@eric2017abc Thank you! I hope your son gets into Berkeley EECS. I’ll watch for it when decisions come out.
@wormholes I thought this site might be helpful for you in your decision making. It asks you to make a guess about the major with the lowest grade average at Berkeley and then shows you grade averages for all the majors.
I’m sorry- I have to take issue with this. My daughter had a 4.68 gpa and had 4s and 5s on all AP exams (physics,calculus,spanish, etc.) She has a 35 ACT. I think it definitely helped her get into UCLA film school. Yes, she showed a lot of talent and promise, but she also demonstrated that she is well rounded academic student who can take on all subjects.
@BunnyBlue not sure if I misread but at ucla L&S it is the same as Berkeley. You aren’t admitted to your major. It’s all pre major stuff just like cal. You declare your major after you take the ore reqs and get certain grades. Both ucla and cal engineering admits by major and L&S admits by school. Therefore a pre major shouldn’t worry a student when picking between Ucla and cal.
Accepted!!
it was a miracle honestly!
Major: Visual Art
sat score:1330
reading writing: 760
math:570
unweighted: 3.0
weighted:3.6
i was a B to C average my ninth grade year. Never took an AP except for ART
lots of extra curriculars that involve art and community service.
took a few honors classes this year but was mostly art classes.
experience: private art school “the oxbow school” for one semester (full scholarship)
idyllwild arts camp scholarship
Ryman arts program
Princeton Arts symposium weekend
volenteer work at elementry school : painted a mural
i am one of the lucky few i was so shocked i got in there are people that worked so hard to get in and i am honseslty a lazy piece of shit so getting accepted to this school meant they saw something in my work of art and essays. for you art students out there. there is still hope to get into a good school.
i got rejected from two liberal arts colleges 70% acceptance rate and rejected from Davis. so many people doubted me i was sure i wasnt going to get in. i am the first in my family attending a university and doing what i love!
Decision: Accepted
Note: INTERNATIONAL
Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 1500 new, 720 reading 780 math
ACT: x
SAT II: x
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.97
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): School doesn’t do rank
IB (place score in parenthesis): predicted 41/45, taking HL Eng Lang Lit, HL Math, HL Biology, SL German ab initio, SL Economics, SL Chemistry
Subjective:
Extracurriculars: Charity club, Jazz band, animal shelter volunteer, Asian cultural heritage events organizer,
Job/Work Experience: x
Volunteer/Community service:
Other
Applied for Financial Aid?: No - international
Intended Major: undeclared
State (if domestic applicant): None applicable - international
School Type: International
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: F
Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.): none
Reflection
Strengths: Grades, extracurriculars
Weaknesses: no SAT II submitted, international
Schools were you accepted/waitlisted to?: rejected from Yale EA, accepted to UCLA
Congrats to everyone accepted! I’m still wondering how likely it is to be accepted since I was waitlisted? What percent of applicants on the waitlist typically get accepted?
My D is also trying to decide Univ Mich or UCLA. From NY so OOS for both. Biology major intends to do pre dental. Money awarded/financial aid makes tuition pretty comparable. Thoughts in her head: Negatives for UCLA might be fact that they are on quarter system and heard lots of kids living in LA go home on the weekend, time difference makes it hard to keep in touch with friends in the northeast. Negatives for Michigan - chance of getting North campus housing (daughter loves central campus and north campus is not what she loves about Michigan), heavy concentration of northeast kids (Long Island, NY, NJ), perhaps too much of a party/social scene that she will want to take part of but can’t because of studies. Any insight or thoughts??
@2girls2015 If possible tour both schools! Since tutitions are comparable have your daughter make pro and cons lists for both schools! I wouldn’t worry about the party scene because in reality all schools party some are just better at keeping it under covers. If you tour both schools and have a pro con list and still can’t decide write the names of the two schools on a couple of slips of paper, put them in a hat and mix them around. Tell your daughter that the one she picks is the one she’s going to and see how she reacts when she picks. Have her do this hat thing for a couple of days and then she’s know which school she truly wants in her heart! My sister debated between UCB and UCLA for the longest time. She liked so many different aspects of the two schools and the hat trick really made her think about it. She realized that when she pulled out a school that wasn’t UCLA she found herself wishing it was even though she didn’t realize it yet. Hope this helps??!
@collegekid171 - Love that idea - it actually makes sense! We have already visited Michigan and she loved it - EXCEPT we really didn’t explore North campus and go from North campus to Central campus and see whether the 15 minute bus ride is something she would like or hate. She loved the central campus and North campus is a different experience. We are going back to Michigan next weekend to get more familiar with North Campus. She visited UCLA a couple of years ago and she really wasn’t looking at it to determine whether she would want to go there (it was with a camp visit). We are planning on going the first week in April. While she visiting UCLA, she loved it!
@10s4life Thank you for clarifying for me and everyone else that UCLA and Berkeley are alike in that students admitted to Letters & Science get into pre-majors and have to declare their major later. I was suggesting to @wormholes that UCSD might be a good choice because there he was admitted directly to the Biological Sciences major. Biology majors have become impacted at some UC’s, and one of the ways UC’s deal with that is to raise the GPA required to declare or get into those majors. At some UC’s they have started suggesting alternate majors for those who are unable to get into the major they had planned to have. It is a plus, I think, if a college admits you to your major so you don’t have any doubt about getting it.
I am confused - my D acceptance letter to UCLA mentioned that she was accepted to Letters and Science with Biology as her major. Doesn’t that mean that she has been admitted directly to her major already? How has UCLA been impacted other than raising requirements for admission?
@charcoalatey2021 I’ve read that UCLA does not take California residents off of the waitlist, and I know most selective schools take almost no-one off of the waitlist (like 9 out of 2700 at NU). Being waitlisted is essentially their way of telling you that you were good enough but they didn’t have space for you.
Does anyone know how to check for Regents?
@voltthorn - Did you get into Harvey Mudd?
@b4sicallyid0work aw darn 
well thank you! do you happen to know if that statistic improves for OOS applicants? I’m from Florida on the WL.
@2girls2015 It says that’s her major based on what she applied for so at orientation she can be placed into an appropriate group. That intended major will guide her for class selection. Technically she is pre bio. Meaning if she fails to achieve the min pre req set by the school she will have to declare an alt major. That is why cal and Ucla are risky. They do not directly admit students. Only Engineering and other professional schools admit by major.
@annerzbananerz Are you tr olling? The only way you could know you were accepted to Berkeley was via early notification last month and you statevyou have a 23 ACT? I’m guessing you are a tr oll but as with other posters I have no idea why. Some kids are having their hearts broken by decisions right now and you are mocking them. Heartless.
I guess you could also be a recruited athlete?
Accepted!
SAT: 1320 (670reading and writing, 650 math)
UC GPA: 4.41
Instate
Essays weren’t spectacular, but they weren’t bad either
So excited for next fall!