<p>ExceptMe: Great GPA, scores, very good ECs, I would give you 80-90% chance. And yes you should add that you’re applying to L&S.</p>
<p>mickjagger: Good GPA, great SAT score, decent ECs, I would say 80% at Berkeley and UCLA.</p>
<p>iNiosis: Yes it will hurt your chances.</p>
<p>iNiosis, one C? It isn’t gonna help you, but it probably won’t matter much in the long run anyway. I got a C in math for 3 semesters… Once in my freshman year, then two semesters my sophomore year. I still got in, OOS. C’s happen but you’ll be okay if you have nice SAT scores and an upward trend in your grades as high school goes on.</p>
<p>Ringopuppers: So you got two C’s in your Sophomore year, and you still got accepted into UCBerkeley?</p>
<p>Very neat! What was your ACT/SAT score and your Unweighted and Weighted GPA?</p>
<p>AP Classes? How many in your school?</p>
<p>Lol, sorry for the harrassment of questions. >u<</p>
<p>i received a “d” in math during the first semester of my sophomore year and was still accepted to Berkeley. I was a recalcitrant idler up until the second semester of sophomore year and scored an 800 on the math sat ii later on in order to help offset my “d” in math.</p>
<p>iNiosis: Accepted and Berkeley-bound for Fall Semester 2010! To be precise on my grades: a C second semester of my freshman year in Algebra II, and C’s for both first and second semester in precalculus my sophomore year. Not even AP classes, they were honors! Makes me look like a subpar student but honestly math isn’t my thing; going to be a poli sci major. I was put on a fast track for math starting in seventh grade after a placement test, which sent me through math with shaky foundations but somehow I got through! I made up for my lower grades with an upward trend though, B’s all through AP Calc and A’s in AP Stat. 
But I took 9 AP classes through HS… And got A’s in all of them except for Calc and my second semester of senior year Bio (oh, senioritis). They offer maybe 14 total AP’s at my high school. SAT 1410 (2140 with W) and 31 ACT. My UW GPA was around a 3.7, weighted was around 4.2. Roughly. </p>
<p>So don’t ever let a couple of mediocre grades shoot you down, a lot of things are still possible even if you get a C, haha. I made a couple B’s here and there too… The good you do can definitely outweigh the bad. Write a nice, polished essay!</p>
<p>My chances for Berkeley is probably pretty [extremely] low. Advice would be nice.</p>
<p>UC GPA (10-11): 4.17
Total GPA UW (9-11): 3.54
Total GPA W (9-11): 3.69
(You can tell that I bombed my freshman year)</p>
<p>Total Honors/AP taken up until Junior year: 2 Honors, 1 AP. Protected Senior schedule includes 6 APs. Projected number of UC courses taken from 9-12 grade: 20.</p>
<p>Though only taken 1 AP class so far, I’ve taken 10 tests. Subject and projected score: Comparative Gov. - 3/4, Calculus AB - 3/4, US History - 5, English Lang - 4, Biology - 4/5, Chemistry - 4/5, Art History - 3 (only AP I’ve taken a class for), Macroeconomics - 2/3, Human Geo. - 5, Psychology - 3/4.</p>
<p>CA Resident.</p>
<p>SAT: 2100 (666 R, 740 M, 700 W) and 2090 (680 R, 740 M, 670 W)
SAT II: Pending (Math; expected 750+, USH; expected 750+, Chem; expected 700+)</p>
<p>Applying to Letters and Science.</p>
<p>ECs: even worse than my GPA. I have literally no noteworthy ECs. Tutoring, volunteering at library, teacher assisting, starting my own club (Mu Alpha Theta), etc.; all stuff that anyone can do. I’m participating in UCLA’s Math Institute for Young Scholars this summer if that counts…</p>
<p>I don’t think I have anything else that’s worth mentioning. =( Maybe my extreme upward trend in [UC] GPA? Freshman year: 2.33/2.33. Sophomore year: 3.75/4.0. Junior year: 4.5/4.5.</p>
