<p>Out of curiosity, does Berkeley look at freshman grades or does it regulate more according to the UC schools in which they focus on 10-11th year grades?</p>
<p>No .</p>
<p>Well, we actually don’t know. Cal does holistic admissions but they are passed only the information that you enter in the UC system-wide application. Thus, unless the application has the grades entered, how would they know them? All they would have is anything you might have said in essays or put in about your current HS GPA. If they had the information, it might influence the decision. Pretty unlikely, however.</p>
<p>The application did have freshman grades entered.</p>
<p>Then the information is there for the application reader to see and factor in. Cal and UCLA use a holistic system where they are not constrained to a strict and mostly algorithmic approach. Also, since the UC system overall chose to ignore freshmen grades, the GPA with which UCSD, UCSC, etc evaluate candidates does not factor them in. </p>
<p>Much harder to say with Cal because it uses a more judgement based, less prescriptive approach to admissions. <a href=“http://academic-senate.berkeley.edu/committees/pdf_docs_consolidate/Hout_Report.pdf[/url]”>http://academic-senate.berkeley.edu/committees/pdf_docs_consolidate/Hout_Report.pdf</a> describes the review process of a few years ago</p>