My chances at UC's

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of California - Berkeley
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<p>My Chances at these schools…(sorrie for another chance question)</p>

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<p>Hi, can anyone tell me what my RD chances of gettin accepted to these schools? are they reach/match/safety for me? : Berkeley, San diego, UCLA, and Stanford </p>

<p>I am really worried about the admission because I got 660 (60 percentile) on my SAT II Writing</p>

<p>I would like to major biology/premed
~ ***I lived in South Korea for 12 years and in u.s for 6 years~ </p>

<p>SATI: 700 V, 800 M
SATII: Writing 650, Biology E: 750, Math IIC: 800
GPA: 4.0
Rank: top 10 %
PSAT: 223 </p>

<p>Awards:
3rd place in International Intel Science & Engineering Fair (engineering category) – “i wanna major biology, so i dont kno if this would help me in admission…” </p>

<p>1st place in 2 State level Science Fairs
AMC (american mathematics competition) - top 1% in the nation or something </p>

<p>Nationality: south korean (race: Asian)
Sex: Male
~ I lived in South Korea for 12 years and in u.s for 6 years </p>

<p>AP classes:
biology – 5
chemistry – 5
calculus BC – 5
world civ – 4
computer science AB – 4
English Language – 4 </p>

<p>environmental science
physics B
Gov politics
statistics
english literature
psychology</p>

<p>college courses:
Dual Course Accounting I at Bellarmine University
Calculus 3 at University or Louisville </p>

<p>Summer programs:
Governor’s scholars program - biological issues for 5 weeks
National Student leaders Conference - health/medicine for 10 days
Gifted Students program at University of Louisville - mathematical modeling/computer languages for 2 weeks </p>

<p>Essays + teachers recommendation: average level </p>

<p>I am just worried about the SAT II score…I did get a 4 on my ap junior english and 700 on verbal SAT I…do you think all other scores than this writing test would cover this SAT II score? Do I have a good shot? especially because i m from Kentucky?..
Thanks a lot.</p>

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<p>I got a 640 in writing the first time, a 670 the second time, and 740 the third time. Just study your ass off for it, and retake it.</p>

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<p>well i retook it and got 650..which is worse...so and it's december so i think im late for that..i dont kno...</p>

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<p>A 650 isn't a bad score dude. I got into Harvard with a 670. I applied Early Action and they didn't receive my 740 retake score until AFTER I was accepted. Stanford probably would have accepted me with the 670 score too.</p>

<p>Therefore, a school like Berkeley DEFINITELY accepts people with a 650 score. In fact, I think that's about the average/higher-than-average score for Berkeley students.</p>

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<p>o wow!! rooster, that's great~! can u tell me a lil bout ur stats? what factors do u think got u in? did u get some big awards or uh..essays or ecs??? n e how, congrats on ur acceptance to harvard</p>

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<p>4.21 weighted GPA/ 4.0 Unweighted
1580 SAT I
SAT II: 790 Math IIC/750 Chem/740 Writing (for harvard a 650)
Valedictorian</p>

<p>ECs: President and founder of Science Club, extensive volunteer work, four years of varsity badminton, assistant-editor for school newspaper, Bay Area Quiz Kids (a televised thing)</p>

<p>I think I wrote really good essays and had awesome recs. My awards were fairly standard. I got an AP Scholar Award but that's about it. Perhaps the biggest thing that made me stand out was the fact that I went to a crappy public high school that didn't offer advanced classes and so I took tons of classes at a local community college to challenge myself. I also did a lot of cool projects in the science club. </p>

<p>P.S. I am a freshman at Stanford not Harvard. I didn't really like Harvard's social scene and the professors seemed too stuck up.</p>

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<p>You have a decent out of state shot at UCSD and UCLA. Berkeley might be a reach because Koreans score the highest on the SAT. </p>

<p>Dang, rooster, your stats are kinda low there... haha jk man. Not bad.</p>