My chances for USC and UCLA

hockeydude95
Fri, 03 Aug 2012 02:46:53 +0000

I know both these schools are big reaches at the moment with my ACT, but I am taking the September ACT and hoping to go up a few more points. Any feedback would be appreciated about my chances of getting in and I am a rising senior.

Race: White
Gender: Male

Tests: ACT - 27 (E:26,M:32,R:25,S:25,W:10)

GPA and Course Load:
Unweighted: 3.72
Weighted: 4.28
Some honors freshmen year
Mostly honors and AP sophomore year
Mostly honors and AP junior year
Some honors and mostly AP senior year
AP Psych - 5
AP Spanish - 5

Upward GPA trend:
First semester of freshmen year was a 3.9 weighted, last semester of junior year was 4.52

Extracurriculars:
DECA - 11th
JV Baseball - 9th, 10th
JV Hockey - 9th (captain), Varsity Hockey - 10th, 11th, 12th
JV Golf - 9th , Varsity Golf - 11th, 12th
Volunteer tutor for elementary school kids (mostly hispanic)
Volunteer in helping kids “Learn to Skate”
Hospital Volunteer
Managing a business since age 13
Violinist since age 10
Pianist since age 8

Work:
Office Assistant for a company in downtown Chicago (only for this summer and the past summer).

Additional Details:
School doesn’t do class rank.
Excellent letters of recommendation.
Don’t think this will make much of an impact but I plan to write about it in my essay: I started learning Spanish at age 7 and now I’m fluent. I went on a two week trip to Spain this summer through the school to help learn more about the language. I actually took classes during the week in Spain and they really helped my development of the language.

Thanks for your help!!! I would greatly appreciate any advice you could give me to make my application better, and increase my chances. Thanks!!!