Chances at being accepted ... honest answer

Colleges & Universities A-Z University of California - Berkeley
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<p>Hey guys,</p>

<p>I am a junior in high school and I want to pursue a career as a civil engineer at an excellent engineering school such as University of California - Berkeley. </p>

<p>I took the SAT for the first time on December 5th, and although I was slightly disappointed with my scores; I feel as if they were decent for having absolutely no preparation at all.</p>

<p>Here are my stats:</p>

<p>580 Critical Reading
530 Math
570 Writing</p>

<p>GPA - 3.98
Class rank - Top 25% (This is an estimate; I may be higher)</p>

<p>I am in the International Baccalaureate program at my school which is the equivalent of AP classes except for Pre Calc Honors and French 3 Honors. I hope to obtain an IB Diploma at the end of my senior year.</p>

<p>Extra Curricular - I play on the varsity soccer team and I am involved in a few clubs (Not an officer of any club due to soccer). Additionally, I am in the National Honor Society at my school.</p>

<p>I just wanted some honest outside input as to my chances of being admitted into the first year engineering program. </p>

<p>I am taking the ACT in February and plan to get a tutor to help me with the math. Also, I plan to take the SAT at least 2 more times. </p>

<p>I am out of state. (Florida) If that affects anything.</p>

<p>Any advice given is greatly appreciated! Thank you!</p>

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<p>that’s not happening…</p>

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<p>It looks like you need more extracurriculars, given your mediocre test scores.</p>

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<p>get the gpa up, do more ecs and community service write a awesome essay and you should be good:) good luck:)</p>

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<p>Main problem is test scores</p>

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<p>If you lived in California, you might actually get in. After first semester, I’m stunned by how many people at Berkeley have fairly low (1850-) SATs.</p>

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<p>there aren’t that many, 1850 is pretty low even for second tier UC’s</p>

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<p>I’d say like 10-15%-closely corresponding to the 10-15% of Berkeley students that are hippies. You think less?</p>

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<p>Out-of-state engineers I’ve met usually score in the 2300+ range on the SAT and have equally strong grades.</p>

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<p>Yeah, applying to Berkeley Engineering is probably a no go unless you can bring those test scores by like 150s across the board. Doable, but extremely difficult.</p>

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<p>OOS = may hurt or help b/c they want more OOS students hehe</p>

<p>SAT score = waaaaay too low, prepare and boost that by a few hundred at least if you want engineering.</p>

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<p>that’s a stupid assumption</p>

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<p>In all fairness, its a claim, not an assumption- feel free to disagree with it.</p>

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<p>It’s more like the students from ****ty high schools where being sentient got you a 4.3. Those people either major in ethnic studies or PACS, or just end up struggling horribly if they take a real major.</p>

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<p>You’re not getting in into L&S with those numbers, and definitely not into civ. eng.</p>

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<p>bartleby: I’m all for flaming noobs that don’t deserve their admission, but I don’t think they got in just because they had an inflated GPA; plenty of people with high GPAs don’t get in. Most likely they got in through some other dumb reason. I’m not all-out contradicting you, but it’s a little jump to conclusion imo.</p>

<p>OP still has time to bring up scores, especially if they own the ACT.</p>