@hansomeboy Thank you so much for replying! You’re answer is very helpful.
And ya I will choose Berkeley over UMich, not because one is better than the other, but because of in state tuition.
@PWANG96
It looks like a lot of people viewed our conversation. I hope it can promote others to post their stats.
@hansomeboy have you started your FAFSA yet?
I submitted mine today, and made the biggest mistake. I entered my parents income tax on to student financial info section. I have to wait till it’s processed before I can make changes to it. Feel so stupid.
@PWANG96
Well.I am done with all of it except for my parents’ income tax section.
I have been not able to do parents’ income tax section for last few days because I did something wrong to my parents and my parents are mad at me now. LOL.
@hansomeboy just saw a recently released statistics from Berkeley. They received 101,655 applications, while they only received 9600 applications last year. Going to be competitive this year
@PWANG96 .Wow…
So, 2055 more applicants.
I feel like that it was a good thing that I applied early.
And thanks for telling me about this.
It is really great that I can keep some conversation with you.
Could you provide the link?
@hansomeboy I just sent out my letter of interest to UMich regional counselor. Hopefully it will work. I heard that some deferred applicants from last year got their decisions late January or early February. Is that true?
@PWANG96 …
That is true. That is what happened to bunch of people last year at my school. The funny thing is that Umich asked them to send their midyear report. However, midyear report wasn’t ready to be sent at that time, and they got their acceptance without sending midyear report in late January or early February.
In California, do you guys also have midterm around this time of the year?
I had my last midterm today, and half day tomorrow with no homework. Excited…
@hansomeboy Congrats!!!
My semester ended the day before winter break. And UMich got my mid-year report already. Hoping for some good news.
@PWANG96 @hansomeboy Well I thought I’d might jump into the conversation now lol.
UC GPA: 4.54
Fully weighted GPA: 4.6
Unweighted GPA: 4.0
SAT: 2020
ACT:31
SAT subject tests: US History 770 Math 2 750 Bio E 720
AP Classes: World History (5), Chem (3), Physics 1 (4), US History (5), Calculus BC (4), Micro Econ, Macro Econ, Physics 2, Psychology, US Gov, Statistics
Activities:
Student Council Senior Class Officer
Link Crew Leader (orientation and freshman small groups, campus tours)
School Site Council Vice Chairman
NHS Member
HOSA Vice President
280 Hours Of community service
Christian Club Treasurer
Tennis (varsity 4 years, sponsored player on junior tour, recruited D3 athlete, All League team, CIF D3 Semifinalist, CIF D3 Team Finalist etc)
Nominated and attended RYLA a leadership camp sponsored by Rotary International for 100 students across NorCal and Nevada
Work Experience:
Junior tennis instructor.
Financial Aid: yes
LOR: yes
I think that’s about it. I applied as Mechanical Engineering.
@10s4life.
Wow. You look like you have really good stats. I also applied to mechanical engineering. You might even be eligible for Regents and Chancellors scholarship. I just have two questions:
- For APs that do not have ap scores, are those APs you are taking this year?
- If you saw my stats, I got scout offers for baseball from D1 colleges and Minor league teams. For D1 schools, Those schools weren’t schools I wanted to attend. For Minor league, I am not thinking of becoming a Professional player.
You said you got recruited to D3 schools. Were those not schools you want to attend?
Thanks for joining our conversation. whole conversation has really been only between @PWANG96 and me.
@hansomeboy
Haha thanks I’m glad to join in. The APs w/o scores are ones I’m taking this year. And that’s cool you must be a really good baseball player. I already declined the D3 offers. The schools were not particularly strong in academics even though one partnered with Columbia for engineering joint degrees. I talked verbally with a d2 school but never got a real offer. Thanks for the confidence in regents. I hope you are right. You’re stats also seen in line for regents as well.
@10s4life … Thanks for your reply
For me, Berkeley is dream school. I hope I can be part of regents but I do not think I can be since my gpas aren’t really high. Even without regents, I will be extremely happy if I can get into Berkeley.
Is Berkeley also your top choice?
@hansomeboy Yeah Berkeley is mine. It’s an amazing school and touring it really felt special. Have you been on campus yet? I’m not really picky. If I’m the last person accepted it’s just fine with me. Lol
Which Engineering? EECS
GPA: I dont know how to calculate GPAs, but my grades are pretty high (currently ranked 1/320)
SAT or ACT score: 34 ACT, 2200 SAT
SAT subject test score: 800 Math L2, 700 Physics
APs you took: None. School doest offer any
Activities, including leadership position you are holding
- Research: Did a ton of research in CS, math. Selected as ISEF Semi-Finalist (National finalist in science fair), published research x2, collaborated with some highly qualified people and solved some relatively significant problems.
- Teach CS (programming, app development, web development) to underprivileged children through my NPO. Nationwide presence (>10 cities). Handle national operations on a daily basis as well as personally teach in my city. Built a network of 100+ volunteers across the country.
- Manage my own startup which I founded with a few friends. Employ 19 people (have recruited 5 more people since the turn of the year). Raised money (not that significant though). I also specifically learnt iOS development so that we could save money on employing engineers.
- Debate club (President), CS club (President), Math club (Member)
- Head Boy at my school (highest position on the student council), house captain at my older school (3rd highest position on the council)
- Played varsity sports (soccer and basketball; captained both teams) till 10th grade (wanted to start rec team at new school, but it turned out to be a dud)
- I also undertook studies in French at school and passed the exam with really high grades
Award and honors
ISEF Semi-Finalist, RMO qualifier (akin to AIME in my country), top 40 in a national computing olympiad, some state level scholarships, a lot of awards at school.
Community Service or some intern.
Lots of it
Job
Check activity number 3
Applied or will apply for Financial aid? No, I’m an international, so no FA :-/
Received LOR or not? Yes, I did
@10s4life
I have been to campus like 10 years ago. I live in Michigan, and I have been to San Francisco area for only like three times in my life.
Are you CA resident?
@anotherdude .
Thank you for sharing your stats too. Every year, it looks like EECS is extremely competitive to get in. I think you still have really high chance of getting in. If it was for other major, I think you might even be eligible for Regents and Chancellor’s scholarship. Since it is for EECS, I am not sure.
Overall, I think you have really high stats.
I just have one question.
You said your school did not offer any APs. However, there is still like advanced or honors class, right?
If not, highest weighted gpa you can get is 4.0
@hansomeboy No, we do not have advanced or honors classes as well. We just have a general curriculum that’s followed all across the state (it’s still pretty rigorous though).