What does it take to get into UC Berkeley?

mothergoldenbear
Fri, 02 Aug 2013 08:10:44 +0000

So for Public Health and Nutritional Sciences you’ll be applying to L&S. I personally know of 3 students that got in to Berkeley without super high stats. One of my son’s really good friends had decent stats (but rather low for top UCs) … about 4.1 weighted and 30 ACT. He didn’t submit any subject tests. Had really great ECs and lots of leadership. I read his essays and they were good. Not urm or first to attend college or any hooks like that (middle class/upper middle class asian male). Bio major. Accepted to UC Irvine, UC Davis, UCSB. Rejected from UCSD. Waitlisted UCLA. Accepted UC Berkeley L&S. The other two had very good grades, but one took only advanced math/science classes (no AP English or humanities … applied to Mechanical Engineering) and the other took only AP English & humanities classes (no advanced math/science … although he took math and science all 4 years, just not AP … psych major). All three got into (and are attending) Cal, so people get into Cal lots of different ways. Good luck to you!