<p>I am a transfer student who has been admitted to UC Davis, UC San Diego, and UC Berkeley as a B.A Psychology major.</p>
<p>There is one issue though. This Spring I took an intro to programming class that is 5 units to help me if I decide to go to UCSD, which was actually my first choice before. I just clicked the box for "UC Berkeley" just to see if I could get in but I doubted it.</p>
<p>Well I am a very good student usually(I have a 3.75 GPA and was an honor student at the first CC I went to), but somehow becuase maybe it was that the class was once a week, or that the class was really long each day, or that it was hard to get help, and that the professor didn't like to communicate exactly what he expected for each project and test I just couldn't barely even get a C in anything there. So I talked to counselors for UCD and UCSD about it and they told me it's best if I withdraw if I don't think I can make it.</p>
<p>So I did.</p>
<p>However I didn't anticipate that I would get accepted to UC Berkeley. Unlike UCD and UCSD, Berkeley isn't so forgiving about withdrawn classes between being accepted and sending the transcripts, even if they don't matter to my major. Programming was only required for UCSD undergrads.</p>
<p>So I emailed UCB about it and they want me to explain myself in detail and talk about even making it up in the summer.</p>
<p>At the CC I went to there is only one Programming intro class in the summer and it's filling up and I think taking a class in the summer may interfere with moving to California. I currently live in Arizona, but I graduated from a California High School so I still count as a California resident.</p>
<p>So I am currently focusing more on whether to go to UCD or UCSD however, I am asking about if I should give UCB a shot. Should I bother groveling and trying to secure my admission to UCB? What should I say? I mean I'm basically saying that I stumbled upon a huge academic weakness outside my major and I may not be able to make it up over the summer.</p>