Chances for a worried senior?

Colleges & Universities University of California - Los Angeles
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<p>i honestly thought i had a decent chance until i got a letter today that i wouldn’t be considered for usc’s trustee and presidential scholarships…
did i overvalue my chances? please help?</p>

<p>Eth: Korean (2nd gen)
Sex: Male
location: socal
school type: small public high school in rich neighborhood, 40% asian, 45% white</p>

<p>Class of 2011
GPA 9th-12th (unweighted): 3.8
GPA 9th-12th (weighted): 4.7</p>

<p>Class Rank:
not reported for our school
class size: ~600</p>

<p>APs:
taken:
Euro hist (5)
Psychology (5)</p>

<p>Calc AB (4)
Bio (5)
Art Hist (4)
Spanish Lang (4)
Chem (5)
AP scholar with distinction</p>

<p>taking senior year:
Economics AP
Calc BC
Comp Sci
English Lit
Physics B
Spanish Lit</p>

<p>total 13 APs</p>

<p>Senior grades:
Econ (B)
Calc (B)
Compsci (B)
English (A)
Physics (B)
Span (A) </p>

<p>comm college courses:
junior year: intro to sociology (A)
senior year: film appreciation (A)</p>

<p>SATIIs:
Math ii: 800
Biology M: 800
Chem:750
World History: 720
Spanish w/out listening: 730
Korean: 800</p>

<p>SATI: CR:730 Writing:780 Math:800
SAT total:
2250 in one sitting,
2310 superscored</p>

<p>ACT: none</p>

<p>Recommendation Letters:
Eng Lit and Eng 2h teacher (same person)
Chemistry teacher (had him for honors and AP)
Essays:
ehhhh… something about volunteering at the hospital and an epiphany… not bad, but not excellent, either.</p>

<p>EXTRACURRICS:
400 hours hospital volunteering since soph year - director of activities, appointed head front desk secretary, specially assigned to Emergency Medicine
been a tutor since freshman year
3 years in science research (class offered at school where we go to science fairs)
CSF
national merit - psat 226; (right now, semifinalist)
been playing golf for 4 years (not at school, and no rankings)
club president since freshman year</p>

<p>honor societies:
mu alpha theta
spanish honor society
science nat. honor society</p>

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<p>You should be in.</p>

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<p>You should be good man. I had very similar scores, a few more 5’s, almost same sat(2300), about same sat2’s (750-800), but a much lower gpa. When you get in, you’ll find that a lot of the admissions process depends on what high school or area you are from. Sounds like bs, but you’re a smart kid and you’ll be fine. Enjoy second semester.</p>

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<p>thanks guys…
but i mean…
i have no sport, or instrument, or speech/debate, or anything significant extracurricular wise…
and it’s not like my academics are stellar either…
but thanksss
i only applied to la, berk, i, sd, and usc… but usc and ucla are the only practical options for me ahaha. hopefully i get into either!</p>

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<p>With your stats, neither UCLA nor Berkeley should really care. I’m surprised you didn’t apply to Ivies. (Of course, it’s understandable that tuition would be crazy expensive and that many thrifty Asians would prefer state school.)</p>

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<p>haha yupp. i live right in LA.
oh and for ucla the sat score that’s calculated is the one from one sitting right?
so i’d have a 2250…
any thoughts on this, and how it’ll effect my chances?</p>

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<p>2250 is well above average. Stop worrying… there’s nothing you can do about it now. Please try to enjoy your last few months of high school; don’t spend every minute until (mid to late) March thinking about admission decisions! (I’m struggling with this myself :[)</p>