<p>I was looking on their webstie one how to get in because they have a good environmental program I want to get in. I don't go to a school in Cal. Could someone please explain it to me.</p>
<p>GPA, Grade Point Average? For high school or college?</p>
<p>Like don’t you have to have a minimum gpa or something?</p>
<p>To get into Berkeley? No.
But once you’re in and you want to get into a major that is capped (like Psychology and Economics, if I’m not mistaken, which are majors that are very popular), you have to have a minimum GPA in order to be considered to even get into that major. As far as I know, this isn’t the case for non-capped majors.</p>
<p>Lol what was I reading then…it was something about UC gpa and approved courses and nothing lower than a C…lol </p>
<p>And OH! Back to doing research then thanks</p>
<p>Your uc gpa doesn’t count freshman year or non uc approved courses</p>
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<p>When you read nothing lower than a C, you were reading about the conditions of admission. If you apply to Cal and are offered admission, it comes with the condition that each and every semester of your HS senior year you must have a GPA of 3.0 or higher and no class can have a grade below C. If you don’t meet those conditions, you have some explaining to do, because if they think you were just goofing off with senior-itis, you won’t be going to Cal like you thought.</p>
<p>OH! Okay thank you!</p>
<p>Crap, are you serious about the whole C thing??
@ZombieDante, I don’t mean to ride off your thread, but if that’s really true (which I didn’t know), does anyone know if transfer students have to present high school stuff?? Are transfers also under that C rule?</p>
<p>@LemonCat</p>
<p>The idea is that when a high school student applies to Berkeley, their senior year grades can not be taken into account because the application is submitted before the end of the first semester. Therefore, Berkeley sets the conditions of admissions so that students don’t figure they can just start not caring about performance in high school once they hit senior year.</p>
<p>If my memory serves me correctly, transfer students’ high school grades aren’t even accounted for in terms of deciding admissions. They are only submitted to check if requirements for Berkeley have been fulfilled through high school coursework (such as three years of foreign language or American Hist/Inst through US History and Gov.) If a transfer received Cs in her senior year, it won’t affect her application, but she may have to not get any Cs in her current coursework for the year.</p>