Thanks for the advice, I appreciate the time you took to respond! Just wondering, what do you think I could have improved on or done to have had a better chance at getting into Cal for Data Science or Comp Sci? I feel like I have extremely strong chess awards (specifically Chess National Master, and ranking top 30 US my age), and my ECs are also relatively strong with a spike in chess, and a small spike in computer/data science. In terms of my high school GPA, although it isn’t as high as Cal’s average fully weighted GPA nor a perfect GPA, my school doesn’t offer very many APs compared to other schools, so I should be somewhere near the top in terms of my school’s graduating class, and I have an upward trend in GPA every year. I might be missing a low point about my application and obviously might be slightly biased towards myself though.