The Official Chances Thread!

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of California - Berkeley
701

<p>AHHHHhhhhh meltdown. 2 weeks left--- I am going to die. Will someone, for the love of god, chance me?</p>

<p>4.33 UC GPA
2030 Sat, 710 Bio 670 Literature
APs:
Bio (5)
Comp(4)
Chem(3)
Calc BC
Music Theory
Econ
Literature
Also took UC approved Honors math class junior year, college class senior year. Lots of non-UC honors classes</p>

<p>EC's
Head of School's quartet
Concert Mistress of Orchestra
President of Forensics
Captain of Math Team
First chair in a few Honors Orchestras
900 Hours community service (Teaching children to read, hospitals, etc.)
Violin Instructor
Math/Science Tutor</p>

<p>Awards
Volunteering Highlight in Local Newspapers
Regional Debate Champion
Third Place Regional Speech Tournament
Finalist Regional Speech Tournament
Outstanding Musician Award for Orchestra</p>

<p>NOT ELC, CA resident</p>

<p>I think I'm pretty solid, but the time is nigh and I'm freaking. Anyone! Please!
Thanks.</p>

702

<p>aye aye</p>

<p>Everything looks good but your SAT may be a bit low</p>

703

<p>OOS(Kentucky)
Applying for EECS
Unweighted GPA: 4.0
10/400</p>

<p>ACT comp: 34</p>

<p>SAT II Scores
-Math IIC: 770
-Physics: 770
-had a terrible Bio score <700, does this hurt?</p>

<p>AP's:
-World History
-Calc AB
-Calc BC
-Chinese
-Biology
-Chem
-English Lang & Comp.
-U.S. History
(All 4's and 5's)
Sr year:
-French
-English Lit
-Physics (B, C)
-Euro</p>

<p>List a few of your most important ECs (a laundry list of 20+ items is not needed)
-Beta Club Prez
-Community student organized orchestra that plays for nursing home(6 years)
-JETS TEAMS
-Work at University of Kentucky commercial development of new technologies(2 years)
-programmed video games
-Teacher's aide for chinese afterschool class</p>

<p>Any other significant accomplishments in a specific field
-National merit finalist
-Gates Millennium Scholar Finalist
-Governor's Scholar(Essentially a 5 week camp for selected students in KY, nearly full rides for every college in the state)
-AP Scholar with distinction
-Working on patent technology</p>

<p>College Classes:
Calc 3 - A</p>

<p>I know that OOS have it hard, but is CAL within my reach?</p>

704

<p>Hey all... I'd be curious to see what you folks think my chance are.</p>

<p>So far I've been accepted at Cal Poly, UC Irvine, UC Davis and UC San Diego. Haven't been rejected...yet!</p>

<p>GPA: 3.78 UC
SAT: 640 W, 670 M, 690 CR = 2000
Subject Tests: 730 Math Level 2, 660 Literature, 640 Bio Ecol.</p>

<p>ECs: FIRST (9-12), Debate (10-12), ASB (9-12), Prom Committee (11-12), Teaching a Programming Class at my school</p>

<p>Awards: Two Time AMC School winner, Student Choice Award at county science fair, 2nd Place at county math competition </p>

<p>Community Service: >400 hours</p>

<p>Work: Graded statistics and pre-calc homework for a local state university (10th and 11th grades) and am currently interning at a technology company.</p>

<p>Essays were good. I applied as a Computer Engineering major.</p>

<p>Thanks in advance!</p>

705

<p>I doubt I'm getting in because of my horrendously low GPA, but I'd like to hear from others on my chances</p>

<p>Accepted: UC Davis, UC San Diego (Winter Quarter Admission), UC Irvine (Planned, just haven't heard back yet)</p>

<p>GPA: 3.583 UC
SAT: 780 M, 710 CR, 660 W = 2150
SAT Subject Tests: 800 Math II, 670 Biology M, 600 Literature
ACT: 33 Composite, 36 M, 36 S, 29 E, 30 R, 28 English/Writing
Class Rank: 107/376 (What happens when I do IB and get bad grades)
School: 238th Public School in the nation
Location: Northern California</p>

<p>EC: Football (9), Basketball (9-10), VP of Habitat for Humanity Club (11-12), VP Econ Club (12), UC Davis MME</p>

<p>Awards: Normal Honors stuff, Economic Literacy Award (Top 1% in Nation on some online test, nothing big)</p>

