<p>I got accepted from Georgia.BTW, I was wondering, do OOSers have an advantage over in-states?</p>
<p>Just a short one:</p>
<p>Accepted, 3.45 GPA UW, 3.55 W
SAT 1950 (didn’t send)
ACT 33
SAT II Chinese 790 (I am Chinese)
Only one AP course: AP Chinese
Rank: School doesn’t rank</p>
<p>Extracurriculars: Not enough.
Job/Work Experience: None.
Volunteer/Community service: Plenty.
Essays: Average, not particularly mind-blowing.
Teacher Recommendation: Submitted.</p>
<p>They asked me for a supplement: short questionnaire + teacher rec (optional).</p>
<p>Applied for Financial Aid?: Got nothing.
Intended Major: Undeclared @ Letters & Sciences
State: California
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Chinese
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: Enough
Hooks: None</p>
<p>Strengths: Teacher rec. (at least I think this was it) + information I provided on supplement.
Weaknesses: GPA, test scores, everything.
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: A miracle.</p>
<p>Other Comments:
I’m one of those special cases. I couldn’t even dream about getting in, with my subpar grades and lack of extracurr.s For those that ever doubt their chances, you’ll never know unless you apply.</p>
<p>@GAhuntsvillan
It seems to be the case, or at least people speculate that it is. Reasoning behind it is that they can charge OOSs more money than those in-state.</p>
<p>They have accepted many more OOS this year. My question is how many more?</p>
<p>wow runbunnyrun i think you kinda underestimated yourself=)</p>
<p>Just found out I got into Reed, Hampshire, UCSC and UC Davis!! </p>
<p>Congrats everyone! :)</p>
<p>Accepted: 3.93 GPA UW, 4.72 W
SAT: 1880
ACT: Didn’t take
SAT II: U.S. History - 740 World History - 640 Math 2 - 640
AP course: All AP/IB Courses offered at my school.
Rank: 4 out of 355</p>
<p>Extracurriculars: Basketball.
Job/Work Experience: Internship at a Law Firm.
Volunteer/Community service: Boy’s and Girl’s Club Volunteer.
Essays: Teachers read it and said it was “beautiful”
Teacher Recommendation: Submitted.</p>
<p>Applied for Financial Aid: FAFSA and Cal Grant.
Intended Major: Undeclared @ Letters & Sciences
State: California
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Vietnamese
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: idk…
Hooks: First generation college student.</p>
<p>**Decision: Accepted **</p>
<p>Date applied: November 15
Accepted at which school/major at USC: Mathematics</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]</p>
<p>[li] SAT Total: 2250 M: 800, CR: 700, WR: 750,</p>[/li]
<p>[li] ACT: 34</p>[/li]
<p>[li] SAT Subject Tests: 800, 770</p>[/li]
<p>[li] GPA-UW/W: 3.99/4.65</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Rank: 2/600</p>[/li]
<p>[li] EC highlights: 4 Year Varsity Tennis, 3 Year Captain, Founder and President of a club, Started own company, Real Estate experience, Top ranking Business Simulation company, Overseas medical experience, Volunteer at hospital, extensive Tennis Camp Volunteer[/ul]</p>[/li]
<p>Location/Person:
[ul]
[li] State or Country: California!</p>[/li]
<p>[li] School Type: Public</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Gender: XX</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]
Other Factors, hook?: </p>
<p>General Comments: I love Berkeley (and its colors) and may attend!</p>
<p>ACCEPTED to CAL!!! </p>
<p>3.98 GPA UW
SAT: 1890
SAT II: MathII - 720 Bio - 640
AP Courses: Calc AB - 5;Biology - 3;English Lang - 3; US History - 2
Current AP Classes: Statistics, Comparative Governments, English Lit, Chemistry</p>
<p>Rank: 1 out of 186 </p>
<p>Extracurriculars: Band. President of NHS. School Board Rep.
