<p>i was wondering if berkeley would be a safety for someone who lives in california and has the following stats:</p>
<p>4.25 UC GPA
2400
3x800 SATII's
5's on 8 AP Tests
decent EC, pres. of one club etc..</p>
<p>thank you, and this is hypothetical.</p>
<p>Probably. However, some students are rejected from Berkeley if the admissions people feel that they're using Berkeley as merely a saftey. <em>shrug</em> Statistically speaking, and if this person had at least decent essays and ECs, then probable admittance.</p>
<p>i would say with those stats with a good essay would be a match/slight reach</p>
<p>I would say it's a match. The scores don't mean much...not a big difference between 2300 and 2400...GPA is about Berkeley average...ECs are like ehh...would also depend on essays and recs of course.</p>
<p>these people are insecure. berkeley is absolutely a safety for you; you should be aiming for harvard, princeton, yale, and stanford. (i say this as a berkeley student.)</p>
<p>goblue, you think that Berkeley would be a slight reach?</p>
<p>i really hope not...</p>
<p>i am a california resident....if you missed that</p>
<p>you'd probably get in (note there does exist a certain factor that schools sometimes like to reject 2400's, for bragging's sake, though it's usually associated with HYPS), but that doesn't make it a safety.</p>
<p>Getting those scores would make Berkeley a school you worked hard to get into. UCSB or another second-tier UC school fits the definition of safety in this situation.</p>
<p>For bragging's sake? Perhaps. It probably has more to do with not want to reduce their yield rates, and not overly raise their acceptance rates. It probably has more to do with US News and ratings than with their ego's.</p>
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goblue, you think that Berkeley would be a slight reach?</p>
<p>i really hope not...</p>
<p>i am a california resident....if you missed that
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<p>I thought this was hypothetical. ;)</p>
<p>I rate it a very good match.</p>
<p>Ah, you'd be a defo in, just based on your scores.</p>
<p>The only thing that i'd be unsure of is your lack of extracurriculars. This is why I'd suspect HYP are "reaches."</p>
<p>What kind of stats do people who got into Berkeley as Regents/Chancellors have (OOS)? I'd imagine they'd be competitive at any Ivy school.</p>
<p>I say no and here's why. I would have to see the number of AP/honors classes offered by this students high school before making that decision. If his/her high school offers 13 or 14 AP classes (like some high schools), then a 4.25 is not very good. If the student has a few "C's" on his/her transcript, the first thing that comes to my mind is, although the student is obviously gifted, perhaps he/she is lazy. However, if the 4.25 is at or near the maximum weighted GPA possible, for his/her high school, then I would say "yes"..... 98% sure he/she would be admitted.</p>
<p>um.....this is uc capped gpa.........</p>
<p>the highest gpa possible is a 4.4............................................................</p>
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<p>If a 4.4 is the highest, then I would say he would be admitted.</p>
<p>As long as you don't write something stupid with your personal statement, such as how getting a license changed your life (if anyone remembers that be an adcom site).</p>
<p>"the highest gpa possible is a 4.4............................................... ............."</p>
<p>Not true. Since they only take into account a-g courses from soph/junior years, if you take a couple non-academic classes in that time (PE, for example), your UC GPA can be higher than 4.4.</p>
<p>4.25 is much higher than Berkeley's average.</p>
<p>Berkeley's average GPA is not even 4.2 UNCAPPED. UC GPA, Berkeley's average is probably near 4.0-4.1.</p>
<p>4.25 it is, which happened to be my GPA in high school.... :)
Don't know where you get your information, or is it just your feeling?</p>
<p>Oh alright. Berkeley average GPA is exactly 4.25 uncapped.</p>
<p>Still means that the op's hypothetical GPA (capped at 8 semesters of weighted classes) is higher than Berkeley's average.</p>
<p>My HS GPA = ~4.5W and will be about ~4.25 UC GPA.</p>