Chances at Berkeley?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>What are my chances at Berkeley, and also Princeton, Emory, Georgetown, Yale, Stanford, and Columbia?</p>

<p>Background</p>

<p>School: Sends some graduates to top schools
State: Florida
Rank: 1 out of 600
Ethnicity: White</p>

<p>School</p>

<p>U/W GPA - 4.0
W GPA - 4.9
Sophomore Schedule: Spanish III, Pre-Calculus, Chemistry Honors, English Language Honors, AP Physics B, AP European History, AP Human Geography (self-study), AP Psychology (self-study)
Junior schedule: AP Spanish Language, AP Calculus BC, AP Chemistry (double-block), AP US History, AP English Language, AP American Government and Politics (online)
Senior schedule: AP Biology, AP Physics C (M and EM), AP Economics (Micro and Macro), AP English Literature, Calculus 3, Differential Equations, AP Stats</p>

<p>Standardized Testing</p>

<p>SAT: 2200
SAT 2: Physics: 780 World History: 800 Chemistry: 750 U.S History: 800 Math II: 760
AP Tests: World History– 5, Environmental Science- 5, Physics B- 5, European History– 5, Human Geography- 5, AP Psychology- 5 (so far, I hope to get mostly fives on a bunch more AP exams)
ACT: 33 </p>

<p>In-School Extra Curriculars</p>

<p>Member, National Honor Society, 2009-2012
Member, Chain Reaction Club 2008-2012
Member, Key Club 2008-2012
Member, Chemistry Club 2009-2012
Captain, Varsity Tennis Team 2008-2012
Captain, Mu Alpha Theta 2008-2012
Captain, Varsity Debate Team 2008-2012
President, Debate Club 2008-2012
President, Junior State of America 2008-2012</p>

<p>Outside-School Extra Curriculars</p>

<p>President of a charity I co-created, 2008-
Member, Chain Reaction Youth Council 2009-2011
Member, Tennis Mentor Program 2007-2012
Piano 2001- (a couple awards)
Guitar 2007-
USTA Jr. Team Tennis 2004-2012</p>

<p>Over 500+ hours in volunteering</p>

<p>Work Experience</p>

<p>I own a local racquet stringing business.
Worked every summer since 8th grade in a Nuclear Physicist's laboratory, on numerous experiments mostly including activated carbon.
I sell a form of activated carbon (biochar) locally.</p>

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<p>great stats. what’s your intended major?</p>

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<p>Thanks. I’m not sure yet…I have a lot of options, because I’m great at math and sciences, I’m great at English, speaking, and debate, and I love history (and great at it). I’m interested in anthropology, possibly. Maybe law, or engineering.</p>

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<p>Solid GPA and ECs. Great chance. Ever think of shooting higher?</p>

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<p>Yes, I also gave my other choices at the top of my thread…Princeton, Emory, Georgetown, Yale, Stanford, and Columbia. I’ll visit some others, and may add a couple Ivies and take off a couple others. My safety would be UF, from what your saying that is a safety right?</p>

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<p>elizabetho, what exactly are you saying? The OP is applying to Princeton, Yale and Stanford aside from Berkeley. </p>

<p>OP, Berkeley’s level of admissions is largely dependent on the college you’re applying. For example, it is harder to get into Berkeley engineering than, say, arts and letters. and it has some significant difference in selectivity level. if you love anthropology and maths, you should be applying to the College of Arts and Letters (L&S) and I think you have a strong chance of getting accepted there.</p>

<p>It is also interesting to note that whilst the ivies and some top privates favor test scores such as those from SATs and ACT, Berkeley favors HS GPA. A lot of students with perfect SATs are turned down at Berkeley, but were accepted at Ivies and top privates. The ones who have very high GPA with relatively low SAT (2000) were accepted at Berkeley but not at ivies or other top privates.</p>

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<p>Yeah, thanks, I also heard that it’s harder to get into Berkeley if your out of state, which I am. Is this true?</p>

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<p>^ Used to be true when California had lots of money. lol</p>

<p>Berkeley has been trying to increase the number of OOS and international students starting last year. It has successfully doubled its OOS for this year and hopes to keep it that way. Lots of students from New York are now at Berkeley, many of them have also gotten accepted at places like Cornell, Columbia and NYU.</p>

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<p>Berkeley=in. Just don’t screw up your personal statement and you’ll be fine. If you decide to apply to engineering then Berkeley is a low-mid reach. Berkeley’s Engineering program admit rate~13%.</p>

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<p>To the OP, sorry, I didn’t see the part with the other colleges.</p>