<p>Do uc schools use only your uc gpa as a factor in admissions? Or do they also consider your unweighted and fully weighted GPAs (which include freshman year).</p>
<p>When you do the UC application, you enter in your various grades for each A-G subject. You never submit your actual GPA. The UC application calculates it for you.</p>
<p>The comprehensive review process allows reviewers to see all courses and grades that you have entered, as well as some contextual information about your high school. Any GPAs seen are calculated by the application system; your high school’s GPA calculation and weighting method is irrelevant (so your 6.95 GPA is not compared against someone else’s 3.90 GPA from a different high school).</p>
<p>UC gpa is only used for eligibility.</p>
<p>All of your gpa’s will be available for the reviewer, including weighted-capped, weighted-uncapped, and unweighted. The UC computer even calculates a ‘rank’ of those applying to UC from your HS.</p>
<p>^Right that’s what I thought. So why is everyone saying that freshman grades do not matter for UCs?</p>
<p>^ They don’t count in UC GPA but they do for overall GPA and class rank.</p>
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<p>They don’t count for admissions eligibility, but they can and will be used for admissions decisions by campus. In the dark old days, UC didn’t even request nor recieve Frosh grades so they truly could not be used for admissions. But now they specifically request Frosh grades, and it can only be for one reason…</p>
<p>Actually, in the old days, frosh grades were needed because courses used to fulfill the high school subject requirements had to have been passed with C or higher grades.</p>