** Decision: Accepted **
Objective:[ul]
[] SAT I (breakdown): 2160 (W: 740 M:670 CR: 750)
[] ACT: didn’t take
[] SAT II: Math: 790 Chem: 610 (yikes)
[] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.91
[] UC GPA: 4.25
[] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 3/87
[] ELC?: Yes
[] AP (place score in parenthesis): APUSH: 5 AP Eng Lang: 5
[] IB (place score in parenthesis): Nah
[] Senior Year Course Load: Theater Arts, Honors British Lit, AP Calculus AB, APES (one semester), Speech (one semester), Journalism II
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): I’ve won some quill and scroll stuff for yearbook writing, but most of that came in after the app deadline[/li]
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
ASB (school’s student gov/student life org) (Sophomore: Class Treasurer, Junior: Class Presidente, Senior: Executive VP)
Yearbook (Junior: Assosiate Editor, Senior: Editor in Chief)
Co-Founder of Ultimate Frisbee club at school
Minor involvement in Rotary in 12th grade
Mid-sized role in school play my junior year
[] Job/Work Experience: nada
[] Volunteer/Community service: nada
[] Personal Statement: Effective (evidently.) This is where I think a lot of applicants slip up. PERSONAL STATEMENTS ARE NOT COLLEGE ESSAYS. I made a post about this. Check it out here: http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-california-los-angeles/1872032-what-ive-learned-in-researching-the-uc-personal-statements.html
Peronally, I wrote about coming from a very small school that only offers 5 AP Classes, and gaining confidence through leadership positions.
[/ul]Other[ul]
[] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yup and didn’t get anything
[li][ b] Intended Major [ /b]: Environmental Science[/li][] State (if domestic applicant): CA
[] School Type: Small
[] Ethnicity: White
[] Gender: M
[] Income Bracket: 125,000
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.): [/li]
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[] Strengths: GPA, Leadership
[] Weaknesses: Unimpressive class strength but I explained why in my personal statements.
[] Schools were you accepted/waitlisted to? Accepted to UC Davis, UCSD, UCSC (with honors invite and $8,000 scholarship) and UC Irvine,
[] Schools you were rejected from? None so far
[li] Schools you are waiting for? Stanford [/li][/ul]General Comments: Current applicants, be very aware of the difference in admission standards between engineering and the regular college of letters and sciences. The engineering school is way more competitive and UCLA DOES NOT consider alternate majors, so it’s engineering or nothing.
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