<p>This is probably what did it. Guys, as much as all the scores and stats may seem, the extracurriculars go a far way to distinguish one person from another. There are lots of resources here at Cal that help even the worst students succeed, as long as they use them well. At the same time, there are lots of traps here that cause the best students to fail horribly. Based on the ECs, she seems like someone who would make excellent use of the resources to not only succeed herself, but also help others succeed. The drive and desire to improve really shows, and the stats functioned as a checkoffs.</p>
<p>Even though Cal is a UC, real people do look at the applications! I’m sure berry14 will be a great contribution to the campus. I know I’d rather work with interesting people with a drive rather than some guy who just manages perfect grades and stats with little tricks that serve no other purpose.</p>
<p>It’s possible you’re the cheerleader that saves the world in 2012 and agent 006 from the future time travels back to arrange your admissions to Berkeley so when you become a Cal Cheerleader (let’s be honest here) the flailing of your arms at the 2012 Cal vs. Stanford Big Game causes the second coming of the el Nino Hurricane which kills a dangerous alligator named Ranjeet in a Florida zoo who unbeknowst to his captors carries the Super Herpes Complex IV virus which will begin to spread by that season’s orange crop and wipe out 3/4ths of the world population by 2014.</p>
<p>That’s not true. I know someone with FANTASTIC ECs who would be an amazing asset to Berkeley. Unbelievable leadership, numerous awards, full of personality… Her grades and test scores weren’t bad, either. She was rejected from almost every UC. </p>
<p>But it doesn’t matter, because she’s one of those people who you know will be successful regardless of which college she attends.</p>
<p>you have a good gpa and good ec’s so it is not that surprsing. Lower test score and high gpa shows good work ethic and likely to succeed. </p>
<p>I think Berkeley is probably better than NYU unless you want to be a broadway star… just mho…maybe NYU med school is better. Berkeley is a great school great location
We call it Bezerkeley here in the OC…
congratz and good job!</p>
<p>Idiots like this are taking up spots, instead of kids that are actually intelligent?
Accepting her because she has POTENTIAL to utilize the resources here hahahahah??</p>
<p>^ I don’t want to hear you complaining about there being too many “actually intelligent” students making the grading curves too competitive (jk… slightly).</p>
<p>That could equally well mean that MIT accepted a sub-par student (and boy, does it happen, especially when they start looking at non-academic factors) though I guess if you know them personally that’s probably not the case.</p>
<p>Weird. I first was gonna say that she may have been overqualified but she’d be a ton more likely to get an R&C invite vs. a waitlisting in that case.</p>
<p>Above a certain threshold there is no such thing as a sub-par student based solely on scores. I HAVE seen sub-par students, however, with perfect scores. They didn’t get in, for a reason.</p>
<p>Test scores, weighed in isolation, are not an accurate predictor of college success.</p>
<p>wow i didnt know this thread would get so many responses lol and yeah my essay must’ve got them and disability probably…idk its soo exciting and wierd tho lol</p>