Appeals and Senior Grades

flipstorm
Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:12:29 +0000

So I’m planning on appealing to UCSB and UCB, and while I am bringing to light new info such as family issues, one of the main points I’m trying to show is my academic improvement/upward trend. I have gotten all A’s this year (on block schedule) except for 4 classes. I got a B+ in AP Calc AB, a C+ in second half of AB, and just found out I got a C+ in BC (really disappointed, had an 86% going into the final and bombed it, dropped 8%). I also got a B in AP Euro but this was really tough to get an A in (only 1 A in whole class). Are the two C’s gonna hurt my appeal pretty bad? The rest of my senior year course load has been pretty tough, and I’m hoping this wont kill me. Plus, math has always been my worst subject, maybe I should try to throw this in the appeal, like how I’ve always struggled in it but tried to take challenging math courses?