College chances for admission??

Question

Hi.
Unweighted GPA: 3.5
i dont know how to calculate weighted
i took 3 AP's junior year, and 1 sophmore year
got A's in all except one.

AP SCORES: all 3, except 5 in psychology
SAT score 2080
Extra curricular: Red Cross Volunteer, FBLA club, volunteered at library, volunteer at church, Wrestling 1 year, around 150-200 hours of volunteer

what are my chances for UCLA, UCSD, UCB, Pepperdine, USC, NYU, and Occidental College??

Answer 1

This is how the UCs want you to calculate your weighted GPA:

"The University assigns extra points for up to eight semesters
of University-certified honors-level and Advanced Placement
courses taken in the last three years of high school: A=5 points,
B=4 points, C=3 points. No more than two yearlong UC-approved
honors level courses taken in the 10th grade may be given extra points. A grade of D in an honors or advanced placement course does not earn extra points.

The courses must be in the following "a-g" subjects: history/social science, English, advanced mathematics, laboratory science, language other than English, and visual and performing arts. Also, they must be certified as honors courses by the University. In these subjects, as well as in computer science, acceptable honors-level courses include Advanced Placement courses, Higher Level and designated Standard Level
Internationa Baccalaureate courses, and college courses that
are transferable to the university."

Berkeley and UCLA will weigh the following components of your application (in the order of importance): 1) your essay (Berkeley publishes a guideline on how to write your personal statement which is applicable to all UCs at: http://students.berkeley.edu/files/Admissions/Personal_State_07.pdf ), especially academic achievement, special talent highlighting your motivation, dedication, and/or initiative to achieve, potential to contribute to the university, special circumstances like hardship, etc.; 2) your grades and any grade trends (improvements are better than just maintaining a high GPA); 3) your test scores, including SAT and/or ACT, SAT II; and 4) number of AP courses completed compared to the number of AP courses offered at your local high school. Other factors are taken into consideration, but to a lesser extent.

You should probably consider enrolling in courses in community colleges (up to 12 units, they boost your GPA because they are weighted and you don't have to take the AP exam: the units are directly transferable if the course is marked "UC-transferable"). They are a good way to show your motivation and initiative to learn.

Your GPA and SAT score are borderline competitive, so your personal statement is likely the deal maker or deal breaker. Spend plenty of time crafting your essay. You want to talk about academic or extracurricular activities in which you have demonstrated leadership, motivation, and initiative. And remember: 1) do not submit what you wrote for the "college essay" assignment for your senior English class; 2) do not have your fellow students or your teachers proofread it; instead, ask your parents' coworkers or friends (preferably someone who went to Berkeley), someone who doesn't know you very well to proofread it. The reason is that the essay is supposed to give the admissions officers a complete picture of who you are, what you have done, and where you want to go/how you want to get there. Only someone who doesn't know you very well can evaluate whether your essay has accomplished that.

Answer 2

you've done ok. UCB I feel is outa the question, slight chance for UCLA and id say a 35/65 chance for ucsd and occidental college...ull get into usc pepperdine and nyu fo sho.
By the way, im an oxy student and i appliedto ucla and ucb, got into la but not berkeley...hope i helped u out

Answer 3

That is about the same as me. My GPA was higher (3.89 unweighted) but my SAT was lower (1960). I got into UCLA, didn't apply to any of the other ones but UCB (which rejected me.) Your chances aren't bad for Pepperdine, USC, UCLA and UCSD. I don't know much about Ocidental, but I know NYU is highly competitive.

Answer 4

uh... not very good, sorry to say T_T in order to get into UCLA, you need at least a 4.0, and not much lower to UCSD, and for the rest, um, much higher T_T to put it this way, the salutatorian at my school, had the highest GPA out of everyone I think (yeah by the way, the top 10 and everything, completely messed up, I'm not kidding), got rejected by UCLA, but accepted to Cal. I don't care how many APs you took or SAT score or anything, it's HARD to get in to those schools. I'm really sorry, but it's the truth

Answer 5

It sounds like you have a good chance of getting accepted into each of the schools you listed.

Good Luck!!!

Answer 6

Dude, that's awesome. Your qualification is what most people wish for. You have a really good chance. Good luck

Answer 7

We're not your college admissions officers, guy, and those scores are prolly B.S..

Answer 8

You'll get in !!! How did you study for the SAT?

Answer 9

that's good.