Chance me at UC Berkeley? I need advice.

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<p>Class of ’11, rising senior.
Private, Catholic high school
California
Asian (Filipino) male</p>

<p>GPA:
3.74, unweighted (is that going to be the death of me?)
4.63, weighted
Top 10%, if not 5%
Courseload: all Honors/APs, save for religion/choir
Grades: all As, save for a couple Bs</p>

<p>SAT: 720 Writing, 680 Math, 610 Reading; 2010 (will retake in October)
SAT IIs: Bio-M 760, Math-2 710 (will retake in November, along with Spanish Lang and English Lang)</p>

<p>AP:
(sophomore) World History – 3
(junior) Spanish Lang – expect a 5
(junior) US History – expect a 4
(junior) English Lang – expect a 5
(junior) Biology – expect a 4
(junior) Calc AB – expect a 4
(junior) Music Theory – expect a 5
(senior) Euro History
(senior) English Lit
(senior) Physics C
(senior) Calc BC
(senior) Comp Sci B</p>

<p>Awards:
Departmental award in Spanish (2 years)
Principal’s Honor Roll (6 semesters)
Membership, National Honors Society
Membership, California Scholarship Federation
Membership, National Society of High School Scholars</p>

<p>EC:
Piano (~13 years)
Concert/Chamber choir (2 years, section leader)
Jazz choir (3 years, section leader)
Musical theatre
Tutoring (math, English, Spanish)
AMC (American Mathematics Contest, 2 years)</p>

<p>Community service: Second Harvest Food bank, assorted agencies for families in poverty, piano accompaniment for church choirs, academic decathlon</p>

<p>Work experience: child care provider, tutor</p>

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<p>match</p>

<p>10 char</p>

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<p>assuming your essays were solid and you are elc, i would say you deserve to be in and have the stats to back it up.</p>

<p>but sometimes admissions can be a crapshoot. lol i remember how i thought of nothing but getting into college when i was in your stage, but if it is at all possible for you (it wasnt for me lol) try to focus your mind on other things too, haha ;)</p>

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<p>just curious, what major are you applying for? </p>

<p>the reason i ask is because i know a kid with worse stats than you who got accepted as an economics major, a kid with stats around yours except a little lower W GPA but higher SAT score and he got rejected (he had amazing ECs also) and then i didn’t get in until spring semester even though i had better stats/essays than a majority of the kids that got in fall admit from my school (i realize that sounds completely arrogant; that’s truly the last of my intentions and sorry if it comes off that way.) which i’m thinking was probably because i applied ‘undeclared - pre-business’ and that way i wouldn’t have really lost anything by coming in as a spring-admit since the classes i would need as pre-reqs are all offered through UCB extension or any community college.</p>

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<p>pretty good, if you are elc, even better</p>