Is my senior schedule ok for UC's?

Question

I feel kind of bad that I am not taking that many classes this year. It makes me feel like an underachiever or something and makes me worried that I won't get into a good college. I plan to go to one of the UC (university of California) schools. My schedule: english AP, economics H, calculus AP, photography, art media.

Bad? Alright? Will this make or break me in admissions decisions?? which UC's will this schedule be totally ok for. I have average SAT scores, but a 3.8 GPA and tons of service hours

Answer 1

Perhaps if you have no classes that you want to take at your high school, consider taking a late afternoon/night class at your community college or a saturday class. Then you can still have more classes but you have more options of what to take. Perhaps getting those pesky general education courses a start like English 101 and the like. Then it'll be much cheaper. If you live in California, tuition for high school students are free at community college. All you have to pay for is fees (my CC is about 40 dollars a quarter but I'm not taking any science or art courses) and textbooks. I had two classes during the summer quarter and spent about 100 on books. About 140. Not bad.

I would say five is fine. I'm probably only taking four at my high school senior year (AP lit, AP stat, nanotechnology or AP physics, Civic/economics). This year I'm only taking 5 at my high school (Trig, physics, honors American lit, architecture, US history) but then over three quarters  I'm taking English 101, Korean 3, Intro to Korean pop culture, astronomy, and another class most likely.

You can always start on general education if you have time and then UCs can see that you can actually handle a college setting and the workload.

Good luck!