Chance me for T20 finance programs

Congratulations on being a competitive applicant. I will only address UC Berkeley.

  1. UC’s only use 10-11th a-g course grades for their GPA calculation. As an OOS applicant, only AP/IB or DE UC Transferable courses will be weighted in the GPA calculation. OOS Honors courses are not weighted by the UC’s.

https://rogerhub.com/gpa-calculator-uc/

  1. Have you taken at least 1 year of a Visual/Performing arts course which is a UC requirement?

  2. UCB is not a direct admit to the HAAS Business school until 2024 so you will have to go through a secondary admission process during Sophomore year. If applying to the College of Letters and Sciences, you are admitted as Undeclared and then have to meet course/GPA requirements to declare a major.

  3. UC’s offer little to no financial aid to OOS students. As noted by @aunt_bea, you should expect to a full pay student if accepted.

  4. UC’s are test blind and do not consider race/ethnicity/sex in their admission review.

Below is the overall admit rates by each UC campus using the Capped Weighted UC GPA:

Campus 4.20+ 3.80-4.19 3.40-3.79 3.00-3.39
Berkeley 30% 11% 2% 1%
Davis 85% 55% 23% 10%
Irvine 60% 31% 14% 1%
Los Angeles 29% 6% 1% 0%
Merced 97% 98% 96% 89%
Riverside 97% 92% 62% 23%
San Diego 72% 25% 2% 0%
Santa Barbara 73% 28% 4% 1%
Santa Cruz 91% 81% 46% 9%

The link below breakouts the Fully Weighted UC GPA admit rates for the College of Letters and Sciences (2021 most current data) for the College of Letters and Sciences.

https://pages.github.berkeley.edu/OPA/our-berkeley/ug-admissions.html

Best of luck.

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