Job/Work Experience: Self-Employed Trumpet Teacher and Calculus Tutor
Volunteer/Community service: Tutoring
Essays: Homophobia and Teaching PreCalculus; Teaching a Parakeet French
Teacher Recommendation: n/a</p>
<p>Applied for Financial Aid: FAFSA
Intended Major: Mathematics
State: Washington
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: higher
Hooks: Homosexual living in conservative town; Rural high school;</p>
<p>Accepted</p>
<p>GPA: 4.0 UW
SAT: 2310
SAT II: MathII 790, Phy 790
ACT: 33
Rank: N/A </p>
<p>Extracurriculars: Cancer Agency Research, Emergency first responder, math team coach, Clarinet concert band, school band
Job/Work Experience: Ski Instructor
Volunteer/Community service: columnist for online publication, programming tutor</p>
<p>Intended Major: Molec bio
State: CANADA
School Type: Private
Ethnicity: Azn
Gender: Male</p>
<p>I got accepted into UC Berkeley! I really want to go, but I’m not sure if I’m going to drown in all of the work that will be ahead of me in the next four years. I’m majoring in architecture, so if any of you are at Cal and majoring in architecture or know anyone in architecture, I’d love to hear some feedback :)</p>
<p>UC GPA: 3.8
SAT: 1850
SAT II: Bio 560; Lit 550
ACT: 29</p>
<p>Extracurriculars: Theatre, dance, Girl Scouts
Volunteer service: Girl Scouts, Salvation Army, American Cancer Society</p>
<p>Intended Major: Architecture
State: California
School Type: Private
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Female</p>
<p>It was definitely my essay that got my into Berkeley, so for those who don’t think they have the grades, you still have a chance! I really thought I wasn’t going to get in. Dreams come true every day :)</p>
<p>Congratulations to everyone! 
I’m thrilled to meet you all as my potential future classmates. </p>
<p>Accepted to College of Letters and Science (Linguistics)</p>
<p>Unweighted GPA: 3.8 on 4.0 scale
UC GPA: 4.0
SAT I: 2350 (760 CR, 800 M, 790 W)
SAT II: 750 Literature, 790 Math II, 800 French, 800 Chinese with Listening, 790 Spanish
AP: 5s and 4s on 7 exams
Extracurriculars: Foreign language learning/tutoring/proofreading (9-12), church youth group (9-12), piano (9-12), writing and journalism (10-12), guitar (10-12)
Tip Factor: Certifiably fluent in five languages (English, Mandarin Chinese, French, Spanish, German). Will most likely try to pick up Italian during my college career. ;)</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted </p>
<p>Major: Theoretical Physics</p>
<p>Stats:
SAT Total: 2170 M: 760, CR: 740, WR: 670,
SAT Subject Tests: Math Level II 800, Physics 750
GPA at High school ~98 (This is weighted)
Rank: 1/140 (Was 2/140 when I applied)
EC highlights: Three season varsity athlete (Although I’m not the best player by a longshot)
Tutored people in mathematics up through Calculus BC (a.k.a Calculus II)
Global Finalist Team for Destination Imagination 2010 (Technical Challenge)! :D</p>
<p>Location/Person:
State or Country: New Hampshire
School Type: Public
Gender: Male
Other Factors, hook?: Took Multivariable Calculus through a local college. </p>
<p>General Comments: I’m going to DisneyLand! (And Berkeley)</p>
<p>Accepted!
College of engineering
Spring term as well. Since the extension program is full I might just enroll at community for the fall. Doesn’t sound very cool but save a lot money.</p>
<p>Fina Aid/scholarship 13k/year</p>
<p>Stats
Asian from Utah public high school, middle class(?)
GPA: 3.997/4 unweighted. no idea what my weighted is.
Class rank: 5 unweighted, I think 9 weighted?
