female applicant getting into engineering schools?

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<p>So I am an international student currently studying on east coast. I've been in the states since my sophomore year and will be a senior this September.
just visited colleges in cali and i was really impressed by berkeley and stanford. especially their engineering program. stanford has a design program that involves engineeering and arts, which is something i really wanna do. and i was rlly interested in berkeley's industrial engineering too. </p>

<p>so as an international student, i hv a toefl score around 110 (score not out yet) and SAT score around 2150 (might improve to 2200). my GPA is 3.65 (my sophomore yr first term was only 3.4 since i wasnt used to the school so it pulled down my accumulative GPA by a lot..)</p>

<p>i took AP stats, AP calc BC, AP us history and AP biology my junior yr. got all 5s except for APUSH i got a 4. </p>

<p>next yr im planning to take AP physics C, AP psychology, AP art history, multi variable, advanced seminar in computer science (AP computer science ab) and advanced abstract and applied mathematics. </p>

<p>i dk abt my class rank...class size around 130~140. maybe my rank is top 15%. well the only thing im sure is that im graduating cum laude. but teachers dont write that on their recommendations do they?</p>

<p>i hv some extracurriculars, not many..varsity track (short/mid distance), 1st violin in orchestra, and president of a small NGO that holds annual charity trip to Tibet to help kids there go back to school ($100 annual tuition for a kid go to school there) </p>

<p>so.. what are my chances getting into berkeley and stanford as a female applicant???</p>

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<p>also for EC i hv–
international student organization leader
internship at a company in china
science program (a new program at my school this yr, basically helping student getting into the labs they wanna work in. so i worked at Yale University for six weeks in a biology lab)
past varsity volleyball team (older school had a volleyball team and new school doesnt hv it)</p>

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<p>I think your chances are pretty decent. While nothing stands out as a total “wow factor”, you are a strong candidate (being female doesn’t hurt when applying to science/engineering programs). I would say better chance at Berkeley because the male/female is more skewed there than at Stanford, so they would tyr harder to even it out. Good luck!</p>

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<p>thanx! but ppl hv been tellin me that my GPA doesnt stand out at all.
wats the lowest possible GPA getting admitted by berkeley??</p>

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<p>ull get in, my brother goes to a engineering college and they are sausage fests so haha they should bring a girl in.</p>