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1081

<p>Alright…so…here goes nothing:</p>

<p>UW GPA: 3.84
W GPA: 4.53</p>

<p>AP’s:
World History
English Language
Psychology
Environmental Science
Biology
Literature
Human Geography</p>

<p>Passing grades on all of them, if that matters.</p>

<p>-President of Environment club, Tutoring club, and Project Perch
-Awards for AP Environmental, Photography (chosen #1 out of 180 students)
-Most service hours in NHS award
-Leader for Widlife Care Center Project, Humane Society, Animal Supply Drive
-Media Chair for Operation Smile
-School Newspaper Reporter
-Wrote Environmental grant for school (got $2,000 to build butterfly garden/outside classroom)
-Interned for a New York City Art project
-Work for Bath and Body and have volunteered at a Wildlife Sanctuary for 2 years, getting over 200 service hours from there
-Exceptional tutor award and environmental achievement award</p>

<p>There’s a lot more EC’s and the descriptions don’t really serve the activity justice (I didn’t want to do a laundry list and practically post my resume).</p>

<p>Highest ACT score I’ve gotten is a 23. Low, I know. I’m a horrible test taker. I’m re-taking it again in October…so…hopefully it will go up.</p>

<p>Taking SAT Subject Tests in October also (Bio and Lit).</p>

<p>So…any chance at all? :/</p>

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<p>UC GPA: 3.83
Unweighted GPA:3.7
Weighted GPA:3.83</p>

<p>California Resident, Out-Of-State, or International: CA resident (Bay Area, baby)</p>

<p>SAT Reasoning Scores
650 M, 670 R, 770 W</p>

<p>ACT
33 composite, 35 E, 32 M, 33 R, 31 S, 8 writing</p>

<p>SAT II Scores
760 Bio
740 Chem
740 Math II</p>

<p>AP’s:
Biology 5
Statistics 5
Language and Comp 5
I’ll be taking Chem, Calc AB, and Physics B senior year</p>

<p>Which college are you applying to? (Letters and Science, Engineering, Chemistry, etc.)
I think Letters and Science</p>

<p>List a few of your most important ECs (a laundry list of 20+ items is not needed)
Piano for 11 years
Volunteer service abroad (3 weeks)
Volunteer service (tutoring, environmental cleanup) ~200hrs.</p>

<p>Any other significant accomplishments in a specific field
Not during high school. </p>

<p>What’s my chances? (If possible, for UCLA too)</p>

1083

<p>Wooo, international applicant here!!</p>

<p>Don’t know GPA or rankings, but should be top 10%</p>

<p>SAT Reasoning - 800 Math, 700 W, 750 CR</p>

<p>SAT II - 800 Math II, 800 Chemistry, 800 Physics</p>

<p>Full IBDP candidate, predicted - 7 HL Math, 7 HL Physics, 7 HL Econs, 7 SL Chem, 7 SL English A1, 6 French ab initio</p>

<p>Don’t know college which I’m applying to yet. </p>

<p>Important ECs -
Soccer school team for 6 years, held vice capt rank for 1 year. <–my one true love
NCC (Land) for 4 years, 3rd sergeant
Industrial Business Attachment Program
Participated in Opening Ceremony of YOG
Leadership Development Program
Over 400 hours of community service</p>

<p>Note that my school is frikkin competitive. Like seriously, extremely competitive. It’s an independent school and is recognized as one of the top IB schools in the world. So yeah.</p>

1084

<p>Nosike: take your SATs and come back. Also, URM does not affect your chances for UCs and income doesn’t matter.</p>

<p>telegraph: your GPA is good but ACT…yikes. Have you tried taking the SAT? You might do better on that. It would help more if you could get your SAT II scores too. I also need to know if you’re in-state or not.</p>

<p>bitturiju: great scores, solid ECs, I need to know your GPA for an accurate assessment but I think you have a good chance.</p>

