<p>I am a Parent. My Daughter was:
Rejected for Major Biological Sciences
SAT 2280
ACT 31
UC GPA: 3.8
Ethnicity:Asian American (Indian)
Good Essay and EC’s
Resident: California</p>
<p>Didn’t expect that, maybe merit doesn’t count that much</p>
<p>I’m ****ed about this one. Waitlisted.
SAT 2170
GPA 4.3
5 on AP Engish, 4 on AP Bio, 5 on AP US Hist
Currently in AP Calc AB and AP Psych
Multiple Honors courses all 4 years
Green Club
Above the Influence Club
Varsity Baseball
LIFE Emmaus Team (Campus ministry club/youth group)
125 Service Hours
Student Retreat Leader
Student Ambassador
Club Baseball
2 Great teacher recs (they both love me)</p>
<p>If UC Davis had 58,000 applicants, and only 5000 got in, that’s around a 10% admittance rate right? Isn’t it usually 49-50%?</p>
<p>Accepted!</p>
<p>Major: Managerial Economics</p>
<p>SAT I: 2010 (700M 650R 660W)
SAT II: 730 Korean with Listening, 690 Physics</p>
<p>Unweighted GPA: 3.6/4.0</p>
<p>APs:
AP Human Geography (5)
AP World History (4)
AP Physics (3)
AP United States History (4)</p>
<p>Senior Year Course Load:
AP 2D Design
AP Calculus AB
AP Statistics
AP Macroeconomics
AP Microeconomics
Spanish
English
Marine Sciences</p>
<p>My essay was good, but it wasn’t spectacular. Just talked about me coming from a low income household and had to overcome many struggles.</p>
<p>ECs are nothing special.</p>
<p>My high school is ranked by US News as one of the top high schools in the United States.</p>
<p>Applied from New York.</p>
<p>Congratulations to everyone who got in!</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Major: Biotechnology </p>
<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 1970
ACT: 31
SAT II: 710 math II
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.8 (4.2W)
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 41/396
AP (place score in parenthesis): Chem (3), Calc AB (4), Lang (4), taking 4 this year
Senior Year Course Load: ap gov, calc BC, stats, ap lit, ap bio
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):Tennis CIF (state)champs / 2 year league champs
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): tennis, track, link crew leadership, red cross, ect.
Job/Work Experience: After school tutor
Volunteer/Community service: Hospital volunteer 400ish hours
Essays: pretty good
State (if domestic applicant): CA
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: female
Income Bracket: $100,000+
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None.
Strengths: extracurriculars / volunteering
Weaknesses: test scores</p>
<p>
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<p>Way more than 5,000 were accepted. They intend to have a class of 5,000 students. But not everyone who gets in will attend UC Davis, so they accept more like 20,000.</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Major: Political Science</p>
<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): N/A
ACT: 32
SAT II: N/A
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.73
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 50/600 (ish)
AP (place score in parenthesis): Lang (3)
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Course Load: AP gov, AP lit, stats, physiology, journalism, yearbook
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Various journalistic awards, nothing major
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Varsity baseball, wrestling, EIC of school newspaper, design editor of yearbook, 2012 Medill Cherub
Job/Work Experience: Public Relations Manager of local business, Edible Arrangements
Volunteer/Community service: field maintenance on nearby baseball field, iPhone repairs
Summer Activities: 2012 Medill-Northwestern Journalism Institute
Essays: 7/10
Counselor Rec: 8/10
Additional Rec: 8/10
Interview:
Other
State (if domestic applicant): CA
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: $150,000+
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None.
Reflection
Strengths: Extracurriculars and test scores
Weaknesses: GPA
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
General Comments:</p>
<p>Accepted w/ Psychology major! 
-GPA: 4.5, 3.8 weighted
-4 APs before senior year, 4 during senior year (world, APUSH, lang comp, chem, stats, lit, studio art, psych) - took world, APUSH, and chem exams. Got 3,5,1 respectively and of course didnt report my chem score LOL.
