Chance me for Berkeley - EECS

<p>I am currently a junior:</p>

<p>Classrank: 16/700 (Top 5%)</p>

<p>Freshman:
Cultural History: A/A
Alg II/Trig: A/A
PE: A/A
Eng IA: A/B
Spanish I: A/A
Biology: A/A</p>

<p>Sophomore:
AP World H: A/A (AP Score - 3)
AP Cal AB: A/A (AP Score - 4)
Honors Chem: A/A
PE: A/A
Eng IIA: B/A
Spanish II: A/A</p>

<p>Junior (currently):
AP Cal BC: A/
AP US Hist: A/
AP Chem: A/
Anat/Phy: A/
Honors Eng: B/
Spanish III: A/</p>

<p>Senior (Plan):
AP English:
AP Stats:
AP Bio:
AP Phy:
Photography:
US Gov:</p>

<p>SAT Scores: 2020 (760M/650CR/610W)
(Planning on retaking)</p>

<p>My current UC GPA:
UW - 3.9444444
Weighted ~ 4.44</p>

<p>EC: NHS, CSF, Math Club, FBLA, Varsity Swimming, Piano, 200+ Community Service (Slave Labor) Hours.</p>

<p>Please chance me for:
UC Berkeley (EECS and L&S)
UCLA
Stanford (I guess)
and any other engineering or medical colleges within CA.</p>

<p>Thanks !!</p>

<p>P.S. How hard is it to get into EECS? GPA and SAT?</p>

<p>Berkeley/UCLA: match</p>

<p>I wouldn't put EECS on the app, though.</p>

<p>For Stanford, you need to show a focus of some sort. You might consider Harvey Mudd or Caltech if you raised that SAT score to 2250+. Good math score, though.</p>

<p>He's probably in at Berkeley and UCLA. Stanford, on the other hand, would be more difficult.</p>

<p>I also agree with Kyle's prediction. Top 2% is really good for ranking. I think the OP has a decent shot at UCB, too. It seems like he's within the range. And four APs is pretty darn hard -- I know because I'm taking five.</p>

<p>Thanks for all the posts, even pdef's :)</p>

<p>What can I do to be EECS worthy?</p>

<p>I know there's Berkeley EECS'ers out there, don't be shy.</p>

<p>Stanford is unlikely, since your ECs aren't spectacularly strong (for Stanford), and your SAT score isn't at Stanford's average. Berkely and UCLA should be matches, though EECS might be tough.</p>

<p>Please, 97.72 percentile is garbage?</p>

<p>I have applied to the LBNL Internship and hopefully I will get in.</p>

<p>P.A. is what?</p>

<p>Chance Chance Bump Chance !</p>

<p>Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences</p>

<p>From the admissions rate, it looks like it is harder to get into Berkeley as an out-of-state than into the ivies. SOmeone tell me this isn't true! (sorry for asking questions on your thread Castel :o)</p>

<p>Palo Alto is the town/city outside of Stanford</p>

<p>First thing: UCs don't count freshman year when computing UC GPA, nor do they count classes like Phys Ed, Health, or teaching assistant.</p>

<p>Knowing this, you should only count the 20 semesters of courses you take during your sophomore and junior years. Presuming you get the same grades you did during the first semester, that means you will have gotten 17 As and 3 Bs, or a GPA of 3.85 before adding in the honors. Since you get 8 grade points for your first 8 semester hours of honors/AP/IB courses, this means your UC GPA is 85/20=4.25.</p>

<p>This past year (2006 applicants that started in Fall 2007), the average GPA of admittees to UC Berkeley was 4.19 with a 2009 total SAT score, and at UCLA was 4.12 with a 2004 total SAT score.</p>

<p>Obviously, with a 4.25 and a 2020 SAT score, this means you are a Match at both schools not counting the ECs and other things (low income, overcome major problems in family, parents never went to college, etc.)</p>

<p>However, you are asking about EECS, which is tougher to get into than just UC Berkeley in general. The average EECS student is about 4.3 GPA or so with a 2150 SAT (not counting OOS, which is even higher--but only makes up 2% of the school). So you are still a match to slight reach for EECS--and you need to consider whether you want to apply for engineering at UC Berkeley.</p>

<p>As far as Stanford, you don't fit the profile for their engineering school--so I'd say rejected, but barely</p>

<p>The other poster (kyle david) is correct about a 2250+ being about what you would need for Harvey Mudd, Caltech (and Pomona for that matter). It would also make you a more likely admitee at UC Berkeley (or UCLA) in Engineering. </p>

<p>Best of luck.</p>

<p>I only have 1 year of Phys Ed in my sophomore year, meaning 22 semesters total?</p>

<p>BTW Thanks for the information Calcruzer, it helped a lot!</p>

<p>Castel,</p>

<p>Sorry, my mistake--yes, I misread your class in the junior year. In that case add in 8 more grade points and divide by 22 instead of 20; meaning your UC GPA is 93/22=4.2272 or 4.23 (strange that adding in two more courses with As actually lowers your UC GPA, but since it was above 4.0, you see this has to be true).</p>

<p>The rest of my comments are still the same. (Adding in the extra courses should help you since it showed you pushed yourself by taking six academic courses per semester instead of five.)</p>

<p>Thanks for the support everyone.
Bump.</p>

<p>You know you want to help.
Bummpie.</p>

<p>Chance me :)</p>

<p>Bumpity Bump.</p>

<p>Bump please (:</p>