<p>Ok so how does applying to UCB work? I heard that the EECS department has a 1% out of state acceptance rate, making it more competitive than MIT/Caltech. Is it a reach, match, or safety for me:</p>
<p>[basic things only, only major major ECs listed]
GPA: 4.0 (school doesn't have weighted GPA)
Rank: 1/683
SAT: 1550 Old /2290 New (800M, 770 CR, 720W)
SAT II: 800 Math IIC
800 Physics
800 Chem
800 Writing
APs: 5's on Chem, Physics C (both), AP Calc BC, US History
Currently taking: Biology, Comp. Sci., Stats, Gov/Econ, Spanish, Lit. and Comp.</p>
<p>AMC: 123 (highest in my state)
AIME: 6
Ranked 4th in state on (legitimate) statewide math comp.</p>
<p>Other Stuff:
Won Grand Prize at local Sci fair (ISEF finalist)
Siemens Westinghouse regional finalist
Went to RSI this summer (top 10 presentations)
Hopefully 2 published papers by the end of this year (already accepted to a conference for one of them)
[I have done research for the past 1 year at about 10-15 hours/week, and for 2 years before that at something like a few hours per week]
USAMTS silver award
Karate black belt (doing it for 9 years almost)
100 Volunteer hours at hospital
30 hours at library
Taken Mathematical Structures, Number Theory, and Linear Algebra at University (all with A or A+)</p>
<p>Clubs:
Founded Science Research Club
President of Spanish Honors Society (3 years in club)
VP of NHS (2 years in club)
VP of Speech and Debate (2 years in club)
Random other positions in less prominent clubs (done 2 other clubs for 4 years now)</p>
<p>EDIT:
Pretty good essays
One stellar teacher rec, one pretty-really good one, one rec from a Harvard professor that I interned under 1-1 this summer, and one from a math professor that I had for math struct. and number theory, classes that I did really well in</p>
<p>I can't even imagine how Smart you are,,,,, Number 1 out of 683!!!!!!!</p>
<p>I'm like 11 out of 120 lol. I guess you've planned college since like 6 years ago with all of Volunteer stuff you did. I just realized now that I have like NO Awards and volunteer crap. with an 1860 SAT. I guess that's the difference between Cornelly University and Cornell College :)</p>
<p>anyways, congratulations on being a Genius ( top 95-100some%%in the US),, I'll just go back to being a regular old "Very Smart top 79-84some%%in the US". :)</p>
<p>Not like he has to ask. You'd think that sometime while he was typing in all of his information he'd realize that it's ridiculous to ask questions such as these.</p>
<p>so you r out of state right??
although you have really good stats,.,, it's really hard to get into berk if you are from out of states,,, cuz, my friend at colorado got 1600 on his SAT, and had 4.897 gpa (highest in the state, he took 13 ap classes and 12 classes at cc)
you know what,, he got into MIT, Caltech(with 3yr scholarship), and Princeton, but he didnt get into Berk (lol,, it doenst make any sense)
well,, berk is like that,,
and you know what,, in the 1% out of state, most of people in that 1% have SAT scores higher than 1550,, all kinds of genius apply to berk..
good luck anyway~</p>
<p>well, I didn't know that heyyoyo, Berkely only has 1% of out of state Students. That's weird wouldn't they rather have the best students in America rather then just the best in California??</p>
<p>dude if u went to RSI then ur practically a shoo in for MIT, which has one of the best eecs depts. No need to waste ur time applying to berkeley.</p>
<p>I should still try though haha. There was a rickoid (RSI '03) who got into MIT and Stanford but rejected from Berk. I wanted a "match" school since right now I have the in-states as safeties, and HPMS as reaches. Thanks for the input guys.</p>