chances at uc berkeley / harvey mudd

CountingDown
Wed, 30 Aug 2006 11:22:00 +0000

OK, I have a couple of questions based on the OP’s comments…am particularly interested in how Berkeley and Mudd might view these questions!

1) Do high school courses taken in middle school get counted in GPA (weighted or not)? I’m talking about algebra I, geometry, alg II, and two years of HS Spanish.

2) Do schools look at what year you took the APs and take that score into account? For example, would a 5 on AP Calc BC as a sophomore carry more weight than taking it as a junior or senior?

3) Will not taking AP Chem be a killer? (will take Physics C senior year, will have taken two other physics electives and biochem) Will not be able to schedule AP Chem (a double period class on block schedule – kills the schedule!) due to conflicts with MV/DiffEq, Discrete Math, Complex Analysis, Adv. Geometry and LinAlg, and post-AP comp sci electives.

15 yo junior, 740 M, 750 CR, 730 Writing (composite PSATs), Math IIc 800
GPA 3.81 UW, 4.53 W, including HS classes taken in middle school (3.83/4.65 without middle school grades)

not a CA resident

5 AP BC Calc (10th)
5 AB Comp Sci (10th)
5 US Gov’t (10th)

Taking junior year:
AP Stat
AP World Hist
AP English Comp

Taking senior year:
AP Physics C
AP Microecon
AP Macroecon
AP Comparative Gov’t

Looking at ED @ Mudd as a joint CS/Math…