<p>So you’re a bilingual female valedictorian with almost perfect GPA, almost perfect test scores, 9 AP tests, six leadership positions, two varsity sports for 4 years each, who has raised over half a million dollars for charity.</p>
<p>o rly?</p>
<p>California Resident
UC GPA: 4.23
Unweighted GPA 3.95
Weighted GPA 4.33</p>
<p>Sophomore:
AP Euro Hist: A/A
Honors Eng.: A/A
Spanish II: A/A
Trig/Math Analysis: A/A
Chemistry: A/A</p>
<p>Summer:
Community College
Psychology: A</p>
<p>Junior:
AP Cal BC: B/A
AP English: A/A
AP Chem: A/A
Spanish III H: A/A
US History: A/A</p>
<p>Summer:
Community College
Physics: A</p>
<p>Senior:
AP English:
AP Stats:
AP Bio:
AP Econ:</p>
<p>SAT Scores: 2220 (780M/690CR/750W)</p>
<p>SAT II Scores:
Literature: 790
Chemistry: 800
Mathematics II: 770</p>
<p>AP Scores:
Calculus BC - 5
Chemistry - 5
English - 5
European History - 4</p>
<p>Which college are you applying to? (Letters and Science, Engineering, Chemistry, etc.)
Letters and Science, Psychology. </p>
<p>EC:
NHS, CSF, 1 year of Varsity LD Speech & Debate, 2 years of Robotics Club, 2 years of Varsity Diving, 2 years of Wind Ensemble</p>
<p>I am also looking at UC Santa Cruz, UC Davis, and UCSD. Would UC Santa Cruz make a good safety?</p>
<p>@skier91 : I’m sorry but I find it so unlikely that you could raise over $400,000. I understand if you have some sort of major contribution from an unknown person looking for a tax write off, but even that is far fetched. If you apply, I suggest you not include those tidbits because it seems nearly impossible. Not to mention that you did it a second time with the relief effort in Sichuan. Second, unless you are some sort of Radiology prodigy, it also seems questionable that a hospital would allow a teenager to watch over 50 people in the department. Seriously? You’ve had work published in THE NEW YORK TIMES from 9-12 grade? Each year? </p>
<p>You either have absolutely no social life and are some human prodigy OR this is a joke! </p>
<p>I’d say raise your SAT’s and maybe you’ve got a shot at UCSC. Maybe.</p>
<p>@hippiecow: you’ve got a great shot. apply!</p>
<p>Which is harder to get into EECS or undeclared L&S?</p>
<p>EECS is harder to get into. L&S is the easier college. If you get into L&S but want to become an EECS major later on, you will have to apply to the College of Engineering. (There is also a Computer Science degree in L&S, but it will be a B.A., not a B.S, I think.)</p>
<p>If Skier92 is real, the LEAST of her problems would be wondering if she could get into UCB.</p>
<p>UC GPA: 4.0
Unweighted GPA: 3.67
Weighted GPA: 3.92
(very bad, i know)</p>
<ul>
<li>2 college courses at local community colleges:
Intermediate Programming in C: A
Intermediate Alg: A</li>
</ul>
<p>California Resident</p>
<p>SAT Scores (redoing them/not sending in):
Critical Reading 590<br>
Math 800<br>
Writing 600
TOTAL 1990</p>
<p>ACT:
Composite: 31
English 29
Mathematics 34
Reading 30
Science 30
Combined English/Writing 29<br>
Writing (score range 2 to 12) 10</p>
<p>SAT II:
Mathematics Level 2 800<br>
Physics 770</p>
<p>AP Tests:
Physics B : 5
Calc BC : 5
Eng Lang and Comp : 4</p>
<p>Senior Year Classes:
Ap Bio
Ap Chem
Ap Gov
Ap Eng Lit and Comp
Ap Stats</p>
<p>Applying to College of Letters and Science
-Major Physics or Applied Mathematics (cant decide)</p>
<p>ECS:
Martial Arts for 13 years
-Black Belt Taekwondo
-Black Belt Wu Shu
-studied shaolin kungfu, tai chi, kickboxing, kapawara, +++
-Student instructor</p>
