<p>sorry guys, but its another senior year grades thread. i have 4 Ap classes this year out of five and i am probably going to end up with around a 2.8 unweighted. I know that is below their requirement, but the fact is that my weighted GPA would be around a 3.8 which is not very far off from my UC GPA that they accepted me with. My grades improved vastly my second semester, and I had a bit of a family situation my first semester. Do you think they will cut me some slack?</p>
<p>it depends on what kind of family situation were talking about here…</p>
<p>also, they don’t care about your wieghted gpa. you can assume that during your senior year, weighted grades do not exist (except for san diego)</p>
<p>explain it to them well enough and they indeed may cut you some slack, but i wouldn’t bank on it.</p>
<p>all im tryin to say with the weighted gpa is that my gpa did not really fall off for my senior year. on the contract, the first thing it says is “complete your senior year with the same excellence you have shown during your academic career.” and i have done that to an extent because i am taking so many AP classes.<br>
Will it also help if I take some of the classes i got a C in over in a community college over the summer?</p>
<p>just a bump</p>
<p>I have 4 words for you: suck it up kid. Not to be harsh, you just gotta go out there and do what you gotta do. I remember my senior year of high school, second semester, senioritis hit hard and I messed around and had a D in AP Calc BC after the first progress report. Whoops. The Community College of Compton wouldn’t let me in with that. Eventually I got my head straight, caught up with all those homeworks I just stopped doing, and pulled it back to a B (strangely enough, I actually like math and even minor in it here, I just hated the daily homework cycle). Anyway, the point is to just do your best to get those grades to where they should be, regardless of whatever conditions. If your classes are really that much harder this year than your previous 3 years, then they would expect to see some change, but they do expect you to grow academically and do just as well in those harder classes as you did before. If your second semester grades are consistent with what you’ve done before, then you should be fine. You’re a smart kid, you got into UCLA, just make sure you do as well as you should in those classes and you should be fine.</p>
<p>In short, don’t worry too much. They’re not going to cut you loose cause you had a 2.95 senior year GPA unless you took 7 cermanics classes in that time.</p>
<p>About the retaking classes at CC, you don’t really need to do it unless it’s something you will need in college and you really don’t feel prepared for the next level at all. Maybe for a math or chem course, but other than that I don’t think I’d do it.</p>