Any chances for UCLA, UCSD?

<p>I’m enrolled in CCC and applying for econ at UCLA, UCSD, and Cal Poly SLO.
My GPA will be approximately 3.5 by the end of this term.</p>

<p>I have mostly A’s and a few B’s, but one D from non-maj. class hurts my gpa.</p>

<p>I completed IGETC and all maj req. will be done,
Some ECs and work experiences, nothing special though.</p>

<p>My essay prompt 2 is sort of explaining the bad grade,
and it’s about my mom’s alcoholism issue.
(I dunno if it’s a good idea, should I make it as an optional essay?)</p>

<p>Do I have any chance?</p>

<p>Can you line it out by way of an academic renewal? Or can you re-take the course during winter intersessions?</p>

<p>Yea renewal would be good.</p>

<p>Renewal is not an option for me, cuz my school asks for at least a two-calendar-year lapse of time between the time of the most recent units earned and the time of the units be alleviated.
And I can re-take that class only in next Spring, which won’t be included until the results are out.</p>