Chance Me for UCSB!

Billybeejr
Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:40:20 +0000

I’m from Buffalo, New york. I Visited UCSB yesterday and I can’t see myself anywhere else. I plan to retake the SAT in October. The Average GPA for the school was a 3.91 and SAT was 1848, so my stats look up to par. I completely blew off sophomore year and it shows in some of my grades and scores. My worst grades, a c in french 2 and an f in chem, hopefully wont look as bad after acing french 3 and getting a solid b in chem, then getting 93 on the exams. I go to the top ranked public hs in the northeast.

Freshman year: 3.4
Algebra: b
World History(year 1): b
Biology:b
French:a
English:a

Sophomore Year : 2.8 (F in chemistry :(, but I repeated junior year so it wont be counted in my GPA calculation)
Chemistry: f (I didn’t have enough lab credits to sit for the exam.)
French 2: c
Geometry: b
AP World History(year2):b
AP English: a

Junior Year: 4.2
Chemistry: b
French 3: a
Algebra 2/Trigonometry: a
AP US History: a
IB English(year1):a

UW 3.2 UC 3.89

Senior Year Courseload:
AP Calculus
AP Statistics
Physics
IB English
Economics/Government(half a credit of each).

I’ve been volunteering with the black leadership commission on aids since freshman year.
3 Years of Rugby/Chess
I was chess captain every year.

New York State Regents Grades:
100 on US history
95 on World History
94 On English
93 On Chemistry
93 On French Level 3
90 On Algebra 2/ Trigonometry

There are more I can’t remember.

AP Grades
5 on AP US
2 on AP English
1 on AP World

650 M/610 W/600 Reading 1860 Composite

Ive overcome a lot of hardship, I come from a single parent household and my mother has MS. I’m also URM (AA). I’m going to write about having to take care of my cousin’s 4 young children when she lost custody my sophomore year in the personal statement, so hopefully the dip in performance won’t look as bad.

If there’s anything else I can do to improve my chances, could you please tell me? Thanks in advance CC.