<p>I'm thinking of all of the UCs possible....probably UCLA UC Berkley UCSD Davis -anywhere</p>
<p>first. i'm trying to graduate early.
my parents are diplomats and they are allowed to stay in the us(virginia) for only 3 years
I came as a freshmen and skipped junior year this year..so i'll have freshman sophomore and senior grades. </p>
<p>also, I'm a US citizen so...does this help by any way even though i'm out-of-state?</p>
<p>and I have low gpas........kinda on a okay level
i have 3.65 unweighed and 3.9 weighed
i think it's 3.9 according to the california gpa calculating method
my classes were</p>
<p>9th
english 9 hn -b
world history hn- b+
algebra2 hn- a
journalism 1-a
orchestra -a
pe 9 -a
biology - a </p>
<p>summer</p>
<p>english 10 -a </p>
<p>10th
ap lang - b-
ap world - b
ap stat - b+
chemistry hn - b
precalc hn- a
pe 10 - a
french 1 - b+</p>
<p>summer</p>
<p>us history - a</p>
<p>12th
ap lit
ap comp sci
ap econ
ap calc bc
ap enviro sci
french 2
govt </p>
<p>+physics online</p>
<p>i have 2230 for SAT1(plan on retaking)
750 for math level 2 and 600 for world history(plan on retaking math and take english&bio)
aps.... ap lang -4 ap world - 4 ap stat - 4
and i have 105 for toefl(i have no idea how this happened...)</p>
<p>ec: </p>
<p>jv/v track (9)
orchestra(9) did district orchestra too
-- i had to quit both of these after freshman year to prepare for early graduation
icu club (9 10 12) was an officer last year
math club(9 10 12) i'm the vice president this year
and i've been working at my dad's office(a subpart of the korean embassy) for about a year)
i've got into nhs this year and got a ap scholar's award......</p>
<p>i know my gpa and scores are pretty low
but do you think a good essay& and early graduation might help for any colleges?</p>
<p>Your sat score is fine… I don’t think you need to retake it. However, your gpa will hurt you for berkeley (average capped at 4.17 for admitted class during the last few years)</p>
<p>The average GPA (UW) for Berkeley was 3.93 and 4.43 (W). Your GPA will certainly hurt your chances, but I would still encourage you to apply there. You wouldn’t know. At this point in time, try to focus on one or two ECs and try to be the best on what you do. when you can demonstrate the improvement on your essay, I think your chances will significantly improve when you do that. Good luck!</p>
<p>But his SAT is way above the average which can balance GPA. Not to mention that UCs are very anxious for more full pay OOS students. It would be hard to see you not getting into Davis, Irvine and below, and you have a shot at the others.</p>
<p>Redroses, Berkeley does not weigh SAT scores as much as they do HS GPAs, that’s why they don’t superscore SATs. If you want to get into Berkeley, you do well in HS and aim for top GPA scores. High SATs with low GPA wouldn’t make you get into Cal. You need to be in the top 10% in you batch to even get into any UC, let alone Berkeley. I will give you real cases:</p>