<p>Do i stand a chance at berk or ucla? (SAT is a ......1880) ?!?!?!?!? here are my stats....
lols i want to go here sooooo badly, you have no idea!!!! (brown univ is out of my reach lol)
gpa. 3.97 W
SAT scores: 1880 O<strong><em>O* sweat*
Subject test: didn't take it yet...
Act:28....O</em></strong>_O; <em>gulp</em>
taken all honors.....
taken all the math and science classes available at my skool
ONLY taken 2 AP's-calc and physics- (but made it up with college courses at harvard and this community college) so......think of it as.....6 AP's...lols
skool type: catholic
rank: top 10% (out of 350)
ethnicity:asian (works against me!!! arghhh!!!) >.< first gen. to go to college in america
no legacy.......
essay.....so so.....
recs......standard....i got one from my lab teacher in harvard summer school tho...
extra currics: Live Poet's Society, Book Club, Mission Club, Interact CLub, Founder of a charity organization, Indian Classical dance, Math League, tutoring, vocal recordings in multi-languages, independent cancer research reviews, and thats pretty much it....
Languages: Tamil-mother tongue, Telugu-2nd mother tongue, Hindi-can only read and speak a little- (Indian dialects), Russian-can speak and read Cyrillic, and Spanish....and Japanese ^.^* and im sending colleges me singing in russian and english ^O^*
Other factors: Completed 8 credit course for undergraduate biology in Harvard this summer..............and im sending hopkins this huge lab report thing from harvard summer skool on Meotic Mapping on Yeast......
so pleaseeeee chance me?!?
i dont have a good SAT, i don't think my currics are that impressive, my gpa doesn't stand out when applying to berk, my essays are gud, anddddddd............lol did i mention the SAT score...xD 20% chance i get in? 10%? lols....25%? LOLxD</p>
<p>Your race doesn't work against you. UCLA/Berkley are 45+% Asian, so you don't really have anything to complain about, considering the next highest percentage is whites at about 35%.</p>
<p>I think both those schools are a stretch though, to be honest. Maybe the Russian singing will enlighten them, but with admissions getting tougher every year, you just have to be really good all around to make the cut. I wouldn't be shocked if you got in, but I'd say your chances aren't too impressive.</p>
<p>Good luck though, I wish you the best :)</p>
<p>I know this is a long answer but here it goes. I got into berkeley but not UCLA. As far as the other schools, I have no idea. I took the SAT once, and I didn't even send my SAT scores to UCB. I just wrote the scores on the UC application. These are the reasons I think I got in.</p>
<ol>
<li>I took 2 AP classes (but only passed the AP English one)</li>
<li>I have over 20 college credits already done.</li>
<li>I've done a good amount of volunteer work.</li>
<li>I've had an interesting life story</li>
</ol>
<p>This is an overview of my transcript:</p>
<p>Unweighted GPA: 3.93
Weighted GPA: 4.04</p>
<p>SAT SCORE: 1800
SATII-Literature: 550
SATII- US History: 490
SATII-Chemistry: 540</p>
<p>I have also volunteered for Peer tutoring, the American Cancer society, Computer for Classrooms, and an elementary school. Over the 3.5 years of High School when I applied, I had about 230 hours of volunteer work.</p>
<p>I was also in the Pottery club, French club, and was a Manager for a Hockey team my freshman year. I was only in these clubs as a member, never a leadership role. I was barely active in any of the clubs, but had attended a few meetings of each (so hardly any effort there).</p>
<p>I also had a summer/part-time job for the summers after my sophomore and junior year. After the summer job after my junior year, I got a part-time job that lasted through my senior year.</p>
<p>My school has a cool program that allows a few select (90 or so) seniors to attend a local community college for their entire senior year (which I did and got a good amount of my G.E. done). If your school has nothing like this, then continue with those AP classes!</p>
<p>My family story was interesting, so writing about it for the UC essays was easy to kind of get a sob story out of. Try to write about an unusual and/or personal hardship (if the prompt calls for it) and connect it to how well you've done in school/what you want to do with your life. I wrote about how I was abandoned by my parents when I was 14 and had to be more independent, thus making me a good student, etc.</p>
<p>I applied for a science major at Berkeley and got into their College of Letters and Sciences. After I applied, they actually asked me for more information (like letters of recommendations, etc) to help my admission. I actually did not send in any of that and still got in!</p>
<p>I think your chances are pretty good if you keep up the work and do some extra curricular/volunteer work, but consider other schools too! I applied to three UC's and got into 2 of the 3. I got into UCB and UCDavis, but not UCLA.
Best of Luck!</p>
<p>^</p>
<p>that gives me hope!</p>
<p>To the OP: Please learn to be more clear and professional on this board.</p>
<p>Berkeley isn't that selective. You should be fine.</p>
<p>kakiye pesnee tee pel? I think the essays will be the determining factor.</p>
<p>^
Isn't it true in most cases?</p>
<p>I heard from a UC video that the personal statement can be the "do or die" section for the highest selective UCs</p>
<p>They screen your numbers first. While lilyrice's story is enlightening, getting in with that GPA and SAT is NOT the norm. Also, though lilyrice's story obviously was very real, be sure you too are truthful in your essay; they're admitting you for who you ARE, not who you pretend to be.</p>
<p>"I heard from a UC video that the personal statement can be the "do or die" section for the highest selective UCs"
The best explanation I heard from them on this is, A good essay can heal the sick, but it can't raise the dead.</p>
<p>......dude...take a chill pill..-.-</p>
<p>Improved SAT score to nearly 2000.
A hundred points jump!!!
ACT went up only to a 29.
3.97 was actually my UW
Weighted was 4.30.
Did not get into Berkeley but
got into UCLA. Am sooooo happy:)</p>
<p>Congrats! =)</p>