Chance me for Berkeley L&E

Chance Me / Match Me
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So…I got waitlisted from my ED(Cornell), send in the LOCI but I am pretty sure is not gonna change anything.
Now I am manifesting toward UCs, but I heard this year race could be considered as a factor so…am I screwed?

Asian immigrants, in-state public school(500 class size). Around 35 out of120 applied got accepted to UCB last year.

GPA: 3.84/4.45, 4.51counting this year

UC GPA: 3.9, 4.17, 4.63;

5 Bs in 9th, 0 in 10 th, 2 in11th, upward trend

Class rank: no rank. But almost 10% not counting senior year, definitely 10% if only counting 10th&11th or counting the first semester of senior year

SAT: test blind. No score because LA is the most dangerous city right now lol

AP: 9th: Chinese Lang (5), Human Geo(3)

10th: Euro(5), Computer Science Principle (4)

11th: CalcBC (5), Chemi(3), Macro econ (5), Psych (5), US history (3) Physic C( score canceled)

12th: Multi Calc(community college), Micro Econ, Stats, Gov, Physic 2,

Award: Nothing noteworthy

EC:

1)founded an organization to help immigrants and international students.

2)founded a partnership with a South African nonprofit to help poor SA students.

3)family responsibilities, parents can’t speak English. I put more than 700 hours for this on the App :slight_smile:

4)volunteer 4 years with a none-profit, presidential bronze

5 tutor at school social science center(history, psych, and etc)

6)summer program at UCLA(2020summer), two college-level classes. got a B+ and an A.

7)4 years member of the school chapter for an investment-related club. Earned a state competition bronze, awarded with a designation gave to less than 10 % of members.

8)Summer internship in 2019 summer for an IBM dealership.

9)Treasurer at Mu Alpha Theta, joined junior years.

10)Band

Chance me pls. Ty.

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Edit: Sorry for the ignorant message lol.

I personally believe that if you are in-state, you have better odds than us internationals. I’m not the person for chancing though. College decisions are very subjective and I do not think can be chanced without proper knowledge of your essays (and usually LoRs but this wouldn’t apply for UCs)

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UCB frosh admission rate for 2019 was 12% for 3.80-4.19 HS GPA and 38% for >= 4.20 HS GPA. Your 4.17 is in the upper part of the 3.80-4.19 range.

L&S is the largest division, and does not admit by major, so its admission rates should be similar to the overall. CoE admits by major, and most majors are considered to be more selective than the overall.

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This is very helpful! Thank you so much for sharing it. I have heard that UCLA and UCB used the uncapped weighted GPA as well. Do you know if it’s true or not? Also, is there any way possible for me to find more info on the subjects? Like more specific breakdown within different ranges? Really appreciate it!

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UCLA has a freshman profile showing unweighted and fully weighted HS GPA (as recalculated):

So does UCB:

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Thank you so much! It really clarifies a lot of my questions for me. Since my Uncapped GPA is within the range of admits(around 75th percentile), would you say that my chances for UCB relatively higher than the 12% according to the admission summary?
Or is the uncapped weighted GPA more like a bonus, and the capped one is the deciding factor?

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Applications are read by at least two admission readers who will see and consider all three of the UC-recalculated GPAs in scoring your application.

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Hi, I have one more question and you seemed really knowledgable with regards to UCs admission. When it comes to calculating UC GPA, does the grade you earned during the summer program count? I took two college classes at UCLA last summer and I am wondering is it going to be a part of my GPA or not. Or is only the A-G courses taking in high school counts?

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GPA requirement | UC Admissions says to include all grades from “all A-G courses completed between summer after 9th grade through summer after 11th grade”.

Transferable college courses must be included and count for honors points. Regular courses (not extension courses with X prefixes) taken at UCs are obviously transferable to UCs.

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My niece got in to Cal last year with similar stats. She got in to all of the UC’s actually. Good luck, you got this. 3.85 UW, 4.6W, 1390 SAT were her stats.

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