis 64% 25% 6% 2%
Irvine 42% 13% 1% 0%
Los Angeles 14% 1% 0% 0%
Merced 96% 95% 93% 87%
Riverside 92% 84% 55% 14%
San Diego 39% 9% 1% 0%
Santa Barbara 46% 8% 2% 0%
Santa Cruz 85% 65% 38% 12%

Good luck and I would add a couple of Safety schools to the list.

5

With the exception of Purdue that is probably a match, they’re all reaches.

What are your safety schools? If you only apply to the ones you listed, there’s a good chance that you get locked out. :grimacing:

2 Likes
6

Mean to be Presidential Service Award(Gold), my bad

1 Like
7

I agree Chicago seems not at all what you are looking for, and you also seem really lacking in likelies and targets. I’d suggest taking a look at RPI, Colorado (Boulder), Virginia Tech, Iowa State, Florida Tech, Utah State, Wichita State, and Embry-Riddle.

8

Thanks for clarifying. At the bottom of your post, you should be able to edit it.

Did you do well on your PSAT? Could you be a National Merit Semi Finalist?

9

This topic was automatically closed 90 days after the last reply. If you’d like to reply, please flag the thread for moderator attention.