<p>Planning on majoring in Econ or Business.
GPA: 3.977 unweighted
UC GPA: 4
4.4 weighted (my school doesn't weigh, but I ranked honors & AP anyways)
Top 1% of class</p>
<p>ACT: 31 (32 Superscored)</p>
<p>Subject Tests:
SAT II Math II: 690 (retaking)
SAT II Physics: 670
SAT II US History: 770
Also have 4.0 at a local community college (Macro Econ in the summer)</p>
<p>College: Letters and Sciences for Econ, Applying to Haas later</p>
<p>Extracurriculars: VP of Rambassadors Leadership Club, Assistant VP of DECA, Gallery Interpreter/Volunteer at WA State History Museum (200+ hrs), Windshield Repair Technician and Hiring Assistant @ Microchip Autoglass, Coding a Forex trading Program for automated trades, Assistant at Father's Wine Distribution Company in China (translating emails, also helping him to expand to US by obtaining wine distribution licenses & talking with local shipping executives)</p>
<p>I don’t know how prestigious your high school is, but your GPA seems fine. Could improve your ACT and SAT scores, especially your SAT IIs. Your extracurriculars seems kinda weak, although I don’t know how adcoms look upon helping out with family business. If you can write a good statement, possibly explaining the low test scores, and emphasize your extracurriculars, I think you have about 50% chance of getting in.</p>
<p>i take it from your post that you are international? if you are, you definitely should raise your ACT (they don’t superscore) and raise your satIIs because even though they won’t be required, they will help. being admitted as an international student is probably the toughest way to get into Cal so i would just try and write amazing essays and keep your GPA up</p>
<p>Hey I had a 3.97 UW as well! I’m assuming you took a reasonable amount of AP/Honors given the gap between your two GPAs.</p>
<p>I think Berkeley is a match for you if you’re not international. But since it seems you are, just raise your SAT IIs and I think you’re good to go.</p>
<p>On the topic of them, I took physics twice. First time I dissapointingly received a 760 because a great deal of it was optics, which I hadn’t learned yet. So the second time, I made sure to cram optics the night before. And guess what!? There were only like 2 optic questions but like 10 magnetism and electricity ones which I hadn’t yet learned either but appeared in far lesser numbers the first time so I didn’t bother to study them.</p>
<p>I imagine I aced Newtonian and somehow reasoned out half of the ones I was unfamiliar with for a 800.
Case in point: the subject tests are more knowledge-orientated rather a test of reasoning so expect to study a lot even if you got your 31 without studying.</p>
<p>I got into Berkeley with Stats similar to yours. But my ACT was better. Anyway I have a friend whose GPA was significantly lower than yours that got in. It just depends on how you portray yourself. Berkeley looks at the whole picture, not just numbers. I know a professor who was on the admissions committee and he was saying that they actually read the personal statements for content. Oh BTW I had the same SAT IIs as you. Exact same scores. My extra curriculars were like amazing though. I think if you retake the ACT and increase your score a point or two you should be fine. Why don’t you apply to UCLA as well? I actually turned Berkeley down for UCLA. Haha so I’m always rooting for it.</p>
<p>Thanks for the comments, I am applying out of state from WA. I come from a large public high school that is very non-competitive in academics (Only 1 person out of a class of 650 went to Ivies, and only 1 was a national merit scholar). I’ve searched countless times for internship opportunities but my family has no connections and I live in a town with nearly no opportunities! But other than that I have been using my time on my other EC activities.</p>
<p>EDIT: MY UC GPA is a 4.6, must have made a typo in my original post.</p>