<p>Accepted to UC Berkeley. Can anyone tell me if I’ll get in?</p>
<p>Rising Senior here from SoCal looking at Berkeley</p>
<p>UC GPA: 4.2
Unweighted GPA: 3.76
Weighted GPA: 4.16
There is however, a downward trend in my grades</p>
<p>Senior Year:
AP English Lit
AP Calc BC
AP Physics B
AP Civics
AP CompSci</p>
<p>California Resident</p>
<p>SAT Reasoning Scores
Math: 760
Reading: 620
Writing: 800
SAT II Scores
N/A-Will be taking this fall</p>
<p>AP Scores:
World History: 5
US History: 5
English Comp: 4
Calc AB: 5
Chemistry: 5</p>
<p>Which college are you applying to?
Letters & Science</p>
<p>List a few of your most important ECs:
Junior Class President
Tech in Student Body Senior Year
Electronic Music Club President - Senior Year
Youth Leader at local Church</p>
<p>No significant awards </p>
<p>Thanks in advance!</p>
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>My top college choice is Georgia Tech in order to pursue a degree in mechanical engineering.</p>
<p>Below is my high school information…will I have a chance of getting in?</p>
<p>Grade: 11</p>
<p>Ethnicity: Asian</p>
<p>State: NJ</p>
<p>GPA UW: 3.5</p>
<p>GPA W: 3.7</p>
<p>AP’s: AP US History, AP Biology, AP Physics C (Will take), AP Calculus (Will take)</p>
<p>SAT: 1990 (Will definitely go up to atleast 2050)</p>
<p>ACT: Have not taken yet but I am expecting a 30 atleast</p>
<p>Extra-Curricular…</p>
<ul>
<li><p>Marching Band for 4 years (2 years as section officer)</p></li>
<li><p>Robotics for 4 years (2 years as sub-team captain)</p></li>
<li><p>Stage Band and Jazz Band for 3 years (Auditioned and got in)</p></li>
<li><p>Model United Nations for 2 years</p></li>
<li><p>Environmental Club (Co-founder and Vice President)</p></li>
<li><p>Peer Leader for 1 year (Selective)</p></li>
<li><p>4 Varsity Letters</p></li>
<li><p>I know 3 instruments (Guitar, Piano and Saxophone) (I have performed and won a few awards)</p></li>
</ul>
<p>Community Service…</p>
<ul>
<li><p>Volunteering at Local Hospital</p></li>
<li><p>Hurricane Sandy Relief (Went to shore and rebuilt houses)</p></li>
<li><p>Some friends and I host a yearly fundraiser (haunted trail) to donate money to charity (Total of $5000 raised so far)</p></li>
</ul>
<p>Other…</p>
<ul>
<li>Founder of DailyEngineering.■■■■■■■■■■■■■ (Blog about various aspects of engineering)</li>
</ul>
<p>Do i have any chance of getting in?</p>
<p>Uw- 3.8
SAT-2150</p>
<p>SAT 2- chem 5, calc 5, bio 5, spanish 5</p>
<p>APS- human 5, chem 4, physics 5, bio 5, pysc 5., calc AB 4, lang 4, lit 5</p>
<p>ECS- Won State row boat competition
Went to international space design competition
International Robotic Club competition
-volunteered at sceince center 500 hours
-tutored science and math 200 hours
Eagle Scout
Student Body
Spanish class committe vice president
Tennis Captain
Track Captain </p>
<p>research paper published</p>
<p>Objective Stuff:
grade: Snenior
GPA: 3.8 (UC Unweighted) 4.38 (UC Weighted)
Rank: 6 of 192 (based on HS GPA of 4.29)
