How hard is UCB to get into?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of California - Berkeley
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<p>"Socioeconomic status is of primary focus in place of AA, while adversity branches from that foundation."</p>

<p>I disagree, not from the report on Berkeley admissions that I'd read (which I can't seem to find now for the life of me).</p>

<p>"And the few poor CC students who can claim to the contrary are the exception, not the rule."</p>

<p>Says what? I have yet to see evidence that says Berkeley draws primarily from poor high schools.</p>

<p>"With a 2200+ and 4.3+ and decent essays and no cheating/suspension etc, you are basically guarantee in for in-state even if you are applying to Engineering"</p>

<p>No... just no. It happens too often that someone with the above stats is rejected, for it to be a "guarantee." And with engineering? This assertion is utterly ridiculous; engineering is much tougher, and you can see that in the stats profiles and various results threads on Berkeley.</p>

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<p>the gpa on it says weighted. The average UC GPA for that year was 4.14. Substantially lower. They would have clarified that it was the UC Gpa like they do in there handbook or in this link. <a href="http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/undergrad_adm/selecting/camp_profiles/camp_profiles_ucb.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/undergrad_adm/selecting/camp_profiles/camp_profiles_ucb.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>My bad... It doesnt say that it calculates UC gpa ono the URl but i have fall 2006 version and it says on the page before.</p>

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<p>"rainynightstarz": According to the office of undergraduate admissions at Berkeley, the avg. SAT 1 score for the year 2007 was a 2070. UCLA boasted a 2006. I think that is a more reliable source than a newspaper you can't remember the name of. Those stats were part of a long email from the OOA sent to current students at Cal as soon as the admissions process for this year was completed, and contained the numerical and ethnic stats of this year's incoming freshmen. I know because I read it myself, and a Cal AO confirmed it when I phoned them with another question.</p>

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<p>Our guidance counselor showed it to us. so yeah. I got it from her. Since we get about 80 people in a year, the exact stats won't make that much of a difference. Maybe is 2070 was for the matricated students, not all accepted students? because they won't know their incoming student till everyone replied their decision.
you don't have to sound so critical</p>

<p>according to this :<a href="http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/educators/counselors/resources/materials/ITU.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/educators/counselors/resources/materials/ITU.pdf&lt;/a>
page 37
if you add everything up it's actually 2029
not as high as 2070.</p>

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<p>They released the email on May 12th (I checked), so that would be after everyone applied. Sorry for sounding so critical, didn't mean to come off so blunt. But yeah, the email said 2070, I double-checked. Either way, it's one of the highest averages in the country.</p>