<p>My daughter has a weighted GPA of 3.9 and a 30 on the ACT. She is in all honors classes, many community service hours, in a school honor society club, president of her youth group, and on the board of directors at her temple. Some schools she is thinking about
UCLA, USC, Tulane, Berkeley, and UCSD. What are the chances?</p>
<p>You should repost this in a different forum – forums for those schools, and in the “What Are My Chances?” threads.</p>
<p>I will try to figure that out!</p>
<p>Is she in state for CA? The UCs have been very tough for students with those stats over the past few years. My kids had a slightly higher GPA and ended up at private schools where they were in a top ten percent and received merit scholarships that made them the same cost as the UCs. Have you considered that option?</p>
<p>We are in CA. What private schools?</p>
<p>Lots of them depending on what she is looking for. My son went out of area to Boston and that particular school was looking to expand out of New England (Northeastern University). It is now tougher to get in there.
Daughter is very happy at University of the Pacific. You might also look at California Lutheran, University of Redlands…depends on her major/interests. University of the Pacific is a much smaller school than the UCs. Does your Daughter particularly want a large school? If you post more information on the parent board and retitle the thread you will get better responses…</p>
<p>You also should visit the Financial Aid Forum to get ideas about where she might be offered merit-based scholarships.</p>
<p>Posts 2 and 7 hit this on the head.</p>
<p>The application for the UCs is a common one for all of them - you just check the boxes of the specific UCs being applied to - along with multiplying the app fee by the number of boxes checked. Given this, it’s a good idea to check the boxes for all UCs she’d be possibly willing to go to. This way she maximizes her chances of getting into some UC even if she doesn’t make it into the ones you indicated which aren’t all that easy to be admitted to and are becoming less and less predictable as to admission chances.</p>
<p>Don’t worry about the increased app fee with the increased number of boxes checked - that cost will pale in comparison to the cost of 4 years of college. ;)</p>