<p>I'm planning to apply to Cal this fall. I'll apply to the other UC's like LA and SD, but Cal has my heart.</p>
<p>Major: English
GPA: 3.85
School: Foothill & De Anza
EC: 1 year of ASB, 4 years badminton & 1 year captain, MVP badminton, 4 years cross country, 2 years soccer referee, honors program @ Foothill</p>
<p>How do my chances look?</p>
<p>you’re in. make sure you do all the pre-requisites required at Cal for your major though</p>
<p>yup do all pre reqs, write stellar essays, and youre good to go. although, i do know of one English major who applied as a 4.0, but got rejected…most likely due to lack of ECs. goodluckkk!</p>
<p>Are those you’re high school EC’s? If so, I don’t know how significant they will be towards your admission.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>@kobe: Yea those are my high school ec’s. Haha, I know they arent significant but I think I’ll mention them on the app anyway. My honors program and referee work are during my college years though.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure the application asks you to put a date range on your e.c’s, just so you know. Unless they carried on through your community college years, I’m not sure if admissions cares about them. I guess it doesn’t hurt though. You’ll have about 5 spaces to enter in whatever you like, so just put in the best e.c’s you have. Good luck!</p>
<p>BTW, what high school did you attend? I think I might know you, haha.</p>
<p>High school ecs will be ignored. No point in putting on your app unless you are a 1 year transfer (which you aren’t).</p>
<p>@nikki and cupertino: Thanks for the info! I’ll try to choose the best ec’s for the appropriate dates.</p>
<p>@midnight: Phhs</p>
<p>piedmont hills?</p>
<p>@iluvpika- You have quite a fantastic record but I will tell you something from experience, whether we’d like to admit or not, UCs have to make money one way or another because they’re in a really bad situation economically.</p>
<p>I had a great resume on me and was rejected from Cal. It worked in my interest because I would have never been able to afford going to Berkeley for orientation and apartment hunting. And what’s more, I’m not sure I could afford the time to look for a new job.</p>
<p>So an out-of-state kid with my same resume who would have to pay more, got my seat. </p>
<p>When this came out on the news, that Cal’s new incoming class (2010) was about 24% made out of out-of-state students, I wasn’t surprised. I had known this before I even found out that I was rejected.</p>
<p>I guess what I’m trying to say is that you sure deserve to go to any school that you want to go to, but when applying to public schools on a failing state like California, your chances might or might not be good at all. But you also might get luckier than me. </p>
<p>I wish you best of luck!</p>
<p>@iluvpiki - don’t worry about what matchutto said. Though it may be true, if 24% are out of state, then the reast must be in state. I got into cal with about the same GPA as you.</p>
<p>@Nikki: I’m not trying to worry anybody. I was President last semester of a club that had about 300 members- it was heartbreaking for me to see saw many people getting rejected with the right credentials. </p>
<p>I am trying to help- not the other way around.</p>
<p>@christian: Yup, piedmont</p>
<p>@match: Thanks for the info, I hope everything went well afterwards</p>
<p>@nikki: Thanks, you give me hope! hahaha</p>
<p>if you are CA resident, 80% yes, if you are an international student, I dunno, can’t guarantee</p>
<p>Admission to UC Berkeley is never a guarantee, but I think you got some pretty good chances provided you write a passionate essay. I’m applying to UCs too, so good luck to those of us who are applying ^^</p>
<p>@ljsphilobe: That percentage is more accurate IF you’re a Northern California resident. Berkeley does pick favorites when it comes to geographical matters.</p>
<p>I think that at least in NorCal, the UC system is enormously over capacity, which is unfortunate because there are tons of great applicants out there getting rejected from schools they rightfully should be able to get into. </p>
<p>It’s not as if the school has suddenly only Nobel prize winning professors or anything, they just don’t have room for anyone below a 3.8 GPA, the professors are roughly the same quality as they were 30 years ago when they were taking students with a 3.2 GPA and Berkeley had a crappy rep as a hippy school.</p>
<p>@wwlink: Why do people keep stressing the high GPA at Berkeley? I was rejected with a 3.8 while my friend was accepted with a 3.4. Not taking anything from her, I’m actually for the whole idea that it’s not just about the GPA but what leads to you having that GPA.</p>
<p>Like I’ve said in other posts, I know 4.0s who got rejected to UCLA… but I also know a little 3.5 who got in but she works and supports herself.</p>
<p>My apologies, I was just looking over my post and it does look a bit negative doesn’t it?</p>
<p>I’m really sick of seeing the fact whores go around saying that people with below a certain GPA don’t have a chance at any particular University, and I agree with your thought entirely.</p>
<p>The most important thing in my opinion, is if you’re transferring you should try to get every last prerequisite out of the way. If you’ve done that and have an awesome essay, there’s still a good chance regardless of the GPA.</p>
<p>When a uni takes in 3000 new admits, 2% is still 60 people. The truth is we don’t know exactly why a particular college’s admit rate is so damn low. Perhaps they get hundreds of non-qualified students (or, they get thousands from people who haven’t finished their pre-reqs or have 20 units or something).</p>
<p>My point was that people that go to high-end universities don’t necessarily walk on water, and that college may or may not be substantially better than other colleges. </p>
<p>Put it another way: UC Berkeley taking 20% of applicants (a number pulled out of my ass), only really suggests that they have room for 20% of those applicants. From there, it’s just luck and/or good statistics. </p>
<p>However, that only speaks of the applicants.</p>