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wow gj strykur
do you think your chances might have been increased because you are mexican (even though UC's dont follow any affirmative action stuff)
btw: how many B'c/C's did you have?
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at my time of applying, my UC record (all the grades factored into the UC GPA, including some select junior high classes) contained
NINE Bs, and no Cs. I do suspect quite heavily that my ethnicity certainly played some factor into my admission; although employing race/ethnicity as a factor is banned by Proposition 209, purportedly affirmative action is employed via a proxy, that is, the financial standing of the applicant (being that the average minority family has a lesser income than that of a caucasian or Asian family). Then again, my family's income isn't in the lower economic brackets, and the methods employed by the Berkeley admissions department (Comprehensive Review) are still classified, so who really knows what happened in those smoky rooms behind closed doors...
Anyway I also think my ECs were probably the most important element (year-round club swimming and water polo throughout high school, 3-5 hours daily during the school year and 7+ in the summer). Or maybe it was the APs I took or my SATs (which are insane compared to the Mexican minority averages)...Who knows, a black male from my high school with an academic record arguably better than mine got into Harvard, but was rejected from Berkeley. In my opinion, Berkeley is a wild crapshoot for the students not in the highest academic tiers.