Decision: ACCEPTED (Computer Game Science) + Honors program
GPA: 4.5 ish?? unweighted is 3.96
i took 5 aps/honors this year and 5 ap/honors last year (10 aps throughout high school)
SAT/ACT Score: 1530, 790 math 2, 740 physics
Extracurricular Activities: president of 3 clubs, NHS, CSF, COSMOS, i had a lot of stuff
Awards: ap scholar with honors, some school art ones
Other colleges applied: All of the UCs, USC, “stanfurd”, rice, cornell, dartmouth, hmc, occidental, bmc, northeastern, brown, jhu, duke
Colleges accepted: northeastern, uc berkeley, ucsb, nau
Colleges denied/waitlisted: deferred from brown
Are you planning to attend? no
Decision: ACCEPTED (Computer Science)
GPA: 3.98 UW, 4.2/3? W
SAT/ACT Score: 34/1440
Essays (Good or bad?): good, could have been better, and I took some risks, but I think they panned out!
Extracurricular Activities: 4 years journalism (2 years president and EIC), 4 years president of photography club (self-started), 2 years math tutor, 2 years track and field & cross country, 2 years MESA (math engineering science achievement) Club.
Awards: n/a lol
AP classes (and test score): Bio (didn’t take the test), Language (5), Calc AB & BC (4s on both), Environmental Science (this yr), Government (this yr), Literature (this yr)
What made you stand out?: maybe my essay about my strengths in the humanities? I connected it to how it will help me in a STEM field to buffer my humanities heavy, STEM-weak application.
Other colleges applied: UCB/LA/SD/SB/SC/D, SLO, SJSU, BYU
Colleges accepted: only UCI so far, still waiting on others
Colleges denied/waitlisted: none so far
Are you planning to attend? depends on the other decisions, but this is not my top choice
accepted with Regents Scholar! Yeah, so excited. But probably not going.
My son got his this morning so keep an eye on your email.
I’m making an accepted thread to UCI so people can see accepted stats.
Woo hoo! I got accepted!
Major: Biological Sciences
UC GPA: 4.3 (all As)
SAT: 1360/1600
Not many extracurriculars (like barely any)
Okay responses to Personal Insight.
1 AP class and honors class in junior year,
1 honors class in sophomore year.
4 APs senior year.
Hope you all get in!
Is it rolling??? Do OOS receive theirs later??
do you guys know how selective the CHP is? is it more selective than getting into berkeley w/o honors?
Are you guys all in-state? Any OOS received admissions?
Decision: Accepted (Chemistry) w/ Honors Program
In-State, upper-middle class
GPA: (weighted) 4.396, (unweighted) 3.958
SAT/ACT Score: SAT - 1300
Essays (Good or bad?): pretty decent, I talked about some family struggled I had growing up and how my little brothers who were born when I was about 15-16 helped me change as a person and grow up
Extracurricular Activities: tbh not much LOL I was part of Girl’s State and started a Superhero Club
Awards: National AP Scholar
AP classes (and test score): (total AP classes taken, inc. senior year) - 11, (exams taken & passed) - 3
AP Hum. Geo. - 5
AP Eng. Lang. & Comp. - 4
AP Psych. - 3
What made you stand out?: I’m guessing my above average GPA and relatively high SAT score
Other colleges applied: UCSB, UCD, UCSD, UCSC, CSULB, SDSU
Colleges accepted: CSULB (waiting on SDSU and the rest of the UCs, should be out by March T_T)
Colleges denied/waitlisted: n/a
Are you planning to attend? - my first choice is UCSB, but if I don’t get into UCSB’s honors program I might go here idk yet
Decision: Accepted w/ biological sciences
GPA: 4.5 unweighted, 3.9 unweighted
SAT/ACT Score: 34 ACT
Essays (Good or bad?): acceptable quality
Extracurricular Activities: lot of volunteer activities, some competition
Awards: award at a STEM-related international competition
AP classes (and test score): Psych, Chem, Calc BC, Stat, Spanish Lang, Eng Lang, US Hist, Wrld Hist, Human Geo, Bio (all 5)
What made you stand out?: no idea, just overall good grades and scores probably
Other colleges applied: JHU, MIT, Ohio State (UC Berk, SD, LA, and Davis, GeorgiaTech, Northeastern --withdrawn app)
Colleges accepted: JHU, Ohio State
Colleges denied/waitlisted: MIT (deferred)
Are you planning to attend? no, JHU was my dream school
@ScottMichael: Are you in state (CA resident)?
@magneto42 Congrats. Question? You sure you received the National AP Scholar distinction? Below is the criteria:
“National AP Scholar: Granted to students in the United States who receive an average score of at least 4 on all AP Exams taken, and scores of 4 or higher on EIGHT or more of these exams”
I got into CHP as well! I’m in state.
How do you know if you’ve been admitted into CHP? And will they be sending out more admission decisions throughout February?
@mgeronimo I got an email. And yes, they’re sending them out through early March, I believe.
Got email today saying check status: was admitted
Got another email later in the day re Honors Program
Decision: accepted-engineering
GPA: 4.6
SAT/ACT Score: 32
Essays (Good or bad?): solid and cohesive
Extracurricular Activities: ASB, Volunteer Clubs, Youth Ministry Leader
Awards: Various academic awards; AP Scholar - 8 AP’s 4 and 5’s
What made you stand out?: Sincere interest in major and in UCI
Other colleges applied: CAL, UCLA, UC Davis, Harvard, Princeton, Brown, Pomona College
Colleges accepted: Loyola
Colleges denied/waitlisted: Deferred UChicago
Are you planning to attend? Yes
From OC; upper middle class
oops sorry! I meant to just put regular AP Scholar lol
What were your stats? and what major did you get into?
Decision: Accepted w/ CHP
Major: Psychology
In-state
GPA: 4.27W / 3.91UW
ACT: 34
APs: AP chem (4), AP psych (5), AP lang (5)
Essays: like 7.5/10 imo but my ap lit teacher really liked them
Extracurriculars: pretty poor, some club memberships, newspaper editorship and that’s it
Awards: National Spanish Exam gold (1 year), AP Scholar award, some achievement award that my school gave me for my GPA
Waiting on: Berkeley, UCLA, UCSD, UCSB, UC Davis, UCR, UCSC, Cal Poly SLO
Accepted: SDSU, CSULB, UCI
Denied: none (yet) lmao
D got Regent from UCI, in state.
Got email 2 days ago saying check status: was admitted
Got letter today Honors Program
Decision: accepted-Chemistry
GPA: 4.75(w) 4.0(unweighted)
SAT/ACT Score: 2290
Essays (Good or bad?): ok
Extracurricular Activities: Volunteer piano teacher for autism teens, club founder, dancing/drawing for 10+ years.
Awards: Various academic awards; Regional Drawing Gold Award, NMS finalist with $2500, AP Scholar - 7 AP’s finished with six 5’s and one 4 and 4 more AP this year.
What made you stand out?: Rank 1/350 in Public School
Other colleges applied: CAL, UCLA, UCSB, UCD, Harvard, Brown, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Rice
Colleges accepted: UCSB/UCI Regents/Honors
Colleges denied/waitlisted: n/a
Are you planning to attend? Undecided
From OC; upper middle class