Hi, I just finished my junior year, and I’m worried about getting into these colleges. I attend a competitive high school in california, which is known for being very hard. Here are my grades by semester:
freshman semester 1-
biology: B
college/career: A
english 1: B
geometry: B
world history: B
Band 2: A
pe: A
3.29
s2-
biology: A
english 1: A
geometry: B
world history: A
band 2: A
symphonic band: A
pe: A
3.83
summer:
health: A
soph s1-
algebra 2: A
chem: C
chinese 1: F
english 2: A
symphonic band: A
jazz band: A
pe: A
3.17
s2-
algebra 2: B
chem: B
english 2: A
symphonic band: B
AP human geo: C
student aide: A
swimming: A
3.29
junior s1:
chinese 1: A
AP environmental science: A
AP psych: B
novel: A
pre calc: C
us history: B
symphonic band: A
3.43
s2-
chinese 1: C
AP environmental science: A
AP psych: A
expository writing: A
pre calc: C
us history: A
symphonic band: A
3.43
community college:
chinese 1a: A
basics of cell culture (biotechnology): B
college success: A
senior year planned courses:
AP chemistry
AP calc ab
AP econ
AP english lang/ comp
american democracy
chinese 2
symphonic band
UC gpa: 3.59
sat
(old): 1740
(new): 1200
act: 25 (will retake)
ap scores-
human geo: 2 lol
apes: 4 (not sure)
psych: 2 (not sure)
ECs:
band: (9-12), all city band 3 years + solo ensemble festival, planning to do all state
track: (10-11) (1 frosh soph, 1 varsity)
dragon boat: 12
shield & scroll honor society: (11-12)
csf: 12
pact4college: VP, 12
media club: (10-12), secretary
business club: (10-12), secretary
global glimpse: s’16 traveler
religious volunteering: 300 hours
summer internship: s’15, s’16
intended major: environmental science
I’m worried about the Cs I’ve gotten soph- junior year. I know 5 Cs is a lot. In addition, I’m confused about my situation with chinese. After failing chinese 1a at my high school, I took a chinese 1a course at community college, and earned an A. The next semester, I repeated chinese 1a back at my high school, then got an A. The next semester, I got a C. I do not know whether colleges will only calculate the A i received from retaking the course, or if they will average the A i got with the original F I got (the community college course level chinese is not the equivalent to high school chinese.)
Thanks, sorry for any confusion 