<p>I will be applying to a bunch of private/ivies but I would not mind going to either of these UC's either. Right now i am thinking I could get into these schools without a problem but I could be wrong...</p>
<p>Me:</p>
<p>GPA: 4.5, 3.95 unweighted. I got into ELC
ACT composite: 34
Math II: plan to get 800 after retake, got 760 first time
CHem Sat II: 770
US history SAT II: 760
AP World: 5
AP Calc BC: 5
AP us: 4
AP Chem 4</p>
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<li>PIano player for 12 years, have won competitions, passed panel (highest merit level test) with honors, will send cd if option is available</li>
<li>Am an artist, will send portfolio if there is an option to</li>
<li>Played tennis JV freshman sophomore year but switched to Water polo and swimming in Junior year. varsity Letter in polo senior year, probably going to letter in swim too</li>
<li>Board member (project manager) for Key club</li>
<li>Treasurer for Junior volunteers at hospital, where i have volunteered 150 hours</li>
<li>Flash animations recieved online award, and school film festival award</li>
<li>Volunteer at church as teachers assistant for religious education class, lector, usher, and play in the orchestra.</li>
<li>Played in our schools top orchestra as a violist for 4 years. Might tryout for regional orchestra this year.</li>
<li>Have tutored math as volunteering and as job. Have also taught piano for a little while.</li>
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<p>as an ELC'er, statistically Cal and UCLA are a match since both accept ~50% of ELC applicants. Great essays and they become a low match. Poor essays and they become a stretch.</p>
<p>I wrote this in another thread yesterday, but it still applies --</p>
<p>Holisistic admissions means you get an application reader who reviews your entire file and makes a recommendation. You never know what kind of day that adcom is having when he/she sees your file. There are 71,000 applications to UCLA and over 60,000 to Berkeley. They outsource the adcom role to people outside the university to supplement university full time staff.</p>
<p>That's all to say -- your stats say you should (>66%) get into both. You just don't know if your particular reader will be biased, racist, genderist, functioning psycho, hates tennis players, hate piano players, hates arteeeests, hates (fill in the blank that you wrote your essay on), coming down with a flu, etc. etc.</p>
<p>The UC's are almost entirely based on your UC GPA (only sophomore and junior years without pluses and minuses for letter grades). I have been told by admissions counselors at some of the UC's that essays and activities factor very little into the decision. They actually just assign your EC's, essays, etc. point values and factor them into an equation with GPA and SAT to see if you are accepted.</p>
<p>The site Uchance.com</a> - Home does this calculation for you. If you plug in your SAT and GPA it gives you your chance of being accepted. It also has the Ivy League school percentages but it's definitely more accurate for the UC's. Good Luck!</p>
<p>You did panel testing for piano? I got lazy and stopped at advanced, but my teacher says i'd make the state panel easy hahaha. Can you play la campanella? that's like the hardest etude i've played >_></p>
<p>P.S. w0oj0o -- it would help if you could list your "UC GPA" which caps the +1 points on AP/Honors at eight semester grades... meaning if you take 5 a-g courses in each semester of sophomore and junior years, the max "UC GPA" is 4.4. If a person takes 6 a-g each semester, max UC GPA is 4.33.</p>