Academic schedule for UCLA hopeful

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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I’m a sophomore in high school. I want to apply to UCLA and I wanted to know if the classes I plan on taking are appropriate for going to this university. I looked at their a-g requirements to be considered/admitted and I’ll almost have exceed them by the end of my Junior year (would just be missing one more year of English).

AP French
AP Lang
APUSH or AP Psych
Calculus
Spanish 11
PE
(not taking science next year b/c by the time I finish 10th grade, I will have already taken Physics, Chemistry, and Biology)

I’m also going to have EC’s, be in honor societies, do volunteer work, etc.

So, is their something I should change to that schedule as in taking more AP’s or taking different ones, etc.

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You’re good, but you should still take a science, perhaps a fun one if it’s offered, like environmental science, marine biology…?

3

@MYOS1634 Well, I don’t know. The only other science that’s not AP Bio, AP Chem, or AP Physics, is AP Environmental Science. Why do you think I should take a science, to have a fuller schedule?

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Because UCLA will want you to have Math up to precalc or calc, Foreign language up to level 3 or 4, and 4 years each of history/social science, science, and English. The minimum requirements are just that - minimum; to have a shot you really need to exceed them.
With calculus and AP French, you have Math and FL covered. APUSH would count as stronger than AP Psych.

5

Take a science course instead of taking Spanish 2 since you are already in AP French. Two Languages are hard to fo and plus a science course would look more rigorous.

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@lolkar I live in a spanish-speaking country so I have to take Spanish.

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@MYOS1634 I actually checked and it’s only 2 years of science. I know that I should exceed the requirements to have a better chance, so I’ll see. And as for AP Psych, I’m taking that one because I may want to study something related to that.

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@lolkar It says Spanish 11th grade

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Your odds of an admission if you only have the minimum are extremely low. You’ll be expected to have up to 8 Aps to boost your UCGPA and a high test score, with the classes I mentioned above. You can of course deviate from that but you should always see that as a “lack” that needs to be “offset” by something especially striking, or something more advanced than the “general plan”, such as having two AP sciences, or two foreign languages at level 4 or 5…