<p>"The University assigns extra points for up to eight semesters of University-certified honors-level and Advanced Placement courses taken in the last three years of high school: A=5 points, B=4 points, C=3 points. No more than two yearlong UC-approved honors level courses taken in the 10th grade may be given extra points. A grade of D in an honors or advanced placement course does not earn extra points." </p>
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<p>I think I'm neutral because it doesn't affect me that much. If you have 4 uc-approved honor level courses in 11th grade then you dont have to worry.</p>
<p>You should, because it means everyone else is going UP while you're standing still.</p>
<p>I hate UC weighted System. I've taken A total of 13 honors/AP course my sophomore and junior year but only get credit for taking 8 of them? That makes no sense to me. I really don't understand why the UCs do this.</p>
<p>I can't find a school in about a 40 mile radius that offers more than 2 ( four semesters) UC eligible honors classes for sophmores. A few ( my daughter's school included) don't offer any. Maybe it's to keep from leaving too many of those communities unable to compete.</p>
<p>Shrinkrap, I took 2 APs my sophomore year, although my school has no honors courses that are UC eligible. So there are still ways to get those credits.</p>
<p>You mean "self-study". Yes, I learned about that here. How did you learn about it? I suppose it might haelp to have this as a community, school, or family experinec, and maybe those wihout it don't get a shot, but I gotta tell you, that doesn't seem right to me either. How are kids supposed to know this stuff? Or maybe some sophmores just WANT to self-study AP chem, and only find out later it will help your UC-GPA?</p>
<p>No.... my school is pretty bad... I took an AP Statistics course mainly meany for Seniors as well as an AP Biology meant for Sophomores. </p>
<p>Honestly I am very much because I had a math teacher who used to be a UC admissions officer help me. I don't know anyone in college or have any family that went to college so is very hard for me to find these things out without that math teacher to help me. I'd be confused as hell without him.</p>
<p>However, my AP Stats teacher knew NOTHING and I ended up having to self-study the test myself.</p>
<p>So I realize this is just one view but I think it would be kind of sad if high school education became all about how many AP's can you self study so that you can get a high UC GPA. I think capping it frees kids up to explore and spend time on other things. But maybe that's just me. Maybe that's just me and the UC!</p>
<p>I had 5 APs my junior year (USH, Calc AB, Calc BC, Chem, and Eng Lang) as well as 2 college courses and still had time for varsity basketball, model u.n., speech and debate, tons of volunteering, and going out with friends... I still don't see your argument.</p>
<p>I didn't know it was an argument.You sound very talented. Good luck to you.</p>
<p>Castel, what you bolded isn't a change -- it's always been that way.</p>
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I've taken A total of 13 honors/AP course my sophomore and junior year but only get credit for taking 8 of them?
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<p>You get credit for all of them, but they aren't all factored into your GPA.</p>
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I really don't understand why the UCs do this.
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<p>UC is attempting to make its applicants more comparable, i.e. by putting a cap on the number of points added for GPA. If someone in his/her school took 5 APs, and in another school a student took 8 APs, and they earned roughly the same grades, the latter person will have a much higher W GPA, even though the first person took as many APs as the school offered. Thus, by capping the GPA, they both max out at 4.4. The UCs realize, though, that the second person took more APs by the transcript.</p>
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Or maybe some sophmores just WANT to self-study AP chem, and only find out later it will help your UC-GPA?
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<p>Self-studying APs does not help your GPA; it simply gets you credits in college if the college grants credit for it.</p>
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how many AP's can you self study so that you can get a high UC GPA.
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<p>AP exams and scores have no bearing on your UC GPA, either.</p>
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I had 5 APs my junior year (USH, Calc AB, Calc BC, Chem, and Eng Lang)
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<p>Er, how could you have Calc AB and BC? The College Board doesn't allow you to take both exams in one year. Unless you mean classes, in which case having both classes is rather redundant.</p>
<p>^Some schools take only BC, and accept the AB subscore as the "actual" AB test, since some colleges consider the subscore if the original AB score is bad. </p>
<p>Can someone clue me in on what big change this is? Its still a 4 class cap, but now 2 classes can be credited from sophomore year? It doesn't look like it'll affect that many people...</p>
<p>Yeah, I'm confused.. I thought this is how it always was.</p>
<p>Not a lot of change from what I can tell.</p>
<p>The "last 3 years" means that they will count APs taken in the senior year, when prior to this they accepted those taken only in the sophomore and junior years. Since you apply in November for admittance the following Fall, this change only becomes an advantage to two groups--(1) people who apply to the UCs after a "gap" year and who didn't take at least 8 semesters of honors courses during their sophomore and junior years, but did accumulate 8 semesters when the senior year is factored in, and (2) people who need to count the first semester of senior year in getting the 8 semesters of honors courses completed.</p>
<p>As far as the second thing: "No more than 2 year-long AP/honors courses will be counted from the sophomore year"--I guess that's designed to encourage students to space out their APs over multiple years--and not try to get them all completed sophomore year--and then take "cream-puff" courses during their last two years to pad the GPA.</p>
<p>Oh darn, I was so excited yesterday I misread it.. I thought it the limit was 2 max on Sophomore year and as many as you want in Junior/Senior year..</p>