<p>If you go to Berkeley, can you please list your stats such as high school gpa, sat scores, etc. </p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Be wary; stats of accepted CCers will tend to be inflated in comparison to regular admits.</p>
<p>HS GPA: 4.45
SAT I: 2170
SAT II: Chemistry 800, US History 780</p>
<p>UC GPA: 4.03
UW GPA: 3.8
SAT I: 1960
SAT II: 740 US History, 750 Biology-E</p>
<p>OOS student
Weighted GPA: 4.43
UW GPA: 4.0
Class rank: 1/350ish
SAT I: 2270
SAT II: 790 Math II, 790 Lit, 770 Chem</p>
<p>These posts always get on my nerves. Statistics and numbers only go so far in determining your admission into schools, especially one like Cal. I can tell you that my "numbers" (except for maybe GPA) are way lower than everyone else's who posts them. </p>
<p>The way to get into Cal, is to be unique. If you have a certain trait, skill, or life changing event, and you express that in your essay, that is the key to admission. </p>
<p>Heck, it got me in.</p>
<p>Berkeley is looking for DIVERSITY</p>
<p>Smallz, Berkeley also looks at numbers. Some of the ones in here are a bit excessive (and I know mine were), but that doesn't mean that having high numbers isn't a big factor. Perhaps uniqueness is one way to get into Cal, but for many (probably most) others numbers will get them in.</p>
<p>self-reported samples are never representative...much less here on CC.</p>
<p>Perhaps, you should just look at the common data sets.</p>
<p>o, i completely agree eudean. What I am getting at is that most people who apply to Berkeley have great numbers; high gpa, SAT, and what not. And what I am saying is that a big reason why Berkeley's admissions are low (what, 24% ?) is that many people don't have anything to really make them stand out from everyone else with huge test scores. Having some other unique quality is what seperates people from the huge intellectual-pack that is Berkeley applicants.</p>
<p>HS GPA: 3.88
SAT I: 1710
SAT II: Spanish 700, 680 Lit</p>
<p>Not all Cal admits are geniuses :-D</p>
<p>how the heck did you get in? did you have lots of EC's or what?</p>
<p>lol! thanks ab_med, that makes me feel really good about myself :-P</p>
<p>I played absolutely no sports, had a minimal amount of community service. I played 3/4 years in the school band, was an editor for our school's yearbook my senior year. I was an AVID student (4yrs) an AVID write off winner (2 years), a member of Upward Bound Math & Science... <em>thinks</em>... I took Drama my senior year and was in both of the plays that year. <em>think s'more</em>... I think that's about it. Yeah, I dunno how I got in either. I applied to Cal on a whim.</p>
<p>"hmm, I can apply to 4 UC's for free? K... I've heard of UCLA... Merced is close... Berkeley? I've heard of that too... annnndddddd... let's go with Santa Barbara, too."</p>
<p>So I'm proof that you don't have to kill yourself to get pristine grades and forgo your social life to cram in a bunch of EC's. Good luck, pkgill03.</p>
<p>I know ab_med, why do you have to put ppl down like that? joie, it doesnt matter how you got in, as long as you did. Be proud of yourself. You deserve it just as much as anyone else.</p>
<p>that was harsh ab_med. Personally, Jole086 is my new best friend! We're very similar.</p>
<p>Were you all in-state though? If people post their stats can they post in-state or oos also?</p>
<p>i did not mean to put anyone down and i am sorry if my comment came off harsh, it was not intended.</p>
<p>AVID and Upward Bound are great programs and highly-looked upon by state universities. For those who don't know, they are programs that are generally found at underperforming or underrepresented schools. In-state statistics found on these boards tend to belong to students from middle class communities who go/went to above-average schools. For one of the high schools I attended (I transferred), a 1220-1300 on the old SAT made you extremely competitive for UCB; for students of Latino descent (the school was 92% Latinos), those scores with good gpa virtually made you a lock for UCB regardless of what you did outside of the classroom. Fortunately for Cal and the state of California, Berkeley upholds a policy of accepting outstanding applicants from all socioeconomic backgrounds from all geographical areas in California. Those who get in performed much better than peers; "high" test scores are all relative. This is how and why some elitists claim that Berkeley's undergraduate program is weak. This is why the US NEWS undergraduate rankings (which takes into account, among other things, standardized test scores) are a sham. And this is why some posters here constantly whine about a portion of undergraduate students who underperform as they get acclimated to steep competition at Cal, having come from underresourced communities back home. It's harsh but true: if you don't like the fact that some students get into Berkeley with 1100s (on old SAT), then you are against the idea of public education; public schools aren't just about lower tuition rates.</p>
<p>here here ttgiang15!</p>
<p>GPA: 4.6
SAT 1: 2220, perfect on math
SAT II: 800 Math 2c, 750 physics</p>
<p>Don't be harsh on ab_med, it was only a mistake. Us pre-meds need to stick to each other, right ab? ;)</p>
<p>^like cohesion</p>
<p>god I hate chemistry</p>