Chance me for UCLA???

Lenk123
Wed, 09 Aug 2017 05:29:33 +0000

HI,

Please be HONEST and chance me! I’ve been so worried about this…
So I am from an average public high school in California. I am the top 14% of my class. I am an Asian immigrant and I was not in the US until my 10th grade. I was in a pretty competitive and hard high school in my homeland and so my GPA in 9th grade is horrific(2.1 or sth)(although I heard this is not important). My 10th grade schedule was very weak because I was a new immigrant and my counselor assumed I can’t handle hard classes. So, she gave me the easiest classes and I didn’t realize my schedule sucks until it’s too late to change. I didn’t have much extracurricular activities in my 10th grade for the same reason. Now, although I think I did what I could do, I still don’t have strong extracurricular activities. I seriously think that my 10th grade is going to lower my chance a lot!

information of me:
My classes in 10th grade (weighted/unweighted GPA:3.91):
1st semester-2 period of ESL class, drawing, World history(i had this class in 9th grade it was a retake), PE, geometry
grades: straight A’s
2nd semester:
switched to regular 10th grade english class, everything else remained the same. Since regular english class is an one period class unlike ESL class, I had an open period and became an TA.
grades: As except B for english

10th grade Summer: Algebra 2 in community college
grade: A

My classes in 11th grade (weighted GPA: 4.33, unweighted GPA: 4.0)
American Literature, Japanese 2 (not my native language/my third language), AP physics, AP 2D studio Art, US history, pre-calculus
grades: straight A’s in both semester

11th grade Summer: online classes: -college and career -health education
grades: A for both

Classes in 12th grade will be:
AP Calculus AB, AP Japanese, AP Psychology, European Literature, Economics/Democracy, Physiology

SAT & AP scores:

SAT 1: 1280 (english:600, math: 690) (going to retake)
SAT 2: did not take any

AP 2D studio art: 5
AP Physics: 4

Leadership roles:
Vice president of a school club(11th grade)
Secretary of a program outside of school (11th grade)
President of a program outside of school (12th grade)

Awards:
-two city-wide art award and one school-wide math award

Extracurricular:
-volunteer in community services for about 200 hours a year (working with seniors-bringing them on field trip and hosting fun activities with them)
-participant of youth advocacy program(12 grade)
-japanese culture club member (11-12 grade)
-being one of the core organizing member of a community fair (11th grade summer)
-school campus TV crew member (9th grade) (I am thinking if i should take this out because it’s too long ago but i thought this might add a little variety to what i do because i spend most of my time volunteering)

Things that I did but not really sure where to put in the application at all:
-helped writing grant for my program and successfully funded for $4000
-helped in planning field trip involved in over 90 seniors
-participated in city beautify project about beautifying a street wall with Mosaic art
-in charged of, planned, outreached and gave technology literacy classes for seniors

Thank you so much!!!