Chance Me! UC Berkeley Admission 2011

Colleges & Universities A-Z University of California - Berkeley
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<p>Current High School Senior!
Competitive Private Catholic High School in Orange County (this may be to my disadvantage)
UW GPA: 4.0
W GPA: 4.8 (honors, AP, and IBS count as 5's)
Class Rank - 4/392 (all a's but full ib kids get to take ib philosophy instead of religion so they get a gpa boost)</p>

<p>Junior Schedule:
Religion 3
AP Lang - 5
AP BC Calc - 5
AP US History - 5
IB Latin HL 1
Ancient Greek 2 H
AP Physics C: Mechanics - 5</p>

<p>Self Studies:
AP Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism - 4
AP Psychology - 5 </p>

<p>Summer:
General Chemistry at CC - A
Environmental Science at CC - A</p>

<p>Senior Schedule:
Religion 4
AP Lit
AP Stats
AP Macroeconomics
IB Latin HL 2
IB Ancient Greek SL (only 3 schools in world offer this)
AP Biology</p>

<p>Self Studies: AP Microeconomics</p>

<p>Academic Awards:
Top Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Latin, and Greek Student!
Scholar Athlete for Soccer and Tennis 4 years in a row!</p>

<p>SAT: 2300
ACT: 34
SAT II Chem: 780
SAT II Latin: 750
SAT II Math II: 800</p>

<p>Applied to College of Chemistry (Chemical Engineering). I might attempt a double major in Classical Languages or if not, go for 2 minors in Econ and CL.</p>

<p>ECS:
4 years soccer (1 frosh, 1jv, 2var)
Won the US Youth National Championship in Boston, 2008
4 years varsity tennis (captain junior and senior year)
MUN (4 years, traveled to London, Boston, and China, 7 gavels)
President of Futbol 4 Dreams Club (sends decorated soccer balls as well as cleats, jerseys, shorts, and other soccer equipment to underdeveloped countries around the world/1,500 balls sent so far)
President of Kiva/Microfinance Club ($1750 loaned so far to over 20 countries)
Member of Ping Pong Club
CSF 4 year member
NHS 2 year member (tutored for NHS throughout junior and senior year)
Link Crew Leader (Freshmen Transition Program)
Member of Lion's Heart (community service organization for teens, president for 3 years, 500 hrs)
Special Camp for Special Kids counselor for 3 summers (planning to continue summer after senior year)
Fluent in Spanish
Conversational in German</p>

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<p>You’ll get in. By the way, you can’t “double major” per se in ChemE and Classical Languages - those are simultaneous degrees. Small distinction. A double major gets you one degree with two majors, simult degrees get you a BS and a BA.</p>

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<p>Ok thanks so much! So just for clarification, because one is a BS and the other is a BA, they are simultaneous degrees. But if, for example, I pursued a double major in ChemE and Physics, then I would get one BS degree in both ChemE and Physics.</p>

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<p>You’re right about the simultaneous degrees. As for ChemE and Physics, no, you’ll get a BS in ChemE and a BA in Physics.</p>

<p>ChemE and Physics are housed in different colleges. If you pursue two disciplines in the same college, you’ll get a double major. If you pursue two disciplines across colleges, you get simultaneous degrees. ChemE is housed in the College of Chemistry (which awards BS degrees) while Physics is housed in College of Letters and Sciences (which awards BA degrees). L&S is also where you’ll find your classical languages, social sciences, humanities, bio, etc…</p>