[akajoe]

anybody?!! can you guys tell me how you got there in your own experience? and tell me your GPA and other activities that you have done...and SAT could help too!

[LUX.]

Hi there,

you might have better luck in the pre-college forum, using the Accepted thread to find those who've already been accepted there and asking for their stats (http://www.soompi.co...howtopic=12321) or the What are my chances thread (http://www.soompi.co...owtopic=100659)

but anyways, though I decided not to go there, I was accepted to their College of Arts and Sciences c/o 2012.

I'll just copy&paste a PM someone sent me asking for my stats:

Hmm...well, Freshman year, I didn't have ANY AP or Honors courses, because they weren't available for most freshmen at the time...which really took my cumulative GPA down a lot >< ! Sophomore year, I took all Honors (except for Religion and English). Junior year, I took AP US History and AP English III; the rest of my classes, except Religion, were Honors. As for Senior year, I'm currently taking 4 APs: AP Statistics, AP Calculus AB, AP English IV, and AP American Gov; I'm also taking a Religion class, and regular physics (finally get to slack off a bit tongue.gif).

As for ECs, here are all of mine: Yearbook (Grades 10, 11, 12; Section Editor, Editor in Chief), candystriper at hospital (won an award for 200+ hours of service), peer tutor, volunteer at a local community service center, National Merit Scholarship Commended Student 2006-2007, Newspaper (photographer), Student Activists Club, Badminton: JV, Contemporary Health Issues (club), Asian Pacific Islander Student Union, Undergraduate Award for Excellence in Religious Studies, 2 Undergraduate Awards for Excellence in Yearbook

^--those are all of my ECs, but note that for colleges on the Common Application and for all UCs there are a limited number of spots to list your ECs and you must pick and choose which ones are most important to you in rank.

As for SAT,
in 1 sitting: 2040
highest from each category: 2120