<p>To start off, I live in California.</p>
<p>I’m a junior (four days into school) and my current schedule is as follows:</p>
<p>Anatomy (Honors)
Calculus (AP)
French III (Honors)
English III (AP)
Psychology (AP)
Art (Honors)</p>
<p>Although I am one to two levels above the typical math student in my grade, AP Calc is not right for me. It is extremely difficult (already!) and I am not “math-minded”, as I call it. I know I will not do well on the AP test and also will struggle to keep a passing grade in the class.
After Pre-Calc, my school offers only AP Calc, AP Stats (don’t want to take this either), and College Algebra. I would take College Algebra, but wouldn’t that look cheesy on my transcript? =</p>
<p>To get to my main point: I was thinking about taking Calculus on an online course. I know I will be quite successful with that because I can study at my own slower pace. My cousin took this online course a few years ago, and was accepted into UCSD.</p>
<p>My main questions: Should I stick with the in-school course, or do the online one? And if I were to take the online one - do UC schools (UCSD in particular) still accept such online math courses?</p>
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<p>I expect to receive all A’s in my current (junior) classes (depending on whether I do take that in-school Calc class, though. I will not do well in that.) I expect to pass my AP exams (4 or 5 on Psych, will pass the English one, and Calc is still pending though if I did take it, I probably would not pass).</p>
<p>I received straight A’s in all my sophomore classes throughout the year (4.8 weighted GPA, I was ranked number 11 in my class), which were:</p>
<p>English II (Honors)
French II (Honors)
Pre-Calculus
Chemistry (Honors)
World History (AP) [and received a 4 on the AP test]
Art II</p>
<p>Freshman year, I maintained almost all A’s - I believe I received a B for the last two semesters of math. I was ranked in the 30’s for my class. My classes were:</p>
<p>English I (Honors)
French I (Honors)
Biology (Honors)
Art I
Algebra II
Dance I</p>
<p>Senior year I plan to take these courses (is subject to change though):</p>
<p>English IV AP
French IV AP
Environmental Science AP
Art AP
Anthropology
Statistics AP [MAYBE]</p>
<p>I SHOULD get A’s in Art, Anthropology, Environmental Science, and French. In Stats and English I should get an A or B, hopefully. I believe I would pass all the AP exams.</p>
<p>Summerschool: I took the following courses in summerschool so far: Geography (A), Health (A), US History (A), Computers (A).</p>
<p>As for community service, this year so far I plan on working at the Children’s Discovery Museum, food banks, and working for a dog-therapy program (Is that the proper term? I mean taking dogs around to people at the hospital to cheer them up and such). I am also doing a fundraiser for a disaster area. I will do other things of course, but these are my plans for this year at least.</p>
<p>As for clubs, I am/was in French, National Honors Society, and CSF.</p>
<p>I am Caucasian. My essay should be very good if not excellent. I heard they don’t take recs? Eh, if they did, the recs would be excellent ones. (Sorry, I’ve never posted one of these before, I’m just throwing in information that I think will help!)</p>
<p>Can you tell me my chances of getting into a UCSD, based on the information given, as well as answer my online math course question? Thank you so much for your time!</p>
<p>(I did not yet take the ACT, SAT, or SAT II tests. I should fare alright on them though. Just estimate my chances based on what I’ve given you above, please. Thanks again!)</p>
<p>P.S. (You MIGHT have seen this post before on the General UC board. I’ve had one response so far on that board, so am hoping I will have better luck with you folks!)</p>