How hard is it to get into UC Berkeley undergrad?

Ramblinman
Sat, 05 Jun 2010 14:13:35 +0000

Growing up in NorCal it was my backup school. Now I want to go there more than the places that I thought might be reaches.

It is not that hard to get in. Just get a unweighted GPA that is 3.9-4.0, get an 750-800 on your SATIIs and get over a 2100. Since that is pretty much what the entire applicant pool looks like applying to a place like MIT (9%) you’ll have a fairly good shot at Cal. OOS you just need to really pull together a strong application and good ECs.

It has the requirements like a top private, but they can accept so many more people. What they said at an MIT admissions event was that 90% of the people applying probably can do the work, but they can only accept 10%.

I like to think that Berkeley can accept those top people, but then bring in a lot of other well qualified people. So, have good grades or average College Confidential grades and you’ll probably get in.