1085

<p>TO EVERYONE POSTING HERE:</p>

<ol>
<li><p>I’ve noticed since starting this thread that CollegeConfidential has added “Applicant Stats.” You should get a good idea of your chances just by reading through those, so try doing that instead of posting here as you might wait a while to get a response.</p></li>
<li><p>Please read the first post. All we really need to know is your GPA (UW/W), SAT/ACT, SAT II, a few (3-5) important ECs, and if you’re in-state or not. These long walls of text aren’t really helpful and discourages people from reading it all and responding to you. If you’re missing some of this info (test scores, for instance), wait until you have taken them and then ask about your chances.</p></li>
</ol>

<p>As always, I’m not here often so shoot me a PM if I haven’t responded to your post in a while.</p>

1086

<p>I’ve taken the SAT’s before. It was worse. I’m an out of state student. I don’t do standerized tests, my brain doesn’t work that way. I can get an A in any AP you throw at me, but these tests are different and are not accurate towards my capabilities. Those tests shouldn’t even be the deciding factor anyways.</p>

1087

<p>Out-of-state? Hmm…I’m gonna say 10-20%. High SAT II scores might help a little. SATs are not the deciding factor but they are a factor and it does hurt your case.</p>

1088

<p>Well, honestly that calculation doesn’t make sense, to be honest with you. If you have told other people who have lower GPA’s and less EC’s then me that they have a better chance, it doesn’t add up. But, I’m just stating what I have seen in the past pages. It seems like you’re mainly basing it around the SAT’s scores, which is unfair to the majority of the people on here. The posts don’t even justify people’s resumes or essays, how could you possibly estimate what percentage people have to get into a school?</p>

1089

<p>I replied in PM (because you PMed me with that question) but a short response for people here: I’ve said numerous times that I’m only making an educated guess, like everyone else here, based off of past applicant data and admissions data I’ve seen (and believe me, I’ve seen my share). You can do the same by simply going to “Applicant Stats” and see how you measure up. Ultimately nothing any of us post here will affect anyone’s chances, so just apply and hope for the best.</p>

1090

<p>IN STATE</p>

<p>GPA:
UW: 3.93
W: 4.65
UC: 4.6</p>

<p>SAT: 2350</p>

<p>SATII:
Chem: 750
IIC: 800
US history: 730
Spanish: 750
English Lit: 740</p>

<p>AP’s:
Euro 4
Lang 5
Psych 5
Stats 4
US History 5
Environmental Science 5
ECON *
BC *
GOV *
PHYSICS B *
ENGLISH LIT *
SPANISH *
*: Enrolled this year</p>

<p>ASB Pep Commissioner
Yearbook for 3 years; public relations editor
Leo Club Secretary
FBLA- Marketing; went to state
YLA Youth Leadership America</p>

<p>Applying for undeclared/Econ and hoping to get into Haas</p>

1091

<p>So, I’m a junior in high school currently, but I’m applying this year.
My transcript is quite messed up as I have ran out of highschool courses in my school, and I took IB level courses under the name of PIB or independent study.</p>

<p>UC GPA- 4.12
UW GPA- 4.0/4.0
W GPA- 4.88/5.00
Class Rank- 1/156</p>

<p>Out of State</p>

<p>SAT 1 (estimates):
Math: 800 (for sure)
CR: 660ish
Wr: 650ish
(I have an SAT 1 from freshman year with 800 Math, 590 Wr, and 640 CR, in the worst case scenario)</p>

<p>SAT 2 (estimates):
Math 2: 800 (for sure)
Physics: 650+ (for sure, probably 700+, trying for an 800)</p>

<p>I’m applying to Engineering for EECS</p>

<p>Important ECs:</p>

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<p>I hope I get in. I’m applying this year, as I want to be able to learn, something I don’t have the opportunity to do in school.</p>

<p>BTW, I’m from rural Wichita Falls, TX.</p>

1092

<p>IN STATE (Berkeley is my “reach” school, but please tell me chances anyways :] )
MAJOR: CIVIL ENGINEERING
GPA: 3.88 UW
4.21 W (both UC)
upward trend from freshman year ( even though they dont calc. in gpa) i went from a 2.9 freshman year to a 3.8 sophmore and then to a 4.0 first sem of junior year and 3.8 second semester ( all unweighted tho)
CLASS RANK : 29% (the ranking system at my school is kind of weird, its completely unweighted so people who are taking reg classes and like getting 4.0 can be taking up top spots) (does this reallly matter at Berkeley)
SAT1 : 1830 but i plan on retaking and getting a 1900+ (how important is SAT b/c i think im one of the people who are really bad at it :/)
ACT: (practice tests so far : 30, 33, 31, 32 (some of them w/ essay) ) (i usually score 36s in math section)
SAT2 : taking in Nov or Dec ( 740+ in math and 700+ in chemistry hopefully)
IMPORTANT EC’S: 200 hour internship with networking company
A-train peer tutoring
library volunteer work
senior homes volunteer work
designed and built a model of a house and a truss bridge</p>

