Can Somebody Calculate My UC GPA?

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<p>ok uhh what would my UC GPA be?</p>

<p>Freshmen:</p>

<p>English 1 H: B/A
Physical Education: B/C
Computer Technology/Health: C/A
Chemistry H: B/B
Algebra 2 H: C/B
Spanish 1: A/B</p>

<p>Sophomore:</p>

<p>Physical Education: A/A
English 2 H: B/B
World History H: B/A
Biology 2 AP: B/A
Pre-Calculus H: B/B
Spanish 2: B/B</p>

<p>Junior (Second Semester Grades Assumed):</p>

<p>US History AP: A/A
Chemistry 2 AP: A/A
English 3 H: B/A
Weight Training: A/A
Calculus A/B AP: B/A
Korean 4: A/A</p>

<p>I think all the honors classes are weighted along with AP classes.</p>

<p>Thank you</p>

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<p>im getting 3.9 (not counting weight training and PE)</p>

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<p>thank you :]</p>

<p>by the way is that weighted?</p>

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<p>Look, it's not that ahrd. I don't have the time, but you can do this yourself:</p>

<p>assign honor's and ap grades the same value with regular classes one less value than their honors/ap counterpart.</p>

<p>IE</p>

<p>A in AP Lang is a 5
B in honors English is a 4
A in regular health is a 4
B in regular world history is a 3
...etc</p>

<p>Add up all the values (from semester grades) and divide that by (#of courses taken times 10). Count double periods as 2 courses and as 2 numbers(i.e. an A in AP Bio gives you 10). Now multiply the number you got by 5. That's your weighted GPA.</p>

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<p>yes its weighted, but seriously, you should ask your HS counselor for the official number.</p>

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<p>i think he knows how to calculate it... just plain lazy</p>

<p>i'm getting about 3.90 for uc gpa (weighted but capped at 8 semesters)
you're assuming that you will get straight a's?... haha...</p>

<p>you're seriously lacking in terms of a-g count (it's because you're taking pe 3 years; computers/health aren't academic classes). and you have no elective class.
right now you have 28 + 4 (assuming 4 for alg 1 & geometry) = 32
even if you have full 6 academic classes next year, you will only end up with 44 a-g semesters.
you need about 47 for a decent uc
<a href="http://www.ucop.edu/news/factsheets/2007/freshman_admit_profile_2007.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.ucop.edu/news/factsheets/2007/freshman_admit_profile_2007.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>not to scare you or anything</p>

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<p>Your UC gpa is a 3.9</p>

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<p>For AP/Honors do u add .5 or 1?</p>

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<p>A couple of important things not mentioned by previous posters:</p>

<p>(1) Only courses taken during the sophomore and junior years count in computing the UC GPA.</p>

<p>(2) Courses like "Health" and PE don't count at all--you just throw them out. The courses that count are the a-g courses given at the link provided by jaynele above</p>

<p>(3) There is a cap of 8 GPA points added for the first 8 semesters of honors/AP/IB courses taken during the sophomore and junior years. Any other honors taken don't count for "extra" grade points (you still get the standard grade points A=4, B=3, C=2, etc.).</p>

<p>(4) Not all "honors" courses count as such. You need to look up your high school on the UCOP "Pathways" website, where it tells which courses count as "UC honors" and which ones don't (this is only for California high schools, if you are in a different state I don't know how they know which should be honors and which shouldn't).</p>

<p>(5) You get +1 point added for UC honors, AP, and IB courses up to the 8 course maximum. After that you get nothing (nothing extra, that is).</p>

<p>(6) Taking more courses and getting "A"s in them once you reach the 8 course cap will actually lower your GPA if you are above a 4.0 UC GPA at that point--but the UC admins take this into account since they want people to take more courses, not less.</p>

<p>For the person above, the total is 10 As (worth 4 x 10 or 40) plus 10 Bs (worth 3 x 10 or 30) plus 8 extra for the honors/AP courses gives 78 total grade points divided by 20 courses or a "UC GPA" of 3.9 </p>

<p>There is no such thing as a UW or W "UC GPA", just a "UC GPA"</p>

<p>UW GPA would mean all the classes added up together divided by courses attempted with no extra points for honors. A weighted GPA would mean adding up all the classes using one point extra for each honors/AP/IB courses taken then dividing by the number of courses attempted. In this person's case, the UW GPA would be lower than the UC GPA, but the weighted GPA would be higher than the UC GPA for the sophomore and junior years (but probably lower once you added in the freshman year).</p>

<p>A final note: Not knowing this person's SAT scores, I would estimate them as a Reach for UC Berkeley and UCLA, a Slight Reach for UCSD, a Match for UCSB/UCD/UCI, a Safe Match for UCSC/UCR, and a Safety at UCM.</p>

<p>This is presuming they have around a SAT score of 1850. Higher or lower SAT scores would change that assessment.</p>

<p>Your chances will also depend on other things like: Did parents go to college?, Are you from a lower-income family?, Are your parents divorced and you live with just one of them?, and Do you have a unique skill in music or athletics? etc.</p>

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<p>^ Nice advice.</p>

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<p>
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you're seriously lacking in terms of a-g count

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<p>this may be stupid, but i'm not from california... what is an a-g count?</p>

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<p>There are only 6 regular periods in my high school. And the school requires 2 years of PE and one sememster of health and one semester of art spectrum, which are not a-g courses. So max I can have is 42.</p>

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<p>look people, ure making this a lot more complex than it needs to be: this is how u calc UC GPA:</p>

<p>For regular courses
a -4
b-3
c-2
d-1</p>

<p>for honors:
5-a
4-b
3-c
2-d
1-f</p>

<p>DONT COUNT PE OR NOT COLLEGE ACCEPTED CLASSES BY UC</p>

<p>so u add up all the points and divide by how many semesters there are, THEN ROUND UP THAT NUMBER, AND THATS UR GPA!! WHA LA LA! PLAIN AND SIMPLE!!!</p>

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<p>well, there's always summer school</p>