Chance Please? Berkeley&Stanford

<p>Hello, College Applications are due soon and I want to get an idea of how low my chances are for Berkeley and Stanford so I have a good idea of how many safeties I should apply for. Well, here it goes. (I tried my best to be detailed as possible)</p>

<p>Ethnicity: Asian (Japanese)</p>

<p>Gender: Male</p>

<p>Income: about $70,000</p>

<p>School Type: Public</p>

<p>Location: California, US-Citizen</p>

<p>Legacy: None</p>

<p>Courses</p>

<p>(Course Name: Grade)
Freshman year:
@High School
Bio: A/A
Precalculus A/A
Chinese 1/2: A/A
English: A/A
PE: A/A
Spanish 3/4: A/A
Wrd History: A/A</p>

<p>Sophomore year:
@High School
AP Calc BC: A/A
Chinese 3/4: A/A
English: A/A
ModWrld History: A/A
PE: A/A
AP Physics B: A/A
Spanish 5/6: A/A
@Community College
(Spring)Physics With Calculus I: A
(Summer)Physics With Calculus II: A
(Summer)Intro to Object Oriented Programming: A</p>

<p>Junior Year:
@High School
Chinese 5/6: A/A
AP Chemistry: A/A
Honors English: B/A
AP Env Science: A/A
US History: A/A
@Community College
(Fall)Multi-Variable Calculus: A
(Fall)Engineering Statics: A
(Spring)Linear Algebra: A
(Spring)Differential Equations: A
(Spring)Physics with Calculus III: B</p>

<p>Senior Year:
@High School
AP Gov
AP Eng
AP Bio
Honors Chinese
@Community College
(Fall)Discrete Mathematics
(Fall)Java Programming: Data Structures
(Fall)C++ Programming: Programming Methods
(Fall)Art History
(Fall)Java Programming: Programming Methods</p>

<p>Overall GPA (CC courses not included)
W: 4.22
NW. 3.98</p>

<p>Test Scores:
SATI: 2020 (CR 610, M800, W 610)
SATII: MathII 800, Physics 800, Chem 760, Japanese 800
ACT: Composite 32(E30, M36, S34, R27) Writing:28(Essay 8)
AP:
5's: Calc BC, Physics B, Japanese, Physics C:Mechanics, Physics C: E&M, Chemistry,
4's: Env Sci, Comp Sci
3's: Statistics</p>

<p>Volunteer:
Rebuilding Together (Helps remodel low-income family's homes): 150 hours
Vo-Cal (Trail Blazing): 50 hours
(Random Small ones) about 50 hours</p>

<p>Extra Curriculars
Water Polo: 4 years, Captain, Best Defense Award
Tennis: 4 years, Captain
HHS GO: 1 year, Founder (Program I found to help students with Math&Science, offers free on campus tutoring, and other resources on website I coded using HTML & JavaScript Home</a>)
Science Bowl: 2 years, President & Captain
Asian Club: 4 years, President
Small Research at Boston University</p>

<p>Random Awards:
AP National Scholar
Annual S.F. Japanese Speech Contest 1st Place
AMC 12 1st in School
F=MA 1st in School
JLPT N1
Math League (CC version of AMC) 3rd on campus</p>

<p>Personal Thoughts:
Strengths: Course Load/Level, SATIIs, solid concentrated EC's
Weaknesses: SATI/ACT, Major Awards, Ethnicity, W GPA</p>

<p>Also for schools that take Ethnicity into account, does being Japanese have a slight advantage than being the main stream Chinese/Indian?</p>

<p>I know Stanford is most likely a no,
but Berkeley I might have a slight chance</p>

<p>Please let me know what you think!</p>

<p>Stanford: reach
Berkeley: high match</p>

<p>Thanks scderek4!</p>

<p>Stanford: Reach
Berkeley: High Match</p>

<p>Definitely try to get your SATI or ACT up, and you will have a great transcript!</p>

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<p>Stanford: reach
Berkeley: High match</p>

<p>Stanford: Reach
Berkeley: Match-High Match</p>

<p>Stanford is a reach for pretty much anyone w/o Legacy so PLEASE do not let these replies discourage you. There is always hope.</p>

<p>Chance me back please!
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<p>Thank you so much :]</p>

<p>Does anyone know if UC’s heavily take the SAT into account?</p>

<p>Berkeley - high match
Stanford - low reach
Great job!! And UC’s mainly base their decision of GPAs and the test scores, so I’d say they do take a good look at your SAT score</p>

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