Chances? More Like Impossibilities!

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>Aim:
Undeclared?Economics?
UC Berkeley
USC
UCLA
Pepperdine</p>

<p>Background
School: Pretty tough school at least ppl here think so. Pretty big class.
Ethnicity: Asian American
Medical: Diabetes Type I (Diagnosed January) </p>

<p>GPA: 3.447
Rank: 0 of 508?? Not Yet Ranked</p>

<p>Courses
9th
Honors English 9
Honors Algebra II
Honors Biology
Geography/Health
Spanish II
Physical Education
*Chinese 1 Separately</p>

<p>10th
Honors Chemistry
Honors Geometry
Honors English 10
World History
Spanish III
Physical Education</p>

<p>11th
Honors Precalculus
AP US History 2 (Getting Rescored Because Thought I Did Well)
AP Biology 5
Honors English 11
AP Psychology 4
AP Statistics 4</p>

<p>12th</p>

<p>Digital Imaging
Government/Econ
Japanese 1
Marketing 1
Calculus AB
AP English</p>

<p>SAT’s</p>

<p>I. *Retaking In October for 3rd Time
Critical Reading: 600
Math: 690
Writing: 710 Essay: 11</p>

<p>II. * Willing To Retake
Biology: 700
Math IIC: 770</p>

<p>ACT
*Taking @ End of September </p>

<p>Awards
Odyssey of the Mind Nationals
Couple Golf Tournaments </p>

<p>Extracurricular
Varsity Golf – freshman to senior
JV Badminton – freshman to sophomore
Leo Club – freshman to junior
Key Club – freshman to senior
Golf Tournaments – freshman to senior
Kaiser Permanente Pediatrics Volunteer – freshman to senior
Odyssey of The Mind - freshman</p>

<p>Positions
Key Club VP – sophomore to senior
JV Badminton Captain – sophomore</p>

<p>Work Experience
Father’s Dental Office
Tax Service
Some Corporation – Accounting</p>

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<p>For UCLA/UCBerkeley, you need to know your UC GPA. A handful of people on the boards are almost dissuaded from applying there because they think their cumulative GPAs are what the UC’s consider. The UC’s will consider sophomore and junior year grades, with a maximum 8 semesters of APs, and only A-G classes considered. If your 3.4 is the result of a screw up freshman year, then there’s hope yet. Until you know for sure what your UC GPA is, I would avoid trying to chance that.</p>

<p>I’ve seen people with worse get into Pepperdine, so I would say you have a good shot there. </p>

<p>USC is going to be a reach, although your EC’s seem decent enough.</p>

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<p>Does that mean that I would need to get 2300-2400 on my SAT retake this October? And if I retake my SAT2’S I’d need to retake and get high 700’s anddd ace my senior year to up my gpa? Ahh not sure what my UC gpa is >_< yet</p>

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<p>Cause I really want to go to USC. But I’m kinda of debating cause should I kill myself trying to raise my SAT’s when raising it I still may not have a chance at all. Hah That’s why I’m a little bleh</p>

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<p>If it helps, you could go on the USC forum and see just exactly what kind of stats people got when they were admitted/rejected. Bear in mind that people on CC tend to be a strong pool, so it might not necessarily reflect USC’s overall competitiveness. <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=294755&highlight=official+decisions[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=294755&highlight=official+decisions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Again with the UC GPA, post up your grades and classes from 10th~11th grade and someone here can calculate it for you (takes less than 2 minutes)</p>