<p>My daughter wants to know her chances of scholarships or entrance</p>
<p>Her stats are the following:</p>
<p>She has 6 classes of which 4 are AP/IB
SHE HAS ALL SOLID GRADES ALL 4 YEARS AND IS ACADEMICALLY STRONG
CURRENT GPA: 4.33</p>
<p>SAT: CR-710 M-580 W-690 11/2006</p>
<p>SAT: CR-640 M-590 W-620 06/2006</p>
<p>SAT II'S
SPANISH WITH LISTENING: 790
MATH LEVEL 2: 510
LITERATURE: 680
US HISTORY: 660</p>
<p>E/C
HOSPITAL VOLUNTEER BOARD MEMBER
LANGUAGE SCHOOL PRESIDENT OF VOLUNTEER GROUP
KIWINS 4 YEAR MEMBER
CSF, NHS-SEAL BEARER AND LIFETIME MEMBER
AP SCHOLAR, VOLUNTEER AWARD FOR OVER 300 HOURS OF SERVICE</p>
<p>Noticed the post on the Stanford board as well--you are doing your daughter a great disservice by even allowing her to apply to these schools...please don't raise false hope that could crush her when letters come out</p>
<p>First of all her guidance counselor guided her. I was worried about her sat's. She did apply at some safety schools so we thought these might be a reach. By the way they sent us the invitation to apply. I never put these schools in her head. I am also checking here as I want to have an idea. I have already told her these were long shots but we applied.</p>
<p>pdef
another thing about Berkely:
her major was biological sciences. She also had the requirments needed for the local context automatic admission deal. I am not to sure what that was all about, but Berkley also asked her to apply.</p>
<p>Based on just her SATs, she would most likely not get in; she should have 700s on multiple SAT IIs. We need her overall UC GPA to make a better analysis.</p>
<p>well most universities send out applications and things of that nature because its an investment for them. You send in an app for 60 dollars, they look at it for a few minutes and thats easy money made. Your daughters SAT's are too low for either school unfortunately. Im glad you applied and its better to get rejected than know the "what if" but you should really tell your daughter to brace herself for the worst because her stats are low</p>
<p>WOW, pdef there's no reason to be so rude and arrogant... </p>
<p>languages1, your daughter is a "slight reach" IMO at CAL based on her SAT's. I have friends that had lower scores than she does and they are here, most of my friends are in the 2100-2300++ range... engineers.
There are a lot of 1980 SAT I's at CAL... she has good EC's, hopefully she had good essay's.
Good luck to her!</p>
<p>I also wanted to add that since we applied there, she was invited to attend a distinguished science info session at lax next weekend and we were sent the application and asked to apply to TAAP and the achievement award and also the Leadership award. Now would someone with no chance of getting in get these types of emails?</p>
<p>uhm...the TAAP and the Achievement award is a scholarship email sent to most applicants, i got them too : ). And yes, based on your major alot of ppl are given invites to attend lectures of that nature. You have to realize unless your daughter gets the regents scholarship email, nothing else she recieves is an indication of her application status.</p>
<p>I think that getting into most of the top universities becomes more about chance than academic achievements at some point. I also attend Berkeley, and my sat scores were less than stellar. I took the old sat so i don't know how that score relates, but I got about 610 on all the subject tests. I think that to some extent my essays and extracurriculars helped me out a lot, but i would think that your daughter has a chance. As far as scholarships go, I don't think she'll be getting anything extra necessarily, however if you apply for financial aid there are grants and such available to anybody attending the school.</p>
<p>"She also had the requirments needed for the local context automatic admission deal."</p>
<p>If she is an ELC student (eligibility in the local context), i.e. top 4% (I believe), then she is guaranteed a spot at one of the UCs, not necessarily of her choice. Berkeley is definitely not that easy to get into...</p>
<p>i'd say ur d has a shot. i wouldn't send in the math 2 one, i don't think you need to take the math SATII anymore (i didn't) i got in with similar stats, i'd say she's gotta shot. goodluck!</p>
<p>languages1 said:
"I also wanted to add that since we applied there, she was invited to attend a distinguished science info session at lax next weekend and we were sent the application and asked to apply to TAAP and the achievement award and also the Leadership award. Now would someone with no chance of getting in get these types of emails?"</p>
<p>Don't want to burst your bubble here, but all minority students expressing an interest in engineering, math or sciences receive an invite to attend the Coalition in Diversity seminar/information session. You really don't need to have specific grades to be a part of this program, just apply. By the way, if she gets in and decides on attending CAL it is a good program to be a part of.</p>
<p>The same thing with the TAAP and Leadership Scholarship... the Alumni Assn invites everyone to apply for these.</p>
<p>510 is a horrible score for Math II, which has a very generous curve and getting 85% correct is still considered a perfect. On the other hand, it doesn't count as she has other SAT II's and her GPA and EC's/Awards are decent, so they help dilute the poisoned SAT I scores.</p>
<p>yah, u don't have to send in the math II, and they take the top 3 anyway. i'd say there's a good shot. Make sure your essays are good, show who you really are. Either way, college is pretty fun anywhere.</p>