-EC: track and field, cross country, CSF Secretary, Volunteer work at summer schools and homeless shelters
-Awards: academic block, varsity block, track most improved
-Work Experience: sonic drive in 15+ hrs a week
-SAT: 1790. I don’t remember the breakdown. Math was in the 500s, writing and reading both in the 600s.</p>
<p>My application was pretty basic. I really believe that my personal statements were my tickets in!</p>
<p>Congrats to everyone that got in ^_^</p>
<p>ACCEPTED
GPA: 4.1
SAT: 1790
Major: English
Personal Statements: Pretty dang good, I think, for not having some crazy hardship in my life.</p>
<p>ACCEPTED:</p>
<p>GPA: 3.68 UW, 3.71 W, 4.02 UC
SAT: 2060
ACT: 31
Major: Computer Science
Awards: Board of Education Award for helping out with a voting campaign, and community service award
Work Experience: Interning at a voting campaign and tutoring children English at the local tutoring center
ECs: Volunteering at the children’s branch of the local library (400+ hours), journalism, internships, community college ed op program</p>
<p>Personal Statements:
<p>Waitlisted
Major: International Relations
3.8 UC GPA
1590 SAT
Amazing EC
President of two clubs.
Treasure and Vice President for another two.
Amazing personal statements
Ap Spanish (5)
Ap Us history (4)
Ap language (4)
Taking Ap lit, ap bio, ap gov,</p>
<p>Rejected.</p>
<p>major: biological sciences
3.67 weighted GPA
2010 SAT
30 ACT
IB diploma program
All IB courses junior senior year
tons of extra curriculars
3 years rugby, 2 years of wrestling.
great essay</p>
<p>Stings. alot.</p>
<p>ACCEPTED:</p>
<p>GPA: 3.97 UW
SAT: 1830
SAT2: math2:800
Major: Econ
tons of extra curriculars(lots of leadership experience)
pretty good essay</p>
<p>Congrats to all who got in!!! :)</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 1710 (520CR, 550M, 640W)
[</em>] ACT: N/A
[<em>] SAT II: 560 Spanish Language, 550 Mathematics Level 2
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.82
[<em>] UC GPA: 4.04
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): N/A
[<em>] ELC?: Yes
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): N/A
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Physics C Mech, Honors English IV, Honors Ethics, Honors Spanish Language, Calculus
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): N/A
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): 2 years of Student Council, 3 years of JV soccer, 3 years of JV volleyball, took Spanish classes in South America, participated in summer camp COSMOS UCI
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: N/A
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: A few different archaeological community services in South America, and some small things here and there.
[<em>] Personal Statement: Overall good, spent three months revising them many times with my counselor.
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
[<em>] Intended Major: Undeclared - Physical Sciences
[</em>] State (if domestic applicant): California
[<em>] Country (if international applicant):
[</em>] School Type: Private
[<em>] Ethnicity: Caucasian
[</em>] Gender: Male
[<em>] Income Bracket: ~$25,000
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.): N/A
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Grades, Essays, ECs
[</em>] Weaknesses: SAT scores
[li] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Overall I think I was pretty well-rounded, with the exception of SAT scores.[/li][/ul]General Comments: So happy that I now have a viable option if I don’t get into Berkeley or LA. I’ll be perfectly happy at UCD. Congratulations to everyone else who got in as well!</p>
<p>my daughter’s…</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted
Major: Economics</p>
<p>Objective:
SAT I : 1640
ACT: 25 (did not submit)
Weighted GPA: 3.7
Current AP classes: AP Art History, AP Gov, AP CompSci
CA Community Classes taken (grade): MacroEcon (A), MicroEcon (A), Psychology (A), Sociology (A) >> ranked 1 in all classes, 12 units total of UC transferable courses
Senior Year Course Load: AP Gov, AP CompSci, Honors Physics, Calc AB
Major Awards : Nothing major, Robotics Award, Health Award, AP Art History Award, Honor roll, JV Diving award, Letter award. Participated in FIRST Robotics World Champs</p>
<p>Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
President, Asian Club
Co-Captain, FIRST Robotics Club, Chairman’s/Operations head, Safety Captain, Webmaster
California Scholarship Federation, tutor/mentor
Varsity Swimmer & Diver
Yearbook Photographer & Writer
Campus Ministry, Eucharistic Minister & Mass Reader
Big Sister Program
Key Club
Lifesavers Club
Metro Soccer player (10 yrs)
Swim Team (10+ yrs) Diver (3 yrs)
Knights of the Altar, Acolyte Captain
Organizes fundraisers; organizes & performs on shows
Job/Work Experience:
Certified Lifeguard (also certified in First Aid, CPR, AED & O2) (paid job)
Food Bank distributor/organizer (volunteer job)
Volunteer/Community service: 300+ hours
Serve/feed homeless on 2 parishes God’s Bounty program (weekly & monthly) for 5 years
Mentors grade school aspiring Robotics member
Summer Activities: Lifeguarding, Swimming, student at Community College
Essays: Excellent to Outstanding (she writes! nice topic - wrote about her miracle survival and passion in Robotics)</p>
<p>Other
State (if domestic applicant): CA
School Type: Religious Private All-girls school
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: <$70K
Hooks : None.</p>
<p>Reflection
Strengths: Very heavy leadership & extra curricular.