<p>Community Service: >200 Hours</p>

<p>Extras: Full IB Diploma Candidate, Full Senior Year course load</p>

<p>Essays: Discussed my decision to do IB and talked about my community service. Not that good, just OK</p>

<p>Extra Info: Discussed the IB Group IV project and how I'm enrolled in ROP through that and tried to explain the reasons for my low GPA.</p>

<p>Major: Undecided/Undeclared</p>

<p>I doubt that I will get in and I'm not planning on it. Also, just wanted to know if getting to Semifinals in USA Bio Olympiad would make a difference and if I should report it to them and other schools. Also, does ROP count towards GPA? It's just Pass/Fail</p>

<p>ALso, I was asked for Supplemental information from Berkeley which included a letter of recommendation and First Semester Grades from Senior Year. I got a 3.5 Unweighted and 4.5 Weighted. There was also a questionnaire that I filled out too.</p>

706

<p>What is Cal's ACT average?</p>

707

<p>29 (10 characters)</p>

708

<p>m a First Generation Mexican-American.
ACT-30
SAT-1880
SAT 2- 770,660,520
UW GPA-3.73
W GPA-4.1
UC GPA-4.0
Rank-2/268
ELC </p>

<p>applying to college of letters</p>

<p>EC:
President of MESA
Church Youth Group Leader
Student body representative
member of the Compton City Youth Council
alto sax player in the marching band
recycling club
TreePeople</p>

<p>accepted: UCSD UCSB San luis obispo</p>

709

<p>SAT I: Math: 800
Reading/Writing: 640 each
Total: 2080
SAT II: Math IIc: 800
Korean Lang: 710
GPA: W: 3.3 (I know this is my killer and downfall =/ )
UW: Slightly below 3.0
ALOT of AP courses 4/5 on all of the AP tests.</p>

<p>EC: 6-7 years of Boy Scouts, also an Eagle Scout, 3-4 years of Taekwondo, 1 year of volunteering at City of Hope.</p>

<p>chances for usc? already deferred from scholarships :[</p>

710

<p>I am an Out of State Applicant (Arizona).</p>

<p>Admittedly, my regular SAT isn't that impressive (1990). HOWEVER:</p>

<p>Math Level 2 SAT: 710
US History SAT: 710
Spanish Language SAT: 700</p>

<p>Weighted GPA: 4.8
Unweighted: 4.0</p>

<p>AP Calculus AB: 5
AP US History: 4</p>

<p>Class ranking: 8/366</p>

<p>Freshman year I had over 100 hours of community service.
Senior year...20 hours :/</p>

<p>HOWEVER:
I work 25 hours a week and have alllllllllllllll year, and I worked 12 hours a week last year. I also worked all summer an innumerable amount of hours.</p>

<p>I'm also in Newspaper Production at my school, I was in Calculus Club last year, and I was the lead in the school musical last year as well.</p>

<p>Do I have a shot at Berkeley? The thing I'm afraid is keeping me from it is that less-than-awesome Reasoning SAT score.</p>

711

<p>UC GPA: 4.0 flat :(
Unweighted GPA 3.75
Weighted GPA 4.03… something like that</p>

<p>California Resident</p>

<p>SATI CR(770) Writing (690) Math (800)
SAT II Math-800, USHistory- 760, Chinese-800, Biology-760
L&S!</p>

<p>ECs: band/ marching band 4 years, journalism 2 years (News Editor), tutoring volunteer work</p>

<p>I interned for the Daily Californian, the UC Berkeley student paper.</p>

712

<p>In-state applicant:
Female - Multi-racial</p>

<p>Unweighted GPA: 3.95
Weight GPA: around 4.4</p>

<p>SAT I: 1960
M 700; CR 600; W 660 (8 essay)</p>

<p>SAT II:
Math II - 750
Literature - 630
Physics - 690</p>

<p>ACT:
Composite - 29
Math - 34
Don't remember the rest.</p>

<p>AP:
Calc BC 5 (Calc AB subscore 5)
Physics B 4
Lang 3
Chem 3</p>

<p>Class Ranking: 18/642</p>

<p>Currently taking:
AP Gov
AP Econ
AP Lit
AP Stats
AP Physics C: Mechanics [independent study]
AP Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism [independent study]
Softball</p>

<p>ECs: All I have is softball, but I've done it for nearly 12.5 years. It's very time consuming.
I have a couple awards in softball.</p>

<p>Chose physics as my number one major choice.</p>

713

<p>Why don't we look at the stats for the engineering school, which is what Berkeley's better than LA for. I think the EECS admit rate is around 33% if your UC GPA is 4.2+.</p>

