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<p>I am going into my senior year of high school, and live in california. To boost my UC-GPA, I am taking 2 courses at a local community college this summer. My counselor told me that I could also take 2 course in the fall (8 weeks each) at community college and those would also add to my UC-GPA, however this is straight from the UC website---</p>

<p>How do you calculate an out-of-state high school applicant's GPA? Do you give extra credit for the school’s honors courses?</p>

<p>UC calculates an out-of-state applicant’s GPA similarly to how it calculates the GPA of a California resident, with one exception. We use all courses the student took to meet “a-g” requirements from the summer before 10th grade to the summer after 11th grade. In calculating a nonresident's GPA, UC will grant honors weight for AP or IB courses only, but not for school-designated honors courses.</p>

<p>Is my counselor wrong in saying that taking fall courses will be able to add to my UC-GPA? or would those 8 week fall courses fall under the "summer after 11th grade"</p>

<p>thanks a lot</p>

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<p>classes taken in the fall, whether at your HS or at a CC, are not taken during “the summer after 11th grade”. You list them, they count when they look at the difficulty of your proposed schedule, bu they will not be part of your GPA so far as I know. </p>

<p>You might want to email UCLA admissions to confirm.</p>