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Pre-College Topics High School Life
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<p>Kay, first semester report card reads:</p>

<p>Honors Precalc: C
AP Art History: C
AP Bio: B
sort of IB HL (that’s official label for course) Chinese: B
APUSH: B
AP Lang and Comp: B
Orchestra (lol): B</p>

<p>I want to go to UC B…erkeley. I live in state, right next to campus, actually. How screwed am I? I’m a junior btw.</p>

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<p>Community College will be a reach for you now.</p>

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<p>^Don’t listen to this ******bag.</p>

<p>I don’t know the context of your school but I do know that these grades are not very good, although you’re in 5 APs (I’m counting the IB HL), which is rigorous. If your rank is solid as in top 5-10%, you have good scores (2150/33+), and decent extracurriculars I think you have a good shot as in-state. If not, it’ll be a major reach. Also, I feel that if UCBerkeley knows your school well since you live so close and you have a solid number of students from every graduating class attending, it’ll help you A LOT.</p>

<p>Good luck!</p>

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<p>^thanks</p>

<p>I’ve heard people say you can retake courses over the summer and cover up your old grade. I would like to do this with precalc, but do colleges actually know you retook the course?</p>

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<p>Do you go to a public or private school? Because if you go to a private one, they have the ability to do whatever they want with your transcript. It just depends on the administration and how willing they are to help you out. I have a few friends who got C’s in some classes, but when they went to apply to colleges the administration let them redo some work and retake a few tests and then changed their grades to A-'s or A’s.</p>

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<p>It’s not like Berkeley is any good anyway, so I wouldn’t really worry about it.</p>

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<p>You’re off really bad.</p>

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<p>Hey, remember that colleges add 10 points to HL courses. SO your C is really a B and they add 5 points to Ap courses. Then they recalculate your gpa and grades.
So in truth you did better than you think ^__^</p>

<p>But still aim for those A’s.</p>

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<p>AP Art History: C
oh goodness :frowning:
Is your school very, very competitive?</p>

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<p>It’s a public, and I think I can probably cut some deals so I can get my grades changed. With some of them, anyways.</p>

<p>Not a competitive public. Mostly they’re mediocre grades because I simply could not do all of the classes(except math…*<strong><em>s hard). They’re pretty *</em></strong>ing easy but all require massive amounts of memorization and work that I hadn’t the time for.</p>