A good upward trend?

turtletime
Fri, 10 Apr 2015 16:37:03 +0000

Well, Berkeley uses the UC GPA which doesn’t include Freshman year grades but also won’t include any senior grades. They also cap honors classes. You should go to the UC site and calculate your UC GPA.

You need to broaden your idea of a “top” school… particularly for engineering. The Ivy’s, Stanford… these are long shots for kids with absolutely perfect stats. While it’s great that you’ve been improving yourself, you should continue to see them as real long shots for yourself.

If you are in California, you should be looking at some of your other options like UCSB, UCSD, CSUSLO, CSUP, SCUSJ, SDSU… these are schools you have a better shot at and offer good science and engineering.