Regents Chances for an Above Average Slacker

<p>I realize that I've already posted this so I'm sorry for posting again, but I am wondering about my chances for the UC Berkeley and UCLA Regents program. </p>

<p>Here are my current stats (I'm a junior right now).
I want to go into Investment Banking. Here are the schools I'm considering:</p>

<p>UC Berkeley, UCLA, Stanford, UPenn (Wharton), Columbia</p>

<p>Please evaluate my stats and be brutally honest. Any and all advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!</p>

<p>BASICS:
Chinese American male
Currently a junior
California resident
Middle - Upper Middle class (anywhere from $60k-120k income bracket)</p>

<p>Might have decent recs from teachers. I will try to play the role of a studious idiot who works extremely hard, but struggles in a class. Hopefully, it will convince my senior year teachers to write a decent rec for me. Junior year teachers have caught me sleeping in class too much.</p>

<p>My essays should not be too bad.</p>

<p>GPAs:
Freshman year: 4.0 UW
Sophomore year: 4.0 UW, 4.5 W
Junior year: 4.0 UW, 4.333 W
Cumulative (10-11): 4.0 UW, 4.42W
School only gives A,B,C,D,F. No pluses or minusess.
School doesn't rank, but I'm in the top 10% of a graduating class of 450.
The school's somewhat competitive. We had 6 people get into Stanford this year; a few others get into MIT, Harvard, etc.; at least 20 in Ivy leagues and at least 60 in Berkeley and one into Northwestern HPME.</p>

<p>Not the most rigorous curriculum available at competitive public school.
Our school has only Chemistry,Precalculus, Japanese, Spanish, and French as honors classes. Currently taking AP Biology and AP Calc BC. Not taking APUSH. I plan for 3 APs and 1 honors for senior year.</p>

<p>TEST SCORES:
SATI: 800 math, 800 critical reading, 790 writing (studied from the blue book)
PSAT: 213 as a junior, 220 as a sophomore
SAT Subject Tests:
MathIIC: 800
Chinese: 800
BIO: 800 (Took it May, expected score)</p>

<p>AP Comp Sci: 5
Took the AP Calculus BC and Biology tests in May.</p>

<p>Community College Classes at De Anza College:
Political Science 4 credits A
Introduction to Java 4 credits A
Elementary Statistics with Probability 5 credits A
Intermediate Problem Solving with C 5 credits A</p>

<p>Will take (Expecting As from all of them):</p>

<p>Summer of 2006
Calculus 1c
Principles of Macroeconomics
Principles of Microeconomics</p>

<p>Senior Year
Physics 4a, 4b, and probably 2-3 more</p>

<p>EXTRACURRICULARS:</p>

<ul>
<li>Peer tutor at school - around 30 hours</li>
<li>President of the Go Club (usgo.org for info on go) member (9-10)</li>
<li>Participated in several local go tournaments.</li>
<li>Volunteered at library for 2 hours a week for the past year - around 60
hours</li>
<li>California Scholarship Federation Club - member (10,11), hopefully an
officer position next year.</li>
<li>Volunteered at community center sorting cans, bagging food, crush
boxes, taking out trash, sorting rotten food, cleaning for 1.5 hours a
week some of last year and this year. -around 60 hours</li>
<li>Member of the National Forensics League (Speech and Debate)</li>
<li>Cross Country as a senior</li>
<li>Aime 3 AMC 110 (Needed to take it for extra credit so I would scrape by
with an A)</li>
</ul>

<p>WASTING TIME:</p>

<ul>
<li>Watched over 120 series of anime in the past two years (obviously not
an EC, but explains my lack of ECs. I naturally will not tell colleges this)</li>
</ul>

<p>AWARDS:</p>

<ul>
<li>AP Scholar (grade 11)</li>
<li>National Merit Commended ( Should have prepared so that I would get
Semifinalist, but I did not know it was important)</li>
</ul>

<p>Since you say you're a slacker:</p>

<p>Berkeley-Reject
UCLA-Reject
Wharton-Reject
Columbia-Reject</p>

<p>Slackers don't get into those schools.</p>

<p>I'm kidding....strong chances at all schools.</p>

<p>you will probably get regents to at least one of them. </p>

<p>it's strange though. i watched berkeley not offer regents to my friend who has 2400 (no joke) sat reasoning, 800/800 sat subjects, valedictorian, USAMO, physics/chem olympiad finalist, national science bowl finalist multiple years, varsity swim team multiple years, etc...you get the idea. i was like "what the hell?."</p>

<p>so i guess it's kind of unpredictable. but...i say you'll probably get regents one of em.</p>

<p>bump could anyone who got the regents scholarship tell me how my stats look?
I am pretty sure I will get into UCLA and Berkeley, but I want regents very badly.</p>

<p>i got regents at both la and berk. i also got in stanford and upenn wharton (didnt apply to columbia).</p>

<p>my stats were like 2300 sat1, 800s on sat2s, class rank #1 out of 700s.</p>

<p>i'd say you'd definitely get regents at both schools if you do well on the interviews (thats what relaly matters).</p>

<p>you have solid chances at stanford and wharton. you might not even need regents. i got full ride at stanford so i didnt ven take the regents offer. might hapen to you.</p>

<p>bump anyone else</p>

<p>bump 10 char</p>

<p>um, someone with straight 4.0 is definitely not a slacker</p>

<p>mind telling me my chances for the regents scholarship?
btw 10% of my school have 4.0 uw. Yeah, I know. But most of them deserve it in my opinion. I just scrape by usually with the lowest A possible.</p>