The Official Chances Thread!

Colleges & Universities University of California - Berkeley
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<p>UC GPA: ???
Unweighted GPA: 4.0
Weighted GPA: my school doesnt have it</p>

<p>California Resident, Out-Of-State, or International:out of state</p>

<p>SAT Reasoning Scores (by section) or ACT scores
ACT 33</p>

<p>SAT II Scores
Eng Lit: 720
Math II:740
Bio E:690 ( i know…)</p>

<p>Which college are you applying to? (Letters and Science, Engineering, Chemistry, etc.) </p>

<p>Letters and Science-i wanna do journalism/i dont really know</p>

<p>List a few of your most important ECs (a laundry list of 20+ items is not needed)</p>

<p>Journalism (newspaper, managing editor this year)
cross country
1440 interact club
hospital volunteering
chemistry club (president)
violin (13 years… yea orchestra too)</p>

<p>Any other significant accomplishments in a specific field
uhh concert master in honors orchestras?
national merit semifinalist
national honor society
ap scholar with something (i dont remember)
etc</p>

<p>Any comments would be appreciated</p>

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<p>dietcoke14: You need to calculate your UC GPA yourself. To do this, go here:</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.californiacolleges.edu/admissions/california-state-university-csu/gpa_calculator.asp[/url]”>http://www.californiacolleges.edu/admissions/california-state-university-csu/gpa_calculator.asp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>As it stands, I’d say Berkeley’s a reach - strong ACT, and average GPA, SAT IIs, ECs, and honors/awards. Being OOS makes it much more difficult. You do have a good shot, though.</p>

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<p>Useful link, Thanks!</p>

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<p>vicissitudes: if you dont mind answering, what major are you?</p>

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<p>how is my GPA average when its 4.0 out of 4.0???
lol</p>

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<p>^^ Did you not look at this thread at all? Your GPA is average *for Berkeley<a href=“I’ve%20said%20this%20multiple%20times%20before”>/I</a>. It by no means is average on an absolute scale.</p>

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<p>no…
im sorry
im didnt know we had to put our UC gpa</p>

<p>and my school doesnt weight GPA
so the highest is 4.0
idk</p>

<p>i didnt mean to get you annoyed or whatever</p>

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<p>Sorry, didn’t mean to be snappy. At any rate, I wasn’t talking about UC GPA or weighted GPA. I was talking about UW GPA. Also, it’d be a good idea to calculate your UC GPA and W GPA when you post chances threads/posts – it helps others to assess your chances.</p>

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<p>dietcoke14: great GPA, great ACT score, good SAT IIs, decent ECs. I’d say ~60-70% chance.</p>

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<p>No it’s not. The average unweighted GPA is around a 3.8.</p>

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<p>By asking me that question you are assuming I am in college. ;)</p>

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<p>vicissitudes: since you are knowledgeable about all this cal stuff i assumed that you were. but i guess you are either: 1. a current student, 2. an alumni, 3. faculty, 4. a faculty alumni. Another guess is that you are/were an engineering student. just wanna confirm my curiosity. haha</p>

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<p>way to be mysterious, vicissitudes</p>

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<p>Haha, I’m just kidding guys. :p</p>

<p>Let’s just say I’ve had experiences with a lot of random science classes. I don’t like to divulge personal info publicly but if you must know, PM me.</p>

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<p>misterreach, you forgot 5: god</p>

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<p>quick chance-</p>

<p>Asian Male, In-state</p>

<p>UC GPA- 3.94</p>

<p>SAT I- 700 M, 680 W, 640 CR (2020 total)</p>

<p>SAT II’s- 700 MathII, 640 Spanish</p>

<p>AP’s: Ap Language (3), AP Spanish (2)</p>

<p>EC’s- 3 years of cross country
3 years of Track
Attended church mountain retreats
AYSO soccer for one year</p>

<p>Awards- National Commended Scholar
Medals for track meets
School Honor Roll</p>

<p>Probably going as Undeclared. Either that or Economics</p>

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<p>vicissitudes is the chancellor!!!</p>

<p>(haha that will throw them off)</p>

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<p>UCantTouch9Feet: reach
UCGPA is low, SAT close in range but SAT subjects are low, I wouldn’t send them your AP scores, where’s the EC, as in community service?</p>

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<p>UCantTouch9Feet: I agree with knguyen142 that it’s a reach – the UC GPA is a bit low, the SAT is about average, the Spanish SAT II is somewhat weak, and the ECs/honors/awards don’t really distinguish you. If you make your essays really great (perhaps showing a reason for a subpar GPA), you’d have a better shot.</p>

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<p>UcantTouch9Feet: your GPA’s a little low, SAT score is okay, SAT II scores are okay. ECs are a little weak, I don’t really think Berkeley cares that much about 3 years XC/Track (everyone does sports in high school) or church mountain retreats (unless there’s more to it that I’m missing). I’ll say ~30% chance.</p>

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<p>Live in California
African-American/African/Black (Moroccan…that’s the category under the UC app that I fit into)
Muslim (that’s what I’m going to write my personal statement about)
Trilingual (French, Arabic, English)</p>

<p>UC Weighted GPA: 3.8
in top 30% of class…school doesn’t rank
SAT: 2020
SAT2: Biology 570, History 620 (will take both in December again along with French)
ACT: 30 (retook in September…haven’t gotten scores yet…felt like score stayed the same)</p>

<p>extras:
Cross-country 2 years
Track 1 year
Volunteered in Morocco orphanage for 1 week in summer
Member of mosque youth club 4 years; public relations officer 2 years
Internship at local newspaper–> had 2 articles published so far
Received scholarship (they chose 30 out of California) for Muslim Leadership Conference
tutor for 3 years at after school academic program
Model UN for 2 years—secretary 1 year
French Club (senior year)
Berkeley NorCal Summer Experience (3 day program that they told me to include)</p>

<p>SAT SCORE IMPROVED 90 POINTS :slight_smile: please chance me again!</p>

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<p>male- In State
White</p>

<p>ELC
UC GPA- I believe it is 4.11. That is what I was told
Weighted- 4.3 Unweighted 3.8
SAT- 1970 I know its way too low. I am retaking Nov. 3
SAT 2- Biology-710 Literature-710 US History-680
Will be one class shy of IB Full Diploma.
Senior year- 7 IB/AP classes.
Macro and Micro Econ at Junior College</p>

<p>Extras- Abridged
Northern California Leadership Conference- 1 kid per High school
Rotrary Youth Leadership Camp- 1 kid per high school
Boy’s State- " "
National Leadership Conference on Defense, Intelligence, and Diplomacy
Four years of Theatre. Will have been in 8 shows by the time I graduate.
freshman and then JV Quarterback but then I tore my ACL, MCL, Minicus
JV basketball as freshman but tore my ACL a second time trying to play B-ball
Life-time CSF
Vice-pres of Key club
president of library club
founded History Club
One of four acting “leaders” of Interact. (the lady in charge didn’t want 1 leader)
Random community service but for example 50+ hours one summer with kids who had failed 8th grade and needed tutoring and also I spent a week and a half during spring break building houses for the poor in Mexico with a church.
Academic Decathlon. Medaled at State Comp.Team got second in state for D3 </p>

<p>That is everything that comes to mind. I’m a really strong writer so the PS’s should be good.</p>