| short form of what people have put. my results are different from a lot of people here since apparently i'm not a genius like everyone else.
major: mechanical engineering
attending-ucsd
accepted-ucsd, uc irvine, uc davis, uc santa cruz
rejected-ucla, berkeley, usc, yale, stanford, johns hopkins
unweighted gpa-3.4
UC GPA-3.75
weighted gpa-around 4.0
..i thought becuz my gpa had a crazy upward grade trend it would help, but as i learned, they don't really care about that at ALL
sat1-2110(680r/680m/750w), essay 10
sat math2c-790
sat chem-640
ECS: i won a bunch of piano awards..pretty much, i'm really into piano..but apparently it didn't help either. i also volunteered at museums etc. but no real leadership.
Essays: i thought they were decent but if i could i would spend more time on them.
but on the real, i'm happy with where i'm ending up. i didn't get into my no. 1 choice (berkeley), and it was kinda hard to get over but now i don't really think about it anymore. so..if you dont' get accepted to where u want to go it's definitely a blessing in disguise |