UC app: What if one doesn't meet the a-g requirement?

Applying to College
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<p>I have all of the required and recommended "a-g subject requirements" for UC colleges. Except one: Visual and Performing Arts (VPA).</p>

<p>Perhaps one special circumstance that I qualify for is that I've stuided abroad under the GCSE curriculum (Great Britain education) during my 9th and 10th grade year, and it didn't require me to take a "Visual and Performing Arts" class, although it certainly did offer one.</p>

<p>I've attened an American high school ever since. Am I not even eligible to apply to UC? or do you think my circumstance (of attending a school outside of US for the first two years of high school career) would 'bypass' the requirements?</p>

<p>ughh. i'm starting to worry. I've nearly completed the application only to find out about that "1" listed on the a-g requirement field.</p>

<p>PS. for the GCSE courses I've taken, do I simply put them under the NH (non-honors) category? If you're not familiar with the curriculum, GCSE is a uniform, standardized curriculum that Britain (and few other countries) adopt in high schools. It doesn't have differentiate its classes by honors. I've put them under the honors course for now. Since I've read and heard that UC's make preliminary cut-offs based on the GPA and the SATs in a computerized system, I didn't want to be rejected by default from low weight GPA without the adcoms having looked at the uncommon curriculum I'm enrolled in. (my stats btw are 3.8 uw and 4.3 weighted)</p>

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<p>sorry, i'll bump the thread-;</p>

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<p>I think you are still eligible under "Eligibility by Exam Only," but I could be wrong. I would call the hotline on the UC website, maybe.</p>

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<p>yepp. I intend to call tomorrow straight after school. I was wondering if anyone else who've studied abroad experienced a similar problem : )</p>

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<p>for the a-g courses:</p>

<p>Am I supposed to list classes like:
Marching Band/PE
Teachers Aid
Academic Decathlon</p>

<p>and if not where am I supposed to put this information if my ECs are all filled up.</p>

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<p>bump please</p>

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<p>Woolrich, no, you don't have to mention those classes unless they have had some major impact on you worth mentioning, or give you skills or something. If so, you can put them in the optional personal statement part #4, where you are supposed to elaborate on stuff, or in personal statement #1, about academic opportunities. Course lists are supposed to be college-prep only.</p>

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<p>if you run out of space for ECs, then you can't put them. The ECs you pick are supposed to be the ones you consider most important.</p>