<p>3 years Dance/Marching Band - Color Guard/Winter Guard
-Leadership position in marching band and winterguard</p>
<p>100+ hours community service to Abilities United: helping those with developmental challenges</p>
<p>Earned:
AP Scholar Award
Honorary member of California Scholarship Federation</p>
<p>A reply would be greatly appreciated</p>
<p>Thanks in advance</p>
<p>@ deturbanator: Your gpa is fine. Your test scores are good. The college of letters and sciences won’t even look at your intended major. Just write good essays that show you have a personality and passions, and you’ll be fine. Your extracurriculars show you have focus. If you’re passionate about being a mentor - being a student instructor and volunteering to help those with developmental challenges suggests you do - then that would be a good topic for essay #2.</p>
<p>Thanks for the confidence boost. I have written my two essays already. The first one is on my father losing his opportunity to use the master’s degree he earned in electrical engineering because he stayed in America after his student visa expired. I talked about him losing his dream and then placing that dream into my hands to be fulfilled.
My second essay focuses on a specific event in my martial arts when sparing a 35 year old when i was only 10 years of age. How the fight with him has taught me about how i need to approach life and school. I must apply and develop my knowledge not just let information collect in my mind.</p>
<p>your essay suggestion does sound good though and i might try an outline to see what ideas arise :]</p>
<p>Hey! Berkeley has been my dream school for quite some time now, so I’d really appreciate it if anyone can chance me. :D</p>
<p>[ul]
Objective:
[<em>] SAT I: 2100 (700M, 750W 12e, 650CR)
[</em>] ACT: Scores in 2 weeks! (Projected 30-33)
[<em>] SAT II: Math II - 710 , Biology M - 720 , Literature - 650
[</em>] Unweighted GPA: 3.95
[<em>] Weighted GPA: 4.39
[</em>] UC GPA: 4.33
[<em>] Rank - 1/346 (Valedictorian)
[</em>] ELC Qualified (Got into Davis, Irvine, Santa Barbara, Riverside)
[li] AP Tests: US History (4) , Biology (5)</p>[/li]
<p>Leadership:
[<em>] CSF President (Senior Year)- Ran a 4-day trip to SoCal to visit 8 Colleges
[</em>] Key Club Vice President + Secretary (Senior Year)
[li] Eco-Awareness Club Co-Founder + Treasurer (Senior Year)</p>[/li]
<p>Other School Related Activities:
[<em>] CSF (10-12)
[</em>] Key Club (10-12) -170hrs of community service
[<em>] Eco Club (12)
[</em>] Varsity Track (11-12)
[li] Varsity Cross Country (12)</p>[/li]
<p>Other:
[<em>] Rotary Youth Leadership Award
[</em>] Outdoor School Camp Counselor
[<em>] Third Place in Local Rotary Speech Contest
[</em>] Rotary Local High School Student of the Month
[<em>] Took Intro to Psychology and American Government at a community college (got A’s in both)
<a href=“9th%20Grade”>*</a> Best Student in English + Honors Biology, (10th Grade) Best Student in Algebra II + Honors Chemistry, (11th Grade) Best Student in AP Biology
[</em>] Male, Asian Indian, Small Town, Rarely Sends Grads to Top Schools</p>
<p>Intersted In:
[*] Applying to College of Letters & Science[/ul]</p>
<p>hi i was wondering if it’s even worth the money to apply. I was gonna apply to the business program or chemistry. </p>
<p>stats-
white female from tx
ranked 3/500 something
taken all honors/ap classes
gpa: weighted: 5.68/6.0
unweighted: 4.0/4.0
act: composite 32 –>just retook waiting on scores, expecting 33-34+