SAT: 2120 (will retake in october, hoping for 2200+) 600 CR 740 M 780 W
ACT: 33
SAT II’s: 790 Bio M 740 Chem (will take Math 2 in November)
AP’s Taken (with scores): Bio (5) Chem(5) Calc AB (5) Stats(4) APUSH (4)
Senior year courseload: AP english lit, AP Calc BC, AP Physics B, AP Macroecon, AP Gov, regular psychology, pe (required)</p>
<p>EC’s:
Varsity Swimmer 3 years (will be 4th this year)
Varisty XC runner 2 years (NCS Both years, hopefully state this year)
Tutoring Children at Library soph year
Helping kids read at local Elementary junior year
Junior Lifeguarding from 7th to 10th grade</p>
<p>Other Stuff:
Stanford Internship under Mechanical Engineering Lab Group this summer
University of Arizona Internship under Biomedical Engineer Post-Docs this summer
NHS 2 years, CSF 3 years, Interact Club
Mock Trial 2 years
Student Ambassador</p>
<p>Applying for Berkeley’s College of Letters and Sciences (most likely MCB)</p>
<p>Any feedback is appreciated. Thanks!</p>
<p>International students applying to LAC</p>
<p>Please post me back. UCB is my dream. Thx!!!</p>
<p>SAT: 2050 Jan Retake in Oct.</p>
<p>SAT2:M2 770, Chem 740</p>
<p>UW GPA 4/4</p>
<p>AP (six in total)
5 on psychology, chem, micro+macro econ
4 on Cal BC
3 on Lang
I will graduate with 9-10 APs.</p>
<p>EC: I start a national organization in my country and have 15-20 membership schools. The organization makes and sells magazines for studying abroad, gives lectures on study and promotes activities.More than 1600 magazines have been sold.
I have marketed for Citibank and an association in Cornell U in my country.
Internship in an US company
Captain of school swimming team
Teaching assistant for AP Psycholgoy
Taking classes in United Nations in Geneva
Several big school events, volunteer works</p>
<p>Rec letter: additional one from MD should be outstanding. Teachers rec should be pretty good. Counselor rec should be decent.</p>
<p>UC GPA 4.22
Unweighted 4.0</p>
<p>AP Macro/Micro - Both 5’s
AP Psychology - 5
AP Euro History - 5
AP Calculus AB in progress
AP Eng Lit in Progress</p>
<p>California Resident, Out-Of-State, or International (Canada) </p>
<p>SAT Reasoning Scores
800 Crit, 800 Math, 760 Writing
SAT II Scores
Math II 800
Literature 710
US History 800</p>
<p>Which college are you applying to? (Letters and Science, Engineering, Chemistry, etc.)
Haas</p>
<p>List a few of your most important ECs (a laundry list of 20+ items is not needed)
-Student Government President 2013-14
-Student Government External Affairs Director 2012-13
-Business Club President 2013-14 (VP HR 2012-13)
-Catching the Spirit Environmental Camp leader
-School Case Competition Team Founder & Captain
-miniEnterprize (Entrepreneurship Conference) Executive Panel
-Badminton Team Captain
-Around 200 hours of volunteer work done (Catching the Spirit, School, Community Center, miniEnterprize)</p>
<p>Any other significant accomplishments in a specific field
Wilfred Laurier University Case Competition - Champion & Top Individual Presenter
(School awards etc.)