<p>7 APs
PERSONAL STATEMENTS : GREAT </p>

<p>p.s does first generation to attend college or low family income matter in application process ? </p>

<p>Thanks everyone</p>

1093

<p>kevinluvsheaven: Good GPA, great scores, ECs are okay, 70% chance.</p>

<p>shrig: Great GPA, scores a little weak but at least strong in the right subjects (from my experience engineering mostly care about your SAT Math score and SAT II science scores), nice ECs, engineering and OOS will hurt you, also I’m not familiar with applying as a junior but I’d guess…50%.</p>

<p>alving: solid GPA, trending doesn’t matter but they ignore freshman year so that’s good for you, SAT is low though, helps if your math score is high at least. ECs are okay. I would say 25% because of the SAT score and it’s harder to get into engineering, my theory is engineering cares more about scores than L&S. Good luck. Getting high SAT II scores in math/science will help too.</p>

1094

<p>In-state
UW: 4.0
Weighted: 4.57
UC: 4.29</p>

<p>SAT: 800 M, 730 R, 750 W (2280)
SAT II: 750 Bio, 800 Math II, 780 Chem, 780 US History</p>

<p>APs: Euro (5), Chem (5), Calc BC (5), Eng Lit (5), USH (5)
Current APs: Physics C Mechanics, Comp Sci A, Stats</p>

<p>Applying to: College of Engineering…Undeclared or EECS…</p>

<p>ECs:
Piano (solo) for 10 years. Violin in Orchestra for 8 years.
4th year in Math Club – Currently the secretary.
Took AMC10 (114, I think…) and AMC12 (high 80s?)…(not very good scores…)
Member of NHS, CSF
Member of Science Alliance – helping 5th participate in science fairs
20+ hours of library volunteering each summer</p>

<p>Thanks =).</p>

1095

<p>International (India).
SAT 1 CR 700 W 780 M 800
SAT 2 Maths level 2 800 chemistry 790 .
92% in 10th boards
Grades A1 in maths, science, sanskrit and social sciences and A2 in english (grades are A to F , A1 is the highest.
ECs (not much, my school did not focus on them (a residential school in Bihar)
Drama
Speaking
Topped the country in a test organised by a leading publication of India. (got an IPOD shuffle as prize)
Represented my school in Brain of Bihar, a test in my state for selecting highly intelligent students.
Applying to MIT, Texas A and M , Texas at Austin, Johns Hopkins, UCLA , Cornell, Columbia, Purdue , Northwestern and Stanford.
Do I have a chance in any of these?</p>

1096

<p>You have at least a 30% at each one.
Taking this, your chance of getting into any of these (including berkeley, I’m assuming) is 1- .3^11=99.999%
so don’t worry</p>

1097

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1098

<p>Applyin to HKU and HKUST as international student.
SAT I CR 680 W 650 M 710
SAT II Will take US History, Math 2, and English or Physics and lets just say I get like somewhere between 700-750
AP Euro 4 (Got some 3s but not gonna send since it’ll just be detrimental application? right? or maybe not, sum1 tell me if i shud send them in)
UW GPA 3.4ish W like 4.0ish
IB Chinese - 5
IB Computer Science - 5
ECs like Habijax volunteering, Tennis, Piano, Clubs, etc.</p>

<p>PLEASE RESPOND ASAPPP TYVM!</p>

1099

<p>Apply: Engineering - Electrical</p>

<p>Asian Male (Taiwan) - Rising Senior
Competitive school in NY (LI) which sends ~5-8 to top schools every year
Most Rigorous Courseload
Class Size: 300-400
GPA: 3.813UW 3.988W /4
Income: 120k
No Rank</p>

