@10s4life
Thank you very much. Unfortunately, I am an out of state applicant from Michigan. It looks like standards in California is little bit higher than Michigan. I was one of the only people to take Physics C as junior at my high school, and I literally thought I would be one of top applicants to many schools.
I got into all other schools, but Berkeley is my dream school. So, I really want to go to Berkeley.
I am surprised to hear that there are a lot of students who have GPAs under 4.51, and it also gives me some hope. In terms of GPA, I feel like I should not have taken Orchestra every year because it brings my GPA so much down. However, I think Orchestra is still great because my school’s Orchestra won many competitions, plus I enjoyed being part of it. I think I have great activities including being a President for some music activities, Volunteering with some awards, internship at a small international Engineering company, and got some awards in a national Math competitions.
In addition, I have some different background issue dealing with parents’ illness. I did not write that in my application because I belived I had other better stuffs to express in 1000words. However, my counselor put that info in recommendaiton letter. So, I was kind of happy to get that rec letter request.
To ask another question, does Berkeley use both UC GPA and uncapped GPA?
Hope I can meet you at Berkeley next year.
Did you apply to Ann Arbor? That’s a fantastic engineering school. Well back on topic lol. Taking physics c is impressive and UCB will compare you to people from your school at least for in state. I don’t know if local context is used for oos so you might be compared with other oos applicants. I think sticking with orchestra was smart. It shows consistency and well roundedness that makes it worth it to sacrifice 1/10 of a GPA point. I didn’t do any engineering ec but I did do quite a few leadership based stuff including school site council and I’m a Class Officer and on student council. And to answer your question UCB looks at UC capped and UC uncapped for weights and they look at your unweighted. What other schools did you apply to?
@10s4life
Applied to Michigan at Ann arbor, Purdue and already got into both.
Uiuc comes in February.
applied to carnegie mellon for regular decision. However, I am thinking of withdrawing mine.
School I want to go most is , of course, Berkeley.
hope I get in. Thanks again for answering my question.
Does anyone have any info about admissions for the College of Environmental Design at Berkeley? There seems to be NO info out there
I was wondering if OOS applicants can also receive Regent’s scholarship notification in February…?
How will UC Berkeley’s admissions know my class rank? I never turned in a secondary school report or transcript because they never asked. I would really like to know (I’ve received three Bs and I showed them on the application, but it doesn’t tell the full story since I’m ranked 1st in my class). Thank you!
@waddups Are you ELC? I believe that’s the only class rank that UC’s see or know about. I could be wrong though.
@lolacell
Hey. I think some out of state can get interview invitation.
I was going through couple discussions on college confidentials from last year, and out-of-state students got invitation.
However, I am not sure if all out-of-state can get invitation.
I feel like it will be only for those who live in states that are around California.
I live in Michigan, so I feel like there is no way I can get interview invitation.
Can I also know what state you llive in?
@waddups @bosnian Unfortunately unlike the common app class rank isn’t used by the UC’s partly because each school grades differently. The UC GPA essentially ranks applicants in that sense but each app is looked at holistically. ELC or Statewide context is used for CA residents but plays a minor role at UCB and UCLA due to most applicants being ELC anyways. Hope this helps.
@handsomeboy Haha so I live in Virginia, which is on the other side of the country so I probably won’t get an invitation… I just kind of wanted to be at least like semi-finalist or something so I will be able to find out about my berkeley decision earlier… haha…
Quick question to COE applicants; which major did you apply for and which SAT Subject Tests did you take? I applied for ME and took Math 2 and Bio E.
@10s4life I applied to EECS and took Math 2 and Bio M.
So is the decision due some time in March? I read some receiving decisions in February in last year’s thread. Is there a distinction between IS and OOS decision dates?
@infiniteCircle Some received decisions in February because they received an invitation to apply for Regents scholarship at the same time. Invitation to Regents is an implied acceptance, and those invites come around early February.
There is no distinction between in-state and out-of-state decision release dates.
@Kyuutoryuu Thanks for the info.
is regents numbers driven? So if I have a 32 ACT with no subject tests am I out of the running? I’m OOS.
Regents is not number-driven, but you’re certainly competing against people who have 35 ACTs/2300 SATs, with 750+ subject tests. If you’re still in the running, your extra-currics/awards/essays better be damn good lol
@waddups I think it’s probably decided holistically, but with a lot of emphasis on numbers too. I saw a thread from a while back in the UCLA forums where someone with a very high SAT score (I can’t remember what it was exactly but I wanna say 2300+) didn’t get it but someone with a slightly lower one (again I can’t remember exacts but I’m thinking close to the 2000-2100 range) did. A 32 puts you in the top 2% of the nation, and Regents is the top 1.5% of applicants so you’re definitely not out of the running!
what is holistic review?