Importance of Senior Year Schedule for UC's?

Applying to College
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<p>How important is it? Isn't it true that they only see your senior year schedule on your app, not the grades for those classes?</p>

<p>My school offers many honors/AP's. I'm a junior this year, and I regret not taking more AP's. </p>

<p>Did horrible freshman year --> Increasing GPA my sophomore year, but not high enough (my 1 AP was APUSH) ---> straight A's my first semester of Junior year with a pretty balanced course load with one honors (math) and one AP (WHAP). My GPA goes up as the semesters go on, but again, I regret not taking more higher level courses. I go to a pretty competitive HS in California, where many students get into UCB, LMU, USC, Santa Clara, UCSD, UCSB, Davis, and the one or two occasional Stanfords and Harvards.
I'm planning to major in something relating to the humanities if that helps. </p>

<p>Anyways, since course placements are coming up after my break, I'm wondering how many AP's/Honors I should take to compensate for the lack of rigor my transcript contains in my Junior/Sophomore year. Does it even matter? UC's look at only sophomore and junior year, right? Even if I get rejected, they say that straight A's senior year with a challenging course load wont be a good enough reason to appeal. I'm planning to take at least AP Psychology. </p>

<p>Any insight/advice will be greatly appreciated.</p>

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<p>bump10char</p>

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<p>Rigor of senior year schedule is seen and considered in the context of what is available to you in your high school.</p>

<p>Actual senior year grades are not seen in the admissions process, but poor grades or changing to a significantly less rigorous schedule without notification can cause an admission offer to be rescinded. “Poor grades” appears to be mainly defined as any grade worse than C or GPA under 3.0 during senior year, though each UC may have its own definition that it should tell you about in documents accompanying the admission offer.</p>