:] Chance my number one school

joshyclavat
Fri, 08 Jan 2010 03:17:11 +0000

I’m currently a senior and was wondering if you guys can give me some analysis?
I’d just like to know my chances since this is one of my number one school. Though I applied to all the UC’s, I love San Diego the best but I heard that because they admit based on a point system, it is very hard to get admitted.

Asian (Chinese)
Californian Resident
Planned Major: Business (Accounting), don’t quite remember if it was this, or Economics

Top 100 in the country’s high school. Very competitive magnet high school. Not sure if it makes a difference though. >> It did half kill me, going there.

my school’s transcripts gives TWO GPA’s, these are Academic only
GPA 9th-12th (unweighted): 3.47
GPA 9th- 12th (weighted): 4.13
GPA 10th-12th (unweighted): 3.32
GPA 10th- 12th (weighted): 4.0

Total GPA (9-12) (unweighted): 3.52
Total GPA (9-12) (weighted): 4.12

UC GPA: roughly 3.7

School doesn’t rank but I know I’m in the 30th percentile.

Freshman Classes:
Computer Logic and Algorithms
Fundamentals of Programming
English I Honors
Spanish I
Geometry H
Biology IB SL
Geography IB SL

Sophmore Classes (I traveled to China for the first semester, hence the double

classes)
Information Technology in a Global Society IB
English II Honors
Spanish II Honors
Algebra II
Chemistry
AP European History

Sophmore America Classes:
Same as above except
AP Computer Science A (replace ITGS)
Chemistry Honors
Algebra II Honors

Summer of Sophmore Year (because of my China trip, my grades were horrible

Sophmore year, in Algebra II I got a D so I had to retake it):
Algebra II

Junior Classes:
Business and Management IB SL
AP/IB English Language
Spanish IB SL
AP US History
Pre Calculus
Physics

Senior Classes:
AP Government and Politics
AP/IB Biology
AP Calculus AB
AP English Literature
AP Macroeconomics
Drawing and Painting
Accounting for Business
Troy Tech Internship (our school’s tech program, we do an intership through

this)

SAT I:
CR: 800
Math: 670/700 (T.T failure Asian, failure at math :])
Writing: 690/730
Highest one sitting: 2200
Highest composite: 2230

SAT II’s:
Bio/E: 660 (bad, I know)
Math IIC: 690 (T.T fail, I know)
US History: 730
Literature: 650/720 (No idea why theres such a big difference)

No ACT

APs:
Comp Sci A 3 (bleh)
European History 3 (also bleh)
US History 5
English Language 5

Plan to take Bio, Lit, Gov, Econ, Calc this year

Awards (weak here):
Principle’s Honor Roll
Honor Roll
California Scholarship Federation member
AP Scholar with Honor
National Merit Commended Scholar (215 :[)

Extracurricular (pretty weak here too)
Swim 10th and 11th, JV
Leo Club 11th 12th grade
Tzu Chi (Taiwanese global community service/volunteer organization) 10th 11th

12th grade
Go/Chinese Chess Club 11th 12th grade
Summer Internship at NOC SELPA (North Orange County Special Education Local Plan blah ><): basically I helped to design and implement curriculum for autistic and special needs middle school children.

All of my community service is probably no more than 120 hours ><

Essays: I would like to think these are pretty strong >< but some of my other classmates wrote pretty DARN GOOD essays.

One essay was about my experience in school in China. I talked about how it made me more independent. It was a pretty strong essay (I hope).

The second essay was about how I wanted to explore the world outside my small city, and that made me want to apply to schools outside of southern california.

I also wrote a short paragraph noting that I had a reaaaally big drop in my GPA sophmore year (2.8 GPA) because after I came back from China, I wasn’t really prepared to come back up to the standard of work that my home high school had. But in junior year, I really brought it up with straight A’s (and 1 B)

Thanks a bunch for reading through all this!