Do I have chance at t20s with terrible first semester

ucbalumnus
Fri, 09 Jan 2026 18:37:57 +0000

DadTwoGirls:

If you are in California, the the various universities of California will not even care about your freshman year of high school.

Courses before 10th grade still need to be passed with C or higher grades to be counted for the UC/CSU a-g subject requirements. So if, for example, there was a D or F in English that semester, that semester would not count toward the four years of English.

Otherwise, UC admission readers will see all of the self-reported courses and grades. CSU campuses just plug in the recalculated GPA into their admission formulae.

Private colleges and universities in California obviously do whatever they want with your 9th grade courses and grades.