<p>I was just rejected from UCLA and I hear that UC acceptances/rejections can be a bit weird, Applied to school of Engineering</p>
<p>Just thought I'd ask the Berkeley forum;
Rank: they removed it form our school but I was 1 out of 400 before they removed it
UW GPA: 4 out of 4
W GPA: 4.4 out of 4
ACT: 30, English 30 Math 30 Science 30
Took SAT but did not like my scores so I didnt report it
Awards:
Student of the month over 6 times
Principals Awards for having a 4 GPA, 6 times</p>
<p>ECs:
-UC Berkeley Summer Workshop
-2 yrs of MESA (won local championship for an air glider)
- Worked at a Food Bank all 4 years
-Video Club
-Lacked a lot of ECs due to family obligations</p>
<p>-Senior schedule: 4 AP classes,<br>
AP Gov,AP CALC BC, AP Chem, AP Lit </p>
<p>Classes from past years: AP Bio (3),AP Spanish(5), AP US (4), Honors English, Accelerated World History, Honors Biology, Honors Pre Calc,</p>
<p>If you care to chance, please feel free to, I'd greatly appreciate and thank you!</p>
<p>Stats are good (but lack of SAT will hurt you probably), ECs and awards pretty average/below average. I think you have a chance if your essays were spectacular.</p>
<p>^ If you don’t even report an SAT score, admissions officers will immediately start questioning why (since it’s the standard). Since OP didn’t even submit SAT scores to them, they might assume the worst, and thus have a less than stellar impression.</p>
<p>wat. this is exactly the point i want you to explain further. why the flying f do you believe that the SAT is the standard and why the flying f do you believe that admissions officers will question why if you don’t report an SAT score?</p>
<p>Foraminifera, there isn’t a need to get so agitated. Since you’re the one getting worked up over this on someone else’s thread, perhaps you’d like to explain why you believe otherwise? </p>
<p>I believe it’s the standard (not mandatory - there’s a difference) since well, an overwhelming majority of high school seniors (college-bound) take it and submit their scores. OP is one of the few on the forum (check out all those chance threads yourself) who did not submit one.</p>
<p>This logically leads to my (sort of) second point. If 100 applicants submit SATs, and OP didn’t, it’s only common sense to focus on the omission since OP is the odd one out. Given that OP specifically stated that it was because his scores weren’t very good, wouldn’t you agree with me that the admissions board has valid reason to assume that there was a problem?</p>
<p>“Both ACT and SAT scores are equally accepted for admission.” </p>
<p>I dislike false information getting spread around. Nuff said. Collegeconfidential has a lot of good information. You just have to figure out what’s the good stuff and what’s the bad stuff. What you posted constitutes some of the ‘bad stuff.’</p>
<p>I don’t think the lack of SAT 1 scores will hurt you. I seen many people here on CC that were accepted into schools like Stanford and MIT without ever submitting SAT 1 scores.</p>
<p>Maybe your rejection (also) had something to do with your essays? How good did you think your essays were?</p>
<p>I would just like to add my two cents and say that the coasts generally find the SAT more popular (but not necessarily ‘better’ - I don’t see how one test can be ‘better’ though, it’s personal preference IMO), and the midwest/central america finds the ACT more popular.</p>
<p>Agree with many of the points. Official policy is official policy, but many people (from personal experience) who take the SAT usually submit it, so the general consensus is, why take it and don’t submit it? It’s not better than the other (hey, I didn’t take the ACT, and Berkeley didn’t care), but since the SAT is so extremely commonplace among Cal applicants, and the admissions officers aren’t robots, they might be inclined to think that way.</p>
<p>Notice I used “might” from the start - I’m not spreading the “bad stuff”, however you define that (and CC is a forum open to all so I have no idea why you’re imposing your ideology on others, since I don’t impose mine on you) and from the start I stated it was something I THOUGHT/I believed was the case (meaning my own personal belief), not something set in stone.</p>
<p>You have your opinion, I have mine, they are all plausible, I don’t dispute yours, so don’t pull out the swear words on here. To me, that’s the real bad stuff (slinging mud on another forum member that did not do anything to you/attack you personally). </p>
<p>I apologise to the OP for the hijacking of this thread; I really wish you the best of luck. Like what I’ve said a few times before, don’t stress out! Just relax and wait for the results, keep your fingers crossed, and I hope you’ll be happy come March 29th. (:</p>
<p>Just wanted to say I’d think you have a decent chance, right in the middle for Berkeley’s standards especially with their kooky acceptances compared with UCLA.</p>
<p>Lack of EC’s, test scores pretty average. It also wouldn’t have hurt to take some SAT II’s. While they’re not required, they can certainly help.</p>
<p>I don’t think that just submitting your ACT score will hurt you but I do think your ACT score is on the low side, particularly for the School of Engineering at Cal. What was your ACT score on the math section?</p>
<p>No offense, but those test scores are pretty weak for the number 1 ranked student. I barely cracked the top 40 at my school and my ACT/SAT was 34/2260.</p>
<p>But anyways, though your school does not release the rankings to the students, I guarantee that UCB will know that you are the #1 ranked student at your school and therefore it will work tremendously in your favor. Also having a 4.0 unweighted is huge. I’d say your in.</p>
<p>Public high school
Abraham lincoln in san jose if you want to look it up
We had 6 other valedictorians in our class
One of them got a 24 on the act and another got a 36
Go figure</p>
<p>If it is any consolation to you about being rejected at UCLA, my neighbor (Engineering intended major) was also rejected with a 3.9 uw GPA and a 2280 SAT I score, 780 in math. I saw kids who got accepted to UCLA with SAT scores in vicinity of 1900 and saw kids rejected from UCLA with scores in vicinity of 2300. Getting 72,000 applications with only 5,400 spots at UCLA this year is going to disappoint many qualified applicants. Anyone who only thinks the top UCs are only stats driven, think again.</p>
<p>I am officially DONE trying to predict chances at Cal after hearing about my neighbor and then reading the decision thread on UCLA. Who knows, maybe the fact that Cal gets fewer applicants than UCLA with more available spots will increase your chances?</p>