Chance at UCs

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<p>I’m currently a junior in a public highschool in California. Because of personal reasons, I received terrible grades in my freshmen year, and I am now afraid of my chances to get into a UC. </p>

<p>Weighted GPA- 4.129 </p>

<p>The APs I’ve taken so far are stats and English language, I plan on taking Calc, Lit, and Econ next year. I also plan on taking sociology and physiology at my local community college. </p>

<p>Extracurricular-
3 years of varsity swim (plan on swimming my senior year as well)</p>

<p>2 years of journalism, along with being Editor in Chief </p>

<p>Lots of volunteer work done through 2 years of key club</p>

<p>Currently in Glee Club, Go MAD, poetry club, sewing club, and 2 others that my friends have started </p>

<p>I’m also in a mentoring program that’s a bit hard to explain but I basically visit my mentor, who is a well respected, award winning journalist, twice a month and do other things with the program. </p>

<p>If this counts for anything- I was born in Syria and am fluent in Arabic </p>

<p>I haven’t decided on a major, but any clue to what my chances would be?</p>

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<p>If you do well on the SAT/ACT - you are in good shape for most of them.</p>

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<p>UC’s only look at your Sophomore and Junior Year grades so your freshman grades should not be too much of a problem. Like NCalRent stated, do well on the SAT/ACT, at least 2000+ or 30+. Good Luck.</p>

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<p>Frosh year grades are not included in the main UC admissions GPA, although they will be visible to admissions readers. D or F grades in frosh year can disqualify courses from being counted toward fulfilling a-g course requirements.</p>

<p>Fluency in Arabic, if proven by school transcripts or documents for two years of schooling at sixth grade or higher primarily in Arabic, by a university Arabic language placement test, or by a high school principal with guidance from Arabic language teachers or organizations, can fulfill the language other than English requirement for admission: <a href=“http://www.ucop.edu/agguide/a-g-requirements/e-language/index.html”>http://www.ucop.edu/agguide/a-g-requirements/e-language/index.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Placement in a high enough level of Arabic language courses can also fulfill college graduation requirements for a language other than English (these depend on the campus and division).</p>