<p>This semester has not been great thanks to depression and other interferences, and I'm ending up with a C in Honors Precalc and potentially a C in US History. Overall, this will put my cumulative weighted GPA at 3.7, unweighted at 3.5. If I actually try next year, I'm pretty confident I can pull all As, four of which will be in Honors/AP courses (AP Calc AB, AP Computer Science, AP Literature, and Honors Physics). That would raise my GPA to around a 3.9 weighted, but I have no idea whether senior year grades are taken into consideration.</p>
<p>Despite my not-too-fantastic GPA, I scored 2350 SAT, 34 ACT, and will likely end up being a National Merit Finalist thanks to my sophomore year 228 PSAT.</p>
<p>I'm hoping to major in Computer Science, and am looking at schools like Pitzer College, New York University, Lewis & Clark College, Reed College, UC Berkeley, UCLA, and UC San Diego.</p>
<p>Will these two Cs be a dealbreaker for any of these schools (or others), or will they mostly be ignored? Thanks!</p>
<p>Who is to say? Would it have been better not to have 2 Cs? Of course. But if your culm GPA and your test scores put you in the range of viable accepted students according to the schools’ published data in their Common Data Sets (google this), then you should apply if you’re interested. What’s done is done. At application time, compare and decide.</p>
<p>Everyone is allowed a blemish or two if everything else looks great - which in your case is going to mean no blemishes 1st semester senior year. You need to show them this is not a long term trend, it was a temporary glitch. </p>
<p>Given the schools you’re aiming at plus your test scores, if you can get back to mostly A’s senior year (don’t put the pressure on that it HAS to be all A’s), you should be fine.</p>