**What are my chances at a top UC? (Namely Berkeley and UCLA)**

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hey guys, hope you're all doing well and enjoying yourselves. I have just started my junior year in high school, and would like to get some feedback on what people think my chances are so far at a top UC school, namely Berkeley and UCLA (maybe even Stanford? doubt it though). Thanks!</p>

<p>Note: This is a projection of my final resume, meaning I have filled out some of the categories based on if I were to get those results or grades by the end of Junior year.</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2100-2300 (most likely, I've taken practice tests)
[</em>] ACT: N/A
[<em>] SAT II: World History 740, Mathematics II 750,
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.8, weighted ~4.1
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): N/A
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): US Hist (4), World Hist (5), Environmental Science (5), Eng Language (5)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Calc AB, AP Comp Sci, AP Physics B, AP Statistics, AP English Literature, History 4 Honors, Advanced Dance
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): 1st place overall champion in category at Showstoppers National Dance Competition 2012(does this count?)
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Studio Dance 4+ years, Guys Dance Club/Crew (Co-founder), Persian Cultural Club (Founder), farsi (Persian) class for 7+ yrs, Self taught computer languages (Html, CSS, C++, Objective-c) and a several apps on the itunes app store, app club, Tourette Syndrome Association Youth Ambassador (I have tourettes), Civic Leadership Council (school community service, leadership)
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Family dry cleaning business for 2 summers, Unpaid internship at a Biotech software company 1 summer ~2 months
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: ~200 hours at local food kitchen, ~50 hours teaching dance to underprivileged children at a school, Civic Leadership Council member, Summer immersion trip to Peru, Charity event organizer at PledgeToHumanity + directed several fundraisers/events ~100 hours
[<em>] Summer Activities: job and internship mentioned above, dancing, boxing
[</em>] Essays:
Haven't written them yet, but one will be on having tourettes syndrome, how I have always been very self conscious and introverted because of it's symptoms and how it has affected my learning, but through doing dance as a guy and having to do things such as interpretive dancing (making up a dance to song you have never heard before in the middle of a room with many people watching), breakdance, hip hop, and forcing myself to perform, I have overcome a lot of my fear. Also, through charity work, and a particular campaign where I helped raise $ for kids that have facial deformities, I hope to try to inspire self-confidence in other kids.
Animes like Dragon Ball Z and Pokemon that I grew up with have shaped the majority of my morals and I wouldn't be nearly the person I am today without them. They are set up in an idealistic world, and people like to submerse themselves in anime to get away from hardships of reality they have to deal with. The difference between and a dreamer and doing something is taking what you value in the anime/manga/whatever any other thing in life and facing the cold hard reality, change the empathy, love, pride, and moral growth you learn from anime that the creator intended, and convert it into real life, keep the spirit of the anime alive, become the incarnation of the hero, change the world like they do.
Any other ideas I come up with...</p>

<p>[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: Hasn't happened yet, but I'm bound to get a great one from an english teacher
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Hasn't happened yet, but will
[<em>] Additional Rec: from Biotech software company
[</em>] Interview: N/A</p>

<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): CA
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: Competitive private, ~150 per class
[</em>] Ethnicity: other (Persian)
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Income Bracket: +150k
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Tourettes syndrome, male dancer, extra curric's
[</em>] Weaknesses: Grades
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:</p>

<p>[/ul]General Comments: My intended major as of now is Computer Science. Hopefully I did this right, lol. Hope to get any feedback at all, thank you in advance! :)</p>

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<p>Under the essay section, I forgot to put a space between the 2 topics. The second one starts with “Animes like…”</p>

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<p>Also, I don’t know why some letters are randomly red, lol</p>

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<p>Maybe I should mention, studio dance means doing dance year-round for around 6 hours a week at a dance studio, plus being on the competition team, which involves extra rehearsals and practice time.</p>

<p>Now time for me to stop talking, and get these responses coming!! :smiley: yeeee</p>

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<p>Anybody? :o</p>

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<p>i’ll chance you back</p>

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<p>I think you have a good shot at both. A 3.8 Unweighted isn’t that bad considering the rigor of your courses. If you do as expected on the SAT and get somewhere around a 2200 I could see you getting into both. Even a 2100 wouldn’t ruin your chances.</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1387902-uconn-rutgers-umaryland-drexel-nc-state-virginia-tech.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1387902-uconn-rutgers-umaryland-drexel-nc-state-virginia-tech.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>I think that your essay and EC’s are really going to help. Your gpa will most likely go up with those AP’s so I wouldn’t worry about gpa, just for reference, however, a 4.1 is neither Berkeley nor UCLA material; obviously depending on the amount of AP’s you’re taking (which is plenty) expect to get about a 4.5 + and you’ll be solid</p>

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<p>Wow, thanks guys, that’s really helpful. I’ve always thought my gpa would be the bane of my application, since I always hear about the average gpa of undergrads going to UCLA/Cal being like a 4.2. They only take your unweighed gpa into account though, is that right? If anyone wants me to chance them just say so.</p>

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<p>Also, does going to a competitive private school weigh in on anything, do they consider that in regards to your gpa? (not saying it should, I used to go to public school for 7 years so I’m not biast)</p>

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<p>bump, anyone else?</p>

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<p>somebodehhh :)</p>

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<p>I’m pretty sure being such a dedicated dancer as a male is extremely good. Very rare that a male is such a good dancer.</p>

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<p>Wow great.</p>

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<p>bump bump.</p>

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<p>Honestly, UC’s are fairly easy for in-state applicants to get into. You’ll get in. For Berkeley especially, I have heard that it is more difficult to keep up with the classes than to get in though.</p>

<p>I suggest you ask your guidance counselor how many people from your school were accepted at Berkeley and UCLA last year. At my school, 50 applicants got into Berkeley and 50 got into UCLA, so personally I’m not too worried about the UC’s.</p>

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<p>wow thanks for the info. If I remember correctly, there were about 4 or 5 kids that went to each from last year. Im not sure how many actually applied, but ill definitely ask. Our class sizes are only around 150 students.</p>

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<p>“They only take your unweighed gpa into account though, is that right?”</p>

<p>No, UC’s have their own UC GPA. It is calculated by using the unweighted sum of your grades using a 4.0 scale (4=A, B=3, etc.) of your sophomore and junior years and then adding 8 to them if you have taken 8 or more semesters of AP/Honors courses. So for example, I took 7 AP/Honors classes during my sophomore and junior years combined, so through both years I had 14 semesters of AP/Honors right? But UC’s only count 8 semesters of it. So really, using the UC system, they will only recognize 8/14 semester as being given an extra point. Do you understand it? I think what you were looking at as far as undergraduate GPA’s is the UC GPA. At Cal, I think last year’s average unweighted GPA was around 3.85-3.89 if I was given the correct information by a Cal representative. But anyway, if you have your UC GPA, then I can help you out because then we can compare it to those of the admitted/denied/deferred/etc. Either way, I think that you are competitive enough and the grades are there no matter what.</p>

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<p>no being in a competitive private school doesn’t help. I go to Cal and being from a competitive HS only made it harder to get in, since competitive schools are generally thought of as having a lot of help offered to students (in the ways of studying and SAT practice). I know people here from, frankly, horrible schools who had about a 4.0 and 1700’s on SATs whereas people from my HS had 4.3 and 1900’s and did not get in here.</p>

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<p>Also someone said something very important, it is MUCH harder to stay in than to get in, I’m pre-med so it’s a bit different, but pretty much no one gets a break ever!</p>