Weaknesses: GPA, SAT, but for all she does her grades are decent. She took most honors (and some AP) classes available.
Why you think you were accepted: (1) very heavy leadership & extra curricular while maintaining decent grades (2) loaded academic workload, she took 8-9 classes per sem and will graduate with 308 units total (3) took 4 courses of UC credited community classes (total of 12 units) during summers and got A & ranked 1 on all courses >> colleges appreciate this a lot!!! bec as a hs student you dont have to do this so it just shows extra effort on her part, all while lifeguarding & swimming competitively (4) her excellent to outstanding well-written essays. very nice topics and she took her time writing and proof-reading those.
Where else were you accepted:
UOP (Presidential Scholarship) USF (Provost Scholarship) Menlo (Presidential Scholarship) College of Mount St Vincent (Honors Program, Pres Scholarship) Creighton (w scholarship), still waiting on others…</p>
<p>General Comments:
It’s all about being holistic, I guess. And how you presented yourself in application.
UC Davis & Santa Clara are her top choices.</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 2040 (600CR, 720M, 720W)
ACT: N/A
SAT II: None
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.20
UC GPA: 3.43
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 59/564
ELC?: Through SAT
AP (2 in US History, 3 in English Language): English Language, US History, English Literature, US Government, Calculus AB
IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
Senior Year Course Load: AP Calculus AB, AP English Literature, AP US Government/Economics Honors, ASB, Teacher’s Aide, Yearbook
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): N/A</p>
<p>Subjective:
Extracurriculars : ASB 11th and 12th grade, Key Club 10th-12th Grade (11th Grade Club Treasurer, 12th Grade Division Secretary), National Honor Society 12th grade, California Scholarship Federation 10th and 12th grade, Yearbook 12th grade, Choir 10th and 11th grade (President 11th grade), Orchestra 9th grade
Job/Work Experience: N/A
Volunteer/Community service: Key Club hours (150+)
Personal Statement: 1 about coming out as a homosexual male, 1 about my parent’s divorce
Other
Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
Intended Major: Undeclared
State (if domestic applicant): California
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Asian (Korean)
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: <$25,000
Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.): N/A</p>
<p>Reflection
Strengths: SAT?, Personal Statements, Leadership
Weaknesses: Grades
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Personal Statements
General Comments: I don’t know how I got accepted, but I got a questionnaire from UCD and UCSD, but rejected from UCSD ; Accepted to UCSB</p>
<p>Accepted
Neurobiology, Physiology and behavior
SAT:1930
GPA: 4.15 W, 3.8 UW
9 APs, CSF, scholar athlete award
red cross club, habitat for humanity, key club, breast cancer club, christian club
Extracurriculars:
Varsity basketball- 3 years- captain- Sierra League all-academic
Varsity tennis- 2 years- captain- Sierra League 1st team all league
~600 hours of volunteer work
part time worker
1st generation
Cali resident</p>
<p>Accepted</p>
<p>Two or more races (White, Asian, Middle-Eastern)
SAT: 2050 (750 CR, 680 M, 620 W)
ACT: 32 Composite
GPA: 4.5+ W (I don’t remember…)
Rank: Top 3%</p>
<p>All AP/Honors courses
Senior year: AP English, Hon Physics, AP Gov, AP Stats, AP Calc BC, College course
OOS
120 hrs community service
Band, Orchestra, Wind Ensemble, Track, Cross Country, National Honor Society (Leadership position)
Volunteer for political campaign
Part-time job</p>
<p>Reflection
Strengths: GPA, Rank, ACT/SAT
Weaknesses: ECs, maybe essays, OOS</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 1950 (670 CR, 690 M, 600 W) 2010 super score (I know the UCs don’t take them, but they say it never hurts to send it in)
[</em>] ACT: N/A
[<em>] SAT II: N/A
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
[<em>] UC GPA: 4.5
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top 5%
[<em>] ELC?: yes
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Env. Science (5), English Lan. (4), US History (5)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: Animal Husbandry, AP Calc AB, AP English Lit, AP Gov/H Econ, AP 2D Art, AP Chem
