<p>Asian male at a magnet school
GPA: 3.833 UW
SAT: 2240 (700CR, 800M, 740W) <- in one sitting
SAT IIs: Chem - 800, Math IIc - 800
Course load: All honors, 3 APs junior year (AP Calc AB - 5, AP Chem - 5, AP Micro - 5)
Senior year sched: AP Physics C, AP Art History, AP Psychology, AP Stat, Spanish IV H, Lin Alg/Dif EQ H, English 12 H, PE
Essays: Excellent
Recs: One from counselor - decent, one from physics teacher - great, one from the volunteer service coordinator at local library - awesome</p>
<p>Honors/Awards:
- National Merit Scholarship Semifinalist
- AP Scholar
- Spanish Honor Society (Sophomore - Senior Year)</p>
<p>ECs:
- Event planner/coordinator of the Habitat for Humanity club (Member since freshman year, position held junior - senior year)
- President of Amnesty International club (junior - senior year)
- Created/led a program at my town library that basically has volunteers helping kids to read and write (summer of junior year - senior year)
- Member of my town's volunteer ambulance corps (junior - senior year, volunteer 6 hours a week)
- Member of school's science competition team (junior - senior year)
- One of the newsletter editors for the spanish honor society's monthly newsletter (sophomore - senior year)</p>
<p>As a current student at Berkeley, I’d say your chance at UCB is excellent. Your major and much of your coursework aligns. Hope you get in and best of luck!</p>
<p>Nice work lolpear. As a current Penn student, I think you’re on track with almost everything. Except possibly the GPA (what is your class rank?). But despite this, I think you have a solid shot (I had a similar GPA and I got in!). </p>
<p>You’re doing everything right-so keep working hard when you get into college. Once in college, by focusing on GPA a little more, you should develop a great, all-around resume/application (for grad school and whatnot). </p>
<p>Actually, a Penn student has recently written a book about attaining a high GPA in high school/college. You should check it out:</p>
<p>JHU: 80%
UCB: If your are in-state 90%, out-state 70% or less (they almost got every student from CA. But you are definetely a great student as I can see.
PENN: 75%</p>