I think you may have misinterpreted the course requirements under VPA for the UCs.
“1 year required
One year of college-preparatory visual & performing arts required, chosen from one of the following disciplines: dance, music, theater, visual arts (e.g., painting, web/graphic design, film/video, inter/multimedia arts), or interdisciplinary arts.”
The UCs want a full year of the same discipline. That would be Ceramics 1 for the first semester, and Ceramics 2 for the second semester. The animation class would work the same way.
From another website at LAUnified: “A single yearlong approved arts course from a single VPA discipline: dance, drama/theater, music or visual art.”
A number of students take AP Art History because it is a yearlong course and gets an additional AP score/ grade.
I think if both semester-long courses are in visual arts (and I understand ceramics and animation to both be in visual arts), it works. From Subject requirement (A-G) | UC Admissions … “One yearlong course of visual and performing arts chosen from the following disciplines: dance, music, theater, visual arts or interdisciplinary arts — or two one-semester courses from the same discipline is also acceptable.” It’d be nice if their writing were consistent across their websites to cut down on confusion.
Congratulations! ! ! You knocked it out of the park!
Not only do you have many impressive acceptances, it looks like USC and William & Mary are very attractive financially as well. Are you still waiting on financial offers at some schools?
Boston University - Accepted with Kilachand Honors College and Presidential Scholarship (half tuition)
These are all of my results and almost all of my financial offers - I’m so happy with how this cycle went for me even if I had some ups and downs. I live in the northeast so many of the schools I was actually accepted to are super close to home anyways! Right now I’m really trying to choose between Harvard, Georgetown, and William and Mary (W&M is flying me out so thats a plus lol).
I have been accepted to Georgetown in the REA round. I am very very happy about it and looking forward to the remainder of my decisions
