<ul>
<li>Essays: Used same one I got into JHU with. </li>
<li>Teacher Recs: n/a</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: n/a</li>
<li><p>Hook (if any): Not a typical asian? lol.. i dunno
Location/Person:</p></li>
<li><p>State or Country: California</p></li>
<li><p>School Type: Public</p></li>
<li><p>Ethnicity: Chinese (Asian)</p></li>
<li><p>Gender: Male</p></li>
<li><p>major strength/weakness: not many ECs, not high enough test scores</p></li>
<li><p>why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: No idea. Best guess is I might've ticked financial aid person off who called me a month ago. He asked me what are your top 3 schools? I said Brown, STANFORD, and Berkeley in no particular order. I make my decisions once I get them. Guess they sensed I would get into somewhere else and not matriculate. They guessed right.</p></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>SAT: 690M, 800V</li>
<li>SAT IIs: 750IIc/730Writing/780USHistory</li>
<li>GPA: 4.45 W</li>
<li>Rank: N/A</li>
<li>Other stats: National Merit Commended Scholar, 5 on AP US History</li>
</ul>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<ul>
<li>Essays: good</li>
<li>Teacher Recs: n/a</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: n/a</li>
<li><p>Hook (if any):not sure, just being me I guess
Location/Person:</p></li>
<li><p>State or Country: California</p></li>
<li><p>School Type: private boarding</p></li>
<li><p>Ethnicity: white</p></li>
<li><p>Gender: female</p></li>
<li><p>major strength/weakness: scores, few but deep ec's, grades</p></li>
<li><p>why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: I worked really really hard for three years, and put a lot into my essays. I'm so happy I made it!</p></li>
</ul>
<p>Stats:
* SAT: 1430
* SAT IIs: 800 x 3 (Math IIC/Chem/Writing)
* GPA:4.57 W (grades 10-11)
* Other stats: AP's Euro 4/Calc AB 5/US His 5/Chem 5/Eng Lang 5</p>
<p>Subjective:
* Essays: Engineering school officials said they wanted to know why you wanted to be an engineer and what you planned to do with your degree - I concentrated on that.
* Teacher Recs: Berkeley didn't want
* Counselor Rec: unknown, no reason to think it wasn't positive</p>
<p>Location/Person:
* State or Country: CA
* School Type: public
* Ethnicity: Asian
* Gender: Male</p>
<p>Other Factors:
*National Merit Finalist
*awards in a couple-three scientific competitions
*took Berkeley ATDP Intro to Engineering
*otherwise average EC's</p>
<p>REJECTED
intl from hk
790M 670V
800/800/800/710(phy,chem,iic,writing)
rank: 12/120
school type: public
rejected also from penn, and most probably chicago</p>
<ul>
<li>SAT: 1530</li>
<li>SAT IIs: 780/760/760/740</li>
<li>GPA: 3.97 UW</li>
<li>Rank: 7/689</li>
<li>Other stats: National Merit Scholar, Math Club VP, Ping Pong Club Co-founder/Co-prez, National Honor Society, Acatecs Gifted Club treasurer, 14 honors/AP courses in the past 2 years</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>State or Country: Arizona</li>
<li>School Type: Public</li>
<li>Ethnicity: Asian Indian</li>
<li>Gender: Male</li>
<li>major strength/weakness: Strength: grades, scores Weakness: ECs, awards</li>
<li>why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: I was out-of-state</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>SAT: 1260 (lower than most, I guess</li>
<li>SAT IIs: 740/650/610</li>
<li>GPA: 4.3 weighted, no idea about UC GPA...</li>
<li>Rank: 2/300</li>
<li>Other stats: 28 on ACT</li>
</ul>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<ul>
<li>Essays: quite unique</li>
<li>Teacher Recs: n/a</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: n/a</li>
<li>Hook (if any): editor of high school newspaper, second in class of over 300, boys state delegate, intern at town newspaper</li>
</ul>
<p>Location/Person:</p>
<ul>
<li>State or Country: CA</li>
<li>School Type: Rural NorCal public</li>
<li>Ethnicity: White </li>
<li>Gender: Male</li>
<li>major strength/weakness: class rank, extracuriculars</li>
<li>why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: I think i got in because I have really strong grades, I'm at the top of my class, and I'm from a rural area.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>SAT: 1540</li>
<li>SAT IIs: 800/780/740</li>
<li>GPA: UC GPA was a 4.12</li>
<li>Rank: n/a</li>
<li>Other stats: none</li>
</ul>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<ul>
<li>Essays: pretty good. not amazing but way better than average</li>
<li>Teacher Recs: n/a</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: n/a</li>
<li>Hook (if any): editor of newspaper for four years, football and track for three years, student council or three years</li>
</ul>
<p>Location/Person:</p>
<ul>
<li>State or Country: CA</li>
<li>School Type: private</li>
<li>Ethnicity: indian</li>
<li>Gender: Male</li>
<li>major strength/weakness: scores, extracuriculars</li>
<li>why you think you were accepted: my scores and extracirriculars</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Essays: Good enough for UCLA, UCSD, UCDavis but not Berkeley</li>
<li>Teacher Recs: n/a</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: n/a</li>
