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I am taking a course at UC Berkeley during their summer sessions (for the pre-college scholars program). I am taking CS 61A, which is a fairly difficult computer science course (twice as hard since I have to finish it in 8 weeks instead of a full semester!).

I messed up big time during an exam, and am facing a B/B+… Will this hurt my college apps? UC Berkeley is my target school, and I have to report this grade when I apply. Even though there isn’t much I can do right now except make sure that my grade doesn’t go down, I just want to know whether this will throw up red flags?

(P.S. I am a straight A student in high school, and am planning to take Community College courses this fall/next spring. I also have a 1510 SAT with a 6|5|6 essay, and I’ve been playing piano for 10+ years, and performed out of state/country over the past 3-4 years. I am a rising junior).

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B to B+ is the median grade for CS 61A. I doubt if this one course will affect you one way or another as far as admissions goes for Berkeley or for any other school.

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For UCs, transferable college courses are considered to be honors courses in GPA recalculation.

If you do eventually want to attend UCB and go into the L&S CS major, be aware that entering the L&S CS major after enrolling as L&S undeclared needs a 3.3 GPA in CS 61A, 61B, 70. So you really want to try for a B+ or higher grade in CS 61A if that is a goal of yours (B+ is 3.3 in college GPA calculations at UCB).