<p>A considerable amount of people at my competitive high school were wondering on what their chances were into the UCs with around a 4.0 UC gpa [8 semesters weighted] and over 2200 SAT scores with over 770 on SAT2s. Since this year UCLA and UCB were unpredictable in their selection, next year's applicants were unsure.</p>
<p>Any ideas?</p>
<p>serotonin09:</p>
<p>UCB/UCLA: Match</p>
<p>UCB/UCLA appear to be matches. I am aware of 2 people who were accepted into both with much lower test scores, but slighlty higher GPAs. But all in all, i think your peers are safe.</p>
<p>Just as a note--the average UC GPAs at Berkeley and UCLA for acceptees was around 4.25 in 2006 (much higher than your friends), but the average SAT scores were much lower than your friends--around 1350 (old) (equates to a 2025 (new)) on a single sitting of the test.</p>
<p>that's exactly what i was wondering-the 4.25 on their website...is it capped or uncapped?</p>
<p>are the average GPAS of 4.25 capped or uncapped??</p>
<p>i think they are uncapped because that is a bit high for only giving 8 ap/honors points</p>
<p>are there any other opinions on this subject? are the average GPAs on the UC websites capped or uncapped??</p>
<p>what does capped/uncapped mean?</p>
<p>The UC system only counts 8 honors courses into the person's weighted GPA when considering who will be offered admission to the different campuses.</p>
<p>The term capped (in this case) means;--Did the weighted GPA reported for acceptances at UC Berkeley and UCLA limit themselves to just the 8 honors courses counted for admission--or did it take into account all the honors courses someone took, even though only 8 of these were taken into account for the admissions decision?</p>
<p>As serotonin09 points out--it's likely they almost assured took all honors courses into account when reporting the weighted GPA numbers, because otherwise it would have been almost impossible for the average class average among acceptees to be at the 4.25 weighted GPA level. However, now let me tell you why I think serotonin09 is wrong.</p>
<p>If you knew the average number of honors classes taken by acceptees at these schools, you could actually use this to estimate the average unweighted GPAs for the schools as well. Let's say the average was around 11 to 13 (I'm not saying this is the number, I'm just estimating here--and I think this is a reasonable estimate). You would compute the unweighted GPA by estimating the number of classes taken during the two years that count (junior and senior year)--figure that most students took 6 classes per semester that counted--(keep in mind that classes like physical education or health--which are state requirements--don't count in the average)--meaning a total of 24 classes total.</p>
<p>Then take the 4.25 average times 24 classes, subtract the 12 points that you would get for the honors classes--then divide the result by 24 again. This gives an unweighted GPA of 3.75. If the number was only 8 however, then the average unweighted GPA would be 3.92. </p>
<p>According to the Princeton's Review's "361 Best Colleges" book, the average unweighted GPA at UC Berkeley is exactly 3.93--almost exactly what my statistics estimate if the honors courses are being capped at 8 in reporting the numbers. (Unfortunately, this book only gives the weighted GPA numbers for UCLA). For this reason, I believe that the numbers given are being capped--and that if all the honors courses were taken into account the numbers would be much higher--actually around 4.43 at UC Berkeley--and probably just slightly lower at UCLA.</p>
<p>The only problem with this analysis, of course, is that we don't know exactly how many honors courses the average UCLA or UC Berkeley admittee took. If we knew that, then we could accurately compute the true weighted average (given in the last paragraph above).</p>
<p>My UC Booklet says that both UCLA and UCB's UC gpa's were 4.17</p>