<p>Hi. Just wondering what my chances are for getting into the UCs. An incoming Senior. Aiming for Berkeley! Maybe Stanford!</p>
<p>GPA</p>
<p>Unweighted Cumulative GPA - 2.25
Weighted Cumulative GPA - 2.5</p>
<p>Grades:
Freshmen:
English 9 Honors: A-; A
Algebra 2 Honors : B; A
Biology: A; A
Spanish 3: B-; A
World Geography: A; A
PE: A; A</p>
<p>Sophomore:
AP Chemistry: A; C-; C-; C
English 10 Honors: A; C+; F; F
Digital Art: A;A
Spanish Lang AP: B; C-
AP World History: A; D
Pre-Calculus Honors: A; D</p>
<p>Junior:
AP Calculus AB: D-; D
English 10 Honors: D; C+
Spanish Lit AP: B-
US History AP: F
English 11 Honors: D
AP World History: D-
Lang & Comp AP: F</p>
<p>SAT Scores</p>
<p>SAT
Reading - 630
Math - 800
Writing - 580
(Total 2010)</p>
<p>SAT Subject Tests
Math II - 790
World History - 680</p>
<p>ACT
English - 31
Math - 36
Reading - 32
Science - 29
English/Writing -29
Composite: 32</p>
<p>Extra-curricular
Key Club Vice-President - 10th grade
Taekwondo - Age 7-16
Hospital Volunteer/Intern - 3 years</p>
<p>Volunteer Work
Over 300 hours of community service over 3 years of high school career</p>
<p>Major and Minor
Major - Molecular and Cell Biology
Minor - Psychology</p>
<p>I had some trouble involving drugs and illness towards the end of my Sophomore year. Didn't really attend school Junior year. I really cleaned myself up this year and am expected to pull all A's all Senior year. Non honors courses though (the school won't let me take any honors or APs). Don't judge, just give me an honest opinion. Thanks.</p>
<p>Pretty good SATs, better than mine. But unless you are excelling in the local context (meaning everyone in your class is stupid compared to you) I doubt you will get into any UCs and I’m positive you won’t get into Stanford or Berkeley. Not with a 2.5. Sorry.</p>
<p>I don’t know about the local context thing. Last year’s valedictorian got a 4.85 GPA. Thanks for the reply anthenisa.</p>
<p>Well it depends on your year. Is there any way you can check for your class rank? If you are in the top 4% of your class, you will gain automatic acceptance to many decent UCs, all except Berkeley, LA and SD. However if people at your school are getting 4.7+'s then it’s unlikely you are in the top 4% of your class.</p>
<p>My honest (and honestly non-professional) opinion is that you go to community college for 2 years then transfer to Berkeley if you are passionate about that. But unfortunately Berkeley rarely accepts people below 4.15 (unless a star athlete for their team) and Stanford rarely accepts people who aren’t incredibly special (not that you aren’t – but they like people who did things like single-handedly build the Mars rover from scratch)</p>
<p>HAHAHAHAH omg this is sooo funny.
first you cant even apply with less than a 3.0 so no need go any further.</p>
<p>if your gpa was 2 points higher you would have a pretty decent shot</p>
<p>Well I’m an incoming Senior so I probably can get my GPA higher than a 3.0. </p>
<p>So you’re saying I could get in? :]</p>
<p>UC’s dont look at senior year grades, only sophomore and junior. And i meant you need a 4.5 gpa to have a decent shot. So if you can get all your grades changed then yes i think you could get in.</p>
<p>Great, thanks for the tip! I’ll give that a shot!</p>
<p>What Mccormickt 12 is saying, in a somewhat cruel manner, is that when considering applicants for their freshman classes the UCs only calculate the grade point average for courses you took during your sophomore and junior years of high school. You did well your freshman year and you should try and get the best possible grades during your senior year. Your SAT scores indicate you have the potential to earn very good grades when you are healthy. Nevertheless, your sophomore and junior year grades give you a GPA below the 3.0 you need to be eligible for admission to a UC and may even be below the 2.0 to be eligible for a CSU. You can not change your grades after the fact. You can retake some of the courses you failed the last two years during your senior year and replace some of those Ds and Fs but that will not affect your eligibility to apply to the freshman classes of a UC or CSU this coming year.</p>
<p>Probably the best course of action for you, as others have mentioned, is to plan to go to a community college for the next two years, put everything you have into it, and get a GPA around 3.8 to 4.0. You can then apply as a transfer student to a UC, including Berkeley, and have a good chance of acceptance since your high school grades will not matter, they will only look at the grades you earned at the Community College. </p>
<p>I know that you probably want to go into a four year college now rather than a CCC but the reality is that things happened over the past two years that you can not change now that make going to a four year college impossible at this point in time. If you finish up your high school career with a strong senior year to get you prepared for community college, and do the kind of work you are capable of during your two years in community college there is still an excellent chance of eventually making your dream of going to UC Berkeley or some other top university a reality.</p>
<p>Thanks for an actually respectable reply Lemaitre.</p>
<p>To be honest, I just posted this to see the responses I would get. I’ve heard a lot of bad things about the CC community here and thought I’d see for myself.</p>
<p>The original post was actually my case last year, but I did retake some of my classes and got all A’s senior year. I am currently an incoming freshman at Berkeley. Got into Stanford as well.</p>
<p>I’ve seen way too many posts here worrying about “abominable 2380s” and replies saying that a person doesn’t have enough points in whatever score. Hell, if I were a junior reading what you guys replied, I might have been deterred from even applying to any UCs.</p>
<p>I know why you guys say what you say. It’s reality. But reality isn’t determined by point values. And there’s a crap-load of discouraged people who need to realize that.</p>
<p>Don’t really care if you disagree with me. Probably never going to look at this post again.</p>