<li>Hook (if any): Leader of group that teaches reproductive health to public high school students</li>
</ul>
<p>Location/Person:</p>
<ul>
<li>State or Country: CA</li>
<li>School Type: private</li>
<li>Ethnicity: Chilean</li>
<li>Gender: Female</li>
<li>major strength/weakness: Tons of Extra's with leadership potential/ applied to engineering undeclared? (was that what did it?)</li>
<li>why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: If anyone else knows, please tell me.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>State or Country: California</li>
<li>School Type: Public</li>
<li>Ethnicity: Khmer</li>
<li>Gender: Female</li>
<li>major strength/weakness: -</li>
<li>why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: Essays.</li>
</ul>
<p>Ten people from my school were accepted. Five of them have lower SAT scores than I do. And GPA's under 4.0. It's weird how the admission process works. Heh-heh.</p>
<ul>
<li>Essays: They did a pretty good job of reflecting who I am.</li>
<li>Teacher Recs: n/a</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: n/a</li>
<li><p>Hook (if any): Well I don't know.</p></li>
<li><p>State or Country: Texas</p></li>
<li><p>School Type: Public</p></li>
<li><p>Ethnicity: Indian</p></li>
<li><p>Gender: Female</p></li>
<li><p>major strength/weakness:</p></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>SAT: ACT 35 (SAT ~1560-80)</li>
<li>SAT IIs: 800(UH)/760(MII)/730(WR)</li>
<li>GPA: 4.18</li>
<li>Rank: -</li>
<li>Other stats: euro/us hist/ comp sci ab all 5s</li>
<li>ECs: very crappy. couple of clubs, a bit of volunteering, couple of tournaments...</li>
</ul>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<ul>
<li>Essays: kinda crappy, rewrote them completely later for privates</li>
<li>Teacher Recs: -</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: -</li>
<li>Hook (if any): immigrant/low income/promising programmer (eh, not really :))</li>
</ul>
<p>Location/Person:</p>
<ul>
<li>State or Country: California</li>
<li>School Type: Public</li>
<li>Ethnicity: White</li>
<li>Gender: Male</li>
<li>major strength/weakness: portfolio of various programs I wrote / ecs are horrible </li>
<li>why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: test scores, programs...</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Essays:isnt this subjective? i thought it was pretty bad...finished 2 hrs before 12 am. haha</li>
<li>Teacher Recs:</li>
<li>Counselor Rec:</li>
<li>Hook (if any): i don't go fishing...hah jk i know what it means</li>
</ul>
<p>Location/Person:</p>
<ul>
<li>State or Country:CA</li>
<li>School Type: publico</li>
<li>Ethnicity:chinese</li>
<li>Gender:f</li>
<li>major strength/weakness:no idea...</li>
<li>why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered:still trying to figure that out</li>
</ul>
<p>Other Factors:luck? ;)</p>
<p>i consider myself very lucky...w/ Cal n LA...but i dunno if i can live up to the challenge</p>
<ul>
<li>SAT: 1300 (720V, 580M)</li>
<li>SAT IIs: 610W/490IC/770Sp</li>
<li>UC GPA: 3.74 (10th - 3.2, 11th - 4.15) (12th 1st semester-4.33 shown on Applicant Questionnaire)</li>
<li>Rank: Top 15%?</li>
<li>Other stats: Eng. Lang.-3, Span. Lang-4, went on teacher-sponsored Spain/France trip, was selected to fill out Applicant Questionnaire</li>
<li>ECs: Speech/Debate, Mock Trial, Journalism, 200 hours of community service at elementary school.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>State or Country: California</li>
<li>School Type: Large Public</li>
<li>Ethnicity: Hispanic</li>
<li>Gender: Male</li>
<li>major strength/weakness: Community service, dedication to ECs, 720 verbal score, showed upward trend in grades/poor grades in Math and Science, Low SAT II scores</li>
<li>why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: Hmm...</li>
</ul>
<p>Decision: Accepted to letters and Sci. for Econ.</p>
<p>*1360
*710/670/650 (matt iic, writing, us history)
*GPA - mas o menos 4.4
*Rank - 3 out of 550
*AP tests - 3 us hist, 3 world hist, 4 comp, 5 env., 5 statistics
* Varsity sports for over 6 seasons, cross-country captain, youth group leader, video production internship, etc.</p>
<p>State: Cali
School Type: Top 100 public school
Ethnicity: White
Gender: male</p>
<ul>
<li>Essays: great essays, talked about my interest in bio and research</li>
<li>Teacher Recs: n/a</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: n/a</li>
<li><p>Hook (if any): extremely immersed in UCB environment, took a few classes there (not extra math, just classes I wanted to take), plus i helped co-found 2 clubs at UCB and was also one of the board members for both.
*Location/Person: Berkeley </p></li>
<li><p>State or Country: California</p></li>
<li><p>School Type: Public</p></li>
<li><p>Ethnicity: middle-eastern</p></li>
<li><p>Gender: Male</p></li>
<li><p>major strength/weakness: I think my essay really helped, and the immersion in UCB was probably helpful too.</p></li>
<li><p>why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: berkeley was my top choice, and I guess I was able to show that well in my app!</p></li>
</ul>