CHANCE ME PLEASE. first choice school!

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of California - Berkeley
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<p>PROFILE
-State residency
-School Type: public school ranked 103rd in California
-Race/Gender: Vietnamese/Female
-Prospective Major: computer science
-First year college student
-Family income: middle class </p>

<p>ACADEMICS
-Unweighted GPA: 4.0
-UC GPA: not sure how CC courses play into this. 4.27 not counting CC summer courses, 4.31 counting them.
-APs (as of application): Calc AB and Psychology
-UW Rank: 1/566
-W Rank: I have no idea how to find this out, but most likely in the top 10%</p>

<p>COMMUNITY COLLEGE CLASSES [summer of 11th]
-Statistics
-a introductory computer science class (any recs?)</p>

<p>12TH GRADE COURSELOAD
-Physics AP
-Calculus BC/AP
-Spanish 4AP
-AP Euro OR AP Micro/Macroecon (undecided, any recs?)
-English 4</p>

<p>SAT 1: 2200
-Crit. Reading: 700
-Math: 730
-Writing: 770
-(first sitting, will retake. tbh thought I was gonna score higher on math and writing, but reading was expected bc I didn't study)</p>

<p>SAT 2
-planning to take Math II, Spanish, and Chemistry in the spring
-projected 730 for all</p>

<p>EXTRACURRICULARS
-Played the viola in school orchestras <a href="no%20room%20left%20in%20my%20schedule">3rd grade-9</a>: first chair all 7 years
-Piano lessons [5-9], independent [10-now]
-I now dedicatedly play guitar, no lessons
-JV basketball [9]: MVP award, coach's award, All-league award
-Varsity basketball [10-12]: team reached state level, no individual awards (yet ^__^)
-Varsity track [11-12]: season starts in spring (guaranteed spot on varsity)
-Varsity XC [12]: (guaranteed spot on varsity and projected state competitor but it's a fall sport, so the merit won't make it onto the application)
-SSTEM 4-week medicine program (selective admission)
-Unicef Club [9-12]: ~20 hrs community service
-CSF lifetime member [9-12]: ~20 hrs community service
-Red Cross Club [9, 11, 12]: ~10 hrs community service
-Peer tutor for Spanish [11-12]: ~1 hr/week
-Church leadership group of about 20 [10-12]: collectively organized a charity dinner (no help from adults) that raised ~$2000, I was one of the leaders (organized date & venue, made & sold tickets, presented the cause, etc.); organized local fundraisers that raised ~$1000 total, ~100 hrs community service
-Computer experience: made class website in 5th grade, designed a bunch of pages here and there for my different interests for leisure, self-learning C programming, Internet expert lol
-total community service: 250 hrs</p>

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<p>Your UC GPA probably would not include community college courses and would include only courses taken at your high school, but I’m sure that you could ask your counselor or look it up on the UC admission website.</p>

<p>Your academics are strong and fit the profile of a typically accepted Cal student (which you can also look up online). You’ve got a lot of extracurriculars, but it doesn’t seem clear whether or not you were consistent and stuck with something over time. (In addition, you wouldn’t have reported all those ECs anyway on your app since that section only permits 5 entries, if you recall.) But overall, I think you seem to have a good shot.</p>

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<p>You want to take your Subject tests in the spring? Isn’t that a little late?</p>

<p>I think you’re likely accepted.</p>

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<p>alwaysawriterjust, confirmed that community courses do count in the UC GPA. :slight_smile: I appreciate the input! I didn’t know that about only 5 ECs, thanks.</p>

<p>pat, whoops, I’m a junior haha. thank you.</p>

<p>would you guys say there are any weaknesses in my resume? I have half year to make up for them and I need to start ASAP</p>