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title: How To Get Into UC Berkeley
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date: 2018-04-01
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categories: other
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excerpt: A half-joking but totally true recount of how I got into UC Berkeley.
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teaser: /assets/img/2018/uc-berks.jpg
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<sub>Written 9-1-19</sub>
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a.k.a. How To Get Rejected From MIT, CalTech, and Stanford.
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This is actually going to be a half-joking but totally true retelling of how I got into UC Berkeley.
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1. Go to Troy High School.
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2. Only have one extracurricular: Science Olympiad. Literally put all of your free time into this extracurricular.
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3. Put off college apps until the last minute, a.k.a. Thanksgiving break, but only because you were working on SciOly.
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4. Spend 4 hours on the UC app, literally.
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5. Spend 1 hour proofreading, but not changing anything.
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6. Submit and wait for acceptance letters. Go back to working on SciOly in the meantime.
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1. Make sure you apply for EECS.
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7. Get accepted early with a Regents interview.
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8. Fail the interview, from my point of view.
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9. Still get Regents. Profit.
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10. Watch all your friends get into Ivy Leagues and private schools, but realizing UC Berkeley, #1 Public University, is better than all of them.
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**Real talk:** UC Berkeley was my safety, but it ended up being the best thing that ever happened to me. For real this is an incredible school. I wouldn’t trade it for the world. The people, the culture, just everything, it’s all amazing. In all honesty, I did spend over a week on each of my private school apps but didn’t get in. Sometimes life just has a funny way of placing you where you’re meant to be. Just follow your passion and keep doing what you love to do and everything will work out.
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Click [here](/assets/pdf/UC-App.pdf) for a pdf of my UC essays.
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