Chances of getting into USC?

Berkeley and Stanford - Likely NO - your unweighted gpa would need to be 3.9. The other schools you have a good chance at - get at least 50 hours of volunteer time before graduation, though.

Berkeley and Stanford - Likely NO - your unweighted gpa would need to be 3.9. The other schools you have a good chance at - get at least 50 hours of volunteer time before graduation, though.

Pretty slim for Stanford, UCLA, and Berkeley. Your unweighted GPA is starkly low for those colleges, and although most of your lower grades come in AP classes and you have taken a decent amount of those, so have the vast majority of applicants to these schools. You don't really have any EC's; your sports might be the best shot you have since Key Club and CSF are just such common parts of applications for people who apply to this caliber of school. No community service, no internships, no volunteer time, no work experience, nothing to indicate you spend summers productively all add up to equal a major detriment against you. Your SAT scores are low for Stanford, around average for Berkeley, and slightly above that of UCLA, but make no doubt; plenty of people can get a decent weighted GPA and a high SAT score. It's the ability to differentiate yourself that really gets you into selective colleges such as these. Really none of the colleges you want to apply to aside from UCI have problems getting smart kids who play sports, so it then comes down to your ability to differentiate yourself from the rest of the applicants that will enable you to get in. As was stated above, UCI is probably your best bet; USC being a private school is highly selective as well, and although it generally has slightly lower SAT scores than the other top schools, that's because it has a pretty prominent set of film and computer science programs, and neither really require you to have outstanding SAT scores, so that's what brings down their average.

honestly, college decisions were really arbitrary this year. Unless you are ranked nationally in your sport, I would say your best best would be UCI. UCLA was actually harder to get into than than Berkeley this year (well i think it was ) and I have a feeling it will get harder next year. However, I'd still apply because you never know what could happen. I'd say USC and Stanford are unlikely just based on the fact that i got flat out rejected (not even waitlisted) to USC and I have a 4.86 weighted/4.0 unweighted GPA 31 Act (like a 2100), 4 yr vars cross country runner, 2 year varsity track runner, captain, editor in chief/editor, 13.5 years piano, head of a club etc. UCLA, if it is anything like it was this year - i heard it was a 7% acceptance and the first year they weighlisted people but that could be a rumor- would be in the same boat as usc and stanford. But again, it depends on your major and your other qualifications too. Engineering is usually the hardest major to get into. Berkeley rejected my friend who was about the same as you so you just never know, but good luck!

honestly, college decisions were really arbitrary this year. Unless you are ranked nationally in your sport, I would say your best best would be UCI. UCLA was actually harder to get into than than Berkeley this year (well i think it was ) and I have a feeling it will get harder next year. However, I'd still apply because you never know what could happen. I'd say USC and Stanford are unlikely just based on the fact that i got flat out rejected (not even waitlisted) to USC and I have a 4.86 weighted/4.0 unweighted GPA 31 Act (like a 2100), 4 yr vars cross country runner, 2 year varsity track runner, captain, editor in chief/editor, 13.5 years piano, head of a club etc. UCLA, if it is anything like it was this year - i heard it was a 7% acceptance and the first year they weighlisted people but that could be a rumor- would be in the same boat as usc and stanford. But again, it depends on your major and your other qualifications too. Engineering is usually the hardest major to get into. Berkeley rejected my friend who was about the same as you so you just never know, but good luck!