A few questions about adcoms decisions (ECs & course rigor)

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<p>Well I'm entering my senior year of high school this fall and then taking my first 200 level CC courses as well. I'm going to be applying to a number of UCs as I am a California resident. My questions are concerning what universities will consider as ECs and if they look at course load/the intensity of the course(s) taken during high school. Since I attend a middle college high school, a number of my community college courses have been applied for my high school units (mostly for elective & mathematics credit). I want to know if the adcoms will consider the fact that a lot of my high school coursework is college level? The following are college courses (and grades in said courses) which I have taken during high school and used as high school credit. Most, if not all of these courses are recognized as honors level by UCs/CSUs:</p>

<p>Spanish 101 - A - Weighted as honors for high school credit + counts as 2 years of foreign language
Music 100 Fundamentals of Music- B - Weighted as honors for high school credit
Psych 172 Developmental Psych - B - Weighted as honors for high school credit
BioSci 107 Molecular Bio - C - Weighted as honors for high school credit (not necessary for HS grad, already done 1 year of HS bio + 1 year of HS chem both with labs)
Math 102 Trig - B
Hist 111 US Hist - B - Weighted as honors for high school credit (not necessary for HS grad, I'll have all of my history requirements done through my HS classes)</p>

<p>This year I'm planning on taking my regular HS classes (english, elective, gov/econ) +
Chem 151 Intro to Chem
Math 104 Precalculus
Math 211 Applied Calculus I
Chem 201 General Chem</p>

<p>There are others for PE and elective credit but most of those are 1-2 college unit courses so I'm almost sure no one cares about those (I got As in all of them anyways).</p>

<p>So will this have any effect on the decision of UC adcoms?</p>

<p>As for my question about EC activities, I want to know if universities consider a student teaching themselves computer programming and developing mobile applications as an EC? I taught myself Java from scratch and I have over 9 applications on the Google Play Store, all of which are over 1,000 downloads with a few of them being 10,000+ downloads. I'm a biology major by the way, not CS so I don't know if this has an impact..</p>

<p>If anyone is wondering, I'm applying to: UCSB, UCLA, UCSD, UCD, UCI, UCB, Stanford, CSUF, and maybe CSUN</p>

<p>Thanks in advance!</p>

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<p>Anyone have any info on either of these questions?</p>

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<p>For UC and CSU purposes, transferable college courses taken while in high school count as honors courses. Check transferability at [Welcome</a> to ASSIST](<a href=“http://www.assist.org%5DWelcome”>http://www.assist.org) . You can also look them up for a-g subject requirement purposes at <a href=“http://doorways.ucop.edu%5B/url%5D”>http://doorways.ucop.edu</a> .</p>

<p>Note that some of your courses are not true college level. Any math less advanced than calculus or statistics (i.e. trigonometry, precalculus) would be considered normal high school level, or remedial in a college context.</p>

<p>I hope you are not pre-med. Medical school admissions consider all college grades, including from courses taken while in high school. All of those B grades and the C in biology will set you back in terms of your GPA for medical school admissions.</p>

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I am pre-med. I know I was irresponsible in those classes but I feel I’ve matured more now and will definitely take every single class from here on out much more serious. The classes I got Bs in I “cruised” through (putting little effort into) which was a huge mistake and unfortunately, I can’t go back in time to change my stupid decisions. I’m not saying the classes were easy but I definitely wasn’t doing all I could. If I had studied instead of thrown away hours and hours of distractions on the internet, I know I would a 4.0 GPA, both HS and college. My current attitude towards school has changed completely and I am setting all distractions aside for this next school year and every academic year following. </p>

<p>All that being said, what kind of chances do you think I have at a California medical school if I get straight As with maybe one or two Bs throughout the rest of my college career (MD or DO)?</p>

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<p>California medical schools are said to be more competitive than most, due to the large number of California resident students relative to the spaces in them. You may want to post your questions on the pre-med forum.</p>