Updated Chances at Cal

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of California - Berkeley
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<p>SAT-700 Math 700 CR 710 Wri.</p>

<p>SAT IIs: Span: 770 Lit: 710 </p>

<p>AP's: Span- 5 Eng- 4 US History- 3</p>

<p>UC GPA: 3.87 (with hardest courses)</p>

<p>ECs listed on app: football, track, was in 2 clubs, and work</p>

<p>Job/Work Experience: did finances that were really receipts at a family friend's company and also had a job too</p>

<p>Essays (subject and responses): already started so they should be very good- on two hardships that have come down on me the last 2 years, and my dealing w/ them. </p>

<p>Teacher Recs: better than great</p>

<p>Counselor Rec: great</p>

<p>School Type: Private, does not rank </p>

<p>Ethnicity: Hispanic</p>

<p>Gender:M</p>

<p>Also: Took 2 summer courses at a local comm. college- pysch and creative writing, both got A's, and added them into the GPA already. and i also got 4 academic awards (not sure if it means much, but what the hell)</p>

<p>thanks</p>

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<p>I would think rejected due to UC GPA.</p>

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<p>You'll really need to work on that GPA. Berkeley looks at your GPA on a scale of 5, I believe, so uncap your GPA when calculating it.
Best of Luck</p>

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<p>you dont need teacher recommendations for UC's... actually i would say in since u are a hispanic male... just sayin</p>

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<p>so on a 5 scale, are A's 5, B's 4, etc.?</p>

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<p>Is that GPA out of 4 or 5?</p>

<p>Teacher Recs, Counselor Recs, and Ethnicity are not considered.</p>

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<p>What are you guys talking about? The average weighted GPA for Berkeley is 4.17. Every A is a 4, and up to 8 honors classes get an extra GPA point. Btw, I had an weighted 3.9 GPA and got in. (My SAT was 2190.)</p>

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<p>that one is out of 5....(?)</p>

<p>haha but hopefully with tutoring i can do well on the sat's</p>

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<p>With that GPA, I'd try to raise my SAT score by 50-100 points.</p>

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<p>No, it's not really "out of 5", since you can't have a 5.0. The best you can have is 4.0 unweighted, and then 8 extra GPA points. (Don't know what gpa that is total)</p>

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<p>You can take PE and Art classes for both sophomore and junior year, and if you have a school with only 5 periods.. you'll essentially have a (4*12)=48 unit GPA.
Add on your 8 extra GPA points, and you'll have a (56/12) = 4.67 UC GPA. Haha.</p>

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<p>UC GPA is capped at 4.50; it only takes into account a-g courses and a maximum of eight semesters of "extra points" for honors or AP.</p>

<p>Race doesn't factor in. What's your class rank? It technically doesn't factor in but UCs like to compare you with your school. Are you in state?</p>

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<p>i am in state, school doesn't rank though</p>

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<p>ehtnicity does matter.... why would they allow blacks/ and latinos with lower stats??? cuz they take into consideration background and adversity or whatnot...</p>

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<p>you are really on the borderline. i would seriously work hard on mainly gpa until you turn in your apps in december.</p>

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<p>Are community college grades factored into the UC GPA?</p>

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<p>Yes, they are. That's how my class' valedictorian got to be valedictorian.</p>

<p>They don't look at race. They only look at life experiences and essays, which is essentially a proxy of sorts for race.</p>

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<p>i should prob. add in that i've done 2 service projects, and 25+ hours of community service in addition to those 2 projects. and i've also joined the comm. service group thing too.</p>

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<p>Regarding community college grades, wouldn't they have to be in the UC 12 course list to be considered for the GPA? Otherwise, wouldn't any community college class affect your UC GPA?</p>

<p>By the way, I think that UC's do consider race in admission decisions. It's not the only factor though.</p>

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<p>Liquidius, UCs are forbidden to consider race in admission decisions by Prop. 209.</p>