Chance a girl for berkeley eecs?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Chance me at UC Berkeley, particularly for EECS please! (because I heard it's way harder to get into that major.)</p>

<p>GPA
Unweighted: 4.0
Weighted: 4.55</p>

<p>SAT
2280
Math 760 Reading 800 Writing 720</p>

<p>SAT II
US History 760
World History 750
Chemistry 740
Math Level Two 700 (retaking next week, hoping for 750+)</p>

<p>APs
World History 5
US History 5
Chemistry 5
English Language 5</p>

<p>Senior Schedule
AP Physics
AP Calculus BC
AP English Literature
AP Government/Econ
AP European History
Advanced Journalism</p>

<p>Activities
Newspaper new editor 2 yrs
Tolerance Club secretary 4 yrs
Quizbowl President 2 yrs
Technology/Science/Art Summer program at ucla
business/green technology program at ucla
surf club photographer 4 yrs
volunteered at library 2 summers, help organized children's reading program
csf 4 yrs
Interact 4 yrs</p>

<p>Awards/Honors
Rotary youth leadership award
national merit commended scholar
spanish honor society
ap scholar with honor</p>

<p>And by the way I'm female (advantage?) and Asian (disadvantage?).</p>

<p>I heard it's REALLY hard to get into EECS at Berkeley, but I'm hoping that at least being female will give me enough of a chance to at least try. Am I right in assuming this/do you think I can get in? Or do you think I should just apply for an easier major (like regular computer science)?</p>

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<p>Being Asian has no impact in admissions at Berkeley. They are required by law to admit without regard race. However, it would affect admissions at private schools. I’m not sure of the impact of being female. I know that at private schools it’s a big boost, but I don’t know how it can be viewed at a state school. </p>

<p>I’d say you have a great shot regardless, especially if you can get that Math II score up.</p>

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<p>uh, actually males have the advantage over females (haha!)
and yeah idk at all abt berkeley. good stats tho :]</p>

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<p>Are you sure? Why would that be? I’ve heard from tons of people that girls have the advantage because so few girls choose that major (and pretty much any engineering in general) that they try at least somewhat to actively recruit/accept more females.</p>

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<p>You are correct, but I’m just not sure how that works at a state university. Applying to engineering at privates? Yes.</p>