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<p>What is my chance in getting into Berkeley (College of Engineering)? Please be candid.</p>

<p>Mexican American/First Generation College Student</p>

<p>GPA: 4.7
ELC</p>

<p>Test Scores</p>

<p>SAT I:
Total: 2000
Critical Reading: 680
Math: 700
Writing: 620</p>

<p>SAT II:
Mathematics Level 2: 670
Chemistry:670
U.S. History: 710</p>

<p>Advanced Placement Exams:
European History: 3
U.S. History: 4
Chemistry: 4
English Language and Composition: 4</p>

<p>Accomplishments and Offices Held
Clubs:
Maya Club (2004-2005)
California Scholarship Federation (2004-2008
Science and Engineering Club (2006-2007), (2007-2008)
Position held: Secretary
Math Club (2006-2007), (2007-2008)
Position held: Treasurer (2006-2007)
Position held: Vice President (2007-2008)
Interact Club (2007-2008)</p>

<p>Leadership
-California Golden Boys’ State Delegate: Attended a leadership session from June 16-23, 2007. Boys’ State is a leadership action program where qualified male juniors take part in a practical government course and gain knowledge of the structure of government and of the responsibilities of each office in government.
-Rotary Youth Leadership Awards: Attended leadership session from April 13-15, 2007. Rotary Youth Leadership Awards is a leadership training program which emphasizes leadership, citizenship, and personal growth.
-Art Workshop: Attended an art workshop on a scholarship from June 25-28, 2007 at Palm Springs Art Museum</p>

<p>Honors and Awards/Leadership
-California State Senate Certificate of Recognition: In Honor of The American Legion California Boys’ State 2007 session by Senator James Battin
-Rotary Youth Leadership Certificate of Recognition: For participation in the Rotary International District 5330’s RYLA 2007 session
-Outstanding Student Award (By the Center for the Advancement of Second Language Acquisition & The Inland Empire Foreign Language Association): For Outstanding achievement in French III (May 3, 2007)
-Principal’s Award: 6 semesters of GPA 4.0 and above (see transcript for actual GPA)
-National Ventures Scholar Award: For outstanding academic achievement, dedication to excellence, and desire to pursue a career in a math, science, or technology based career.
-AP Scholar with Honor Award: Granted to students who receive an average grade of at least 3.25 on all AP Exams taken, and grades of 3 or higher on four or more of these exams.
-People to People Student Ambassador Program: Invitation
-National Youth Leadership Forum on National Defense: Invitation</p>

<p>Sports
-Cross Country (2006- 2007), (2007-2008)
Varsity Letter
-Track and Field (2006-2007)</p>

<p>Community Service
-Art Museum – art assistant. Hours: 20
-Stroke Recovery Center – helped in dinning room and kitchen. Hours: 168</p>

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<p>Nice_try09: if you're in-state, I'd say Berkeley's a slight reach, since you're applying to engineering. Otherwise, it'd be a match.</p>

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<p>is it hard to transfer to engineering?</p>

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<p>To transfer once you're at Berkeley, or to transfer to engineering from a CC? In any case, it's hard. Not impossible by any means, but comparatively harder (than other majors).</p>

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<p>I meant once you're inside Berkeley....but i mean it's definitely possible if you do well i your classes anyways right?</p>

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<p>Yup. Some say that difficulty of transferring to engineering within Berkeley is overblown. (I tend to agree.)</p>

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<p>SAT: 1990. Reading: 620. Math: 690. Writing 680, 9 essay.
SAT II: Math II: 710. Bio E: 720. US History: 530
GPA: Unweighted: 3.8. UC: 4.04. Weighted: 4.12
I'm not sure if I'll be retaking the SAT one more time, but I will be taking the ACT in December.
AP: Biology 3, US History 2. I will be taking Calculus BC, Macroeconomics, and English Language and Composition in May of next year.
Rank: 1/16</p>

<p>My school is a religious, Jewish school with a double curriculum consisting of Judaic classes in the morning and Secular Classes during the afternoon.</p>

<p>EC:
Yearbook 2 years
Debate Club 2 years
Book Club 1 year
Journalism 1 year
Drama Club: Lights and Sound manager 1 year
Baseball Team 1 year
Member of Bnei Akiva (Jewish Youth organization, the biggest of its kind in the world)
90 hours of volunteering for the school</p>

<p>From March till July 2007 I worked for a clothing store. I was in charge of the clothes it sold on ebay (which were brand name, such as Seven Jeans, Gucci, Prada, etc.) and packaging and shipping them to their buyer.</p>

