Chance Me: UC Berkeley & CP SLO, CA resident. 3.84/4.14/4.47 GPA for CogSci

Chance Me / Match Me
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White female
U.S. Citizen, CA resident
Sonoma county (North Bay)
Public High school (almost 2000 kids)
no special factors, able to get fee waiver?

Majoring in CogSci, UCB. Linguistics as alternative for speech pathology later on,

3.84 UW gpa
4.14 UC GPA
(I think my cal state GPA is 4.09)
4.47 fully weighted GPA
top 10% for certain, im almost 100% sure I am top 9% too.
No SAT, (only applying in state)

Honors: English 9, English 10, World History 9, Global Studies 10, Pre-AP Bio 9.

AP: AP English Lit (received a 4) APUSH (received a 5). AP Biology (N/A) AP English Lang (IP) AP Stats (IP) AP U.S. Gov (IP) AP Art History (IP) AP Macroecon (IP) , 8 APs.

College Courses: Spanish 1 (A), Intro to Philosophy (A), Biological Anthropology (A), Child & Adolescent Psych (A), Intro to Sociology (A), Spanish 2 (A), French 1 (A). PLANNED: Intro to Environmental Science, Intro to Language Study, (maybe Intro to Ethnic Studies) if I can get in. Should get all As in these totaling 10 cc courses.

4 yrs of english
4 yrs of math (AP STATS highest)
5 yrs of science by end of spring sem. (pre-ap bio, chem, ap bio, biological anthropology & intro to envs.
4yrs of history (3 APs)
3 yrs of Spanish @ CC & French 1.
1 yr of art (AP Art History)

Varsity Athlete Presidents list: 3.8 GPA or higher is my only award.

Worked a 4yr job for my town’s parks & rec dept with kids! camp counselor!(25hrs/week in summer).
Internship @ Speech Path Clinic (15hrs total)
Volunteer @ local elem. school (4hrs/week jr & sr year)
Varsity Tennis, team captain 2 yrs (did a lot here, team tennis took 23hrs/week)
Held leadership/STUCO position all 4 yrs (Freshman President, Sophomore President, Director of Communications & Senior Class Secretary) - also did a lot for these, 4 yr leadership student
National Art Honors Society President sr yr.
CC classes
babysitting (18+ families) & tutoring
job @ security company (filing & credentialing @ events w/200,000 ppl)

I feel pretty good about my PIQs & got them approved by a past UCB admissions officer @ my school as well as many of my teachers. they all tie in really well with my major & intended career path. I wrote a lot about personal experience w/leadership. wrote about work experience & internships. talked about what sparked my interest in cog sci.

Im applying to:
SFSU (got in), SDSU, CP SLO, CP Humboldt (got in), UCB (my top, but such a reach I think!) UCSD, UCSC & UCD

I know a lot of these are probably reaches bc my GPA is so low but I am so curious! Thank you all!

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@Gumbymom if you see this youre my idol

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Thank you for the compliment but all I do is post statistical data for the UC’s and CSU’s to help aid applicants get an idea of where they stand based on GPA and admit rates.

I need clarification on the primary major for each UC and CSU.

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My primary major for the UCs is Cognitive Sciences (CogSci) & for the CSUs it is Child Development for Cal Poly SLO and Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences for SDSU

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Oh and I had linguistics as an alternate for all of the UCs. Linguistics with Specialization in Speech and Language Sciences, B.A. for UCSD.

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So here is the admit rates and GPA ranges for Cognitive Science:

Campus Cognitive Science Psychology
UC Berkeley College of L&S major selection not considered for admissions 9%- / Capped weighted UC GPA 4.14-4.29 Unweighted 3.89-4.00 Capped weighted 4.31-4.65 Linguistics- 22% for Humanities major
UC Davis College of L&S Social Sciences- 38%/ Capped weighted UC GPA 4.00-4.25 Unweighted 3.80-4.00 Linguistics- 46%
UC Merced 94%/ Capped weighted UC GPA 3.40-4.00
UC San Diego 17%/ Capped weighted UC GPA 4.08-4.28 Unweighted 3.84-4.00 Linguistics 31% for Humanities major
UC Santa Cruz Cognitive Science-78%/ Capped weighted UC GPA 3.81-4.20 Linguistics- 66%
San Diego State Speech Pathology 56%/ Campus CSU GPA 4.04
Cal Poly SLO Child Development 23%/ College of Liberal Arts SLO GPA 3.96-4.25

Best of luck.

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thanks!

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