3.4 freshman GPA with extreme growth?

your 9th grade grades do not matter at all (other than to make sure you didn’t fail any classes), so your GPA eligibility is all based on 10th and 11th grades. To have a reasonable shot at the top 2 UC’s (Berkeley and UCLA) you probably should be have a 4.20+ UC GPA; for the next tier (SD, I, D, SB), a UC GPA a reasonable shot would be 4.00+, and for the other 3 you need a minimum of 3.0 UC GPA but you probably need some something significantly above that. These are for the 9 University of California (UC) schools. There are also a lot of California State University (CSU) schools, who have different standards.

If you don’t know what a UC GPA is, it’s the capped weighted GPA for 10th/11th grade based on a maximum of 4 AP classes (in your case), generally around .30 above your 10th and 11th grade unweighted GPA .