sat: 640 cr, 640 math, 610 writing –>retaking this week, definitely weakest point
sat 2s: 690 literature, 700 us history, 720 chem
aps: chem (5), apush (4), english lang. (4), spanish lang. (4)
currently taking ap bio, literature, calculus bc, gov’t/macroecomics, computer science pre-ap, and special chem 3 course in organic chemistry </p>
<p>ecs- dance team(9-12, captain 12)-march w/band and general contests; extremely!!! time consuming
-studio dance group (9-11)-ballet performing group, worked w/nursing homes
-spanish nhs (10-12, treasurer 10-11)
-spanish club (9-12, historian 9)
-chemistry club (12, historian)-founded last month
-nhs (11-12)
-freshman transition program (11)
-church group (9-10)
community service: -completed over 100 hrs, weak point as many are events not commitments because of dance team rehearsals,
-tutored last summer
-various nhs/snhs hours
awards:
-academic excellence (9-11)
-dance varsity letter (11-12)
-division 1 dance solo rating (11)
-ap scholar w/honor
-dancer of the year (11)
-who’s who in foreign language (11)
work:-babysit weekly for families (9-12)</p>
<p>Hello,</p>
<p>I am an international student from an asian country(Singapore). Applying for admission fall 2010 to ut austin, texas A&M and purdue uni college of engineering.</p>
<p>I have taken the GCE O level exams and scored 8 As and a couple of Bs.</p>
<p>I have a 2120 sat score(800 math, 680 writing, 640 critical read)</p>
<p>My high school doesnt compute gpa.</p>
<p>I also have 800 for sat 2 math. 710 for sat 2 phy.</p>
<p>I have done a lot of community service, been in 2 sports. Tennis , Cricket. </p>
<p>I also took the toefl and scored 113/120 on the ibt.</p>
<p>May i know my chances of getting in? </p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>UC GPA: 4.17???
weighted: 4.29
class rank: 15/742</p>
<p>California Resident</p>
<p>SAT Reasoning Scores
Total: 2120
Math: 800
CR: 640
Writing: 680
I plan on retaking this saturday so hopefully it goes up…
ACT scores
comp: 35
english: 33
reading: 33
math: 36
science: 36
writing: 8
SAT II Scores
math 2: 800
physics: 800
chem: 770
Ap Scores
Calc AB: 5
Macroeconomics: 5
European History: 5</p>
<p>Which college are you applying to?
Letters and Science, math major</p>
<p>List a few of your most important ECs (a laundry list of 20+ items is not needed)
…I really don’t have much of anything for ECs >.<
Key Club, 2 years
Science Club, 2 years
Band, 1 year
ARML, 1 year
Math Tutoring, 2 years
and err…i’ve played piano for about 10 years? though i haven’t gotten certification of merit…</p>
<p>Classes:
[Sophomore]
Hnrs. Spanish 3 A/B
P.E. A/A
AP Euro A/A
Hnrs. Pre-Calc A/A
Hnrs. Chemistry A/A
Hnrs. World Lit A/B
Ap Macroeconomics (Outside School) A
Mathematical Logic (Outside School) A</p>
<p>[Senior]
Reg. US History
Ap Chemistry
Ap Physics B
Ap Calc BC
Ap Microeconomics
Ap Government
Ap Lit
Theater Arts 1/2</p>
<p>Any other significant accomplishments in a specific field
well… the only other thing is that I’m going to graduate at the age of 16. Will this help me at all?</p>
<p>wow, according to that website, my gpa is 5.00
Anyway, I’m an international applicant taking the IB diploma. Predicted 45 points.</p>
<p>SAT I - 2380 SAT II - Math 2 800 Physics 780 Chemistry 780</p>
<p>Full IB diploma candidate.
Taking HL Physics, HL Economics, HL Math
SL Chemistry, SL English A1, French ab initio</p>
<p>ECs
Competitive soccer. Vice captain and captain for 1 year each.
