Chance me- (UCB)

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Gender: Female
Major: English/Undeclared
Ethnicity: White
Out of State</p>

<p>GPA: 3.98 weighted (however I attended an extremely rigorous and competitive private school)
UC GPA: 3.9</p>

<p>ACT Composite: 31 (retake in December?)
Math: 27
Reading: 35
Science: 26
English: 36
Writing: 11</p>

<p>AP courses: AP lit, AP lang, APUSH
*note my school doesn't offer APs until junior year and only has 6 to choose from</p>

<p>AP Tests:
U.S History- 4</p>

<p>SAT Subject Tests:
Literature: 740
History: 780</p>

<p>Extracurricular:
Public Relations and Event coordinating paid intern- (10,11,12)
NHS (11-12)
NSSHS (11-12)
SHS (11-12)
President and Founder of BETA chapter at my school</p>

<p>500+ hours of community service including:
Service trip to Asia
Service trip to New Orleans and Montana
Weekly volunteering at two soup kitchens
3 week volunteer counselor at a camp for kids with mental disabilities every summer
volunteer at Senior Support
etc.</p>

<p>Mentor and golf instructor for at risk youth (9,10)
Year-round nanny</p>

<p>LINK leader (12)
Speech and Debate (11,12)
Varsity Lacrosse and JV cross country (9,10,11,12)
JV Lacrosse Captain (10)
Student Ambassador (9,10,11,12)
Recieved the most prestigious Academic award at my school (9,10,11,12)
Theatre (12)
Youth group leader (10, 11, 12)
Outdoors club
Young Democrats
Fluent in HTML and CSS coding- have my own website</p>

<p>What are my chances? I know my GPA and test scores aren't out of this world...and it's a total reach but i figured I'd see :)</p>

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<p>I think you ECs look good. Your course load could end up hurting you. With only 3 APs, it may be a little difficult to get in. Picking English as a major could end up hurting you as they have the best English department in the country (per USNews, anyway). But then again, your English and Reading ACT scores (as well as your Lit SAT score) are stellar. </p>

<p>Honestly, I don’t know if I’d say it’s a reach, but I don’t know if I’d call it a match either. It’s somewhere in that gray area for me. I think what hurts you the most is OOS and maybe course load. If you really want to go, I say you should apply. I don’t know if you should necessarily be surprised by either outcome, though. </p>

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<p>Can you afford Berkeley? Your GPA and ACT score may hinder your acceptance.</p>

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<p>@JuniorBengal‌ I was hoping that because my school only offers 6 APs that taking 3 out of those 6 would be okay but I see your point! All my other classes are honors however and being at a highly selective prep school i was hoping colleges would take that into consideration but I really worry about it. Thanks so much!</p>

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<p>@auntbea I can afford it, I might need to take out a small loan but nothing major! </p>

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<p>The UC’s don’t fund OOS students, so you need to be ready to pay $60K per year. If you can’t afford to go, it’s all a moot point.</p>

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<p>@auntbea Its 53K and I can afford it</p>

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<p>Actually it’s more like a general amount of $55978 per year (<a href=“http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/paying-for-uc/tuition-and-cost/”>http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/paying-for-uc/tuition-and-cost/&lt;/a&gt;) but Berkeley’s area is more expensive, so we generally round up to 60K for all of those “surprises” that spring up at the last minute.
Your scores may hold you back.</p>