If I were you @ACEPLUS I would try to steamroll my gaming success into a Twitch account and YouTube channel where you raise money for your favorite charities/something meaningful for you. Maybe if you founded some sort of club in your community, you could use the money for that. I think gaming is great as long as you make it relevant to who you are, not some sort of isolated activity from your life. I think if you can pull it off, you’ll have a great chance at any institution you apply to.
That may be true for majors in the College of Engineering and College of Chemistry, but not really so for the College of Letters and Science (the largest division). For 2016, UCB admitted 42% of those in the top HS GPA range (>= 4.20 for UC weighted-capped), which is likely a significantly higher admission rate than for similar applicants to Ivy League schools.
Note, however, that UCB and other UC weighting of admission criteria can be significantly different from that of other highly selective schools. For example, UCs tend to overweight HS GPA and underweight test scores compared to some other schools. They also look favorably at applicants who overcame disadvantageous situations (e.g. low income family) but do not add preference to advantage through legacy consideration (the result being a far higher Pell grant percentage than many other schools). Large size means that the percentage of the class consumed by recruited athletes is smaller than at smaller schools.
@ucbalumnus ah, gotcha. Thanks for the clarification. I thought UCB was blind to URM. Aren’t they like 40% Asian?
UCs do not consider race/ethnicity in admissions.