My chances of acceptance?

Colleges & Universities University of California - Berkeley
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<p>Hey all. I’m getting a bit antsy! I was hoping you guys could help out. The folks in the “What Are My Chances?” forum said that I’m a match, but I’d like to get your guys’ opinions. </p>

<p>Major: Undeclared L&S
Location: Orange County (If it helps, last year, around 25ish people were accepted from my public school to Cal; 6 went. 12 people attended UCLA, another competitive school.)
UC GPA: 4.2ish? My transcript says 4.45 but I think the UCs calculate it a little lower.
Rank: 13/541 (ELC)</p>

<p>SAT: 700 Reading, 710 Math, 680 Writing = 2090 Total
SAT II: Math IIC 760; Chemistry 710; US History 630; Biology 600 (Took it as a freshman…)</p>

<p>Grade 9: World Geography Honors (Model UN); Geometry; English Honors 1; Biology; Spanish 1

  • Straight A’s</p>

<p>Grade 10: AP Chemistry (AP: 4); Algebra 2/Trigonometry; English Honors 2; Spanish 2; World History Honors (Model UN)
*Straight A’s</p>

<p>Grade 11: AP Physics (B/B)(AP:2); AP US History (Model UN) (A/A)(AP:3); AP Calculus (A/A)(AP-BC:4, AB:4); English Honors 3 (B/A); Spanish 3 (A/A); Calculus 1 (A); Astronomy 100(A)</p>

<p>Grade 12: AP Environmental Science, AP Biology; AP Statistics; AP Spanish 4; AP English 4; AP Gov’t (Model UN), AP Economics (Model UN), ART 100 (Received an A)</p>

<p>Awards:

  • Tower Award (A school award) Nominations Sophomore year in Physical Science (for Chemistry,) Math, and English Composition
  • Tower Award Nomination Freshman year in Biology
  • Model UN Gavel (Best delegate award) - October 2005
  • O.C. Academic Decathalon - 4th Place Math Competition
  • National Merit Commended (PSAT: 206)</p>

<p>Extra Curriculars:

  • Health&Medical Services Club, 3 years, co-president for 2 years
  • Peer Assistance Leadership, 3 years, co-president 1 year
  • Newspaper, 2 years, Technical Editor 1 year
  • Tennis 4 years
  • Junior Class Secretary
  • Quiz Bowl 2 years
  • Cross Country 1 year </p>

<p>Comm. Service:

  • Hospital Volunteer, 1.5 years, (About 80 hours)
  • Restoring a small forest at a nature center, 3 years (About 70 hours)
  • Multiple Sclerosis Association of America, 1 year (Helped fundraise)
  • Key Club, 4 years, secretary 2.5 years,(many many hours…definitely over 100…)</p>

<p>Work:
*Worked at a local medical clinic for 2 summers…just filed and did paperwork and such.</p>

<p>Thanks guys!</p>

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<p>according to the stats, you’re they’re average accepted applicant so I’d say match</p>

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<p>How’d you skip regular/honors chemistry, physics, and pre-calculus?</p>

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<p>spydimag:</p>

<p>My school may do things a little oddly. </p>

<p>In order to enter AP Chemistry, I along with my classmates took a summer Chemistry course. Our teacher told us it was quite unorthodox to have sophomores do this, so I imagine what we did isn’t totally normal. </p>

<p>As far as Physics goes…at our school, you can just take AP Physics without any prior experience in the subject, as long as you have done well in the sciences (teacher recommendation) in the past.</p>

<p>After looking over the material in the Pre-Calc course with some of my friends, I realized that I would be re-learning a lot of stuff I already knew. So we asked our teachers, and they said if we took a Calculus I course at the local CC, and then passed an entrance test at our high school, they’d let us into AP Calculus. Our class was an exception; no other group of people at our HS has ever really tried to skip Pre-Calc to take AP Calc (most people look at it as a Senior year class.)</p>

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<p>That’s very impressive. I’d say you have a pretty good shot. =]</p>