Can I Write About Getting Kicked Out?

Applying to College
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Will the GC information warrant any kind of action from colleges, or will they assume that this has already been dealt with at that point?

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Bad judgement I guess, I thought that if I could explain it then it wouldn’t matter. I have two admits so far, U of Hawaii and U Pitt

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You wrote this in your chance me thread as a choice:

All of the UCs (Safeties, Targets, Reaches)

Are you still applying there?

Anyway
we are getting off topic to this query. Again
I don’t think you should be doing the explaining. Leave that to your school counselor.

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At my school we are mandated reporters and would not report it because the counselor knows (an independent 3rd party adult.)

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Ok, I’ll just let him write it. I am doing all of the UCs still.

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That’s good to know. My family already has gone through everything when I reported it to my counselor, I was just worried that if I included more information than he does (since I’m not sure what he included), there could be problems.

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You should correct your GPA on that other thread. You should also calculate your 3 UC GPAs with the C’s and D’s. GPA Calculator for the University of California – RogerHub

What classes is/are the D(D’s)in?

I know you don’t include the D grades for purposes of honors in the UC calcs. Also not sure if classes with D grades fulfill the various UC requirements @gumbymom?

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The D is in an ap english class. My weighted for UCs will be a 4.22, and unweighted will be 3.44 since they don’t include freshman grades.

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D in an English class will not meet the UC A-G course requirements since you need a minimum of 4 years of English with passing grades of C or higher. Also D’s in AP classes do not get the extra weighting in the UC GPA calculation.

The UC’s consider 3 UC GPA’s which are Unweighted, Capped weighted and Weighted Uncapped but the majority of UC’s will focus on the Capped weighted and Unweighted. UCLA/UCB will focus on the Unweighted and Weighted Uncapped.

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Thank you for the information! Will I have to take an extra english course to make up for it?

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Yes, if you do not have 4 years of English with C or better grades, then yes you will need to take an additional English class. 4 years is a hard requirement for the UC’s.

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OP, can you enroll in an additional one semester english class for second semester? If not, perhaps you could take one thru an online school, like IU high school online. https://iuhighschool.iu.edu/

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Does your transcript show the semester grades along with the final grades or only the final grade for the AP English course?

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Thank you for the resource, I will look into that and community college courses

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My transcript only shows semester grades, no final grades.

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You’d need to remediate the Ds to apply to California publics anyway in my understanding, which would help the GPA when taking that semester into account.

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Thanks for sharing - this yea, hmm definitely nothing aboit the situation.

Edit - I just read they didn’t actually share the proper story.

OP can you give your actual GPA.

Still I agree with others. If anythjng the counselor could address but others pointed out that could cause your family issues - so not sure how to balance that.

You’re a strong student. Go with what you’ve done assuming you’ve checked affordability at all.

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It’s unlikely OP can remediate AP english at this point. It’s unfortunate the counselor didn’t have them do that sooner.

As long as OP has 4 full years of english with grades of C or better they don’t have to remediate that specific course with the D. So OP has to add a one semester English course at the HS, take an HS online or CC course
is that correct @gumbymom?

3.5 unweighted, they posted that here and then an update in their previous thread.

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I did see that I can take a community college class for english this winter quarter, so I’m going to try to register for that, and see if maybe that will help.

I am honestly fine with going to Hawaii or Pitt, since I’ve already gotten in, so applying to UCs is not a big issue for me right now. I’m just more scared about my situation getting reported in some way, even if my counselor already mentioned that there was a family problem.

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Ok. I’m not familiar with UC applications but I know for CSUs, if you remediate with the same course the initial D gets replaced in the GPA calculation, but my understanding is a different course will leave the D in the calc. @Gumbymom can you confirm if this understanding is correct, or if it’s incorrect and/or different for UCs?