Please chance me for UC Berkeley?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of California - Berkeley
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<p>Do I have a fairly good chance in getting in?
Gender: Female
Ethnicity: Asian
Residency: Washington</p>

<p>Unweighted GPA – 3.83 GPA (it’s pretty bad, I know. I don’t really have a good explanation for it besides I underestimated how much work I would actually have in Junior year)</p>

<p>Weighted GPA – 4.291 GPA (At a disadvantage here since I’ve been taking 7 classes a year since freshman year opposed to the normal 6, and we aren’t allowed to take AP classes until Junior Year. I’ve been trying to make up for it since.)</p>

<p>UC GPA – 4.11 GPA</p>

<p>Class Rank: 27/412. Additionally, my class rank is based on an unweighted GPA scale, and I also share my class rank with four other people. So I don’t think it’s an accurate measure of academic prowess…
AP Courses:
• AP Calculus AB (expecting a 5),
• AP Calculus BC (expecting a 4 or 5) [self-studied]
• AP Psychology (5) [self-studied]
• AP Statistics (5) [self-studied]
• AP Physics B (5) [self-studied]
• AP US History (5),
• AP Macroeconomics (5),
• AP Microeconomics (5),
• AP English Language and Composition (5),
• AP French (expecting a 3 or 4)
• AP English Literature (expecting a 5)
• AP Computer Science (expecting a 5)
• AP Biology (expecting a 4 or 5)
• AP Government (expecting a 5)
I'm considering self-studying AP Chemistry since I've been told having all three sciences is practically a requirement, but I'm not sure if I'll have the time, in light of everything else. It's also not offered at my school, so I have no choice but to self-study it.
Also, perhaps AP Music Theory from interest.</p>

<p>SAT II: US History - 790, Math II - 800, Physics - 780. Potentially planning on taking the test for Biology and Chemistry.</p>

<p>SAT score: 1st attempt: 800R 720M 780R
2nd attempt: Pending
ACT score: 34, 32W 32M 36R 34S</p>

<p>Senior Year Schedule:
AP Government
AP French
AP Computer Science
AP Calculus AB
AP Biology
AP English Literature
Honors Orchestra</p>

<p>Employment: Lifeguard at my school's pool during the summer (2012)
Swim Instructor, Winter Season (2012)</p>

<p>ECs: - Honors Orchestra, violin (8 years)
-Self-taught piano for 4 years (currently learning Fantasie Impromptu and Liebestraume)
-Key Club member (3 years)
-National Honors Society President 2012, member for 2 years -
-Washington Aerospace Scholars 2012
-UW Math Academy 2012
-UW Medical Center internship 2012
-East Hill String Lessons violin tutor (volunteer) (6 years)
-JV Tennis (3 years), Varsity Tennis (1 year)
-Varsity Gymnastics (1 year)
-JV Swim (1 year), Varsity Swim (3 years), Varsity Swim Captain
-Approximately 600+ hours of community service</p>

<p>Honors and Awards: National AP Scholar 2012 (Probably will get this again...)
Multiple Varsity letters and Scholar Athlete awards that probably don't matter
Numerous athletic awards for swimming (ex: Districts 3rd Place for 100 Backstroke, Districts 4th Place for 200 Freestyle)
National Merit Semi Finalist: 217, 2012
Honor Roll (Top 20%) (all years)
Rotary Youth of the Month, multiple Member of the Month awards from Key Club and NHS
Can't think of anything else. I believe there are more, though.</p>

<p>Letters of Recommendation: Amazing, thankfully.</p>

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<p>Yup you have absolutely no chance of getting in Berkeley. I hear McDonalds are hiring though.</p>

<p>Okay. just joking… you are around 95% chance in…</p>

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<p>OP must be joking…do you want to hear yourself praised or is that a real question? 0__0</p>

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<p>depends on which major you applied to?</p>

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<p>“Having all three sciences is practically a requirement.”</p>

<p>Umm… no it isn’t.</p>

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<p>I’d say you are as close to as a lock to get in even with the hard (amazingly hard) admittance rate. By the way, when you said your GPA’s were low, I was looking at them and wishing they were my grades. Do you have any reaches or safeties?</p>

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<p>You are overestimating how hard it is to get in to Berkeley or you are just taking a chance to brag. Your 2300 on the SAT prevent you from getting in. You’ll probably have to settle for a community college if you can’t land a 2490 at the bare minimum.</p>

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<p>99% in, since you’re paying OOS I hope you applied to privates too.</p>

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<p>haha huehuehue32, I think he is the latter case.</p>

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<p>Nope, Another Fake! The little things gave you away.</p>

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<p>@sosomenza
I see you call everyone’s threads fake, so I’m not taking you seriously…</p>

<p>@Everyone else
I didn’t realize I was overqualified. No one in my school has gone to UC Berkeley so I have really no idea how hard it is to get in.
I had the impression that it was really hard to get in since it’s something like the #1 public university.</p>

<p>I was planning on applying to Stanford next year, but I have been told it is a very high reach for me so I am not sure. I have a number of safeties, so no worries.
I’m also interested in applying to Penn, Brown and John Hopkins.</p>

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<p>Forgot to add; I had TONs of B’s in my junior year 1st semester…
(B in Honors Chem, B+ in APUSH, B+ in APLAC)</p>

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<p>op, stanford and berkeley are not in the same tier. (stanford: harvard of the west)</p>

<p>here my prediction:
stanford: high reach
UPenn: high reach
brown: high reach
berkeley: match (being out of state helps)
JH: low reach</p>

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<p>^agree with unclaimedpants</p>

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<p>Depends on the school. UPenn Wharton is notoriously hard(probably only second to Harvard in toughness).</p>