High School/College Planning for future ahead:)

Congratulations on such a turn around in work ethics and perspective.

That being said, it seems you’ve taken on too much for it to be sustainable. Even top colleges wouldn’t expect more than 4-5 APs - even if you had straight As before, no human being would be expected to take 6 APs and 3 DEs at the same time, let alone do well in them.

I understand you want to offset freshman/sophomore year grades but that’s not the way to do it. If your goal is a UC, you need to do things the right way: fewer classes (5 AP+ DE combined, the rest honors). Drop DE Chem and DE Intro to business; you don’t need 2 social sciences so drop either APUSH or AP Psych; you don’t need 2 AP sciences, so drop either AP Environmental or AP Bio. If you plan to major in Science you could keep both sciences/if you plan to major in social sciences you could keep both social science classes but in that case drop ASL or take Precalculus Honors instead of AP Precalc. DO keep AVID. It will help you throughout the year wrt preparing for college, study methods, writing college essays, etc.

What do you do outside of school? Do you have a job? Volunteer somewhere? Practice a sport with your HS or a club? This will matter to selective universities in addition to straight As in 6 subjects.

Go to the UCSC NPC: what amount appears under “net cost”?