Hi all. I recently decided I'd love to go to California for college but I don't know if I could get into any of the universities except maybe UC San Diego. Chance me maybe?
Female from Illinois at pretty competitive suburban high school
Asian/Pacific Islander
Plan to major in engineering
Stats:
- 3.91 UW GPA
- 5.01 W GPA
- 37/1000 class rank (top 3.7%)
- 32 ACT (34 E, 32 M, 30 R, 30 S, 8 W: 31 E/W)
- 33 ACT Superscore (34 E, 34 M, 32 R, 30 S, 10 W: 33 E/W)
* I'm taking the ACT again in September to get a 33 or 34 composite and better writing score
Coursework:
- Junior AP's: English Lang & Comp (4), Spanish Lang & Comp (score still in process), Honors Pre-Calc (weighted as an AP Class)
- Senior AP's: community college Statistics (will take AP test), English Lit & Comp, Physics C E&M, Computer Science A, Calc AB, Microeconomics
* The average overachiever at my school takes 7-9 AP's by the end of senior year
Extracurriculars:
- Track & Field (9, 10, 11)
- Peer Tutoring (10, half of 11)
- Peer Leadership (9, 11)
- Business Professionals of America/BPA (11)
- Relay for Life - captain of a team for 2 years, we raised $1,000+ both years (9, 10)
- Volunteering at hospital - 97 hours so far (10, 11)
- Volunteering at nursing home (I start this summer)
- National Honor Society/NHS (11)
- Mu Alpha Theta (11)
- National Spanish Honor Society (10, 11)
- National Spanish Exam - Silver Award
- 6-week paid engineering summer internship at national science lab - worked with physicist and human resources (11)
If you know any other California schools that are decent in engineering and would be a match or slight reach for me, please let me know! Thanks ahead of time!
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