I found this on the UC Freshman Admissions website:
“Honors courses are calculated differently. In calculating an out-of-state student’s GPA, UC will grant honors weight for AP or IB courses only, but not for school-designated honors courses. The weight is given to letter grades of A, B, or C.”
Does my RogerHub calculated UC GPA still apply if I weighted my Honors courses with the Honors selection?
Rogerhub does not know if you are OOS or in-state when you plug in the extra honors points, so since you are OOS your HS’s Honors courses are not weighted (no extra honors points), only AP or IB courses will get the extra honors points.
When using the Rogerhub UC GPA recalculator, you need to determine which of your courses are considered honors. For California students, you can look it up on the UC Doorways site (not all high school designated honors courses are considered honors by UC). For non-California students, only AP and IB courses are considered honors by UC.
@Gumbymom @ucbalumnus That is not good for me at all :-SS
Also, taking SAT on November 3rd!
Hello everyone,
I just have a quick question regarding my junior year in high school. I just finished my first quarter, and I received the following grades:
Hiroshima-9/11 (Advanced): 97.5%
Algebra II: 94.51%
Spanish III: 98.2%
Contemporary World Literature: 87.22%
Chemistry II: 93.17%
World Religion I: 82.83%
ECs:
More about me:
-Privileged white male (prestigious private boarding school)
-Income bracket: roughly 500k a year
Schools:
UCLA
UCSD
UCI
UCR
USC (first-name basis with Assistant Director of Admissions)
Cal Poly SLO (mom attended)
Illinois (dad attended)
Berkeley
USD
Chapman University
UCSB
UCI
What should I do to make this year more presentable on my transcript? Next semester I am planning on taking as many Advanced/APs as possible, but other than that I am lost.
One thing I have noticed is that a lot of students have awards, although I don’t have any.
Please help! @-)
No AP or IB classes on your schedule? Your lack of these type of courses, will impact your chances at the UC’s and Cal Poly SLO.
I am taking one this quarter and will take as many as possible from here on out.
Since the UC’s and CSU’s only recognize AP or IB courses 10-11th grades in their GPA calculation, your weighted GPA will be affected. So you are on the quarter system and Chemistry is your AP class? Does your AP courses run all year?
I’m on the semester system but that’s my first quarter. My AP is Hiroshima-9/11 (History), which is a year long class.
So Hiroshima is AP World History? And what other AP’s can you take next quarter?
Get an SAT tutor, and/or take an SAT boot camp. Highly worthwhile investment of time and money. Shoot for a high SAT score, and it will significantly help your overall package.
Yes, Hiroshima is AP World History. I can’t take any more AP’s next quarter, as the time period for changing classes has closed. Although, next semester I will be taking AP Physics and AP History again, the only two AP’s available for me. I could also move up to AP Algebra II.
I am guessing that I will get around a 1450 on my SAT. Would that help?
The correct answer is that your HS, like many elite high schools, does not offer AP/IB. AP-level or post-AP classes are still not the same as AP. Regardless, nobody likens a course covering 60 years to AP World History.
1450 SAT is very good. Getting 1500+ even better. At this point the things you have left under your control are your SAT/ACT score and your essays. Have you done any study prep so far for the SAT? You mentioned a 1400 score above? Was that your first score with no test prep? Or with test prep? Test prep (private SAT tutor or bootcamp) can boost your SAT score by 150-250 points. 150-200 is very doable from whatever your score is BEFORE you started studying for the test. My kid boosted her score by 230 points with a private tutor to a 1500 SAT. Essays matter too. Get an Essay writing coach, they can help with creative idea formation.
Of your schools, I agree with Gumbymom’s early ranking of the schools. UCLA and UCB are the hardest to get into by far. They just get ton of applications, many high scoring, high achieving kids. So having interesting stories in your essays will help. UCSD, UCI you should have pretty good odds of getting in with 1450 SAT. USC is probably harder than UCSD, UCI, but not quite as hard as UCB, UCLA. Chapman you should get into with your grades/SAT easily, since you are looking at business/econ majors. The hard majors to get into at Chapman are the Dodge College film school majors. Very competitive. The rest of the school is much easier to get into.
Oh whoops, I thought @Gumbymom just asked if it was AP History, not AP World History. Hiroshima-9/11 Advanced is the study of the events from Hiroshima to 9/11.
My essays should be elegant considering my unique life experiences. Those sound like pretty good chances to me! Also, I think I’ll get a 1450 + on the SAT (with SAT prep.) I will definitely look into an Essay writing coach, as I’m not a huge fan of writing! [-X
She did. But as she also said, UCs only weight actual AP/IB courses for OOS students, not AP/IB equivalent courses. Since she is a resident expert on UCs, to give her some insight, you should tell her that you attend a top-ranked private school that does not offer APs.