Who just sent in their UC app?

[Brackis]

From out of state but now living and working in state, lets hope this helps my chances! Sent to UC-Berkeley and UCLA marketing myself as a community service guy with good SAT scores and average grades.

Best of luck to all AT applicants.
Discuss your applying. Go

 

[BrianH1]

Who?

 

[Ready]

If you GPA is below 4.0 and SAT below 1500, forget about it

 

[Alkesh]

Go Cal.

Go Bears.

 

[oogabooga]

Originally posted by: Brackis
From out of state but now living and working in state, lets hope this helps my chances! Sent to UC-Berkeley and UCLA marketing myself as a community service guy with good SAT scores and average grades.

Discuss your applying. Go

Hope your personal statements were very well proof read...

 

[pray4mojo]

Originally posted by: oogabooga

Originally posted by: Brackis
From out of state but now living and working in state, lets hope this helps my chances! Sent to UC-Berkeley and UCLA marketing myself as a community service guy with good SAT scores and average grades.

Discuss your applying. Go

Hope your personal statements were very well proof read...

I didn't proof read my personal statements and found so many grammar errors when I read them after submitting. I still got into UCSD.

 

[LordSnailz]

go UCLA!

 

[magomago]

Originally posted by: Brackis
From out of state but now living and working in state, lets hope this helps my chances! Sent to UC-Berkeley and UCLA marketing myself as a community service guy with good SAT scores and average grades.

Discuss your applying. Go

No offense but if you had to apply as "out of state" then you probaly won't get in. They make it insanely difficult for out of staters to come here because it is a STATE institution so they give us Californians preference Almost all UCs have a 90%+ student body from CA. You have UCI at one extreme with 99% of the students from CA, and UCB is the LOWEST at 85% of students being Californians...

So not to dash your hopes at all if you had to apply as out of state

In other news, I spent like 10 hours helping a friend on their essays...



As for "4.0 GPA and 1500 SAT" I have a WHITE friend who had a 3.8 GPA with ONE AP Class (He got a 1 on his AP Chem test b/c he just copied off me and my friends all year) and not a special essay get into UCB. He was good at golf though

 

[Brackis]

I applied with the address I live at in CA. SAT's of 1530, 4 APs and 2 college courses, over 1500 hours of community service and a paid job with habitat for humanity this past year. If not for these extracurriculars I would have zero chance in hell.

Still expecting to get owned.

 

[pray4mojo]

no ucsd?

 

[Alkesh]

Originally posted by: Brackis
I applied with the address I live at in CA. SAT's of 1530, 4 APs and 2 college courses, over 1500 hours of community service and a paid job with habitat for humanity this past year. If not for these extracurriculars I would have zero chance in hell.

Still expecting to get owned.

Dip sh!t, they make you prove residency later on. Failure to do so = bye bye

 

[Brackis]

Originally posted by: Alkesh

Originally posted by: Brackis
I applied with the address I live at in CA. SAT's of 1530, 4 APs and 2 college courses, over 1500 hours of community service and a paid job with habitat for humanity this past year. If not for these extracurriculars I would have zero chance in hell.

Still expecting to get owned.

Dip sh!t, they make you prove residency later on. Failure to do so = bye bye

Hmmm . I do live and work in CA so I figured I should put my real address. Oh well either way.

Anyways, does UC look at your grades weighted or unweighted?

 

[pray4mojo]

Originally posted by: Brackis

Originally posted by: Alkesh

Originally posted by: Brackis
I applied with the address I live at in CA. SAT's of 1530, 4 APs and 2 college courses, over 1500 hours of community service and a paid job with habitat for humanity this past year. If not for these extracurriculars I would have zero chance in hell.

Still expecting to get owned.

Dip sh!t, they make you prove residency later on. Failure to do so = bye bye

Hmmm . I do live and work in CA so I figured I should put my real address. Oh well either way.

Anyways, does UC look at your grades weighted or unweighted?

weighted

 

[WildHorse]

 

[AgentEL]

Originally posted by: Alkesh

Originally posted by: Brackis
I applied with the address I live at in CA. SAT's of 1530, 4 APs and 2 college courses, over 1500 hours of community service and a paid job with habitat for humanity this past year. If not for these extracurriculars I would have zero chance in hell.

Still expecting to get owned.

Dip sh!t, they make you prove residency later on. Failure to do so = bye bye

I believe if you do not qualify for CA residency, then you are subject to pay out-of-state tuition fees. To qualify, you have to live in CA for a few years. They won't revoke your admission just because you are from out-of-state.

 

[mjh]

Ugh. Please don't talk to me about personal statements for the University of California application process! I helped a few different people with their statements over the past several weeks.

I applied to several different campuses, but am honestly expecting to get rejected.

 

[Brackis]

Originally posted by: mjh
Ugh. Please don't talk to me about personal statements for the University of California application process! I helped a few different people with their statements over the past several weeks.

I applied to several different campuses, but am honestly expecting to get rejected.

Ugh. Please don't help people with their personal statements.
The inability to write a 600 and two 200 word statements means you shouldn't go to UC.

 

[mjh]

There is absolutely nothing wrong with having a friend read over and critique your personal statements for you.

 

[imported_Skorpio]

I did...transfer from SD to LA

 

[Brackis]

Originally posted by: mjh
There is absolutely nothing wrong with having a friend read over your personal statements for you.

True, but "helped with their statements" implied working with them while the essay was being created rather than proofreading.

 

[pray4mojo]

Originally posted by: Skorpio
I did...transfer from SD to LA

whats wrong with sd?

 

[GhettoFob]

Originally posted by: Alkesh
Go Cal.

Go Bears.

 

[andylawcc]

yeah, I did that. 5 years ago.

 

[sigs3gv]

I think I wasted $55. I don't think I have any chance of getting in UCB from out of state.

 

[Brackis]

Originally posted by: sigs3gv
I think I wasted $55. I don't think I have any chance of getting in UCB from out of state.

I paid $60...how did you get off with $55?