<p>@neatoburrito I have to bc I’m a sophomore and I believe you need three years of math to graduate.</p>
<p>@ VivaCardinals the fact that you may potentially benefit from Affirmative Action should not matter when your grades are as bad as they are right now. You may be a minority but you must still be qualified and be able to show that you can handle the work of college classes, which you have not presently demonstrated. Get your grades up and don’t even think about taking AP Calc when you’re not even getting a B in pre-calc. As an AP calc student I can tell you now if you can’t survive in pre-calculus won’t be able to tread water in an AP math course. Listen to @T26E4 - his advice is sound. </p>
<p>Sorry to @VivaCardinals my post should not have been directed toward you but to the OP @PASAMBAA </p>
<p>If you cannot handle high school classes, what makes you think that you can handle classes in a top tier college?
I’m not saying that you are stupid, but top tier colleges are not for everyone. People can and do have successful lives after attending average colleges.</p>
<p>Drop down to college track courses instead of AP courses and actually learn the material being taught so that you do not flounder in college, and apply to colleges that are not top tier - there is no shame in that. Better to go to a school that you can do well in than one you cannot. </p>
<p>Affirmative Action can only go so far; you have to show that you can handle the academics of the schools to which you are applying.</p>
<p>In another post you stated that you wanted to go to Harvard because your family wants you to give them pride by attending a top school… doing poorly at a top school would be far less prestige than doing well in a good school.</p>
<p>Are you in state for Berkeley? </p>
<p>@KKmama Ya. I was planning on Berkley after research early freshman year.</p>
<p>Do not take AP classes if you can’t Ace them. Take Honor classes. My D did not take any AP classes and her school offered them. She did take honors. SHe got into quite a few prestigious colleges, no Ivys but University of Chicago and University of Michigan and Northwestern but rejected from Duke. It is not true that Bs and Cs on APs are better than As on Honors or regular. My D did have a solid ACT score but AP classes best if you can handle them and perhaps better for Ivy schools.</p>
<p>When Berkeley admissions readers look at your application, they will see all courses and grades. Even if you retake the D/F courses and get A grades to replace them in GPA calculations, the original D/F grades will be visible. This makes getting into Berkeley or other highly selective schools extremely unlikely.</p>
<p>@ucbalumnus who knows? Maybe the admissions office is willing to overlook those two grades. I say this is because my transcript is a mix of As and Bs and then they see those two bad grades of course they will question me. if my extra curriculars stood out to them enough then in that case they will most likely overlook it. I still think I have hope but I need to make sure I do well and in my opinion you’re never out of the game if improvement is shown. </p>
<p>SMH. I’m not going to spend any more time trying to prise your UCB dreams from your clutches. Believe what you want. You ask advice – it’s given and you offer up countering actions. I can see why your Chem and PreCalc teachers aren’t warm to your attempts to get on track too. You should listen more and state less.</p>
<p>Sincerely, I wish you tons of luck and the ability to quickly turnaround your ship before it crashes on the rocks.</p>