<p>I am about to submit my UC application and it says my curriculum does not appear to meet their requirements for UC eligibility. it says i am missing a course in "visual and performing arts" i live in virginia and i didn't take a visual and performing arts class...what do i do?</p>
<p>Have you ever taken any type of band/orchestra/drawing/pottery classes before?</p>
<p>If not, there’s an easy fix for this, you can enroll in a community college arts class next semester and then put it on your application as a planned class.</p>
<p>i am taking web page development and design this year.
does that count?</p>
<p>I’d fudge that one as “visual arts”.</p>
<p>Drama class? Chorus? Calligraphy? </p>
<p>If I recall correctly, from last year’s app, it has to be one full year, two semesters.</p>
<p>[University</a> of California - a-g Guide](<a href=“http://www.ucop.edu/a-gGuide/ag/a-g/vpa.html]University”>http://www.ucop.edu/a-gGuide/ag/a-g/vpa.html)</p>
<p>“Visual Art. Examples of acceptable courses include painting, drawing, sculpture, art photography, printmaking, video/film production as an art form, contemporary media, ceramics, and art history. Examples of unacceptable courses include craft courses, mechanical drafting, web page development, yearbook, and photography offered as photojournalism (i.e., as a component of yearbook or school newspaper publication).”</p>
<p>VPA requirements trip up OOS folks each year. Try a search on CC for VPA and see if someone worked it out.</p>
<p>VPA search</p>
<p>[College</a> Confidential - Search Results](<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/search.php?searchid=26023197]College”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/search.php?searchid=26023197)</p>
<p>well what do i do…do i still apply?</p>
<p>call admin?</p>
<p>Chris, your web page development and design class sounds like it would be perfect as a visual arts class. It certainly should be. If the computer program still doesn’t accept that, call someone there.</p>
<p>If you have only taken one semester, and they require two, add this as a planned course for the spring.</p>
<p>limabeans, please re-read Shrinkrap’s post #6 where she quotes directly from the UC website. Web page development is specifically listed as unacceptable as a VPA. A one-semester community college course would be equivalent to a full-year high school course. That is probably your best option, OP.</p>
<p>As already mentioned, the VPA trips up OOS applicants every year.</p>
<p>It has a design element in it, though. So could that get past the “development” issue?</p>
<p>whether it is a visual arts class or not…
does anybody else see how *****ing ridiculous this is?
for like 4 years i have dreamed of going to berkeley because of their legendary computer science department. i have gone to summer academies for programming, worked with companies, started my own company. i did the whole application and worked really hard on it and now i find out im not eligible for admission because i never took an arts class?
sorry but i see something very wrong in that. i have lost a lot of respect for the UC system.</p>
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<p>And you only now looked up the admission requirements? The VAPA requirement has been around a lot longer than four years. Thus, your frustration is understandable, but not sympathy-worthy. </p>
<p>The other way to become eligible for UC is by testing alone. For OOS, you need to average ~710 on all five tests (SAT + 2 Subject Tests). (btw, if your test scores are lower than 700, your chances of acceptance into Cal are slim anyway.)</p>
<p>Eligibility by exam is how a lot of homeschoolers and OOS’ers qualify. UC really wants your money.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/counselors/freshman/minimum-requirements/examination/index.html[/url]”>http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/counselors/freshman/minimum-requirements/examination/index.html</a></p>
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<p>???! Where is this on the website? I didn’t know that.</p>
<p>Does a 36 Math, 32 Reading, 33 English, 34 Science, 10 essay, 780 chem, 800 Math 2 qualify me as an OOS?</p>
<p>^^use the link I included…Click on "Eligibility Index’ and you can put in your numbers.</p>
<p>Thanks. And since Berkeley wants my-and other out of staters-money, does it mean it is easier for OOS students to get in? :)</p>