<p>Standardized Testing
SAT: 2110, 2160 (680,750,730) - Retaking Oct, expecting 2200+
800 Math II<br>
770 Chem<br>
740 Phys<br>
680 Bio . . . . =/
ACT: 34 (1st) 33(2nd)</p>

<p>APs / Senior Sched
AP World History: 5<br>
APUSH: 3<br>
AP Stat: 3
AP Calc BC: 5<br>
AP Physics C: 4,4<br>
AP English and Comp.: 4
AP Lit: –<br>
AP Chem: –
AP Psych: –<br>
AP Macro/Micro: – –</p>

<p>Schedule:
AP Chem, ap psych, Wind Ensemble (H), ap macro,
Multi-Var Calc (H), AP Micro, Sociology, AP Lit</p>

<p>Extracurricular + Awards
4 Yr (9-12)Asian-American Cultural Club - Treasurer for 2
4 Yr (9-12)Chinese Cultural Club
4 Yr (9-12)Lunar New Year Festival
2 Yr (9,10) Student Government - Senator
2 Yr (9,10) DECA Business Club
4 Yr (9-12)Mathletes Club - position TBD
2 Yr (11,12) Science Olympiads -
4 Yr (9-12)Varsity Tennis – (possible captain)
Tri-M Music Honor Society Member - Tri-M Points Chair
4 Yr (9-12)Pit Orchestra</p>

<p>~300 Community Service Hours (580+ if Musical stuff is added)</p>

<p>Columbia SHP Program
Lexus Environmental Challenge National 1st Place Winners (Team awarded 50,000)
AIME Qualifier
Long Island Math Fair Bronze Medalist
National Honor Society
All-County Music Participant - 3x
Nassau Math Tournament – 4th (Indiv), 6th (Team)
Wind Ensemble - Principal Flute Player</p>

<p>Summers:
10th: Political Internship in Flushing - Helped out, registered voters, etc.
11th: AID Overseas Summer Teaching Program - Taught English in Taiwan</p>

<p>Recs / Other stuff
Guidance: Good
Teachers: Good
Hook: None</p>

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<p>I would really appreciate it if you guys could chance me as well
If you could please tell me roughly what my chances are of getting into UCLA, UCSD, and UCD are, in addition to UCB, that would be great.
Percentages are cool too but I know that’s difficult to do so you dont have to.
Thanks so much in advance!</p>

<p>Gender: Male
Ethnicity: Asian (Filipino)
Residency: California resident (likely to be ELC)
College Applying to: undecided…probably majoring in MCB or EECS</p>

<p>UC GPA: 4.46
Unweighted GPA: 3.95
Weighted GPA: 4.50
Class rank: 7/270</p>

<p>SAT: 2200
Math: 800
Writing: 730
Reading: 670</p>

<p>ACT: 32
Math: 35
English: 33
Reading:30
Science:30</p>

<p>SAT II
Math IIC: 720
Biology M: 710</p>

<p>AP
Biology: 5
Chemistry: 4
Art History: 4
Chemistry: 3</p>

<p>Senior schedule:
AP English Literature
AP Spanish Language
AP Calculus AB
AP Economics
AP Physics B
World Religions/Christian Testament</p>

<p>College classes taken:
US History 410 and US History 411 at American River Community College (both As)
Web Design and Moviemaking at CSU Sacramento (both As)</p>

<p>Principal Extracurriculars:
*Vice-President of Mathletes (Regional Champions)
*Vice-President of Pacific-Asian Club (Raised $2800 dollars at a charity event)
*Student-leader in Science Olympiad
*Swim Team
*Vice-President of Spanish Club
*NHS
*CSF
*Yearbook Committee
*Liturgy Planning Committee
*Fall and Spring Play Tech Crew Member
*~200 hrs community service
-Served at Parishes serving dinners to homeless
-Volunteered at Sacramento Food Bank packaging groceries for homeless and low-income families</p>

<p>Other:
*AP Scholar award with distinction
*First Honors
*Varsity Letter in Swimming
*Voula Steinberg Mathematics Award
*Nationally Ranked Rubik’s Cuber
*High Point in age group for summer swim team</p>

<p>*assume above average essays</p>