Not many major awards.</p>
<p>REALLY interested in Haas :D</p>
<p>19950930:
I think those EC’s are pretty strong seeing as you started something yourself. I would say the only thing you really need to worry about are those SAT’s. They come up fast, so do a lot of practice tests! If you present your EC’s in an interesting way you’ll leave a good impression on the admissions guys.</p>
<p>Oh god, reading this thread kills my Cal dreams. Chance me anyways. I dare ya.</p>
<p>UW GPA: 3.84
W GPA: 4.19
UC GPA: 3.91 (Not sure if I did this right)</p>
<p>ACT: 29 Composite (Should I retake?)</p>
<p>California Resident</p>
<p>Top 10% of class at a very competitive, college prep school</p>
<p>I’ve taken a total of 11 Honors/AP Classes throughout my 4 years in high school. My senior year schedule is definitely not an easy year. </p>
<p>ECs</p>
<p>FROSH YEAR
Assistant Stage Manager for Fall Play and Spring Musical
Stage Manager for Choir Concerts
Theatre Club Member
Participated in a French Exchange Program
Most Valuable Crew Member (Award voted on by cast and crew) </p>
<p>SOPH YEAR
Stage Manager for Fall Play/Spring Musical
Stage Manager for Dance Concerts
Stage Manager/Lighting Designer for Choir Concerts
Stage Manager/Lighting Designer for Band Concerts
Theatre Club Member
Most Valuable Crew Member (Award voted on by cast and crew)</p>
<p>JUNIOR YEAR
Stage Manager for Fall Play/Spring Musical
Stage Manager for Dance Concerts
Stage Manager/Lighting Designer for Choir Concerts
Stage Manager/Lighting Designer for Band Concerts
Theatre Club Member
Most Valuable Crew Member (Award voted on by cast and crew)</p>
<p>SENIOR YEAR
Stage Manager for Fall Play/Spring Musical
Stage Manager for Dance Concerts
Stage Manager/Lighting Designer for Choir Concerts
Stage Manager/Lighting Designer for Band Concerts
Theatre Club Vice President
Young Business & Entrepreneur’s Club Public Relations Officer</p>
<p>219 Community Service Hours to date</p>
<p>In addition to stage managing for all the performing arts at my high school, I’ve also been paid to do quite a few shows outside of school as well. </p>
<p>I also work at a country club about 9 hours a week and had a summer job as a dish washer at a summer camp.</p>
<p>Academic Awards and Honors
Departmental Award for English
Departmental Award for Physical Education
Departmental Award for Theatre Arts
Awarded Janet Pessagno Memorial Scholarship
Outstanding Student Award (3 years; Given for maintaing a gpa above a 4.0)</p>
<p>Applying Undeclared Pre-Business</p>
<p>Male</p>
<p>Unweighted GPA: 3.91
Weighted GPA: 4.61
UC GPA: 4.00</p>
<p>Top 7% of my class of 850, very large public school, largest in state
ACT Scores (My weakness):</p>
<p>34 Math
33 English
32 Science
30 Reading</p>
<p>Composite: 32</p>
<p>Writing score: 9</p>
<p>Subject Test Scores:</p>
<p>Math I: 780
Math II: 750
Chemistry: 760
Biology: 650</p>
<p>AP Scores and Future Courses:</p>
<p>Junior Year:</p>
<p>AP Psychology: 4
AP Statistics: 4
AP Chemistry: 4</p>
<p>Senior Year
AP Calculus AB
AP Biology
AP Physics B
AP MicroEconomics</p>
<p>Awards
7th Grade: $5,000 to University of Cincinnati (State Science Fair)
9th Grade (Regional, International Science Fair (Vancouver Canada)
10th Grade: $60,000 Scholarship to Case Western, $2500 Scholarship to University of Cincinnati
11th Grade: $1250 Scholarship to University of Cincinnati</p>
<p>Lab Experience
10th Grade: Materials Engineering State, National Science Fair (Chicago, Illinois)
11th Grade: Biological Sciences, State Science Fair
12th Grade: Cardiovascular Research, Will go to State again</p>
<p>EC</p>
<p>Eagle Scout (6 Time Patrol Leader and first Venture Patrol Leader)</p>
<p>President & CoFounder of Science National Honor Society (11th and 12th Grade)
Vice President & CoFounder of Six Sigma Club (11th and 12th Grade)
Technology & Advertising Chair Spanish National Honor Society (11th and 12th Grade)
Active Member of Student Leadership Advisory Council
Member of NHS(11th and 12th), Build On (11th and 12th) , Outdoor Club (9th and 10th) , paintball club (9th and 10th) , and Science Olympiad (9th and 10th)
Ballboyed at a ATP for 4 years in a row
Admitted into very selective medical programs (5-Week, paid)</p>
<p>Sports
Tennis (best tennis program in state by far) (JV letter 4 years, JV co-captain )
Baseball (for fun, 7 years)</p>
<p>Essay Quality: Could be better, but pretty solid
