Can someone please explain to me the difference between CSU GPA and a regular unweighted/weighted GPA that goes on transcripts?
Do CSUs only look at the CSU GPA? Can you choose what honors/AP/IB classes that you want to put down if you take more than 8 during sophomore/junior/senior year??
The CSUs and the CUs each recalculate your GPA. They don’t use plus or minus and only count certain classes.
Unlike most CSUs, Poly also uses your freshman grades. None of them use your senior grades.
The links below will help. Good luck!
http://admissions.calpoly.edu/applicants/freshman/criteria.html
http://collegetools.berkeley.edu/documents/cat_113-128/Calculating_GPA.pdf
The roger hub UC calculator is an easy calculator to use for UC/CSU GPA and just add your a-g course grades from Freshman year into the original calculation and you will get your Cal Poly GPA. Just remember you only get 8 semesters (4 year long courses) of extra Honors points. http://rogerhub.com/gpa-calculator-uc/
You need to use the doorways website to determine which courses are UC approved at your high school. See link:
https://hs-articulation.ucop.edu/agcourselist#/list/search/all
Can you choose which honor points?
Yep, but it really doesn’t matter. They all count the same. Once you go through the process it’ll be clearer, but I’ll give you a simple example.
If you have 2 semesters of C (each worth 2 points), 10 semesters of B (each worth 3 points) and 6 semesters of A (each worth 4 points), you’d have a total of 58 points. Divide that by your total semesters, 18 and you get a GPA of 3.22. If you took any honors/IB/AP classes you simply add 1, per semester, up to 8 to the total before you divide by semesters. By adding one, they are effectively saying that a C is really a B or a B is really an A or an A is an A+. In our example, lets say you took the maximum 8 semesters. Your new total would be 58 + 8 or 66. Divide than by 18 semesters and your new GPA is 3.67.
So, as you’ll see, it doesn’t matter which honors/IB/AP classes you include. Good luck.
I’m confused. How can you have 10 semesters of something if there are only 8 semesters in all your 4 years of high school?
Each HS course is 2 semesters per year at your HS? You have 4 Honors/AP courses in 10-11th, this equals 8 semesters of honors courses. It makes no difference which courses are used for the extra honors points, since all grades have to be reported for the a-g courses.