<p>Lastly, I’m first generation. But according to UC’s statfinder, 1st gen. admit rate is significantly lower than that of non-1st gen. in like every category. For example, 1st. gen applicants with 2100 SAT and 4.0+ UC GPA have a lower admit rate than non-1st gen. with the same stats. Why is that?</p>
<p>UC GPA-----4.07
3.64 Unweighted
3.97 Weighted</p>
<p>California Resident</p>
<p>2110 SAT Score</p>
<p>Applying to Letters and Science</p>
<p>Vice-President of Academic Decathlon
Co-President of Junior Toastmasters
Secretary of Republican Club
Oversaw Little League Elections
Head Umpire at Little League
Over 100+ Hours of Community Service
ACE Classes at Sac State
CIVITAS Program (4 Year Political Studies Program)
75 Hour Internship at Assemblyman’s Office
3 Undergraduate Awards
Moot Court Team (w/Most Valuable Team Member Award)</p>
<p>Applying for EECS</p>
<p>UW GPA: 3.75
UC weighted: 4.3</p>
<p>Tests:
SAT I: 2270, 800 math, 770 writing, 700 crit
SAT II: 800 math, 800 chemistry, 800 physics
AP: 5 in calc bc, physics, english, statistics, chemistry; 4 in US History</p>
<p>Summer Science Program '10, hoping to submit the research to Siemens competition
programming experience in Python, C++, Java</p>
<p>Volunteer:
400+ hours at library working as executive assistant to head
50 hours working for Run for Education</p>
<p>EC’s:
10+ years of competitive swimming
4 years qualifying for NCS in swimming for HS, captain in senior year
level 8 CM in piano, played for 5 years
founded Students helping Students to raise money for sports in district
Qualified for AIME 3 years in a row through AMC10 and AMC12
active in school math and science clubs
school winner for ASMA and CAML competitions
competed in regional science bowl for school A team
competed in stanford math tournament for 2 years</p>
<p>ryanxing: UCB doesn’t look at your freshman year. Decent GPA/scores, I’d say 40% chance.</p>
<p>college2252: Decent GPA/scores, pretty good ECs, 40-50%.</p>
<p>fishfood11: Great scores, good GPA, nice ECs, EECS is hard to get in though, are you a Californian resident? If so, 70%, if not, 40%.</p>
<p>very sorry I’m this late to the thread</p>
<p>linguistics and anthropology major
chance me? UCB, Pomona, Swarthmore, UChicago</p>
<p>UC GPA 3.93
UW GPA 3.7 (school does not weight grades or rank) but probably ranked at about 10th percentile </p>
<p>SAT I: 2220 (M 670, W 750, CR 800)–one sitting. got an 800 W another sitting. probably will retake because of Math
will take SAT II’s in Spanish, German, MathII aiming for 800’s</p>
<p>Freshman:
English Honors A-/B+
Biology Honors A-/A-
Geometry Honors B+/B
World Hist, Orchestra, PE, Spanish I = A/A</p>
<p>Sophomore (ugh):
Am. Lit Honors A/A-
Chem Honors B/B-
Debate B+
Algebra II Honors B-/B
Orchestra, Health =A/A</p>
<p>summer-tested out of Spanish III= A/A
took all honors classes available up to junior year.
Junior (terrible 1st semester, good 2nd):
Calc AB AP: C+/A
Spanish AP B+/A
Physics Honors B/A-
Debate, Eng Lit, U.S. Hist, Orch= A/A
BioII AP Ecology and Evolution (1st semester): B+</p>
<p>Senior year I’ll take take Eng AP, Bio II AP both semesters, Psych, French I, Adv Orch, Econ/Gov, and Prob/Stat AP providing spots are open–aiming for all A’s of course</p>
<p>EC’s: NHS, Spanish NHS, ECO club, Humanitarian organization, School newspaper reporter, photographer, section editor, Debate (some local awards) piano 10 years (local/regional awards), cello 9 years (local/regional awards), community orchestra, guitar 3 years as church youth group music leader, volunteering 150+ hours.
Jobs: tutoring, babysitting, playing cello in weddings
my leadership is weaker than it could be because my parents limit my out-of-house hours. I mentioned this briefly in the essay I’ll turn in, which I consider one of the best things I’ve written.</p>
<p>I am fluent in 6 languages: English, Korean, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese. working on Arabic, Danish, French which I am proficient in.
