<p>My junior year I attended a charter school to make up three Fs from my freshman year. It wasn’t a continuation school or anything, it was independent study. Now, I did a LOT of work while I was there, and unfortunately only completed Junior English, US History, a semester of Health and a semester of Latin American Geography (along with the classes I made up freshman year.) They did not offer AP classes. I attended from September - June, and that’s all I was able to complete. Do UCs ask for unofficial transcripts? If I were to send in my official transcript it would look like I slacked off and only took 3 classes. Please help me, I’m very lost. I’m not behind on credits by the way. Thanks for any help.</p>
<p>You need to go through the UC Pathways site and study all the requirements for admission and how an application is done. Do not assume what follows is a complete list of everything you need to know:</p>
<p>You do not submit transcripts to the UCs for admission. Instead the application requires you to list the schools you attended and your courses and grades in the application. You list courses for which you got Fs in the semesters you took them and then if you retook the courses and got higher grades you list them again with the new grades in the semester you retook the courses. You do not submit official transcripts until after you are admitted and if they conflict with what you provided, your admission will be withdrawn. Thus you need to list your courses and F grades from freshman year and also your retake of those courses and grades in your junior year.</p>
<p>If those Fs are from freshman year, the grades will not be used to determine your GPA which is used to determine your eligibility for admission to “a” UC. That is because only sophomore and junior year grades are used to determine that GPA and thus your grades for the retake of the courses from junior year will be used to determine whether you are eligible if they are a-g courses. However, eligibility also depends on test scores (SAT or ACT) and whether you have completed the necessary number of a-g courses (math, English, foreign language, social studies, lab science, and arts or music) with grades of C or better. You need to have completed 11 such year long courses at the time you apply, 15 by the time you graduate, and your post raises the question as to whether you have 11 so you should review the Pathways site and what you have already to determine whether you can even apply to the UCs.</p>
<p>If in fact you meet the minimum requirements for admission you will be admitted to “a” UC if you are a California resident (non-residents have no guarantees), but not necessarily one of your choice, as long as you include such campuses as Merced and Riverside in your list of UCs to which you are applying because those are usually the ones that take applicants who meet minimum qualifications but cannot get accepted to the higher ranked UCs. Those higher ranked UC campuses can consider those Fs against you in determining whether you will be admitted to them and thus you should not assume, even if you meet minimum qualifications, that you have a real chance for places like UCLA, Berkeley or San Diego.</p>