Official UC Berkeley March 30th Regular Decisions Thread!!!

<p>*Decision: Rejected *</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 2220 (700R, 740M, 780W)
[</em>] SAT IIs: 710 Chemistry, 750 Math 2
[<em>] GPA: 3.85 UW, 4.25 W
[</em>] Rank: HS doesn't rank
[<em>] Other stats:
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: I though they were pretty good
[<em>] Teacher Recs: N/A
[</em>] Counselor Rec: N/A
[<em>] Hook (if any):
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: MD
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: White
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] major strength/weakness: Not a whole lot of EC's
[li] why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: Probably because of my small list of EC's.[/li][/ul]Other Factors:</p>

<p>Oh well, this actually makes my life a lot easier. I was worried about having to choose between UCLA and Berkeley, but now I don't have to worry about making that decision. It's back home to Southern California for me! Congrats to all who got in.</p>

<p>Accepted.
Stats: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?p=1961517#post1961517%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?p=1961517#post1961517&lt;/a>
Everyone- Good luck with your future decisions and everything.. I hope the best for all of you.</p>

<p>Son accepted. He's happy!
Congratulation to everyone accepted!!</p>

<p>Decision: Accepted for Fall, L&S, MCB major (i guess that doesn't matter though)</p>

<p>Stats:
SAT: 2180 (730 V, 730 W, 720 M)
SAT IIs: 770 math2, 760 USH, 760 Chem, 740 Bio
GPA: 3.62UW ?, 4.22W, 4.0 UC GPA
Rank: ELC, 30/729
Other stats: 32 ACT, 5bio, 5euro, 5chem, 5calcAB, 4ushist, 4eng. lang&comp</p>

<p>Subjective:
Essays: I think they got me in...considering my poor UW gpa. They were real haha.
Teacher Recs: good
Counselor Rec: alright
Hook (if any): mm don't think any</p>

<p>Location/Person:
State or Country: SoCal
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Indian
Gender: Female
major strength/weakness: Pretty good test scores/poor gpa for 1st semester jr year. I guess they were forgiving O.o :D
why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: Test scores, essays, maybeee ECs</p>

<p>wow just really relieved. hafta choose between LA and Cal now--hearing mixed things from both sides!</p>

<p>Decision: ACCEPTED</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 1860; 730 W, 620 CR, 510 M
[</em>] SAT IIs: U.S. History 630, Literature 580
[<em>] GPA: 4.1 W
[</em>] Rank: 17/260? I think it's around 260.
[<em>] Other stats: Hmmm.
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: I think the essays really helped me get in. I'm thinking they probably stood out the most.
[<em>] Teacher Recs: None, right.
[</em>] Counselor Rec: None, right.
[<em>] Hook (if any): None.
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: California, USA
[<em>] School Type: Magnet
[</em>] Ethnicity: Korean
[<em>] Gender: Female
[</em>] major strength/weakness: Major strength is obviously school work. My major weakness is test-taking as you can all clearly see. Mine is very low compared to most of you, ha.
[li] why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: I think I was accepted not only for my essays but my extracurricular activities. I had two internships, one of which was at a newspaper. I wrote about journalism in my essays mainly, and I think admissions people really saw I took it seriously through the internship, my editor-in-chief position, etc.[/li][/ul]Other Factors: I'm saying I might have been lucky what with my SAT scores, but I'm not going to not give myself credit.</p>

<p>[ size=+1][ color=Orange][ b]Decision:ACCEPTED[ /b][ /color][ /size]</p>

<p>[ b]Stats:[ /b][ list]
[ *] SAT:M610 V690 WR640
[ *] SAT IIs:USHIS:750 SPA:700
[ *] GPA:4.3(UC)
[ *] Rank:
[ *] Other stats:
[ /list][ b]Subjective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] Essays:good essays, i was just myself
[ *] Teacher Recs:
[ *] Counselor Rec:
[ *] Hook (if any):lots of EC's and leadership, passion for Polisci (thats my major
[ /list][ b]Location/Person:[ /b][ list]
[ *] State or Country:CA
[ *] School Type:private, small
[ *] Ethnicity:hispanic
[ *] Gender:male
[ *] major strength/weakness:great
[ *] why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: i really came accross as really wanting to go into the UC system.
[ /list][ b]Other Factors:[ /b]</p>

<p>Decision: REJECTED from engineering</p>

<p>Stats:
*SAT I (by section): 2270 (760 M, 730 R, 780 W)
*SAT IIs: 800 Math IIC, 800 Bio E, 710 Physics
*APs: two 5's, two 4's
*GPA, Weighted and Unweighted: 3.97/4.0 unweighted, 4.8/5.0 weighted
*Rank: top 5% out of class of 541
*Senior Yr Courseload: tough
*Other stats: National Merit commended, AP scholars thingie, MD Distinguished Scholar HM</p>

<p>Subjective:
*ECs listed on app: volleyball, violin, biology club, tang soo do (karate), chorus, volunteering
*Job/Work Experience: work at a Kumon (tutoring) place, NASA internship
*Essays (subject and responses): pretty last minute, decent
*Teacher Recs: probably good, didn't read
*Counselor Rec: probably good, didn't read
*Hook (if any): NASA SHARP internship, captain of volleyball team, president of Biology Club</p>