Recommendations: Fantastic, couldn’t be better</p>
<p>Volunteer Hours by grade
9th grade: 50 hours
10th grade: 100 hours additional
11th grade: 500 hours additional (My Eagle Scout project consisted of 450 of those)
12th grade so far: 45 hours additional</p>
<p>Total Hours over HS career: around 700 hours of community service</p>
<p>Shadowing Hours: 36 hours, 8 different fields
Hospital Volunteer: 22 hours (this is where I lack. I spent most of my summer doing research and other community service activities)</p>
<p>Here’s what I wished someone would have told me my senior year of high school:
Forget about the statistics. Sure, all those numbers and stuff MATTER. Of course they do. But what’s done is done. Forget about trying to “chance” yourself into college. The only people whose opinion matter are the people behind the big desks in the “Admissions Office” that is going to look at your snapshot of life from the past four years and judge you on it. There’s really nothing else you can do other than that. Sure, you can prepare the hell out of your resume in high school, but at this point its best just to apply to the schools you want to apply to, and wait for those envelopes in March. I could have saved myself endless amounts of worrying and heartbreak if I just understood that where I was going to end up was where I was supposed to be. You’ll all be fine, whether you end up going to an ivy league or a state school.</p>
<p>Now I know I posted this in the “CHANCES” post, but I think it’s you people who need to read this! I remember doing what you all are doing! It’s not good for the soul! (And yes, that’s even if you have PERFECT credentials–because that definitely does not mean that you “are in”, which further proves my point!)</p>
<p>Have fun applying/being a high school senior though 
You’ll miss all the craziness and excitement when it’s gone!</p>
<p>While the above post is incredible, I would still like an outsider’s perspective on chances!</p>
<p>GPA: 3.79/4.25</p>
<p>Classes:</p>
<p>11th grade: AP Lit, AP US History, AP Bio, Honors Precalc, Honors Spanish (3 years)
12th grade: AP Government, AP Statistics, AP Econ, AP Calc AB</p>
<p>SAT’s:
2210 - 760 math, 740 reading, 710 writing</p>
<p>EC’s:</p>
<p>President of Junior Statesmen of America
Best speaker gavel Junior Statesmen of America
Best delegate & research award MUN
Captain of my debate team (awards coupled to that as well)
2 internships over Sophomore & Junior & Senior Year
Sports grades 9 - 10</p>
<p>Thanks? :)</p>
<p>International Application (Asia)</p>
<p>GPA: not submitted by school (takes IB)</p>
<p>SAT I (highest sitting):
Maths: 800
Critical Reading: 690
Writing: 740
Total: 2220</p>
<p>SAT II:
Math II: 800
Biology: 740</p>
<p>ECs:
Debate Captain
Music Captain, Choir, Section Leader in Orchestra
Sports Team Grade 11
Community Service (hospital voluntary work & visiting elderly)
Yearbook Business Head</p>
<p>Intended Major: Economics</p>
<p>Thanks in advance!! :)</p>
<p>Grade: 12
Sex: Female
Family Income: Around 70k
State: California
Race: Filipino</p>
<p>SAT: 1810 (retaking in December)
GPA: w/ 4.46 uw/ 3.65</p>
<p>Community Service: 200+ hrs</p>
<p>10th grade
Chemistry H: B/B
English 10 H: A/A
Pre-Calc H: B/B
MAT 131 CC: A
POLS 101 CC: B
World History H: A/A
Latin 3/4: A/A
Freehand Draw: A
Swim Team: A/A</p>
<p>11th grade
Calculus AB AP: C/B
Environmental Science AP: A/A
English Language AP: A/A
Economics AP: A
HIST 102 CC: A
GEOG 102 CC: A
Journalism: A/A
Swim Team: A/A</p>
<p>AP Scores (I could only afford to take two)
APES: 4
APELang: 4</p>
<p>12th grade (current classes)
Biology AP
English Literature AP
Calculus AB AP (retaking :/)
GEOG 104 CC
Journalism
Horticulture
Swim</p>
<p>Extra Curriculars (+ Senior year)
JV swim team (3yrs); Varsity swim team (1yr); Reporter for school paper (1yr) Layout Editor (1yr) Editor-in-Chief (1yr); Co-Founder of Asian Heritage Club; President of Asian Heritage Club (2yrs); Link Crew Leader (3 yrs); Vice President of Study Club (2yrs);</p>
<p>Gender: Male
Race: Asian Indian
State: Michigan
Income: ~100k</p>
<p>Class Rank: 5/448 </p>
<p>UC GPA: 4.17
Unweighted GPA: 3.92
Weighted GPA: 4.47</p>
<p>ACT: 35 E, 36 M, 30 R, 35 S (34 Composite)
SAT II: Math 2 - 800, Bio M - 770</p>
<p>Which college are you applying to? (Letters and Science, Engineering, Chemistry, etc.)
