Out of State hopeful chance thread

Colleges & Universities A-Z University of California - Berkeley
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<p>I think I applied to the hardest major possible, and now I'm extremely worried that I won't be admitted, especially considering I'm out-of-state. Any commentary from all of you would be well appreciated.</p>

<p>UC GPA (Capped and weighted): 4.4
Unweighted GPA: 3.86
Weighted GPA (Given by school): 4.42</p>

<p>California Resident, Out-Of-State, or International: Out-Of-State (Maryland)
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: 220k (keep reading)</p>

<p>SAT: Did not send
ACT: 36 (35 E, 35 M, 36 R, 36R)
SAT II:
Math 2: 790
Physics: 790</p>

<p>AP classes taken/taking :
Taken: Us Gov, Music Theory, US History, Physics B, Calc AB and BC, World History, Lang
Taking: Chem, Lit, Stats</p>

<p>AP Scores:
Gov: 5
USH: 5
Music Theory: 3
Calc BC (AB Subscore): 5 (5)
Physics B: 5
Lang: 4
World History: 4
Psychology: 5
Physics C: Mech : 4</p>

<p>Which college are you applying to? (Letters and Science, Engineering, Chemistry, etc.)
CoE; EECS</p>

<p>ECs :</p>

<p>Boy Scouts: Patrol leader, den chief, order of the arrow member. I'm a Life Scout
NHS: Tutoring, I was their treasurer last year
Local Running Club Youth Coach
Helped run a camp at my local church/monastery
Tri-M musical honor society
Intern at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
Chemistry Team: consistently places top 5 at the Maryland "Chemathon"
Varsity Cross-Country / Track and Field (forgot to mention varsity track now)
All-County Band and All-County Orchestra (Second chair bassoonist)
Captain of It's Academic Team</p>

<p>Awards:</p>

<p>National AP Scholar
Mentioned some Cross-Country Stuff, honor roll, academic letter
chemistry team of course</p>

<p>Essays:</p>

<p>First: Talked about how my father didn't attend college and the fact that my mother is an immigrant from Greece, and how they both succeeded despite these setbacks, and of course how I learned from them</p>

<p>Second: Talked about how I lost weight in track, and how I kept going to practices despite my failings. I thought it was really great.</p>

<p>Additional: Discussed how I picked up programming as a hobby and that's why I want to major in it</p>

<p>Note that these are just summaries. As I said, any input would be amazing.</p>

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<p>Please? Anyone?</p>

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<p>You are definitely a strong candidate (36 ACT!). The average GPA for accepted engineers in Fall 2013 was 4.5, and you are just barely under the average. They like a lot of AP courses, so well done on that your junior year. It is impressive that you have done so well in Physics too.</p>

<p>Out of 3178 engineering students enrolled Fall 2013 at Cal, 1274 were EECS (next highest was ME 613). </p>

<p>They only have a 9.7% engineering acceptance rate, which means that applicants with stats as good as yours get turned down every year. There is no sure thing, but your application is highly competitive.</p>

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<p>Thank You so much!</p>

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<p>The UCs now love OOS candidates because you represent money. Time was it was harder to get in as an OOS applicant. Now it is precisely the opposite.</p>

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<p>Yea I read about that. Honestly, whatever floats their boat. College is essentially a business anyways</p>