So I’m an atypical Asian who’s good at humanities, and I hope it helps :/</p>
<p>Oh yeah, and I’m out-of-state.
I hope that was enough information. It seems by how nobody’s answering, I left out something.</p>
<p>A few things:</p>
<ol>
<li><p>I don’t need to know your entire transcript, your GPA is enough.</p></li>
<li><p>You’d get a better assessment after you have your SAT II scores.</p></li>
<li><p>Most posters don’t like chancing people and I come here about once a week so be patient if you don’t get a response right away.</p></li>
</ol>
<p>With that said, decent GPA, good scores, good ECs, but again OOS will hurt you. I’m thinking 50%.</p>
<p>thanks a bunch, vicissitudes! the advice is helpful to someone as ignorant about CC as me. :)</p>
<p>I had pretty much the same SAT as you, 2 SAT subjects over 750, pretty much the same GPA (my UC GPA was 4.04), and similar amounts of community service, and I got in as a spring admit… I think you have pretty good chances, especially if you’re full-pay OOS.</p>
<p>Public High School: Paxon School for Advanced Studies - It’s located in Florida
Unweighted GPA: 3.89
Weighted GPA: 4.5
Rank: 3/397
SAT I:
700 Writing
610 Critical Reading
740 Math
2050 Will Retake 2 More Times
SAT II:<br>
Math II 750 Will Take 2 More
Took 4 APs
Will take 6 APs in senior year</p>
<p>ECs
Varsity Soccer One of the Four Captains in 2009 Season
Varsity Cross Country and Track Cross Country Captain 2008-10
Science Olympiad-Chemistry- Physics in my senior year
Violin Since 5th Grade
Yearbook Photographer
Student Council Rep. (2 years)
Math Club Vice President
Chess Club Vice President
International Club President
Biology Club Historian
Student Government Association Vice President
Member of the Jacksonville Youth Leadership
Member of the Student Government Association of America- 2010
Florida Virtual School Student of the Month - 2008</p>
<p>Awards:
National Honor Society 11th, 12th
Deans List 9th, 10th
AB Honor Roll 11th 6 As and 1B
2 Times Chess Finalist 2nd place Award
Student of the Year 9th, 10th
Math Student of the Year 11th
Soccer 2 Times 3rd place in District
Cross Country 1 Time Finalist in District 5th in State
Violin Concert in 10th Grade
Scholar Athlete- 10th, 11th </p>
<p>APs:
AP World 4
AP Euro 3
AP Lang Expecting a 4
AP US History Expecting a 4
Will take 6 APs In Senior Year
AP Government
AP Macroeconomics
AP Literature
AP Calc AB
AP Statistics
AP Physics</p>
<p>Community Service 200 Hours
Local Community Center 150 Hours
Perry Mc-Call Construction 50 Hour</p>
<p>Occupation
Pars Construction Company- IT Manager, Web Designer 18 hr/ week (2007-2010)
Safety Harbor, FL Community Center- Basic Computer Programming Teacher 10 hr/week (2007)
Wind-Dixie Bagger 18 hr/week (2008-2009)</p>
<p>UC GPA: 4.31
Unweighted GPA: 3.81
Weighted GPA: 4.09</p>
<p>California Resident</p>
<p>SAT Reasoning Scores: 800 Math, 760 Critical Reading, 760 Writing
SAT II Scores: 790 Math II, 780 Physics, 740 Chem
AP Scores: 5 on Chem, Spanish Lang, US History, CompSci AB, World History</p>
<p>Which college are you applying to? Engineering (Mechanical Engineering)</p>
<p>List a few of your most important ECs
Science Olympiad treasurer
Robotics Club president (competitive school in robotics - FIRST and VEX teams)
Piano (10 years)
Ethnic instrument (11 years)
Working for ~3 years at a small engineering firm
Internship at research lab
Volunteering 100+ hours</p>
<p>Any other significant accomplishments in a specific field
Robotics as stated above. We’re very competitive, and compete at nationals/internationals annually</p>
<p>I haven’t found numbers to compare mine to because I’m out of state and my school has minimal admissions data. Can someone please help me out and chance me? Thank you.</p>
<p>UC GPA: 4.64
Unweighted GPA: 3.73
