<p>I realize that these threads are too common and maybe annoying to some of you, but paranoia won't leave me alone. My mom wants to retire and move to San Francisco (my dad lives and works there), so she wants me to apply to UC Berkeley and Stanford.</p>
<p>I'm currently in 11th grade in a regular public school in Canada. I have an unweighted GPA of 4.0. I won Top Student Award at my school and have always been on Principal's List (90%+ avg, I have a 97% average). I've won the Top Science Student award since grade 8. My school doesn't release a rank, but I'm fairly certain that I'm somewhere in the top 5 of 350.</p>
<p>My extracurriculars include facilitating after school programs for kids at local elementary schools in the community for 150+ hours and doing local environmental restoration as a peer leader for 100+ hours. I also have been doing the Greater Vancouver Regional Science Fair, where I won honorable mention, bronze, silver, and BC Science Teacher awards. In grade 9, I won first place in the science/innovation competition called ExploraVision out of all the entries from both US and Canada. My passions include textiles (Top Sewing Student for 3 years), and pottery (I plan to submit an art supplement).</p>
<p>Random other things: Top Student Award at Chinese school for 11 years (although I'm Chinese so that's not very impressive), VSSAA Championship in Field Hockey.</p>
<p>If I optimistically assume that I can manage 2300+ on the June SAT and 780+ on the SAT Bio and SAT Math 2 in May, 5 on the AP Bio and AP Calc AB exams this year, what are my chances of getting accepted?</p>
<p>For UC Berkeley it depends on your major. The school has an overall acceptance rate of around 20% while the college of engineering has a 12% acceptance rate. However you seem like a really competitive applicant. I’d put UCB at a low reach or high match.
In all honesty you have a really low chance at Stanford. Its just a fact of life at this point that the really selective schools are all crapshoots after you’ve met a certain academic standard. You should apply of course, but keep that 5% acceptance rate in mind. If you’re really passionate about Stanford apply REA. The acceptance rate is a little higher (10% vs 5%). Obviously Stanford is a high reach. </p>
<p>@scaredoflife. If these are your top choices…your best chance at Stanford is applying REA (early) as saif235 noted…and applying to UCBerkeley by Nov. 1 (Berkeley is a public institution with no early apps: everyone applies at same time) and any other strong public universities in US and Canada that you are interested in to cover your bases…</p>
<p>…and consider adding other UC schools with Berkeley since it only requires one application…</p>
<p>My son just got accepted to Berkeley with slightly lower unweighted GPA than yours and pretty strong SAT scores (not off the chart but well above average) and he was actively involved in ASB and had other leadership positions in high school. This year they admitted 13,000 with approximately 73,000 applicants. Of those, 11,000 were for Fall semester and 2,000 for spring semester. My son got Spring admission which is perfectly fine with us considering how great the university is and they also have a program, called the FPF program, which would allow him to stay in the dorms at UCB in Fall and take some extension classes, approved by UCB, that transfer over, when he officially start in Spring. Don’t stress over where you might or might not get in. Just continue doing what you are doing, with a focus on maintaining your grades, getting a good SAT score and remaining involved at school and with other activities. Best of luck. </p>
<p>@gravitas2 I’ll be sure to add in lots of other schools + safeties as well, both in Canada and the US</p>
<p>Thanks everyone, I guess I can’t really do much other than keep up what I’m doing and give it a shot!</p>