<p>Study hard, Sparten, and good luck!</p>
<p>This forum is the root of all evil...lets troll!</p>
<p>hahaha goodluck man...and work next year and dont slack</p>
<p>thanks alot. btw i am wondering what uni are u attending sir?</p>
<p>most likely emory in georgia, 19th in nation or something</p>
<p>wow emory...impressive</p>
<p>Vehement, sorry to say but everyone at my school with low GPA high SAT's were rejected by Berkeley.</p>
<p>yeh but UC Berkeley is the hardest UC to get into...by faaaaaar</p>
<p>meh never really put too much faith into cal anyways. haha</p>
<p>how is ucla? thats my nubmer 1 choice</p>
<p>You would have a good shot at good schools out of California. Why not apply to those?</p>
<p>such as what schools king?</p>
<p>What do you want to major in?</p>
<p>vehement, go to the UCLA board if you want to talk about LA. </p>
<p>Berkeley is probably the hardest UC to get into right now, after the new figures, but they look at slightly different factors than UCLA.</p>
<p>For example, they will reject 1500/4.00 asians, and accept 3.2 UW/1100 SATI Hispanics who complained about "being discriminated against". I've seen it happen too many times to count. I mean, people who worked hard all their lives to get into UCLA get rejected while a random Vincente Alfredo gets accepted? I put 'decline to specify" on my UC apps and gave no hint of my race and got accepted to all, but I might not have been so lucky.</p>
<p>Thank God Berkeley's adcom is different.</p>
<p>I've been repeatedly told by a person helping me pick colleges (not a GC) that you have to write the 'victim' essay for Berkeley. Which is better for berkeley, marking decline to specify for race, or white?</p>
<p>To everyone saying raise your first semester senior year grades for UCs, it won't matter, UCs don't look at senior year grades in considering admissions.</p>
<p>However, here's a ray of hope for you.</p>
<p>I was upper-middle class Asian, no major hardships. None really significant ECs. I slacked all throughout high school (mostly due to online games) and ended up with a 3.1-3.2 unweighted GPA along with an F, several Cs, and the rest a mix of Bs/As. I'd bet anything that if I asked for my "chances" on this board people would say I'd have no shot at any top UCs. </p>
<p>My mitigating factors: I went to a very competitive high school and my SAT scores were 1530 SAT 1(around ~2250-2300 now), and 770writing/770 2c SAT2 scores. I wrote very strong, honest essays in my application.</p>
<p>I'm at UCLA now (also got into UCSD and the rest). After one year here, I expect to finish up my classes with a total of 8 As and one B for the year. In addition, I've been ranked number one in 3 of my classes so far (all out of over 100 people, in classes considered "weeders" for my major). </p>
<p>Anyway, that's just my case, I hope things work out for you.</p>
<p>Brand did you taake AP though ^_^</p>
<p>and ya i was thinking about my senior gpa because school finishes at jan 28th so i dont think i can get it in to my application on time. but if i had all A, it would have taken me to 3.5 >_<</p>
<p>Have you considered taking one or two summer school classes--getting A's-- as a way of raising your GPA? It might also help cover up your lack of other activities.</p>
<p>Will they still let me take like sopho english again? O_O</p>
<p>Now i need to confirm, does uc look at senior grades? my 1st sem ends on jan 28th</p>
<p>you can defintely get into some UCs with your stats...</p>
<p>3.0-3.2 GPA isnt horrible</p>
<p>plus UCs typically look at Weighted GPA 10th to 11th</p>
<p>is your 3.0-3.2 your cumulative GPA?
did you do worse in freshman year?
that might help...</p>
<p>if your weighted is below 4.0, then yes
your chances at most top UCs are destroyed but you can still go to Cal State and Cal Poly.. and UC-Irvine probably..</p>