<p>ive spend the last 2 hours reading/rereading my uc app.
that ive already sent.
that i have no control over.</p>
<h2>is anyone freaking out as much as i am? maybe its just me being irrational.</h2>
<p>Gender: F
Race: Mixed race - asian/caucasian
CA Resident
Rank: 12 out of 425</p>
<p>weighted GPA: 4.65
unw GPA: 3.85
UC GPA: 4.4
(straight As until junior year 1st,2nd semester: B,B in AP Physics; B,C in Honors Trig)</p>
<p>SAT I: 2080 - 710/650/720 (math was lowest)
SAT II: 760 USHistory, 620 Lit
AP: APUSH, APEuro (both 5s)</p>
<p>-ive taken the most rigorous courses possible at my school (except math, i couldve taken Calculus BC, but i took Calculus AB)
-im a full IB Baccalaureate candidate
-senior year im taking all IB/AP classes and a sport (7 classes total)</p>
<p>ECs
president of Red Cross Club 2 years (involved 4 years), raised $2000+ for Haiti fundraiser, ran annual blood drive at high school for past 2 years
varsity cross country/track 4 years (captain past 2 years)
Editor in Chief of school lit magazine (2 years, also founded it)
MUN 4 years, 2 years in leadership (lots of research/debate awards/college conferences)
school tutoring/Big Sister at AllAccess (2 years both)
Academic Decathlon (3 years, county champions my soph year)</p>
<p>Awards
-Prudential Community Service Scholarship
-DAR Good Citizens Scholarship
-HOBY Leaders Scholarship
-Cross Country MVP my junior year</p>
<p>Hook
-speak 3 languages
-spent childhood in the middle east - in my essay i talk about how this has led me to want to pursue international relations/history in college and beyond because of effect of 9/11 on my life in saudi arabia/egypt</p>
<p>Misc
-my dad became ill beginning of junior year - both parents unemployed - had to work odd jobs (babysitting etc) to pay for MUN/sports/IB/AP/ etc </p>
<p>applying: history at UC Berkeley and international relations at UCLA, UCSB, UCSD</p>
<p>i would really appreciate if someone could tell me my chances and be brutally honest please i know, this is really long im sorry im so nervous and freaking out. cal is my first choice school</p>
<p>You seem like a competitive candidate; your SAT scores (and your Lit subject test) aren’t highly competitive, but other than the Lit, they are certainly at least up to par. Your chances look good, but it’s not a safety/lock… so you shouldn’t have your heart set on just one school. You’re likely good enough for LA and Cal, great for SD, and probably safety at SB, so I’d suggest trying to get excited/look forward to a life at any of those schools.</p>
<p>Test score wise/GPA wise: you’re part of the ordinary crowd in Berkeley (a little bit lower with the 620 Lit).
EC wise: you’ve done way more than I ever did haha</p>
<p>If you think you did well on your essays or at least had someone else proofread it, then you’ll likely be in.
Of course, there’s really no telling what is a lock for a school like Cal, but you seem to be pretty good. And you really shouldn’t stress. Enjoy your last semester in high school. College is gonna be pretty damn different.</p>
<p>thanks …i applied to alot of schools out of state too…i dont know, i guess ive just worked so hard and i hope that its all paid off…nothing else i can do now i guess but study for finals :)</p>
<p>If admitted, all applicants to the College of Letters and Science (under which history is) will enter undeclared. If you attend, you will have to fulfill course prerequisites for your desired major and declare it around the time you become a junior.</p>
<p>As a in-state applicant, you seem like a shoo-in, but I’m simply a fellow applicant myself. You’d seem like an interesting person to meet, and I hope all goes well for your apps. </p>
<p>However, my concern is that you will be viewed in context of your high school area. Is it a privileged area with other students of the same EC accomplishments and life experiences? How are grades distributed at your school; notoriously hard, simple, easy? Is it a urban school? These factors I do not know about, but you seem like a capable college student!</p>
<p>looks good. sat’s and gpa is in the right range. as long as u have over 1950, your golden. but u have a 50 50 chance. don’t get ur heart set on berkeley or any other school. u may get into a good one but not the one u wanted. if u don’t get into ur first choice, you fit in better at the one u do get selected to.</p>
1st,2nd semester: B,B in AP Physics; B,C in Honors Trig)</p>
i know, this is really long im sorry im so nervous and freaking out. cal is my first choice school</p>