<p>I think you have a solid chance at UCR but hey, if you have some amazing personal background story, you should try some of the higher up UC’s like UCSD and UCSB and UCD. </p>
<p>I don’t think colleges give you any slack for moving to the U.S. at a young age, unless it was like high school or recently, bc you’ve still been here for the majority of your life. </p>
<p>I had personal issues going on and I moved to the U.S. when I was 8 years old too, and colleges nowadays get a lot of immigrant experience essays as well, so I don’t know anything that stands out too much about you. </p>
<p>You showed improvement in your 2nd semester junior year, but colleges would probably insanely iffy aout you and would wonder if you could actually keep that progress up. Anyways those are just my thoughts and I wish you the best of luck. </p>