<p>Best SAT sitting: 750 M / 750 CR / 660 W (2160 T)
SAT IIs: 790 Math L2, 740 Bio, 700 US History
APs: 4 Chem, 5 Bio, 4 Stats, 4 Calc, 3 USH, 3 Lang</p>
<p>Awards/honors you have received
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2005 FIRST Robotics (10)
- Pacific NW Regional Division, Rookie All Star Award
- Curie National Division, Highest Rookie Seed (rank 2/85)
- Curie National Division, Finalists (rank 8/988)
2003 Intel Northwest Science Expo, 3rd Place in Physics (9)</p>
<p>Leadership positions, offices held
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Lemelson-MIT InvenTeam - Founder (12)
Math Club/Team - Founder (11-12)
Robotics Club/Team - Co-founder & Lead Programmer (10)
Student Gov't - Class Officer, Media Committee (10)
MUN - Member (9), Committee Head (10), Security Council (11)</p>
<p>If you're wondering about my GPA, my grades tanked last semester of my junior year (AABABAA -> ABCBBBA); divorce.
But then the upside is, now my dad lives in LA. So, starting sophomore year, I'd pay in-state tuition. Shoop da wooooop.</p>
<p>Sorry, but being OOS hurts a lot and those numbers just don't look competitive enough. Even if you were in-state you would have a bit of trouble getting into Berkeley or UCLA.</p>
<p>I'm assuming that the UC GPA only counts sophomore and junior year, OOS'ers can only weight AP classes, and that I'm limited to 8 weighted classes total. Is that correct?</p>
<p>Yes 8 APs will have the bonus 1 pt counted towards the GPA.</p>
<p>No idea how vicissitudes comes up with these percentages.</p>
<p>UCSD has a rather predictable admissions criteria where they allocate a specific number of points to GPA, community service hours and SAT scores, etc. My friend was rejected from UCSD because she was short 2 hours of community service (needed 100 hours total and had 98). I cannot locate their admissions policy for you at this time. I also vaguely remember that OOS students applying to UCSD are subjected to a stricter scale of point allocation.</p>
<p>Your individual circumstances (especially your parents' divorce) will help your admissions to UCB and UCLA if you address them well in the personal statement. The GPA is going to hurt your chances a lot, since the average admitted GPA to UCB is a 4.33 last year.</p>