NCC(Land) Master Sergeant</p>
<p>Awards/Accomplishments
Prize for Australian Math Competition(top 0.3%) for 3 years
Over 350 hours voluntary work across 3 years.
Topped entire cohort a couple of times for Math and Physics</p>
<p>Others
Great teacher and councilor recs
School is independent. Produced 9 out of 20 IB candidates worldwide for obtaining a perfect score.</p>
<p>You’re from singapore? So am I!!
If you’re a male, are you doing NS? I’m going to surrender my permanent residence so I can avoid it. With those grades, did you try for any UK universities? You have a good chance of getting in those. As for US, I can’t say because I think that your SAT I scores are a bit low. You should have thought about taking 3 SAT II tests instead of two.</p>
<p>I would say UC Berkeley is a reach.</p>
<p>-bitturiju,</p>
<p>If u are indeed refering to me, well ya I am considering uk unis but I’m more keen on going to us for college. Judging by ur post, I guess ur from acsi?? Well i am from rj… and ya i am looking to go to college next yr, not 2 years later… anyway , any idea of my chances of getting in to the schs i mentioned?</p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>Yup papu26, I was referring to you. And yes I’m from ACS(I).
I’m not really familiar with the universities you stated. But I’d say that you have a good chance at University of Penn. Go check out their page. Applicants with relatively low SAT scores and little or no ECs got in. Its a Ivy league college by the way. So if you stand a chance there, I would say you definitely stand a chance in the universities you stated.</p>
<p>Could you chance me back for UChicago, Harvard, MIT and UC Berkeley?</p>
<p>bitturiju,</p>
<p>From your profile, your a def getting in to UC Berkeley! , they rely quite heavily on sat scores and extra curricular, both of which are excellent in your case! </p>
<p>You have a really good chance at U Chicago too… So if u put in a good app, I am quite sure u could get in… anyway MIT and Harvard are reach schools considering that almost everyone who applies are prob as good or even better than you… U would also be able to get into U MIch or John Hopkins easily.</p>
<p>Hi! I’m quite new here. Can someone please rate my application?</p>
<p>I’m new here in California. I took high school from the Philippines, and I started college last fall. As of now, I’m taking Calculus, Psychology and Philosophy, along with high school level English. </p>
<p>I’m planning to major in Chemical Engineering. </p>
<p>I made my own schedule for the next two years, and so far I don’t think I can do the Organic Chemistry Sequence as well as the Biology sequence (Both are not required, and I don’t think they’re recommended too). If all goes well, I’d be transferring with all the Math, Physics (even 7C equivalent), General Chemistry, English courses needed for admission. I also can get one Engineering course (Engineering 45). </p>
<p>I counted my transferrable credits, and the sum is 61 units. </p>
<p>I am deeply interested in Chemistry, as I am very curious about matter and the environment. I preferred to get Chemical Engineering because I don’t think I’ll be researching all my life. I am creative and imaginative as describe by my former mentors, and I also find these qualities in myself. </p>
<p>Next semester I’m planning to join the Math and Science club in our community college to have more insight about Chemistry. If the Filipino Club gets revived, I’ll join them instead of the Honors Club. </p>
<p>As of now, I do volunteer tutoring at our campus in Math. </p>
<p>I don’t have work, but next semester I am planning to volunteer in tutoring Math once again. </p>
<p>Do you think I have the slightest chance of getting admitted if I get a GPA of 3.7-3.9? I heard that they want people who have completed the most requirements. Does Berkeley prefer people with a rich cultural background? Or they solely look at your GPA, Personal Statement, and prerequisites completed? </p>
<p>Oh, I’m a green card holder BTW. </p>
<p>I just hope I get in, I always wanted to have quality education in preparation for my career in the future. =]</p>
<p>Thanks, I’ll be viewing this post maybe after an hour or maybe tomorrow. Cheers.</p>