UC Berkeley Class of 2020 Results Thread

**Decision: Accepted, College of Letters and Science **

Objective:[ul]

[]SAT I and/or ACT (breakdown): 2260 (800 CR, 760 M, 700 W)
[
]SAT II (place score in parentheses): 2400 (chem, math 2, bio e)
[]Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): NA
[
]Rank/Percentile: NA
[]AP (place score in parentheses): NA
[
]IB (place score in parentheses): NA
[]Senior Year Course Load: NA
[
]Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): NA

[/ul]Subjective:[ul]

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parentheses):
[]Job/Work Experience: Summer internship with doctor )
[
]Volunteer/Community Service: a couple of hundred hours (hospital volunteer + rotary)
[]Summer Activities: 150+ hours shadowing a doc (he even gave me a rec which I used for CA)
[
]Essays: First essay was good 8/10, second essay even better 8.5/10
[]Teacher Recommendations: average to good prolly 7/10
[
]Counselor Rec: didn’t know her, so probably very generic
[]Interview: NA
[
] Teacher recs requested: yes

[/ul]Other:[ul]
[]Applied for Financial Aid? Nope
[
]Projected Concentration: I think immunology, idk
[]State/Country: International
[
]School Type: Private
[]Ethnicity: B
[
]Gender: M
[]Income Bracket: NA
[
]Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none

[/ul]Reflection:[list]
[]Strengths: Def SAT scores, transcripts and ECs
[
]Weaknesses: My mid terms were really bad (2Cs) and my ECs were not that unique compared to some other applicants. (plus no sports)
[]Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: good SAT, essays, luck
[
]Where else you are applying or have already applied: Some ivies and random colleges.
Already got into Tulane 32k/y merit, UCSD, UCLA, Case Western 31k/yr merit
Rejected: Johns Hopkins, Grinnell, Northwestern
[*]Advice: College admissions are a crapshoot. There is no method behind the madness. Just random chaos. I was lucky. Good luck to everyone else!