<p>i posted this in both berkeley and stanford forums.</p>
<p>So I am an international student currently studying on east coast. I've been in the states since my sophomore year and will be a senior this September.
just visited colleges in cali and i was really impressed by berkeley and stanford. especially their engineering program. stanford has a design program that involves engineeering and arts, which is something i really wanna do. and i was rlly interested in berkeley's industrial engineering too (IEOR)</p>
<p>so as an international student, i hv a toefl score around 110 (score not out yet) and SAT score around 2150 (might improve to 2200). my GPA is 3.65 (my sophomore yr first term was only 3.4 since i wasnt used to the school so it pulled down my accumulative GPA by a lot..)</p>
<p>i took AP stats, AP calc BC, AP us history and AP biology my junior yr. got all 5s except for APUSH i got a 4. </p>
<p>next yr im planning to take AP physics C, AP psychology, AP art history, multi variable, advanced seminar in computer science (AP computer science ab) and advanced abstract and applied mathematics. </p>
<p>i dk abt my class rank...class size around 130~140. maybe my rank is top 15%. well the only thing im sure is that im graduating cum laude. but teachers dont write that on their recommendations do they?</p>
<p>i hv some ECs, not many..varsity track (short/mid distance), 1st violin in orchestra, and president of a small NGO that holds annual charity trip to Tibet to help kids there go back to school ($100 annual tuition for a kid go to school there). international student organization leader. internship at a company in china. science program (a new program at my school this yr, basically helping student getting into the labs they wanna work in. so i worked at Yale University for six weeks in a biology lab) </p>
<p>so.. what are my chances getting into berkeley and stanford (especially their engineering school) as an asian female applicant??? i know there might be advantages to be a female applicant, but I'm really not sure if im as competitive among all the applicants</p>