Chance me UCs [CA resident, 3.8/4.13/4.21 UC GPAs; chemistry major]

Chance Me / Match Me
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Demographics
US Citizen, California (Norcal)
Big competitive public hs
Middle Eastern Male

Intended Major(s)
Chemistry

UC GPAs
Unweighted: 3.8
Weighted capped: 4.13
Weighted uncapped: 4.21
Had a big upward trend, I got 3 Bs in first semester sophomore year but then after got all As second semester sophomore year, and 2 Bs in my junior year class in AP Lang. Talked about this in the additional info section

Coursework
Sophomore year: Trig H, Chem H, HGAP(4), English reg, painting, spanish 3
Junior year: AP Calc BC(5), AP Chem(4), AP Lang(3), US history reg, biotech, intro to cs
Senior year: AP Stats, AP Physics, Reg English, AP Gov, AP Micro, APCS

Awards
AP Scholar with Honor (11)
Scholar Athlete (10 and 11)
Student of the Month (12)

** Main Extracurriculars**
Chem Shadowing Program at Stanford (got to shadow a computational chem and biochem lab) (11th summer)

Event Chair, Volunteer Coordinator, and tutor of a club helping a underprivileged area(10-12)
250+ hours of tutoring (mostly tutoring math)
Help/plan fundraisers: book drive (300+ books donated), toy drive (50+ toys donated with gift wrapping), and able to help donate 60+ supply/school kits
Plan events in the club and help plan/run yearly summer camp

4 year varsity tennis athlete, and play a lot of tennis outside of school (9 - 12) and tennis coach/hitting partner(12)

Avid Tutor, tutor mostly chem and alg 2 (12)

Pickleball Club Co Owner (10-12)

Essays/LORs/Other
My UC essays I thought they were pretty strong, spent a lot of time and got a lot of people to read them and help edit them

Goal is to get into either UC Davis, UCSD, UCB, or UCI

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Overall a competitive applicant. Here is some UC admit data based on your UC Capped weighted GPA and also your major.

Admit rates 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% 0%
Davis 58% 20% 5% 2%
Irvine 35% 10% 3% 0%
Los Angeles 13% 2% 1% 0%
Merced 97% 97% 95% 85%
Riverside 95% 83% 42% 17%
San Diego 37% 8% 1% 0%
Santa Barbara 41% 8% 3% 0%
Santa Cruz 69% 45% 16% 4%

Chemistry admit rates:

Campus Chemistry
UC Berkeley 15% College of Chemistry
UC Davis 37% College of L&S does not admit by major but by academic department
UC Irvine 37%
UCLA 11% College of L&S does not admit by major
UC Merced 89%
UC Riverside 91%
UC San Diego Estimated <35%
UC Santa Barbara 32% College of L&S does not admit by major
UC Santa Cruz 64%

Hopefully you have some solid Likely schools on your list. UCB will be your toughest admit.

Best of luck.

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Davis looks like your best shot, although I wouldn’t rule any of them out. Hopefully you’ll end up with a few acceptances to choose from, which is definitely possible, although not guaranteed. I do think Davis is a solid target, though. Do you have any true safeties on your list, just in case?

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i have some cal states and other privates etc but the goal is to go to a uc

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