My daughter just came home very upset after seeing her high school guidance counselor. She was told several of the honors courses my daughter took in 10th and 11th grade do not count as extra points for admission to SDSU. She took honors classes in English 2, World History/MUN, Math Analysis, and Physics. Is the counselor correct? If so, why wouldn’t these classes count? My understanding was you could get credit for 8 semesters of honors credit in 10th and 11th grades. She received a weighted grade for them on her transcript
If your daughter goes to a California HS, you can check each HS’s UC approved Honors course list. My son’s HS had several Honors HS courses that did not count for the extra Honors points: English 2, Biology and World History.
Also the HS can call any class “Honors” but it needs to be UC approved for the extra honors points in the GPA calculation and HS’s can weight their classes any way they want. What matters is how the CSU/UC’s consider these courses.
Also she can only have a maximum of 2 UC approved Honors, AP, IB courses in 10th grade that count for these points (max 4 semesters). What about Junior year? Does she have any AP/IB/DE courses?
Here is the link to look up the HS courses: https://hs-articulation.ucop.edu/agcourselist#/list/search/institution
Once you figure out which courses are UC approved, you can calculate her UC/CSU GPA using this calculator.
https://rogerhub.com/gpa-calculator-uc/
Gumbymom is correct and the link provided should give you the info you need. Our CA HS has only 1 or 2 weighted Honors math classes (lots of APs though) which is probably typical. Classes like Honors English etc aren’t weighted at the school nor for UC/CSU admission.
While this happened to our son as well, thanks to the HS counselor, he is now a freshman in engineering at SDSU
So if the course does not say “Honors” under Honor’s Type then it is not considered a weighted course for CSU? Skiripper, what did your counselor do to help your son get into SDSU?
Yes, if the course does not say Honors under the Honors type then it is not considered a weighted course for the CSU’s or UC’s. However, if she is taking a rigorous course load in comparison to her classmates it will noted on the school report which shows what type of courses: Honors/AP/IB/DE are available at the school. There are many schools that do not have Honors/AP etc… Courses and the students are not penalized for not having access to these courses.