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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DS is a good student (A- unweighted at a decent but not "top tier" private school outside DMV), strong standard ECs (varsity sport/club leadership, community service), strong SAT (1510).
Major: Undecided social sciences

Has anyone had a DC attend or have experiences at these colleges that you'd be willing to share?
University of Denver
UW Seattle
McGill
UC Davis or UC Santa Cruz
Santa Clara
U Wisconsin Madison

Finally, would these reaches (USC, BU, tufts, NYU, UCSB, Michigan) be too high of a reach for this profile student? He's interested in applying but I'm afraid they're too reachy.
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We were transplants too! Some things that I did not realize about UC admissions as a transplant. Public schools and maybe private schools have CSF and other designations for community service. If you didn’t start this because you weren’t here lean into community service on your application and in the other section write about how you moved here.

UCs will recalculate your grades as whole grades. Sucks if you had a 89 but awesome if you had an 80. Your gpa may be lower or higher than you thought.

If you are in Santa Clara County, the Peninsula or Fremont be aware that public school kids in your area are racking up DE credits in addition to in school courses and APs. Some have been doing it since 8 th grade. Some even do programs where they take honors level CC courses. If your kid is interested and willing and can get an A take some in the spring, summer and fall. Look at the general ed requirements for the UCs you want and take courses that transfer, especially courses that overlap GE and major pre reps.

UC and Cal state give extra rigor points for lab sciences. [/quote]

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