Weighted GPA: 4.56</p>
<p>Out of State, Massachusetts, Boston area, one of the most competitive schools in the country (not necessarily a good thing for getting into college since it’s so hard to get A’s)</p>
<p>ACT: 33 composite; 35 english, 34 math, 30 reading, 33 science, 8 on the essay… retaking
SAT II: 800 math II, 790 chemistry, 770 US history, 750 math I
AP: 5 US history, 5 biology, 5 chemistry</p>
<p>Senior Year Courses: AP Calculus BC, AP Statistics, AP Physics C: Mechanics, Honors British Literature, Honors Race Class and Gender, Neurobiology at the Harvard Extension School (outside of school, should be exceedingly difficult)</p>
<p>Applying to College of Letters and Sciences</p>
<p>ECs:
Varsity Track and Field, Winter and Spring since freshman year. Captain next year of a squad of over 100. Won multiple awards on the state level, compete in state championships. Train year-round, member of a track and field club in the summer and fall.</p>
<p>Spent a summer conducting my own research in a laboratory at Boston University.</p>
<p>Spent another summer interning at a company in the engineering department.</p>
<p>Volunteered at a hospital for almost a year.</p>
<p>Sing in an all-male acapella group.</p>
<p>Over 200 hours of community service (I’ve gotta verify this).</p>
<p>Went on 2 community service trips; a week clearing brush in fire-prone areas in California, and a week helping rebuild houses in New Orleans.</p>
<p>Played the bass guitar for 5 years, piano for 3, saxophone for 4.</p>
<p>Working intermittently for 2 years as a software tester at a biomedical devices company.</p>
<p>Still waiting on National Merit stuff.</p>
<p>Honor roll/High Honor Roll every semester of high school.</p>
<p>I’m out of state (MA) and applying as a physics major. Here are my stats.
UCGPA: 4.00
WGPA: 4.05
UWGPA: 3.8</p>
<p>Testing:
SAT: 2080 CR: 770 Math: 710 Writing: 600 SAT (out of 1600): 1480
SAT IIs:
Math 2: 800
Chemistry: 710 (I’ll get it up to an 800 in october)
I’m currently studying for physics and plan on a 750-800</p>
<p>APs:
AP Chemistry (4)
AP Calculus AB (plan on taking)
AP Physics (Plan on taking)
AP Biology (plan on taking)
AP Statistics (plan on taking)</p>
<p>Awards: Bausch and Lomb honorary Science award
Memeber of National Honors Society
Member of National Spanish Honors Society</p>
<p>ECs:
Math team (10, 11, 12)
Baseball (9, 10, 11) (not varsity)
indoor track (10, 11)
Captain of my physics olympics team (11)
Chemistry Olympiad (11 didn’t make it out of northeastern qualifiers)
Kick off Mentor (11, 12)
Chemistry Club (11,12)
Internship at coastal research lab (11,12)</p>
<p>Community Service:
Referee of kids floor hockey (9, 11, 12)
over 150 hours of community service (time spent at coastal research internship also counted towards community service)</p>
<p>Morningblenders: Reach. Being out-of-state and having non-perfect grades are the main drawbacks, neither unfortunately, you would be able to control at this time. </p>
<p>KayHakimi: Match. Good GPA, high rank, lots of activities. Unfortunately, no clear focus in high school, and no high, hard to attain positions.</p>
<p>Roboteer: Match. GPA and SAT scores are in acceptable range, Make sure you write some good essays.</p>
<p>fair2say: Reach/Match. UW GPA is quite important, and ECs don’t seem too impressive unless if you can show how society changing/life changing they were. </p>
<p>bobalob23: Reach. You did not seem to take a very rigorous curriculum, and W GPA is not high.</p>
<p>JayHakimi1: good GPA, scores are okay, good ECs, OOS will hurt, 50%</p>
<p>Roboteer: good GPA, great scores, engineering will hurt, 70%</p>
<p>fair2say: okay GPA, great scores, nice ECs, but OOS hurts you…50%</p>
<p>bobablob: good GPA, okay scores, OOS hurts you, 40%</p>