<p>Okay, so I am a high school junior. I have screwed up my GPA. Not as bad as you may think, but I knew I could have done better. Okay, let me explain.</p>
<p>As a freshman, I royally screwed up my GPA that year. The thing is that I was in a special program that loaded on extra work and made it extremely challenging in my classes. Only a handful of other students were in this program and very few people had good grades. So my GPA freshman year was 3.2. However, this did not worry me much, since I decided that colleges do not care much about freshman year grades. In sophomore year, the first semester I earned a GPA of 3.33(UW) and 3.5 (W). I could've had another A, but I had an 89% and a mean teacher.. you know the story. However, second semester of sophomore year, I earned all A's, and first semester junior year I have also earned all A's.</p>
<p>Summary..</p>
<p>Freshman First Semester grades .. 3.0
Second semester . . . . . . . . . . . 3.4
Cummulative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3.2
Sophomore First Semester . . . . . .3.33 (UW) 3.5(W)
Second semester. . . . . . . . . . . . 4.0 (UW) 4.16(W)
Cummulative sophomore . . . . . . . 3.67(UW) 3.83(W)
Cummalative both years . . . . . . . 3.43(UW) 3.51(W)
Junior First Semester . . . . . . . . . 4.0 (UW) 4.67(W)
Cummulative all years . . . . . . . . .3.71(UW) 4.09(W)</p>
<p>Can you check my math please, I am not sure if I am calculating it correctly..</p>
<p>I am applying to UCs mostly. I know that I do not include freshman year in my GPA in my application (THANK GOD).</p>
<p>I am co-captain of my basketball team, captain of science bowl, and captain of my school's Chinese club. I am also involved in CSF and NHS. Plus many more ECs (summer business camp, music camp..)</p>
<p>And I have received a 5 on my AP European History test.</p>
<p>I am ranked in the top 10% and it is possible I may be ranked in the top 5%, but I'm going to assume that I am not in the top 5%.</p>
<p>Do you think colleges would forgive my bad grades in freshman and first semester sophomore year, which pretty much dragged down my whole GPA.</p>
<p>Assuming that I do well my junior year and that I do well on my SAT's, is UC Berkeley a reach for me?</p>