Chance Me (Reach, hooks)

Lemaitre1
Sun, 23 Jan 2011 11:14:11 +0000

California law specifically prohibits campuses of the University of California and California State University from considering ethnic status in admissions so being Hispanic will not increase or decrease your chances. Out of state students who are accepted at a California public university would almost certainly not be offered any financial aid whether they need it or not. It is probably true that California public universities are much more open to out of state applicants than they used to be because of Califonrina’s current budget situation since OOS students do pay much higher tuition than California residents and are generally not eligible for financial aid from the state.

Your SAT scores are a little low for UC Berkeley but UCB probably accepts a fair number of students with SAT scores in the 1900 range. A GPA of 3.6 is definitely low for Berkeley but the UCs have their own method of calculating GPA so it is hard to say what your UC GPA is and whether or not it is competitive for UCB. Although it is not an Ivy, UC Berkeley is very selective and is not a sure thing for anybody. If you really want to attend a university in California and cost is not a problem, in addition to UC Berkeley you should apply to some of the other UCs as well as upper tier CSUs. At least one of these schools would probably accept you.