<p>My UC GPA is 4.06. I think. I may have calculated incorrectly…</p>
<p>I am an Out-of-State Applicant.</p>
<p>My SAT Scores are as follows.
Total: 2150 (Math 710; Reading 690; Writing 750)
Latin 700; Math II 760; Chemistry 760</p>
<p>I applied to the College of Chemistry with a Chemistry major.</p>
<p>Some extracurriculars include:
~Theater - some of the highlights of my resume are Danforth in The Crucible, Orin in Little Shop of Horrors, Lun Tha in The King and I, and Featured Dancer in Cinderella)
~Founder/President of Gay-Straight Alliance
~Volunteer with Garden State Equality
~Volunteer Tutoring
~Fencing, Varsity for Freshman and Sophomore year only
~Violin
~Participated in “The Challenge” – MSG Varsity’s Academic Quiz Bowl Television Show</p>
<p>I’ve been published in Flinn Scientific for a demo of Gas Diffusion I created.
I am a National Merit Commended Scholar.
I don’t know if this helps, but I’m a gay student who has contributed actively to the gay community. I know race doesn’t have any impact, but maybe this would? Not sure.</p>
<p>What’s my chance of getting admitted to UC Berkeley?</p>
<p>You seem fairly weak as an out of state applicant. That weak chemistry score won’t look good seeing as how you’re applying to college of chemistry.</p>
<p>Ah. Thank you. Out of curiosity, do you think I would have had any chance at getting in if I were a California resident? Furthermore, is there any way I might get into Letters and Sciences for their chemistry program even if I don’t get into the college of chemistry?</p>
<p>By the way, I recalculated, and I do have a 4.06 after all. Took a while for lil’ ol’ me from New Jersey to understand what “a-g classes” are.</p>
<p>Huh. Pretty diverse array of answers. Also, I didn’t put in all of my high school’s honors classes when calculated UC GPA, because I’m pretty sure that only Calfornia high schools’ “honors” classes are considered, but for fun I put my honors classes in with the rest of my transcript, and I have a 4.73. I don’t think it matters anyway, but would admissions officers see that all of my classes are honors by my high school’s standards and take that into consideration?</p>
<p>Yes they would take your Honors courses into account… 760 is not that bad of a score.
Don’t listen to people on CC… for the most part they are obnoxious</p>
<p>We have the same math and writing scores. You just have 50 points on me in reading. Luckily I am in state though. </p>
<p>It is tough to get into chem to be honest, even in state. Some engineering majors are easier to get into. I’ve heard Nuclear, Civil, and Mechanical allow you to get a score of a 3 on the admissions scale and still get in. Your scores are a little low for out of state, but your well roundedness might increase your chances. </p>
<p>No offense, but did you actually say homosexuality is a race? Just checking.</p>
<p>Of course not! I was saying that the policies I’ve read claim that the UC admissions process prevents race from playing any factor in admissions, but I wasn’t sure if homosexuality might have any impact. That is, being a racial minority doesn’t matter, but being another kind of minority might. </p>
<p>Also, I’m first generation, and apparently that’s factored in, too. To be perfectly honest, I kinda hate the way America admits students to college. A friend of mine went to St. Andrews in Scotland. She’s told me that in no other countries do things like extracurriculars, first generation, race, orientation, income, etc play any role in admission. It’s all about the essay, the scores, and the grades. Why we have all of this nonsense fluff in the US, I’ll never know…</p>
<p>…It’s just extremely frustrating to know that all of that nonsense fluff is what might be saving my ass…</p>
<p>Yea 760 is not a bad score and it does not mean that you are unqualified. I got a 720 on the Chemistry SAT II but I constantly got the highest grades on difficult tests in class and I received a 5 on the exam.</p>
<p>I am also out of state. How did you calculate your UC GPA?</p>
<p>Same here! I kinda led my chemistry class… But the UC GPA took me a while to figure out. It’s much easier if you have a copy of your transcript. Here are the steps:</p>
<p>1) Identify the “a-g” courses taken in your sophomore and junior years. I finally figured out that “a-g” pretty much means everything that isn’t gym/health. Math, English, Lab Science, History/Social Science, Foreign Language, Visual/Performing Arts and then pretty much anything else that isn’t some obscure nonsense class that doesn’t teach you. Note the total number of these courses.</p>
<p>2) Identify the grades in each of your “a-g” courses. Each grade will earn you a certain number of points, which you will add together. An A earns you a 4, a B earns you a 3, C gets 2, and D gets 1. F gets 0. Add up all of the points you earn.</p>
<p>3) Add one point for each AP, IB, or college-level course you’ve taken in grades 10 and 11, including the summers before, between, and after. </p>
<p>4) Divide the sum by the number of “a-g” courses you counted earlier. This number is your UC GPA.</p>
<p>I’m in L&S/CNR. I’m not sure how CoC’s admissions decisions differ, but I would say that you’re a pretty strong applicant because of your extracurriculars. Of course, out-of-state + CoC applicant tends to decrease your chances.</p>
<p>Thanks. Also, maybe I just can’t see it because I’m not an admissions officer, but I just looked back at my application, and all it says for my intended major is “Chemistry.” It doesn’t note anywhere that I applied specifically to the College of Chemistry, and I know that the major is offered in both CoC and L&S. Could that mean anything for me?</p>
<p>Thanks for the site. I never bothered to calculate it because I knew it would be somewhere between my unweighted and weighted GPA. Also, I think on the application the majors were separated by the colleges but you can’t tell from the application summary. Hopefully you’ll remember which one you selected?</p>