How bad did I mess up?

Applying to College
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<p>Ok, so here's the deal. I'm an incoming freshman and i'm looking at colleges (For the purposes of saving up and such).
I have both a c in algebra 1 and a c in geometry (both which I took in middle school). Now I know these are high school courses and will be added on my transcript but I want to know whether this will totally affect my chances of undergrad admission for the universities i'm researching. </p>

<p>Basically I want to know if having all of the other things (extracurriculars, test scores, rest of my gpa, etc.) being the best they could be would justify the 2 c's in middle school, or whether these universities will care a lot for these middle school grades if all of the other things were outstanding. I've tried finding the answer to this by looking on the universities' websites but they're a little vague on this topic ( seeing as though this isn't all there is to the admission process) so i'm just looking for a straight forward honest answer. </p>

<p>Here are the universities i'm looking at: </p>

<p>NYU (Maybe Tisch or Stern)
UC Berkeley
UCLA
Oxford
Columbia
Stanford
Cornell </p>

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<p>UC’s only use 10-11th grades for their UC GPA: <a href=“GPA Calculator for the University of California – RogerHub”>http://rogerhub.com/gpa-calculator-uc/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>For UCLA/UCB, this is how applicants are reviewed:
<a href=“http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/freshman/how-applications-reviewed/index.html”>http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/freshman/how-applications-reviewed/index.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>What about the universities outside of UC?</p>

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<p>my kid’s high school transcript only uses classes after 9th grade for gpa calculation</p>

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<p>Colleges typically don’t consider your 7th and 8th grade classes when looking at your application. Yes it will be shown on your transcript, but it will be more important that you took high rigor in math and continued with it through senior year. This is also the case for foreign language, so most schools require a minimum of 2 years beyond middle school. </p>