The Official Chances Thread!

<p>UC GPA: ???
Unweighted GPA: 4.0
Weighted GPA: my school doesnt have it</p>

<p>California Resident, Out-Of-State, or International:out of state</p>

<p>SAT Reasoning Scores (by section) or ACT scores
ACT 33</p>

<p>SAT II Scores
Eng Lit: 720
Math II:740
Bio E:690 ( i know...)</p>

<p>Which college are you applying to? (Letters and Science, Engineering, Chemistry, etc.) </p>

<p>Letters and Science-i wanna do journalism/i dont really know</p>

<p>List a few of your most important ECs (a laundry list of 20+ items is not needed)</p>

<p>Journalism (newspaper, managing editor this year)
cross country
1440 interact club
hospital volunteering
chemistry club (president)
violin (13 years... yea orchestra too)</p>

<p>Any other significant accomplishments in a specific field
uhh concert master in honors orchestras?
national merit semifinalist
national honor society
ap scholar with something (i dont remember)
etc</p>

<p>Any comments would be appreciated</p>

<p>dietcoke14: You need to calculate your UC GPA yourself. To do this, go here:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.californiacolleges.edu/admissions/california-state-university-csu/gpa_calculator.asp%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.californiacolleges.edu/admissions/california-state-university-csu/gpa_calculator.asp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>As it stands, I'd say Berkeley's a reach - strong ACT, and average GPA, SAT IIs, ECs, and honors/awards. Being OOS makes it much more difficult. You do have a good shot, though.</p>

<p>Useful link, Thanks!</p>

<p>vicissitudes: if you dont mind answering, what major are you?</p>

<p>how is my GPA average when its 4.0 out of 4.0???
lol</p>

<p>^^ Did you not look at this thread at all? Your GPA is average *for Berkeley<a href="I've%20said%20this%20multiple%20times%20before">/I</a>. It by no means is average on an absolute scale.</p>

<p>no..
im sorry
im didnt know we had to put our UC gpa</p>

<p>and my school doesnt weight GPA
so the highest is 4.0
idk</p>

<p>i didnt mean to get you annoyed or whatever</p>

<p>Sorry, didn't mean to be snappy. At any rate, I wasn't talking about UC GPA or weighted GPA. I was talking about UW GPA. Also, it'd be a good idea to calculate your UC GPA and W GPA when you post chances threads/posts -- it helps others to assess your chances.</p>

<p>dietcoke14: great GPA, great ACT score, good SAT IIs, decent ECs. I'd say ~60-70% chance.</p>

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^^ Did you not look at this thread at all? Your GPA is average for Berkeley (I've said this multiple times before). It by no means is average on an absolute scale.

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<p>No it's not. The average unweighted GPA is around a 3.8.</p>

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vicissitudes: if you dont mind answering, what major are you?

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<p>By asking me that question you are assuming I am in college. ;)</p>

<p>vicissitudes: since you are knowledgeable about all this cal stuff i assumed that you were. but i guess you are either: 1. a current student, 2. an alumni, 3. faculty, 4. a faculty alumni. Another guess is that you are/were an engineering student. just wanna confirm my curiosity. haha</p>

<p>way to be mysterious, vicissitudes</p>

<p>Haha, I'm just kidding guys. :p</p>

<p>Let's just say I've had experiences with a lot of random science classes. I don't like to divulge personal info publicly but if you must know, PM me.</p>

<p>misterreach, you forgot 5: god</p>

<p>quick chance-</p>

<p>Asian Male, In-state</p>

<p>UC GPA- 3.94</p>

<p>SAT I- 700 M, 680 W, 640 CR (2020 total)</p>

<p>SAT II's- 700 MathII, 640 Spanish</p>

<p>AP's: Ap Language (3), AP Spanish (2)</p>

<p>EC's- 3 years of cross country
3 years of Track
Attended church mountain retreats
AYSO soccer for one year</p>

<p>Awards- National Commended Scholar
Medals for track meets
School Honor Roll</p>

<p>Probably going as Undeclared. Either that or Economics</p>

<p>vicissitudes is the chancellor!!!</p>

<p>(haha that will throw them off)</p>

<p>UCantTouch9Feet: reach
UCGPA is low, SAT close in range but SAT subjects are low, I wouldn't send them your AP scores, where's the EC, as in community service?</p>

<p>UCantTouch9Feet: I agree with knguyen142 that it's a reach -- the UC GPA is a bit low, the SAT is about average, the Spanish SAT II is somewhat weak, and the ECs/honors/awards don't really distinguish you. If you make your essays really great (perhaps showing a reason for a subpar GPA), you'd have a better shot.</p>

<p>UcantTouch9Feet: your GPA's a little low, SAT score is okay, SAT II scores are okay. ECs are a little weak, I don't really think Berkeley cares that much about 3 years XC/Track (everyone does sports in high school) or church mountain retreats (unless there's more to it that I'm missing). I'll say ~30% chance.</p>

<p>Live in California
African-American/African/Black (Moroccan..that's the category under the UC app that I fit into)
Muslim (that's what I'm going to write my personal statement about)
Trilingual (French, Arabic, English)</p>

<p>UC Weighted GPA: 3.8
in top 30% of class...school doesn't rank
SAT: 2020
SAT2: Biology 570, History 620 (will take both in December again along with French)
ACT: 30 (retook in September...haven't gotten scores yet..felt like score stayed the same)</p>

<p>extras:
Cross-country 2 years
Track 1 year
Volunteered in Morocco orphanage for 1 week in summer
Member of mosque youth club 4 years; public relations officer 2 years
Internship at local newspaper--> had 2 articles published so far
Received scholarship (they chose 30 out of California) for Muslim Leadership Conference
tutor for 3 years at after school academic program
Model UN for 2 years---secretary 1 year
French Club (senior year)
Berkeley NorCal Summer Experience (3 day program that they told me to include)</p>

<p>SAT SCORE IMPROVED 90 POINTS :) please chance me again!</p>

<p>male- In State
White</p>

<p>ELC
UC GPA- I believe it is 4.11. That is what I was told
Weighted- 4.3 Unweighted 3.8
SAT- 1970 I know its way too low. I am retaking Nov. 3
SAT 2- Biology-710 Literature-710 US History-680
Will be one class shy of IB Full Diploma.
Senior year- 7 IB/AP classes.
Macro and Micro Econ at Junior College</p>

<p>Extras- Abridged
Northern California Leadership Conference- 1 kid per High school
Rotrary Youth Leadership Camp- 1 kid per high school
Boy's State- " "
National Leadership Conference on Defense, Intelligence, and Diplomacy
Four years of Theatre. Will have been in 8 shows by the time I graduate.
freshman and then JV Quarterback but then I tore my ACL, MCL, Minicus
JV basketball as freshman but tore my ACL a second time trying to play B-ball
Life-time CSF
Vice-pres of Key club
president of library club
founded History Club
One of four acting "leaders" of Interact. (the lady in charge didn't want 1 leader)
Random community service but for example 50+ hours one summer with kids who had failed 8th grade and needed tutoring and also I spent a week and a half during spring break building houses for the poor in Mexico with a church.
Academic Decathlon. Medaled at State Comp.Team got second in state for D3 </p>

<p>That is everything that comes to mind. I'm a really strong writer so the PS's should be good.</p>