Hi everyone! I’m new to CC, but I’ve been stalking the forums recently as the 24th, and the impending Berkeley decisions, creep ever-closer (6 days!!). So, just for fun, can you guys chance me? I’m a second year at a small CCC, and I was actually accepted to Berkeley as a freshman, but was unable to attend due to personal reasons (which I discussed in the additional comments). Anyway, I only applied to Berkeley, and my intended major is Haas.
GPA: 3.96 on 69 semester units
Prereqs: Completed in Fall 2014
Breadth: Completing my final class now
ECs:
-President of official AGS honor society
-Treasurer of the Business Entrepreneurship Club
-VP/Co-Founder of the Literary Journal (small media-publication club)
-Played center-mid for a very competitive club soccer team throughout high school and my first year of community college
-Over 500 hours of community service (including a humanitarian mission trip to Honduras that was the inspiration for a startup that I am currently founding and a Big Brother mentors hip program at a private school that is associated with my church)
-Founder/CEO of an e-commerce based startup that is currently in its early stages, but is moving along quickly. Currently finishing up our graphics and our initial product line with various designers throughout LA
-Have bought/sold about 500 items on eBay throughout college which has given me about $10,000 in profit that I am now using to fund my business through its early stages until I start looking for venture capital
-Intern at a boutique consulting firm during the summers. I do prep for presentations, book travel for consultants, write up invoices/billing, and various technology management to ensure that everything is in order for the presentations.
-A couple of academic awards and one scholarship
Personal Statements: All three were very good, and since I only applied to Haas, I was able to integrate the Haas Defining Principles into 2 essays instead of just the Haas one. I have a very unique writing style that is based upon humor, and it ensures that that my personality comes across through the writing (which is lost on a lot of essays). It worked well when I was applying to colleges as a freshman as I was accepted to every college that I applied to (UCLA, Berkeley, USC, and Pepperdine). One was about my passion for entrepreneurship (and how I have pursued various ventures throughout my life - starting in Kindergarten), one was about growing up in the middle of nowhere, attending a Mennonite school, having a father as a pastor (and therefore being poor), my transition to California (and my dad’s new job as a business consultant), and how my has life changed but my goals/convictions are the same, and my final one was about my mission trip to Honduras, and how it inspired my social-entrepreneurship startup. All of them are very funny and filled with personality.
Haas is the only school that I am even applying to, as it is the only school that I am passionate about attending, and I made sure to let them know that in the essays.
and the missing pre req at UCLA is probably one of the main reasons you didn’t get in! I’m considering double majoring in Poli Sci at UCB with Chinese that I originally only wanted to do so maybe I’ll see you next year at ucb