@dwabliam What a great list of acceptances! Thanks for sharing your journey and thoughts, and congrats on your decision to Cal.
I’ve read that foreign national Asians have better odds at high ranking schools compared to local Asian-Americans and poor Asians have better chance than Asians from affluent suburbs. If you are a hard working and intelligent kid from an upper middle class Asian-American family then system is heavily stacked against you.
Congrats, OP!