Post Mortem of UC Applications - What Did Us In, What Helped Us?

Congrats on the acceptance so far! Uc Berkeley is coming up and fingers crossed she gets accepted there!
My comment is for the class rank. My son had a 3.88 Uw gpa, 3.21 uc weighted gpa. His high school ranks on unweighted gpa so he was #80 something out of 700. He was accepted to SB, SD and Berkeley, wait listed other UCs. Therefore I don’t think rank matters in his case.
Also, his essays were true to himself, nothing fancy but down to earth, you can tell there’s no bluff. I was a bit concerned but it worked out!
Again, best of luck!