Chance A Soon to be Senior

Colleges & Universities University of California - Berkeley
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<p>OK though i messed up BIG time my frosh/soph years of high school, I got everything together in my junior year. I am an IB student, and I scored a 27 on my ACT, I have yet to take the SAT. I am on the soccer team, debate team, mock trial, and I have done a lot of volunteer work (I have over 200 service hours), I completed an internship at an Art Center in the southern Beverly Hills area of Chicago, and I performed in two plays there. </p>

<p>Junior Classes/Grades</p>

<p>IB English: A (7)
IB European History: A (7)
IB Spanish IV: A (6)
IB Maths Studies: C (3)
IB Biology: B (5)
IB Psychology: A (7)
IB Theory of Knowledge: A (7)</p>

<p>Is Berkeley a match for me? I want to be a lawyer, and I think going here would be a good precursor for when i go to Yale Law.</p>

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<p>How bad are we talking for your soph grades? A few B’s, for example, won’t ruin you.
If you can improve your ACT or score pretty well on your SAT, coupled with a strong personal statement, I’d say you have a decent shot of getting in.</p>

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<p>How do you have your IB scores already if you’re gonna be a senior?</p>

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<p>Gender: Male
Background: Japanese (Asian lol)
Location: Texas
College Class Year: 2014
High School: Good Public
High School Type: very competitive
Income : had hard time w/ this one… Around 120,000 annually, dont want to come around/sound arrogant but im not too sure which “class” this would be in to be honest</p>

<p>Academics:GPA - Weighted: 104 (My school does it weird…)
Class Rank: 10/560</p>

<p>Senior Class Schedule:
Calculus BC AP
US Gov’t AP
Economics AP
English Lit AP
Statistics AP
Spainish 4 honors</p>

<p>Scores:SAT: 2040SAT I
Math: 720 SAT I
Critical Reading: 620
SAT I Writing: 700</p>

<p>SAT II U.S. History:710
SAT II Math Level 2 (IIC): 700
SAT II Japanese: 800</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:-
key club (9,10,11,12)
-School Soccer (9,10,11,12)
-Cross Country (10,11,12)
-UNHS/NHS (9,10,11,12)
-Spainish Honor Society (10)</p>

<p>Leadership:
-Sophomore Class Officer</p>

<p>Community Service
Basically none</p>

<p>Awards-All Academic Team for soccer
-Geography nav.</p>

<p>Hooks:- Ive been going to Korea every summer since the 3rd grade and have been enrolling in schools over there as a “foreign exchange student” while going to a elementary, middle, and high school in a diff. Country every summer.</p>

<p>Internship/Work Experience

  • Did internship at IBM concerning international rights and uses.
  • Did internship at yahoo concerning advertisement.
  • Have worked as a soccer referee for 3 years.</p>

<p>Recs:
-One from my Spanish teacher, that should be really good
-One from my History teacher that should also be good because I was able to right a pretty convincing letter of why i choose her to do mine.
-Counselor recommendation should also be very good as our family are very close and get together often outside of school.</p>

<p>Cons: Been to the principle’s office mutliple times in high school (around 7 times from various things such as fights/ordering 100 boxes of pizza to the school and such but max punishment was detention for 2 days)… I know my test scores aren’t great, but hopefully other areas of my application will make up for it.</p>

<p>Colleges planning to apply</p>

<p>University of Texas
Rice
UPenn
Dartmouth (legacy, not sure if that helps)
Texas A&M (legacy, parent is former faculty)
Yale (legacy also…My dad is a teacher so he needed a PHD, hence all the colleges)
Stanford
Berkley
Brown
Northwestern</p>

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<p>Do some community service, try to get at least 100 hours by the time you apply. Also try to improve your SAT/SAT II scores. I mean right now they’re around avg. for Berkeley but you want to make yourself competitive right?</p>

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<p>sorry…accidently posted my chance in urs…</p>

<p>I think it really depends on the degree of “messedup”, please be a bit more specific</p>

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<p>How do you have your IB scores already if you’re gonna be a senior? </p>

<p>Lol, im being very optimistic :P</p>

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<p>^I was optimistic too lol, but senioritis hit and I decided not to study. But they really don’t matter to Berkeley as you won’t have most of them anyway.</p>

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<p>wow, an internship at yahoo and IBM! very impressive. As far as the detentions goes, I doubt its very significant, especially if they were towards the beginning of your high school years.</p>

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<p>No problem with Detentions. I had a Saturday School for me, but chances are they don’t even know about it because you’re not putting it on the application and unless your school tells them then they won’t even know. But even if they did it’s no problem. They just don’t want delinquents with criminal records</p>

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<p>I think you have a great chance. You have a lot of extra curriculars that are diverse and interesting. Good luck :)</p>