<p>I'm trying to calculate it, but I hit a problem.
First off, am I entering the amount of A's and B's I've received per SEMESTER?
ALSO: In many cases I have more credits than required for certain things, for example I have more than enough History credits, but one semester out of them was a B. Am i allowed to choose which semester grades i want to enter so long as i satisfy the requirement? Thanks and please help me out!</p>
<p>I have never heard of making any substitution like that. You earn grades for all the courses you take.</p>
<p>Each grade in each term is taken in the GPA calculation. For example, Calculus AB AP is split into two semesters, 5 units each. If you earn an A in the first term and a B in the second term, then</p>
<p>(5 units)<em>(4 grade points per unit for an A) = 20 grade points
(5 units)</em>(3 grade points per unit for a B) = 15 grade points</p>
<p>Total grade points divided by total units = 35/10 = 3.5 GPA.</p>
<p>I understand that part. But let’s say UCLA requires 20 science units for their A-G courses, but I have 40. Do I enter 20 credits to calculate my gpa or do I enter all 40?</p>
<p>Enter all 40.</p>
<p>ok. But if they only use your sophomore and junior years to calculate it, do I exclude the grades I got on my a-g course from my freshman year? Because I took half of my requirement for foreign language my freshman year, but once again they claim to only calculate based on sophomore and junior year.</p>
<p>Yup, it’s just a-g classes from 10th and 11th grade.</p>
<p>If you only took two years of a foreign language, you might be in trouble for UCLA. 3 is highly recommended, and a lot of people have 4.</p>
<p>Well will I still be able to apply? That would mean one year of my 2 required was taken during freshman year, so does that get nullified?</p>
<p>Your 9th grade classes count towards A-G (same for Algebra/Geometry/Language) taken in middle school for HS credit). But only classes taken from summer after freshman year through summer after junior year count in your UC 10-11 GPA. </p>
<p>You only get an extra point for AP/Honors classes that are approved by the UCs for your HS, and only up to 8 semesters for the extra point. No more than 2 year long courses taken in 10th grade are eligible for the extra point.</p>
<p>Of course you can still apply. You still get credit for the a-g classes taken in 9th, but they just don’t go into your GPA. And exactly as rwehavingfunyet said, algebra and other stuff from middle school also gets credit. It just doesn’t go in the GPA.</p>
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<p>this is correct, too. That would be called your “capped” GPA. You should figure out both your capped and uncapped GPAs. So here’s an example:</p>
<p>9th:
Spanish 1 (A/A)
English 9 (A/A)
World History (A/B)
Geometry (A/A)
PE (A/A)
Band (A/A)</p>
<p>10th
English (A/A)
Algebra 2 (A/A)
AP Chemistry (B/B)
Spanish 2 (A/A)
AP Euro (A/B)
PE (A/A)</p>
<p>11th
Precalc (A/A)
APUSH (A/A)
AP Bio (A/B)
AP Psych (A/A)
Band (A/A)
AP Music Theory (B/A)</p>
<p>Okay, so you don’t count any of the 9th grade classes in the GPA, even though you will get credit for taking them. Go to 10th and 11th.</p>
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<p>English: 4 + 4 = 8
Algebra: 4 + 4 = 8
AP Chem (w): 4 + 4 = 8
Spanish 2: 4 + 4 = 8
AP Euro (w): 5 + 4 = 9
Don’t count PE.</p>
<p>Total Points (10): 41</p>
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<p>Precalc: 4 + 4 = 8
APUSH (w): 5 + 5 = 10
AP Bio (w): 5 + 4 = 9
AP Psych (w): 5 + 5 = 10
Band: 4 + 4 = 8
AP Music Theory (w): 4 + 5 = 9</p>
<p>Total Points (11): 54</p>
<p>Total Points (10 + 11): 95
Now divide by the semesters of grades (10 from 10th, 12 from 11th): 95/22 = 4.32</p>
<p>Notice that I weighted everything, so this is the uncapped GPA.</p>
<p>For your capped GPA, you can only have 8 semesters of weighted grades. This means that since this example has 12 semesters of weighted grades, I must take off 4 points from the total and redivide (because 12 - 8 = 4)</p>
<p>So, 95 - 4 = 91.</p>
<p>91 divided by 22 semesters of grades: 91/22 = 4.14</p>
<p>So this example has an uncapped GPA of 4.32 and a capped GPA of 4.14.</p>
<p>Make sense?</p>
<p>Thanks a ton, that totally cleared everything up!!!</p>