<p>During Summer of 2006, I volunteered for the Russian Jewish Community of San Francisco. I was in charge of the various databases and making sure they were in order. My total volunteering hours for this was about 200 hours.</p>

<p>During Summer of 2005, I did more or less the same thing, except I was paid for this by a program called MYEEP, a program funded by San Francisco.</p>

<p>If it helps, I'm fluent in Russian (It's my first language I was born in Kiev, Ukraine and moved to the US when I was 7), and also speak some Spanish and Hebrew.</p>

<p>Major in Business Administration or Economics</p>

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<p>rusoboy23: Are you in-state? If so, then I'd say slight reach. If not, then it's a reach.</p>

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<p>So it is harder to get into the college of engineering if you are in-state than if you are out-of-state?</p>

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<p>All the in-state admissions are noticeably harder for OOS, whether that's for L&S or engineering. So, it's harder to get into the CoE OOS than it is in-state.</p>

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<p>Female, Asian-American InState
Low-Income.
Planning to apply to Letters and Science under Undeclared/Pre-Business</p>

<p>Weighted UC GPA: 4.4
Unweighted UC GPA: 3.89</p>

<p>SAT I: 2000 (CR 680, Math 650, W 670) planning retake in DEC
SATII: US (780), IIc (760)</p>

<p>APs taken:
Junior: USHistory (5), CompSci A (4), EngLang (5), CalcAB(5)
Senior: Chemistry, Statsitics, Comparative Govt</p>

<p>EC:
HS Newspaper (2 years, editor for 1)
Student Council Commission (2 years, Treasurer for 1)
Volunteer 100+ hours at hospital
Work 8 hrs/wk
Every summer i work at a camp for 8 weeks, 12 hrs/day</p>

<p>Awards: none really, just the AP Scholar with Honors. does CSF and NHS (9-11) count?</p>

<p>Current Courses: AP Chemistry, AP Comparative Govt, English, AP Statistics, HS Newspaper</p>

<p>THANK YOU IN ADVANCE (:</p>

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<p>@eechang: Average applicant. Slight-reach.
P.S. Check your UC GPA, a 4.4 UC GPA is extremely high especially since you have a 3.89 UW. I have a 3.86 UW and only a 4.23 UC GPA. I had the exact same stats as you, but I somehow got lucky and my SATs boosted up 200 points from the November test. Best of luck for you!</p>

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<p>Hey, I'm an Asian Male attending Irvine High School and I would really like to have an estimate of my chances at UCLA Engineering school, particularly electrical engineering.</p>

<p>GPA
9-12 wgpa 4.0
10-12 wgpa 4.37
i got a c and multiple b's my freshman year
shows upward trend
uc gpa = 4.17</p>

<p>class rank: my school does not rank but i got the elc letter</p>

<p>SAT SCORES
Sat 1 reasoning
800 math
650 crit reading
640 writing
= 2090
Sat 2 Chemistry 750
Sat 2 Math 2c 720</p>

<p>AP Tests
AP English Lang 4
AP Chemistry 3 (i did horrible)
AP US History 3
AP Stats 5
AP Euro 4
= AP Scholar with Distinction</p>

<p>Senior Year Schedule
Boys Water Polo
Ap GOv
Ap english lit and comp
Calculus A/B
Physics
Boys Tennis</p>

<p>ECS:</p>

<ol>
<li><p>Varsity Tennis 9-12
-MVP 11th grade
-2nd team all league
-Qualified for Ojai Tournament
-Qualified for CIF
-Upcoming captain for 12th grade</p></li>
<li><p>Student Forum 9-12
(4 leadership credits total)
i was the representative of my ta. i informed them of upcoming events and blah at school</p></li>
<li><p>Volunteer Swim Coach Summer before 11th Grade
(100+ Volunteer Community Service Hours)
Then, Paid Swim Coach Summer before 12th Grade</p></li>
<li><p>Eagle Scout
-Current President of my Venturing Crew
-Been in many positions of authority in my crew
(100+ hours)</p></li>
<li><p>Link Crew Leadership Team Summer before 12th grade
-Part of leadership team to train Link Crew Members to welcome incoming freshman</p></li>
</ol>

<p>those are the 5 i am putting for extracurriculars. but i'm also in clubs such as nhs and csf (do the colleges know this?)</p>