714

<p>Applied to Civil Engineering
White female
Serbian and German Citizenship
American green card (CA)</p>

<p>ACT 32 (Math 34)
SAT II math:740 physics:670 german:700
weighted GPA: 4.83
Unweighted: 3.9
UC: not really sure but about 4.2?
rank: then I was 7/450 or so, currently am 5th
All APs possible at my school (all I got 4's on), Full IB diploma candidate</p>

<p>EC: ~150 hours of Community Service
Extra Hands for ALS - one of my essays is on this.
Leader of Bridges Task Force Club
Volleyball 2 years JV and Club
Swim novice
nothing really to amazing - pretty basic</p>

<p>trilingual, learning my 4th language. got into UCLA and Cornell</p>

<p>Berkeley is my top choice by a mile but am afraid I won't get in because the CoE is really competitive and I didn't receive this letter: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-california-berkeley/649130-likely-letter-women-engineering-im-guy.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-california-berkeley/649130-likely-letter-women-engineering-im-guy.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>please chance me!! thank you guys so much =D</p>

715

<p>I feel like you have a fair chance Ihaveseniorities -- though definitely noticeably more so if you are in state! I think better science + math SAT II's could have helped a lot though. But getting into Cornell is a good sign. Nevertheless, Cal engineering for an OOS applicant is certainly not a joke to get into!</p>

716

<p>mike - With your stats it's obvious that you work hard, rank 2. so I believe that if they can see that- you are in.</p>

<p>phillip - you show to be very smart in the mathematical area, but as you said your GPA shows that you may not try too hard in school. But its obvious you are gifted. their call.</p>

<p>gcheifetz - I think that because you are OOS, that this year that will actually help you. they need money! your GPA is more than impressive, but your SAT is borderline (I think) - good chance</p>

<p>anywaynots - gifted definitely, but I assume on the lazier side (or you are just in a really competitive high school). depends how and who looks at your resume.</p>

<p>ninjashayna - wild card, your softball could be very impressive to them and it certainly is to anyone reading that! </p>

<p>These are just my opinions. I hope you all the greatest of luck on getting in!!!!! =)</p>

717

<p>thank you mathboy98, and yes I am instate! </p>

<p>that is true, I have been tortured by the SAT's for a year until I discovered the ACT - wayyyy better!</p>

718

<p>BTW, getting in as oos is harder??? I thought that now - with the economic crisis and all - they need more money. But then again, oos has been harder for years past.</p>

719

<p>Well, I assume that it's still not a piece of cake to make it as an OOS applicant, but still, the situation probably helps a lot. :)</p>

720

<p>Hispanic ( non-mexican; South American)
Male
Homestead, Fl Out of State </p>

<p>UC GPA: 4.21
10th-11th unweighted: 3.83
9th-11th unweighted:3.66
Class rank: Top 10 %</p>

<p>School: Coral Reef Senior High ( Competitive) </p>

<p>Courses this year:
AP Chemistry
AP Calculus BC
AP Macro/ Honors Govt (One semester of each)
AP Engl Lit.
AP Psych
Engineering Technology ( vocational )</p>

<p>AP Scores:
AP World History: 3
AP European History: 4
AP English Lang: 3
AP US History: 4
AP Calculus AB: 4
AP Physics B: 5
AP Art History: 5</p>

<p>Rigor of Schedule: Heavy</p>

<p>SAT
Math 700
Reading 620
Writing 570 </p>

<p>SAT Subject Tests:
US History: 790
Math II: 780
Physics: 720 </p>

<p>Award(s):
Principal's Honor Roll
AP Scholar w/ Distinction
Regional 1st Place Graphic Design
State finalist Prepared Speech for TSA
Florida Bright Futures Recipient</p>

<p>Extracirricular:
Technology Student Association: 9th-12th grades
member who've competed in competitions
Mu Alpha Theta ( Math Honors Society: 11th grade -12 th Grade
Club Treasurer: collect fees and field trip money; fundraising
Elysium Literary Arts Magazine: 12th
Editor of Technology; Web Design Chief</p>

<p>Volunteer:
Homestead Hospital
-203 hours 11th-12th gr</p>

<p>Talents:
Piano (8 years)</p>

<p>Other:
First Generation </p>

<p>Lack of Work explained by babysitting my 2 year old brother from 10th-12th grade as mother worked ( cant afford daycare)</p>