<p>Location/Person:
*State or Country: Maryland
*School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): great, colleges love us
*Ethnicity: Asian
*Income Bracket: middle class
*Gender: female</p>

<p>Strengths/Weaknesses:
*Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied: essays were average, I'm out of state
*General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: I really thought I had a good chance of getting in...guess not. xD</p>

<p>Decision: ACCEPTED (with Regent's/Chancellor's Scholarship)</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 780M 690V
[</em>] SAT IIs: 800 IIC, 800 Bio M, 740 IC
[<em>] GPA: 4.0 UW
[</em>] Rank: 1/240
[<em>] Other stats: USABO Semifinalist, AIME
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: Great
[<em>]Teacher Recs: Great
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Great
[<em>] Hook (if any): Awesome GPA, lots of math/science stuff
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: California
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: Russian
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] major strength/weakness: Math and Biology are strengths
[li] why you think you were accepted/rejected/deferred: I'm a pretty cool guy.[/li][/ul]Other Factors:</p>

<p>ACCEPTED!!!!!!!!!</p>

<p>I cant believe it. It took me 2 days to check i was so nervous.</p>

<p>[ size=+1][ color=Orange][ b]Decision: accepted[ /b][ /color][ /size]</p>

<p>[ b]Stats:[ /b][ list]
[ *] SAT: 2140 (cr-770, w-730, math-640)
[ *] SAT IIs: lit-780, ushist-710
[ *] GPA:4.4 w
[ *] Rank: 1/110
[ *] Other stats:
[ /list][ b]Subjective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] Essays: very formal and supporting my academic stuff, not really about me
[ *] Teacher Recs: none for UC
[ *] Counselor Rec: none for UC
[ *] Hook (if any): have already completed 50 units of college credit through community college program
[ /list][ b]Location/Person:[ /b][ list]
[ *] State or Country: socal
[ *] School Type: public alternative middle college high school
[ *] Ethnicity:white
[ *] Gender:fem
[ *] major strength/weakness: college credit, ecs like crazy
[ *] why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: they probably knew they'd just get me as a transfer in a semester anyways
[ /list][ b]Other Factors:[ /b]</p>

<p>Decision: Accepted
Major: Chemical Engineering
SAT: 2040
SAT IIs: 800USHis, 800MathII, 680Chem
UC GPA: 3.75UnW/4.2W/4.46CPWeight
Rank: What rank?
Essays: I suck at writing.
Location/Person: Bay Area
State or Country: CA
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Taiwanese
Gender: Male
Major strength: Math, Science, History
Major Weakness: English</p>

<p>*Decision: Accepted (Engineering) *</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 2200; 770 Math, 710 Reading, 720 Writing
[</em>] SAT IIs: 780 Math 2, 750 US History, 730 Physics
[<em>] GPA: 3.98 UW, 4.21 W
[</em>] Rank: 3/87
[li] Other stats: 4's on USH, Euro History, Art History. 3 on English Language[/li][/ul]</p>

<p>Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: Very well written
[</em>] Hook (if any): MITES Summer Program
[/ul]</p>

<p>Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: California
[</em>] School Type: Charter (competitive and well-recognized); School to support first generation, low-income students
[<em>] Ethnicity: Vietnamese
[</em>] Gender: Male
[/ul]</p>

<p>Other Factors:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars: Robotics(HEAVILY involved), trumpet, piano, a lot of other things
[</em>] Why I think I was accepted: MITES summer program, average stats, my school has HUGE connections in the UC system.<br>
[li] Other thoughts: It's all cool. I got some decisions to make.<br>[/li][/ul]</p>

<p>Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>Stats:
SAT: 1980
SAT IIs: Spanish 800; History 720
GPA: 4.2
Rank: 32 out of 550
Other stats:Varsity Soccer and Tennis 4 years
Essays:eh
Teacher Recs: n/a
Counselor Rec: n/a
Hook (if any): Immigrated to the United States; first to attend
State or Country: CA
School Type: large competitive public
Ethnicity: Hispanic
Gender: M
major strength/weakness: i can run fast</p>

<p>Decision: Rejected BOOO</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 2170 (800V/700M/670W))
[</em>] SAT IIs: 800 Japanese, 760 Math IC, Literature 690
[<em>] GPA: 5.0/6.0 (about an A; I'd say around a 3.7 or something)
[</em>] Rank: Top 15%
[<em>] Other stats:
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: My weakest, UC Berkeley was my first app I sent in. My year abroad essay was very uninspired, and I would not write a new one for another month.
[<em>] Teacher Recs: Supposedly good
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Who knows
[<em>] Hook (if any): Went to study abroad in Japan at a public school for a year with no prior knowledge in Japanese
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: NJ
[<em>] School Type: private
[</em>] Ethnicity: white as the devil's...nm
[<em>] Gender: M
[</em>] major strength/weakness: mystique/numbers
[li] why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: supposedly berkeley doesn't really care about recommendations and extra materials etc. since I had no junior transcript, and the UCal application was very finnicky about how grades were entered, it was extremely difficult to express the positive aspects of the uniqueness of my situation. All they saw was 'this kid went to Japan and didn't have any grades for a whole year'. Well...that's because I was learning to speak the language my classes were being taught in, lol. I came back to get an 800 on the Japanese SAT II, but that thing is wicked easy anyway. Point is, as I take it, UCal is a very numbers-driven application and my strengths lay in my uniqueness, which was difficult to express here.[/li][/ul]Other Factors: OOS. :P</p>

