<p>@nero, I understand that UC’s look at grade trends. About the first semester being “a bad start,” in my personal statement for prompt 2, old them in my personal statement that I had to teach myself on how to study efficiently considering that I barely graduated high school (with a 1.9 gpa). Basically, I came into community college with a blank slate, not knowing on how to study efficiently at all because community college was basically the first time that I really had to learn how to become a better student academically</p>