How do you appeal to colleges?
I want to get into a UC and hopefully become a dentist or even orthodontist. However, my grades aren't outstanding. I'm an incoming junior and I have about a 3.6 GPA[I had mostly easy classes, in freshman year, I had a 3.3 GPA]. Next year, I plan to take ap bio, ap english, yearbook and be an officer for Ecology club[didn't make it last semester] :( I wanted to join track[long jump], but I'm reconsidering since I'm not athletic and I can only jump about like 5 ft. I'm currently volunteering at the library.
There aren't many other clubs that appeal to me[I definitely can't do chess club, Academic Decathlon, run ASB, etc]. Does that look like a good plan for junior year? I would probably do the same activities for senior year.
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UC admission evaluation is based on a variety of factors. All UCs favor students with rigorous HS curriculum (high number of a-g and UC-approved honors/AP/IB/CC courses), excellent weighted and unweighted GPA, and stellar SAT/ACT/SAT Subject Test scores. You are also compared to your peers, meaning your academic and extracurricular achievements are viewed in context of students in your HS and the general applicant pool in the year you apply.
Berkeley is general achievement oriented (academic or extracurricular) and the campus is especially interested in students who will take advantage of what Berkeley has to offer and become the agent of social change.
The rest of the UCs are academic achievement oriented, meaning excellent grades and stellar test scores are essential to be competitive.