<p>President of 2 clubs, VP of another club. Captain of Varsity Tennis team. Captain of Academic Decathlon Team. </p>
<p>Awards: National Merit Scholar Commended, AP Scholar with Distinction, some minor essay awards, community service awards, and MANY medals won from academic decathlon. </p>
<p>You should never consider Berkeley as a safety. I think probably a reach for RS, there are a TON of smart kids there, and a TON fall into the 2250+ category on the SAT. 25% have more than a 2170 on the SAT. I dunno though...gl</p>
<p>yea berk is never a reach. admissions can be really random sometimes. and wheres the community service? Id say match, but for regents it depends on the pool.</p>
<p>You could likely be a candidate for Regents & Chancellors. I got offered one last year and I had similar stats. Assuming you have ELC from a strong school and you wrote good essays, you don't really have much to worry about in admissions.</p>
<p>You have a good chance of admission with those stats -- the Regent's Scholarships seem to be based on more than great stats, though -- outstanding academic honors and extracurricular activities figure into that. For the Regent's Scholarships, they require an interview and accept recommendations. Supposedly, half of the students nominated receive the scholarships.</p>
<p>If it's because your school doesn't rank (many private schools don't) or your class is so small that there are only a couple of students in the upper 4%, I don't imagine it would matter. Look at the website for the Regent's Scholarship at Cal -- there is a lot of information.</p>
<p>you will probably get an invitation for Regents interview. Don't know whether you will get the scholarship though. I had similar stats, got an invitation for Regents interview, but didn't get the award.</p>
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<p>Berkeley is a safety for virtually no one. SAT doesn't matter that much; sure, it can help, but it definitely isn't enough for you to consider it a safety. Also, the unsuperscored average is about 2050, and so the superscored is a bit higher. A 2270 really won't dazzle them, as there are plenty of those with such scores. (I think Berkeley enrolls the highest number of 1500+ scorers on the SAT, old scale, which translates to a 2250 on the new scale.)</p>
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<p>You mean, it's never a safety? =p</p>
<p>As others said, you'd probably be a candidate for RS. Getting it, though, will be tough; I think I read somewhere that there are about 200 in each class or something.</p>
<p>I would say it's more or less random.
I have worse SAT I, slightly better SAT II,
MUCH worse extracurricular (I only had one activity haha),
and I somehow got it.
Third year into Cal, I am still wondering how it happened.</p>