Chance Me for UCs!

soapdispenser
Sat, 09 Feb 2019 01:40:22 +0000

I’m currently a senior and I applied to UCLA, Davis, Berkeley, Santa Barbara, San Diego, and Irvine. I have pretty good test scores and leadership but my grades aren’t the best. Here are my stats:

Asian-Caucasian female, in-state
School: Large public high school in California, we send at least 15-20 kids to UCs every year.
Major: Political Science
GPA: 4.08 capped weighted / 3.7 unweighted / around 4.4 fully weighted
Class Rank: Top 6% (don’t know exact number)
ACT: 34 (36 R, 36 W, 33 M, 29 S)
AP Scores: World History (5), English Language (5), Spanish Language (5), US History (5)
SAT Subject Tests: World History (750), Literature (750), US History (770)
Senior Year Courses: AP Calc BC, AP Lit, AP Environmental Science, AP Econ, AP US Gov
I also took four transferable community college courses (and got A’s)

ECs:
Editor-in-Chief and News Editor of my school newspaper
Internship at an online magazine ( I wrote articles and conducted interviews)
President of the UNICEF club on campus; we’re one of the biggest clubs at my school
President of another local community service club
Arts director of a multicultural club
Attended a summer institute at UCLA the summer after junior year
Summer camp counselor since freshman year
Member of NHS, CSF, National Spanish Honor Society

Awards:
Scholastic Art and Writing (Silver Key and Honorable Mention, both for journalism)
National Merit Commended
National Spanish Exam Gold Award
School-specific awards in Anatomy and AP Spanish
AP Scholar with Honor

My personal insight questions were pretty okay I think? I had my journalism and English teachers read them and they said they were good. Also, I haven’t received letter of recommendation/supplemental information requests from anywhere, hopefully that’s a good thing and doesn’t mean I’ve been outright rejected lol.

I also applied to Cal Poly SLO, SDSU, USC, University of Washington, University of Michigan, Rice, and Tulane. I got into SDSU early so at least I’m going to college!