<p>More posts!</p>

<p>Decision: Accepted CLS (physics)</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 2060 (770 M, 710 W, 580 CR I think)
[</em>] SAT IIs: 2400 IIC/Physics/Chemistry
[<em>] GPA: 3.97 UW (after junior year). Now probably lower than 3.7
[</em>] Rank: around 10/500
[<em>] Other stats: AP's: 5 BC, Physics B, Chemistry; 4 Bio, US; 3 English
Lots of college math credit, currently taking Differentials and LinAl. Finished multivariable.
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: Pretty bad. Everyone told me they sucked and I didn't spend time on them at all, huge procrastinator
[<em>] Teacher Recs: NA
[</em>] Counselor Rec: NA
[<em>] Hook (if any): Stats, plus I came to US 3 yrs ago which probably helped
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: Norcal, Fremont
[<em>] School Type: ghetto public, big
[</em>] Ethnicity: belarussian (white what the hell)
[<em>] Gender: M
[</em>] major strength/weakness: good stats/bad EC's. That's why I didn't get regents
[<em>] why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: good stats. Nothing else I can think of
[/ul]Other Factors:
[ul]
[</em>]ECs: swimming, some volunteering, science bowl[/ul] Expected acceptance, Cal was my safety. After rejection from virtually all privates had doubts about Cal, but gladly unreasonably. Now choosing between Cal and Cornell, still have no idea if I'll go. Any suggestions?</p>

<p>I would go with Cornell.</p>

<p>Decision: Accepted L&S</p>

<p>Stats:</p>

<pre><code>* SAT: 1950; 600m 640cr 690w
* SAT IIs: 700mbio 600IIc 610lit
* GPA: 3.95 UC
* Rank: top 8%
* Other stats: ap bio 4, ap lang 3
</code></pre>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<pre><code>* Essays: thought they were only slightly above average, but apparently I know how to sell myself well.
* Hook (if any): it isn't necessarily a "hook" per se, but my circumstances must've been in my favor somehow. I was an AR applicant for my ADD and Tourettes, had an apparently great recommendation written for me, wrote convincingly about my determination to succeed despite my disorders (though it helped that my transcript backs it up. I went from struggling and getting a 3.75 one year to a 4.4 average for the next year to 4.59 this year, not cumulative of all successive years of course).
</code></pre>

<p>Location/Person:</p>

<pre><code>* State or Country: California
* School Type: public
* Ethnicity: chinese caucasian
* Gender: female
</code></pre>

<p>Other Factors:</p>

<pre><code>* Extracurriculars: science olympiad is my primary ec. I've had various ones I tried out in past years though, like the japanese culture club, the engineering club, etc.
* Why I think I was accepted: I heavily emphasized my belief that success is only success when it's made under the same conditions as everyone else, regardless of what personal circumstances may be had. Also, although my cumulative stats are subpar, my junior and senior year I showed how the changes I made in order to compensate for my disorders made me into an effecient and creative problem solver. I also explained that because I rarely allow myself to be accomodated for due to my disorders, my grades and test scores might possibly reflect inaccurate insight into my actual capabilities and intelligence. My improvement must've also showed I was somehow promising and could actually contribute what I said I would be able to in my essays.
* Other thoughts: Despite all this, I still feel highly undeserving. But maybe I'm proof that Berkeley isn't always all about high stats.
</code></pre>

<p>[ size=+1][ color=Orange][ b]Decision: accepted L&S [ /b][ /color][ /size]</p>

<p>[ b]Stats:[ /b][ list]
[ *] SAT:1920 (mid 600s all)
[ *] SAT IIs: lit-650, mathIIC: 680
[ *] GPA:4.44 w
[ *] Rank: 3/538
[ *] Other stats:
[ /list][ b]Subjective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] Essays: 600-about the ingredients used to make sushi and how that applies to childhood, 200-OCAD speech training, 200-crappy, written right before submitted application the night before it was due because i thought the site would crash on on the 30th.
[ *] Teacher Recs: none
[ *] Counselor Rec: none
[ *] Hook (if any): creative personal statement ???
[ /list][ b]Location/Person:[ /b][ list]
[ *] State or Country: westminster
[ *] School Type: public
[ *] Ethnicity:asian
[ *] Gender:fem
[ *] major strength/weakness: strength: good personal statement, high ranking, some extra curriculars, weakness: low test scores. did not hit 700 for any.
[ *] why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: ....
[ /list][ b]Other Factors:[ /b]</p>

<p>Accepted. :)</p>