<p>I am a CCC poli sci major that just submitted the UC app for UCSD (TAG), UCLA (TAP) and UCB. Since I hear that UCB might be a bit more holistic when reviewing applicants, I wanted to get someones opinion on what my chances are. </p>
<p>My GPA by the end of this fall will be (if I ace french) a 3.61 and if i get a B in french, a 3.55 (all my other grades this sem are guaranteed A's). I know that isn't very high, however I had one semester where I was having a lot of personal problems (plus being a fulltime student athlete) and it really affected my grades. My counselors told me not to worry too much because it is VERY obvious by looking at my transcripts that it was an isolated incident (the semester before was all A's and the ones after are mostly all A's with an occasional B). I mentioned this in the "additional comments" section of the application. Needless to say my GPA would be waaaay higher had it not been for that screw up. </p>
<p>My personal statement received very good feed back from my counselors and my English 3 Honors professor (who has apparently read many personal statements before), I have done a lot of community service and I used to work at a US embassy in Asia, which i tied into my personal statement. I also talked about how i have lived abroad and travelled a lot. I am a student athlete and as the TAP suggests, an honors student. Also, I have aced all of my "major prep" classes (which I am assuming is just the classes that are needed to transfer and are relevant to my major) so my major prep gpa would be a 4.0. Oh and I have completed all of my pre rec except for Poli Sci 2 which is only offered in the spring anyway and I am already enrolled in it for next sem.</p>
<p>I know people are going to tell me that my GPA is too low and trust me I know it is, but like I said that one bad semester is what is keeping it from being a 3.9 or so, and I was hoping they would see that. Am I just delusional?</p>