CHANCE ME FOR CAL

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of California - Berkeley
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Hello! Would anyone be willing to chance me for UC Berkeley? I applied to the BA CS major. Thank you in advance :slight_smile:

ACT: 34
SAT Subject Test Math II: 800
SAT Subject Test Japanese: 800
SAT Subject Test Chemistry: 770
GPA: 4.00 (UW)
4.37 (W)
High School: Very competitive public high school (ranked top in California and in the country)
AP Chemistry: 5
APUSH: 4
AP Japanese: 5
AP’s I am currently taking: AP Calculus BC, AP Physics 1, APCS
Rank: My school doesn’t do ranks but my counselor said I am within the top 10% range

Classes Outside of A-G:

  • Japanese School (9th, 10th, 11th grade; graduated; 9 hours per week)

Awards:

  • President’s Volunteer Service Silver Award (national award)
  • First Place, Japanese Speech Contest (regional award)
  • First Place, Japanese School Essay Contest (school award)
  • Grand Prize, California State Talent Competition (regional award)
  • Japanese Language Award (nominated by Japanese teacher; 9 students selected out of 125; school award)

Community Service:

  • School club (11th grade; collaborated on marketing campaigns for 4 events held to raise funds for Usher Syndrome research; assisted the club in raising overall $1,700; hours contributed toward President’s Award)
  • Local non-profit (10th, 11th grade; created and donated 21 handcrafted plush toys to be distributed to local at-risk children; hours contributed toward President’s Award)
  • Zero Waste Internship (12th grade; coded and designed infographics for school district’s Sustainability website; hours contributed toward President’s Award)
  • Boys and Girls Club (11th grade; volunteered at local Boys and Girls Club summer program; taught 30 second-grade students English and mathematics)

Job:

  • Treasurer (12th grade; entered information from checks, bank statements, etc. into QuickBooks and Google Sheets; developed organizational and soft skills)

Extracurricular Activities

  • School business club (10th, 11th, 12th grade; Marketing Director and Secretary; collaborated on marketing campaigns for 2 student-led companies; placed 3rd and 4th at national competition; 2 hours per week)
  • Orchestras (9th, 10th, 11th, 12th grade; member of regular orchestra all four years; member of symphony orchestra for two years; principal second of regular orchestra in 11th grade; selected member of chamber orchestra last two years; 4 hours per week)
  • Violin (9th, 10th, 11th, 12th grade; private lessons; 4 hours per week; participated in local church ensemble)
  • Piano (9th, 10th, 11th grade; private lessons; 4 hours per week)
  • School crafts club (10th and 11th grade; founder and president; led and organized weekly club meetings; taught students how to sew plush toys as a way to relieve stress)

Essays:

  1. Leadership in orchestra ensemble group
  2. My talent (ability to combine artistic and technical skills in bringing my ideas to life - talked about my Zero Waste internship)
  3. Educational barrier (shyness; how I learned to take steps out of my comfort zone by competing in Japanese speech contest)
  4. What makes me unique (personal experience I faced regarding prejudice when I was living in China)

Classes: Top math classes, top science classes, top/honors English classes, regular history classes (school doesn’t offer honors history/social studies; I took APUSH; I chose to take regular Econ over AP Econ this year), orchestra all 4 years, Japanese 3 years, computer science classes 2 years, etc.

Again, thank you in advance for your response! Please let me know if I left any information out. I am writing this at 12:53 in the morning so I may have missed a few things here and there. :stuck_out_tongue:

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Also, I’m not sure if this will be helpful but my class size is about 450, at least 150 students applied from my school last year and at least 50 students got in