<p>Someone mentioned on the UCLA forum that UCLA especially likes to see students whose grades improve over time. Does Berkeley, as a pattern, accept students with improving grades?</p>
<p>nope, they hate improvement. unlike UCLA, we prefer consistency and reliability. a straight C student will look better than a student with rising trend anyday here.</p>
<p>don’t listen to demoz, that’s just bad science. UCLA does like improvement, but unlike UCLA, we prefer students who showed promise early on in their high school career. If you were an A student freshman year, B student soph and jr year, and then a C student senior year, that would definitely look a lot better than a student with rising trend any day here.</p>
<p>I disagree. An alternating and unpredictable trend will look better on your application. This shows a complex degree of how you work, which will greatly interest the admissions committee and make you unique when applying. The admissions committee would clearly not be interested in seeing another consistently straight-A student when they can admit an extremely unpredictable student with A’s in all their APs one year while failing every test and then failing all their AP classes while getting 5s on every test.</p>
<p>No school prefers upward trends to a consistent straight A student, but you should be fine IMO.</p>
<p>Wow. People at Berkeley sure are… unique, judging by the way they talk on these forums.</p>
<p>don’t worry, you won’t run into 187 in any of your classes here if you choose to come. how does someone go from admissions to purely all graduate courses in just two years. should be a graduate student imo >o></p>
<p>when is your telebears 187?</p>
<p>4/19. I assume this is because they neglect updating my academic standing.</p>