Please chance, scared for only 4 classes senior year

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>I’m extremely scared about my weak senior year course load. Will my weaker course load hurt my chances at UC’s and and other top colleges, or can my grades and EC’s make up for it? I will be applying for a Computer Engineering major.</p>

<p>Courses and grades
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[<em>] Freshmen Courses: Lit/Writ, PE9, Alg 2/Trignometry, Spanish 1, 3D Design (art), Biology (All A’s)
[</em>] Sophomore courses: Chem Honors, Pre-Calculus Honors, Spanish 2, World History, World literature, PE (All A’s)
[<em>] Junior Year: AP Calculus BC (A/A, 5), APUSH(B/A 5), AP Computer Science (A/A, 4), Physics Honors (A both sem), Spanish 3(A both sems), American Literature Honors (B both sems)
[</em>] Senior year: AP Statistics, AP Physics C, US Gov (1st sem)/AP Microecon(2nd sem), British Literature
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<p>SAT Math II 800, USH 730, SAT I 2280, UW GPA 3.92 (3.87 not including freshman year), Weighted 4.31 (4.46 without freshman year)
I got a 660 on the physics subject test, but we still hadn’t learned a good chunk of the material. I’m retaking this in October.</p>

<p>EC’s:
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[<em>]Mridangam (Indian classical percussion instrument) 7 years, won 1st place in a competition
[</em>]Officer of FBLA 1 year, won 3rd place in a regional competition
[<em>]Officer of Leo Club 1 year
[</em>]VP and Co-founder of Hindu Club, 2 years
[<em>]Volunteering 8 months, 3 hours a week at a welfare center. Worked at front desk, interacting with clients
[li] My major EC: Online cyber security resource - founder, and editor in chief, worked with global team of engineers. Has thousands of pageviews, pulls in hundreds of views every month. Received praise from major names in cybersecurity field. This has been featured in 3 newspapers so far. I am writing my essay about this.[/li][li] Major EC part 2: Got an internship at a cybersecurity company thanks to ^above website. Working here for 2 months during the summer, 4 days a week, 8 hours a day. I am thinking of getting a rec letter from the CEO of the company, who I work under directly.[/li][</em>]Designed various websites, including two for world-famous Indian musicians and one for a company in India
[<em>]370 hours at federal research institution in india doing research that will benefit the poor farmers
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About me:
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[</em>]Indian male
[<em>]Income bracket: 140k
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Please chance me for
[ul]
[</em>]Stanford
[<em>]Carnegie Mellon
[</em>]UC San Diego (I am in state)
[<em>]UC Berkeley
[</em>]MIT
[<em>]UC Santa Barbara
[</em>]USC
[<em>]Urbana Champaign
[</em>]UCLA
[li]Santa Clara University[/li][/ul]
Once again, I’m really scared about my senior year course load. How will taking only 4 classes affect my chances? If it’s going to hurt me a lot, I’ll take Data Structures or some other advanced programming course at a CC.</p>

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<p>Wow- you’re really impressive. I would guess that you’re in to all the places you mentioned, except for Stanford and MIT where you’ve definitely got a chance. </p>

<p>I don’t think that’s a weak course load- but if you have time to take another course or something, why not? It could only help. I would recommend taking Multivariable Calc or something at a UC extension, if you live near one. If not, take it at a community college.</p>

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<p>Thanks, I’ll consider that! </p>

<p>Anyone else have any input?</p>

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<p>I agree with the previous poster. You are qualified for all the schools, that being said MiT and Stanford are beyond competitive. Your EC’s are unique, I could see you getting into MiT despite the difficulty of being admitted there…</p>

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<p>Thanks! As of now, Stanford is my top choice, so we’ll see how that goes! I just hope taking only 4 classes senior year won’t hurt me too badly.</p>

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<p>Does your school have AP Bio or AP Chem? I would definitely add another science class to your senior schedule ( since you have room). Top schools want to see that you challenged yourself in HS, 4 classes shows you are taking the easy way out.</p>

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<p>Our school usually doesn’t let people double up on a subject like that, but I’ll look into it.</p>

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<p>Anyone else have any feedback? bump bump!</p>

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<p>And bump again!</p>

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<p>Last bump! Any other thoughts?</p>

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<p>jk one last bump LOL</p>