Letters and Science (Biology)</p>
<p>List a few of your most important ECs (a laundry list of 20+ items is not needed)
Tutoring Club (Pres)
Varsity Tennis
Cultural Program (Student Teacher, outside of school)
Young Liberals Club (Co-Founder, Vice President)</p>
<p>Any other significant accomplishments in a specific field
National Merit Semifinalist
AP Scholar with Distinction</p>
<p>Battlefieldnoob: high match for non-engineering/low reach for engineering
falody: match
sandy11211: reach
tspro2014: match</p>
<p>Gender: Male
Ethnicity: Asian (Chinese)-Applying from China although Canadian
Income: ~200k</p>
<p>UC GPA: 4.16 (All because of my humanities courses…)
Unweighted GPA: unknown
Weighted GPA: 4.29 for overall from 9-12th grade, 4.45 currently our of 4.5 scale
Courses: IBD Program, taking 4 HLs in physics, chemistry,economics and math+Self studying 10 APs+taken 5 APs last year, straight 5s
Rank: 4/261</p>
<p>SAT: 800 CR/800 M/700 W (Highest single, no superscore possible)
SAT 2: Math II 800, Physics 800, Chem 790</p>
<p>Which College?
College of Engineering (Undecided)</p>
<p>ECs:
Founder of Math Modeling Club
Associated Student Board
Co-Founder of Shanghai Magazine
Varsity Swimming
Piano/Music Theory-ABRSM Piano Grade 8, Music Theory Grade 5 Distinction
Community Service</p>
<p>Significant Accomplishments:
HiMCM (High School Mathematics Contest in Modeling) National Outstanding (Hey, anyone knows this competition?)
AMC Certificate of Distinction
AP Scholar with Distinction (Chem 5, Phy B 5, Calc BC 5, Macro 5, Micro 5)</p>
<p>shaznl: match</p>
<p>Could I receive an honest judgement on whether I’d get in? Thanks :)</p>
<p>Gender: Male
Ethnicity: Asian (Korean)-Applying from Canada, am Canadian
Income: 100k</p>
<p>UC GPA: NA (All because of my humanities courses…)
Unweighted GPA: unknown
Weighted GPA: 94 (From Canada, Canadian schools don’t follow GPA)
Courses: Current: English AP, French, Music, Economics AP, International Business, World History AP, AP Calculus
Rank: Top 10%</p>
<p>SAT: 690 CR/800 M/800 W
SAT 2: Math II 800, Chem 770</p>
<p>Which College?
College of Letters and Science: Economics</p>
<p>ECs:
Chair of Round Square
Research Assistant at governmental Korean research center
Community Service
Wind Head, Orchestra</p>
<p>Significant Accomplishments:
AP Scholar with Honor (Chem 4, English 5, Stats 5)</p>
<p>@sunshinejf - Thank you, I needed that ^^</p>