<p>Essays:
"well developed" and non-cliche essays</p>

<p>Can you guys please give me your honest opinions on my chances at UCB, UCLA, UCI, and UCSD electrical engineering? Also, could anyone tell me if it is possible to go into UCLA undeclared (which I hear is a lot easier), and then transfer into Henry Samueli School of Engineering? Because I really want to know because I plan on being a part of a computer science business later on. I plan on getting an engineering background then going into a business graduate school.</p>

<p>Thanks so much!</p>

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<p>eechang: your GPA is strong (though I agree with Castel -- you might want to check that), the SAT is slightly weak (mainly in math), and the SAT IIs are strong, though your ECs and honors/awards are somewhat weak as they don't particularly distinguish you. Being a low-income student may help. I'd say slight reach - reach.</p>

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<p>chances please?</p>

<p>instate, male
low-income</p>

<p>unweighted gpa: 3.915
UC gpa: 4.1675
*do I round to 2 decimal places? If so, unweighted = 3.92, UC = 4.17
very large upward trend in both grades and class difficulty</p>

<p>SAT:
CR: 740
Math: 750
Writing: 630
Total: 1490/1600, 2120/2400</p>

<p>SAT II:
math 2: 790
physics: 790</p>

<p>APs:
physics c mech: 4
physics c E&M: 5
calc ab: 5
comp sci a: 5</p>

<p>senior classes:
ap chem
ap stats
calc cd honors</p>

<p>ecs:
orchestra (violin since 5th grade)
clubs
volunteer at library ~35 hours
volunteer at hospital ~200 hours
ap scholar with honor
art stuff
-took product and transportation design at famous art college in pasadena (Art Center College of Design)
-self learned flash and animation</p>

<p>applying to L&S (comp sci)</p>

<p>Thanks.</p>

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<p>pick: you have a strong GPA and great SAT scores, along with (I assume) good ECs (if by "clubs," you mean you have more ECs). Do you have any other honors/awards? I'd say slight reach - high match, though it depends largely on your essays.</p>

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<p>UC GPA (capped at 8 semesters i assume) 4.09
Unweighted GPA (10-11) 3.84
Weighted GPA (10-11) 4.31</p>

<p>California Resident</p>

<p>SAT Reasoning Scores (by section)
SAT I- V: 680, M: 760, W: 750, Total: 2190
SAT II- Math: 800, Physics: 800, Bio E and Bio M both 720</p>

<p>Which college are you applying to? Engineering-EECS</p>

<p>List a few of your most important ECs (a laundry list of 20+ items is not needed)
President of Go Club- highest achievement is 2nd place in CA High School Go tournament
Tennis team grades 9-12
Total volunteer hours 300-350 at local hospital, Green Citizen (electronics waste recycling center), and clubs
Physics club
and about 3 clubs with positions and 2 without</p>

<p>Any other significant accomplishments in a specific field
AP scholar with distinction
Physics B-5
Physics C: Mech- 5
Physics C: E&M-4 (while concurrently enrolled in pre-cal is brag-able or not?)
Biology-5
Statistics-4
National Merit scholar
Go 2Dan (amateur professional rank) diploma</p>

<p>based my two personal statements on Go and my volunteer experience at Green Citizen</p>

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<p>chowwinston: strong GPA and scores, and good ECs. You have a good shot at Berkeley EECS.</p>

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<p>UC GPA - 4.21
Unweighted GPA - 3.88
Weighted GPA - 4.53</p>

<p>California Resident
Asian Male
First Generation College Student</p>

<p>SAT Reasoning Scores
- Total: 2210
- Critical Reading: 680
- Math: 730
- Writing: 800</p>

<p>SAT II Scores
- World History: 800
- Chinese: 800
- Math IIC: 800
- U.S. History: 800</p>

<p>Which college are you applying to?
Letters and Science - Pre-Business/Letters and Science Undeclared</p>

<p>List a few of your most important ECs
- Model UN president
- Summer Internship at JPL-NASA
- Cross Country (10-12)
- Badminton (10-11)
- extensive community service: Peer 9 Tutoring (publicity) and L.A. County Library (close to 200 hrs total)
- Asian KTV Club Vice-President
- Tutoring Club Vice-President</p>

<p>Any other significant accomplishments in a specific field
- National Merit Commended
- AP Scholar with Distinction
- Scholar Athlete Awards for CC and Badminton</p>

<p>AP Scores:
- European History: 5
- Statistics: 4
- U.S. History: 5
- Psychology: 5
- English Language: 4</p>

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<p>also, ranked 9/477 and ELC</p>