<p>I received an F at my csu and may not be able to make it up and I can't make it up at my community college. It's going to forever bring down my gpa so what do you think my chances of still getting into UCLA and Irvine are if I have a strong upward trend in grades? Has anyone ever gotten in with an F?</p>
<p>You can get in if you have strong grades from here on out. And by strong, I mean all As. You really have to show the school you’re applying to that the F was not a good indication of your academic performance. Even if you can’t make the class up, if you can take a class that covers the same material you’ll be able to highlight this in your UC Application. Good luck.</p>
<p>Just also know that community college students have priority over CSU transfers. So, unless your overall GPA is very strong, this may not work out for you. Have a few Plan B options as well just in case.</p>
<p>Are you still a student at a CSU trying to transfer as an undergraduate to UCLA or UC Irvine? If that is the case the F is probably a moot point since UCs accept very few transfer students from CSUs no matter how good their GPAs are. For example for fall 2010 UCLA accepted 35% of all students who were transfer applicants from CCCs, about 19% of transfer applicants from other UCs, 10% of transfer applicants from OOS four year colleges and universities and only 6% of students attempting to transfer from CSUs to UCLA. Applicants for transfer from Arizona State (13.3%) were twice as likely as a CSU transfer applicant to be accepted by UCLA. </p>
<p>If you have dropped out of the CSU and are now attending a CCC and plan to transfer as a CCC applicant, the F you received at the CSU will hurt your chances but it is probably not a fatal blow if you do real well at the CCC. When you apply to a UC you will have to submit an official transcript from your CSU but it will be your grades from the CCC that will determine whether or not you are admitted to a UC.</p>
<p>I had a few D grades and F grades while at City College of San Francisco. Luckily, we have a program called “academic renewal” that erases bad grades from your transcript. A lot of people don’t know about this program.</p>
<p>You are allowed to use academic renewal for D and F grades. One of the stipulations is that the grades have to be from 2 years ago or greater. I used this program in 2006. It may or may not still be around and there may now be more or less stipulations for it.</p>
<p>I ended up with a 3.46 City College GPA when I transferred and I got accepted to UCLA pre business economics. I went to UCLA and graduated with a degree in economics.</p>
<p>Maybe your CSU has a similar program? You don’t know until you ask! I would ask several counselors because sometimes certain counselors have limited information and give false information.</p>
<p>@Lemaitre: I did leave the csu and am now at a ccc. But how do you know it’s not a fatal blow? My counselor basically told me the F is what’s going to keep me out of UCLA. If it means anything, the grade was in an introductory bio class and I’ve since switched my major completely and the class isn’t required for my new major. She also told me there’s no way for me to explain that fact that I can’t retake the class because of finances or that the class showed me that I wasn’t really passionate about my previous major.
@smith415: There is a program like that but five more years need to pass before I qualify -____-</p>
<p>If the class is an introductory Biology class, isn’t there an equivalent class at your CC? Have you checked assist.org?</p>
<p>Yes, I’ve seriously tried everything. The only way to replace it is to go back and retake it at the csu =( It’s just a pain because it would be about 4000 dollars and financially I just can’t do that right now.</p>
<p>So you know, UC’s DO replace grades from CSU’s with grades from CC’s if the courses are equivalent. So if your CC doesn’t offer an equivalent class maybe another nearby CC does?</p>
<p>I’m speaking from experience btw… I attended a CSU where I had three F’s and a D. I re took one F and the D at my CC (the other two F’s at the CSU through open university). And got accepted to UCLA.</p>
<p>None of them do.
My plan was just to get straight As (all my courses are easy social sciences), bring up my gpa as much as possible and somehow explain the F in my application and the fact that I couldn’t retake it because of financial problems, which is also the reason I had to go to a ccc. My counselor said schools aren’t going to take the time to read about all that or even care, though.</p>
<p>Have you looked into Open University through the CSU? It is a little on the pricey side (about 240$ a unit last I checked), but if it’s only ins class, that’d be considerably lower than the 4 thousand dollars you had said in previous posts. If that is not an option either, then yes definitely try and get straight A’s from here on out and explain the situation in your personal statement. That’s all you can do.</p>
<p>“ins” in my previous post should say “one” sorry, typing on my phone.</p>
<p>Thanks, man, I really appreciate all you help.</p>
<p>your help, not you help</p>
<p>I think your guidance counselor is being a little pessimistic. Since you are getting As in all your social science classes, what she actually may mean is that if there is anything that is going to keep you out of UCLA, it will be the F in Biology at the CSU, since it is the only negative thing in your record.</p>
<p>Before you retake the class at your old CSU, or anywhere else, you should do an honest self-evaluation and determine why you failed the course and if the reason(s) you failed it is something you can overcome if you take the class again. You certainly do not want a second F on your transcript. If you failed because you were simply not motivated to do the work but actually were able to understand the material, retaking it might be a good idea since you are now probably highly motivated to replace that F. If, on the other hand, you made a serious effort to pass the course but were just unable to comprehend the concepts that make up the biological sciences, there is not much reason to believe the second attempt will result in a different outcome from the first.</p>