UC and Ivy Chance thread

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>I am an Asian male living in Southern California</p>

<p>Schools: USC, UCSD, UCLA, UC Berkeley, Stanford, U Chicago, UPenn, Yale, Princeton, Harvard, Cal State Chico</p>

<p>Btw, my interviews definitely set me apart from others and is likely to have a favorable result if interviews are a factor </p>

<p>Class Rank: 3/650</p>

<p>GPA:
3.95 Unweighted, 4.6 Weighted
Got 1 B in freshman lit and 1 b in AP spanish</p>

<p>PSAT: 214 (not sure if it matters)</p>

<p>SAT 1 (what a hard test) Score:
1970
CR:650
Math:730
Writing:590
Planning to get 2200+ after studying by October</p>

<p>SAT 2 scores:
U.S History 800
World History: 610</p>

<p>Planning to take Math 2, Bio and maybe Chinese in November</p>

<p>Grades/Classes:
Freshman:
A/A Hnrs Bio
A/A Hnrs World History
B/A Hnrs Intro to lit
A/A AP Chinese
A/A Hnrs Algebra 2
A/A Hnrs Spanish 2
A Health
A/A Football/Weightlifting</p>

<p>Sophomore:
A/A AP Stat
A/A AP U.S
A/A Hnrs World Lit
A/A Hnrs Spanish 3
A/A Hnrs Chem
A/A Hnrs PreCal
A/A Tennis</p>

<p>Junior:
A/A AP Euro
A/A AP Calc
A/A Hnrs American Lit
A/B AP Spanish
A/A AP Environmental Science
A IB Theory of Knowledge
A/A IB/AP Macroecomomics
A/A AP psychology</p>

<p>Senior:
IB World History
IB Bio
IB HL Math
IB Chinese
AP Comp Sci
AP Art History
IB Theory of Knowledge
IB Lit</p>

<p>ECs/ Awards
Varsity football 9-10 (Was California state ranked 13)
Varisty tennis/Captain 9-12 (Won CIF division title this year)
Mock Trial 9-12
Speech and Debate 11-12
Interact Club Officer 9-12
IB Club officer 10-12
Math Club 10-12
Red Cross Club 11-12
Rotary Youth Leadership Awards
Think I got the National AP scholar? (Waiting on results)</p>

<p>Interact Club Volunteer ~100 hours
Doing Volunteer work at my local community hospital ~200 hours</p>

<p>Currently doing a one month internship at Beijing University and will publish my research in a scientific journal</p>

<p>Making a trip to rural areas in China to collect nutrition information and help discuss solutions to malnutrition in these areas for 1-2 weeks</p>

<p>Volunteering as an English tutor for 1 week in China for Elementary School Children</p>

<p>Thanks for your time guys! Open to any suggestions for my senior year</p>

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<p>No offense, but you are getting way in over your head about your scores and gpas. You don’t even realize that UC schools count their gpa’s differently than those which use the common application. And even then, you must be caredul to know which of the courses you have are even going to be counted towards each of those GPAs and whether you’ll be given honors points or not. You may have also already added your football and other sports do not count for any GPA. Visual performing arts and regular arts do not count for nonUC GPAs.</p>

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<p>You only gave one gpa when you should have your uc GPA, uc weighted, nonuc unweighted, and nonuc weighted. Nonuc GPAs will count your senior year first semester. Plus I can tell Ur GPA is baloney cause u should at least have two decimal places in Ur GPA.</p>

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<p>You can check here: [University</a> of California Doorways Home](<a href=“http://www.ucop.edu/doorways/]University”>http://www.ucop.edu/doorways/) for your high school to see if the honors courses you have taken really count as honors for UCs. Regardless, you have great grades, subject test scores, and lots of ECs. By the way, is your CIF tennis title for your team or individual? That might make a big difference. My recommendation is that you need to get that SAT score up. If you can really get the 2200, you should be good to go. You may want to consider taking the ACT (with writing!) and see if you do better there.
Also, I don’t know which of your schools give interviews, certainly not the UCs. Whatever you think would come across well in an interview - try to get that same
feeling into your essays. Good luck to you.</p>

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<p>my bad i just gave a rough estimate. It’s actually 4.55
It’s by the UC’s btw</p>

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<p>Your SAT is too low for the higher UCs and those private schools. Study all summer and take the SAT again early fall (also want to restate that your sports grades don’t go into any gpa so there’s no reason to be listing them).</p>

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<p>USC should be fine for you, also UCSD but I do not know much about the other schools. Best of luck, I love USC as well so I wish you luck!</p>