UC Berkeley Fall 2016 Admits, Waitlists, and Rejections

HaasBounded
Sat, 30 Apr 2016 19:19:08 +0000

Accepted!

Major: Business Administration (Haas)
UC Transferable GPA: 4.0

Completion of Major Prerequisites? (Y/N): Yes, with Calc II in progress.
Completion of IGETC or other GE requirements?: Yes, with 2 Breadth courses in progress.

Extracurriculars & Honors/Awards: President of Student gov, VP of Young Entrepreneurs club, Senator of Student gov, PTK member, Nominated student rep on several campus committees, including the hiring committee for the EVP of the school, Muay Thai Academy for 2 years (not leadership but it was very valuable to me), some other stuff as well…

Work: Paid Business dev. summer intern at small startup, sales consultant at mens wearhouse, also put on application a business that a friend and I were starting however, since the application, the business has pivoted into something else

Awards: PTK Golden Key, Outstanding student award, presidents honors roll…

Volunteer: Marketing intern (unpaid) at non-profit, library, many campus committees

Applied: UCD(Statistics), UCSD(Economics), UCSB(Physics), UCLA(Statistics - had none of the prereqs…), UCB(Haas)
Accepted:UCB Haas, UCD, UCSD, UCSB
Rejected: UCLA

Advice for future applicants? Strengths and weaknesses in your application? Lingering thoughts about the admissions process?

Definitely get involved on campus - don’t just crowd your resume with random leadership positions, have things you are interested in. Show that you moved up in these positions (start as a member, move to a leadership position). Most importantly, work on the essays extensively, that is what gets you into Haas. Make sure they are not typical/generic essays. For my first two essays I just wrote 2 simple stories and what I learned from these situations, and conveyed my sense of humor.