<p>soph: UW. 3.167 W. 3.5
junior: UW. 4.0 W. 4.5</p>
<p>SAT: 2150
SAT II: 800, 710, 690</p>
<p>Volunteered at Art Museum: 300 hours
Americas kids Run: 70 hours</p>
<p>sports: Varsity 2 years cross country (fresh, soph)
track two years (fresh, soph)</p>
<p>AP eng: 5
AP us his: 4
AP french lang: 4
AP psych: 3
AP bio: 5
AP french lit: 5</p>
<p>taking 5 aps right now.</p>
<p>best french student award
president french club (2 years)
secretary of young democrats (2 years)
active member of art club (2 years)
active member of eco club (1 year)</p>
<p>i slacked both freshman and soph years because of my focus on sports, then i quit sports and focused on academics, and well...see the difference.
anyways what are my chances...</p>
<p>o yea and did a summer program in france (at this french university) and got a bunch of french college credit along with the credit ive gotten from the aps in french and some college french courses i took, thus im like only a few credits away from a french major...</p>
<p>and also did a summer program with the Academy of Art in SF. studied art there for 6 weeks (graphic design and such..)</p>
<p>The Ucs are public universities paid for Californian taxpayers hence the name "University of California". It makes sense to give Cali students an advantage over non Cali students. it just means that the OOS applicant has to get really high scores since CA applicants already have really high scores. Ipwn..I think you have a good shot</p>
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The Ucs are public universities paid for Californian taxpayers hence the name "University of California". It makes sense to give Cali students an advantage over non Cali students.
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<p>That depends on the program in question. The UC PhD programs don't give any advantage to anybody based on their state residency. For example, the Berkeley EECS PhD program doesn't provide any admissions preference to California residents, and yet that's a program that's part of a public university, funded by California taxpayers.</p>
<p>I disagree, a 3.167 UW for sophomore year is enough to get you rejected for even a solid in state applicant. You have a chance, but this is Berkeley. All of the 30some students that went there from my school last year were top of class while having all of the ridiculous EC's.</p>
<p>ichiboy, that could also help him if he uses that GPA jump in his personal statement.</p>
<p>ipwn:
You have a fair chance applying from out of state. But realize that UC's cap to a max of 8 semesters of AP/Honor classes in calculating weighted GPA. It seems that you have added more than 8 extra points in your calculation, so your UC weighted GPA might actually be lower.</p>
<p>dang...
really appreciate the comments. and i do plan on using the jump in my statement also emphasizing that i moved to a different and higher ranked high school, providing me with better teachers, thus fostering my hunger....blah blah (of course i wont do it taht bluntly) but nonetheless i think i should speak of the move, for it obviously had an impact on my GPA. what do you guys think?</p>
<p>Gandhiji, I think he's saying he put 70 hours of total work into it...meaning probably fundraising, maybe setting up stuff, advertising for it...</p>