AP: Chinese 5, Calc AB 5, BC 5, Chem 5, Lit 3, Human Geo 5, US History 5
ACT: 32
SAT Subjecs: Chinese 800, Chem 800, Math 2 740
Senior load:
I got lazy and went with a easy load
IB English HL, IB Math HL, IB Psych HL, IB Chinese HL, and half year of IB TOK</p>
<p>Extra
Don’t like doing it so I don’t have a lot extras. Maybe this is why I got rejected from so many places
National Honor Society
Chinese Club (President&founder)
Math Club
Chemistry club (Jr year)
Some other random volunteering with U of Utah’s CSSA</p>
<p>Work experience:
I never really had a job but I’m running my own little business. Didn’t have anything to do with being accepted to Berkeley since I started it after I applied.</p>
<p>Also got into:
UCLA pretty much no money
USC didn’t really pay attention to the money…it was pretty much all loans
U of Utah, presidential (full ride)
Westminster, 13K/year</p>
<p>Essay topic
I think I mentioned something alone the line of how hard it was when I first arrived five years ago…</p>
<p>I got off the Waitlist and ACCEPTED 
Yayyyy!!! <3 Berkeley
I officially got into alllll the UC schools!</p>
<p>"GAhuntsvillan: I got accepted from Georgia.BTW, I was wondering, do OOSers have an advantage over in-states? "</p>
<ul>
<li>I dont think so at alll!!! Most Public Universities have state residency as one of their priorities…not high priority but it is one. And if you look at the profile…more than 95% of the student body is made up of in-state students. So I think if anything…in-state students have more of an advantage.</li>
</ul>
<p>ACCEPTED!!! :)</p>
<p>GPA: 3.917UW, 4.5W
SAT: 2240 superscored, 2200 (R:690, W:750, M:760)
SATII: Math-760, Chem-800, US History-710</p>
<p>APs: Comp Sci AB, Physics C, Calc BC, US History (Worst one ever!), Biology, Statistics, US Govt.&Politics, and Japanese. All 5s</p>
<p>Rank: Top 10%
Other stats: Japanese National Honor Society President, Pacific Autism Center for Education - Youth Leadership Committee President, 2 med-internships, and water polo JV Freshman year.</p>
<p>1 lukewarm and 1 shining rec. letter.</p>
<p>Yeah for Cal!</p>
<p>It’s taking me forever to get to this, but better late than never, eh?</p>
<p>Accepted to LSA as a Physics major.
Stats:
GPA (UW/W): 4.0/4.97
Rank: 15/500
SAT: 800 R 800 W 680 M (2280 single sitting)
SAT II: 800 Spanish w/ Listening 750 US History 680 Math II
ACT: 34
APs: 7 5s (Spanish Lang, Spanish Lit, Biology, Stats, Calc BC with a score of 5 on the AB section as well, APUSH, and English Lang/Comp), 4 pending (will take the tests in May–Gov, Lang/Lit, APES, and Physics C)
Recs: Teacher ones were great, counselor one was okay
Ethnicity: Indian (As in Indian Subcontinent)
ECs: Debate, Spanish club, horseback riding, political campaign volunteering, summer job, NHS, Varsity swimming</p>
<p>Go Bears!</p>
<p>Accepted! Cog Sci L&S
Spring Admit.</p>
<p>GPA: UC: 4.208
ACT: 32
Rank: 23/400 something
APs: Art History (3) AP Chem (4) AP Language (4) AP Psychology (5)
Ethnicity: White, famale
Extra Curriculars: Water polo and swim team, Link Crew, Key Club, Senior Class officier, Part time job
Essays:
- How being first generation to go to college/first generation american has affected my schooling. (Both parents are british)
- About my medical history and overcoming the challenges I have faced because of that.
- Also did the optional comments and discussed why I received a C/B in Algebra 2 my sophomore year.
My second one was definitely my strongest one</p>
<p>Also was a part of Eligibility in Local Context</p>
<p>California resident. </p>
<p>Senior Course load: AP Bio, AP Gov, AP Calc AB, AP Lit, AVID 12, AP Environmental</p>
<p>My only flaw in my application was my low Alg. 2 grades sophomore year, but I discussed that in my Additional Comments and made note to the fact that I got an A in Pre-Calc both semesters my junior year and showed grade improvement, got all A’s other than that, etc.</p>