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): AP Scholar, Honor Roll (4 years), 1st place school science fair, most improved player award, all academic volleyball team player of the year finalist, this scholarship that sent me to help with field research in the amazon</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Volleyball 3 years, Science team 2 years (founder and captain), Chinese school
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: N/A
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: Keeper volunteer at the zoo, water district rep, local elementary school garden, earthwatch, over 500 hours in all
[</em>] Personal Statement: One solid, the other was supposedly amazing</p>
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: yeah, but didn’t qualify
[</em>] Intended Major: Animal Biology
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): CA
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):N/A
[<em>] School Type: public magnet
[</em>] Ethnicity: White/Chinese
[<em>] Gender: Female
[</em>] Income Bracket: ~150,000
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.): field research experience</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: GPA, science related ECs that I put a lot of time into, essays
[</em>] Weaknesses: SAT (but they really aren’t that bad), didn’t take SAT II, not a lot of ECs
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: my unique ECs and my GPA probably did it
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected
Accepted: UCSD (Muir), Davis, Irvine (CHP)
Waitlisted: UCLA
Rejected: None yet :)</p>
<p>[/ul]General Comments:
So glad I got into Davis for animal bio, best major ever! If I don’t get into Berkeley next week I’ll probably choose Davis, and maybe I still will even if I do get in. I’m not even going to accept my waitlist invite at UCLA.</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted with Regents </p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2140 (700M 700CR 740W)
[</em>] ACT: 35 (36 E, 33 M, 34 R, 36 S, 8 essay)
SAT II: U.S. History 770, Physics 750, Math IIC 710
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
[<em>] UC GPA: 4.333
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 4/643
[<em>] ELC?: Yes
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Chemistry, Calc AB, Physics B, USH, Lang/Comp – all 5’s
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): None.
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: Journalism, Philosophy, AP Lit/Comp, AP Statistics, AP U.S. Government, AP Micro/Macroeconomics, AP Psychology
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): AP Scholar with Distinction, county science fair 2nd place</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Yearbook (assistant editor), newspaper (news editor), film production, CSF (historian), county science fair (2nd place 2012), French Club (treasurer)
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: None.
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: Peer math tutor, city library assistant
[</em>] Personal Statement: I’m terrible at judging my own work. But the professor who interviewed me for Berkeley Regents said they were exceptionally well-written and captured my passion and life philosophy.</p>
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes, but I didn’t get anything other than regents.
[</em>] Intended Major: Psychology, possibly Cognitive Science as a second major
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): CA
[</em>] Country (if international applicant): USA
[<em>] School Type: Large public of ~3000 kids
[</em>] Gender and Ethnicity: Female, Asian
[<em>] Income Bracket: >$100,000
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.): Nope.</p>
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: ACT, essays
[</em>] Weaknesses: ECs,
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: In-state, ELC, and a presentable application.
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted to UC Berkeley (regents candidate), UCLA, UCSD</p>
<p>[/ul]General Comments: My top choice out of my acceptances right now is Berkeley because its Psychology department is stronger.</p>