Hello I am trying to apply for anthropology / sociology for the fall 2018.
I will be completing 60 units by the fall 2017 (all major courses and IGETC (EXCEPT MATH).
I currently have about 3.91 GPA and I am aiming for USC , UCLA, UCB.
I’m planning to take the area 2 math course in 2018 spring since I’m not really confident in Math and I am already taking 16 units in 2017 fall.
Will this highly impact my admission for those schools?
Thank you.
You should really try for it in fall unless you have intermediate algebra with a letter grade. That was my situation. Even though Int Alg is not transferable they told me they liked seeing a math grade. I took the req math course in spring and got into Cal and UCLA, so it is doable. But i had that other math grade FWIW.
How about in Winter?, So I can put in my grades when updating the application.
I would at least try for winter. You can email each UC the grade.
I applied to UCLA while having my transferable math (statistics) in-progress. I didn’t get in that year. I had a 4.0 until math came along 
I was really worried about math too. I placed in intermediate algebra, but I didn’t want to take that class because it wasn’t transferable. I managed to convince the chair of the math department to let me take stats (which had intermediate algebra as a pre-req) by showing him that I had taken and aced several programming courses.
I tried again the next year and managed to get into UCLA as an anthropology major - as well as a bunch of other schools that rejected me the year before like USC, UCB, etc. I ultimately went with USC, but I’d definitely recommend getting in that math as early as possible. Winter sounds like a great idea if you have the time to take care of it then.
thanks so much!