<p>Some schools also looked at your uncapped weighted GPA, but the UC admission probably reports UC GPA.</p>
<p>@Mangiafuoco , I actually took only 6 AP / honors courses in 10-11 grades . I did confirmed my UC GPA with counselor and double checked with Elite professional counselor. That is how, I came to know H American Lit is not
in UC Honors list which brought my UC GPA from 4.15 to 4.05.</p>
<p>I have straight A’s in 9 th grade with multiple honors courses. Need to recalculate GPA for Cal Poly’s.</p>
<p>Cal Poly SLO uses the UC/CSU (same) calculation with 8 semesters of AP/Honors credit (capped) but include 9th grade a-g courses also. The Freshman Profiles for the UC’s use the UC GPA (capped) but if you check the common data set for all the UC’s and CSU’s, they show GPA based on a 4.0 scale. </p>
<p>I think the UC pathways list what courses are considered real honors for UC. It’s too bad your counselor doesn’t show you more.</p>
<p>I think you miscalculated something.</p>
<p>You took AP Calc, AP Chem, APUSH, honors Physics. Even without honors Am Lit, you would still have 8 semesters of weighted classes. The UC GPA is not capped at 8 weighted classes. It is capped at 8 semesters of weighted classes. Also, no more than 4 weighted semesters can be counted from 10th grade.</p>
<p>You have a 3.55 unweighted GPA from 10th to 11th grade.
Your original calculation of your UC GPA with 8 semesters of weighted classes is 4.15.
Your new calculation of you UC GPA with 6 semesters of weighted classes is 4.05.
The formula for the capped UC GPA is:</p>
<p>(4.00 * “A’s” + 3.00 * “B’s” + 2.00 * “C’s” + 1.00 * “D’s” + “number of honors and APs”) / (“number of semesters”)</p>
<p>If we let X = “number of semesters”
and Y = 4.00 * “A’s” + 3.00 * “B’s” + 2.00 * “C’s” + 1.00 * “D’s,”
then the formula becomes (X + “number of honors and APs”) / Y.
And we obtain three equations.</p>
<p>Y / X = 3.55 (unweighted)
(Y + 8) / X = 4.15 (8 weighted semesters)
(Y + 6) / X = 4.05 (6 weighted semesters)</p>
<p>If we try to solve for X and Y, we would see that the three equations are in conflict with one another.</p>
<p>@Mangiafuoco would you mind chancing me</p>
<p>@Mangiafuoco ,</p>
<p>A’s in UC A-G courses / AP will carry 5 points ( Higher level course from A-G list)
I listed all A-G Honors ( higher level one gets honors credit ) courses from 10 &11 th grade and averaged.</p>
<p>I have 4.1 at 10th grade and 4.0 at 11th. Gave me 4.05 . School Counselor confirmed the same thing.</p>
<p>My Cal poly GPA coming as around 4.10 ( including 9th grade A-G list, counting only higher level courses) , planning to apply to Cal poly SLO</p>
<p>In your formula my UC a- g courses are </p>
<p>(4 (5 A’s) + 3 (5 B’s) + 6 Honors / AP courses ) / 4 ( each year has 2 semesters)
= 41/4 = 10.25 doesn’t make sense to me . </p>
<p>In addition to AP Calc, AP Chem, AP USH, H Physics, I also took H Pre Cal , AP World History made 6 AP/ honors courses . I did not list full details in my initial post. Only listed UC GPA & SAT, SAT 2 details to find out where I stand.
Hopefully this makes clear.</p>
<p>When I said “number of semesters,” I meant “number of classes” * 2 (semesters in a year). Sorry for the misunderstanding.</p>
<p>Also, if you took that many honors/AP courses, you definitely have 8 honors/AP.
AP Calc (2 semesters = 2 weighted)
AP Chem (2 semesters = 2 weighted)
APUSH (2 semesters = 2 weighted)
H Physics (2 semesters = 2 weighted)
H Pre Calc (2 semesters = 2 weighted)
AP World History (2 semesters = 2 weighted)
Total (12 semesters = 12 weighted)
After the cap (8 semesters = 8 weighted)</p>
<p>When you insert the number of A’s and B’s you have in the formula, make sure to enter what you got for each semester in the year. You should have taken a lot more than just 5 classes. (5 A’s + 5 B’s) / (2 semesters in a year) = 5 classes.</p>
<p>Now, recalculate your UC GPA. It should be much lower than 4.05</p>
<p>UCD, UCI, UCSB, and Cal Poly SLO are your low reaches.
UCSD is your reach.
UCLA is your high reach.</p>
<p>For the UCs, GPA is more important than test scores. Your test scores are high, but your GPA is not. Among the UCs, UCSB is the most lenient towards students with low GPAs but very high SAT scores. Unfortunately, your SAT score is not very high. It is just high. As a result, your chances of being accepted by UCSB is similar to your chances for UCD and UCI.</p>
<p>@Mangiafuoco, you are right , I recalculated my UC Capped GPA with my counselor together ( only counted 8 semisters for honors / AP grade 10- 11 th) </p>
<p>UC Capped GPA : 3.95
Un weighted GPA : 3.55</p>
<p>do you still have UCI match ? Disappointed (: I really want to go this school ? will major as “undecided” will help ? </p>
<p>@krisuci2014
Your capped UC GPA is higher than I expected. 3.95 is below average for most UCs, but it is not too bad. If you are lucky, UCI might accept you. Majoring as “undecided” will help, but I am not sure if it is worth it.</p>
<p>UCLA is your reach.
UCSD is your low reach.
UCD, UCI, UCSB, and Cal Poly SLO are your high matches.</p>
<p>I have a 2300 SAT score and a 4.00 capped UC GPA. My intended major was computer science for most of the schools that I applied to. I was rejected by UCB, UCLA, UCSD, and Cal Poly SLO. I was waitlisted by UCD (civil engineering) and UCI.</p>