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<blockquote> <blockquote> <p>Nominated to attend the National Youth Leadership Forum on Technology that's not an ec :) Anybody can be nominated- they just want your $$$</p>
<p>My parents took a hugh loss when their business failed, so our adjusted income for 2003 and 2004 was -196,000 for a 4 person family.</p> </blockquote> </blockquote>
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<p>that's also not gonna help ya</p>
<p>anyway, if you're out of state, it'll be pretty hard. I'd say that you unfortunately have little to no chance at Berkeley, as anything engineering is really competitive there.
I mean, people who get 1400s and 4.0+ get rejected from cs and electric engineering.
keep in mind that berkeley is ranked second in computer science/engineering among all the schools in the nation who offer doctorates in this field. That means it's second only to MIT !</p>
<p>so out of state you have a match/slight reach in UCI and UCSB....
everything else seems like a hard reach.
if you were in-state, I would say UCSD and Cal Poly wouldn't fall in the latter category.</p>