Does UCB only look at the UC GPA in admissions?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of California - Berkeley
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<p>Do they look at the unweighted high school GPA at all?</p>

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<p>all UC campuses receive all gpa’s: weighted-capped, weighted-uncapped, & unweighted, and even your “rank” against other applicants from your HS. What numbers they use is up to the app reader.</p>

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<p>So they receive a UC GPA and 3 high school GPAs?</p>

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<p>they do not. they can’t. you don’t send in transcripts with the application, only after acceptance do they see it. All they receive are the self reported grades on the UC application. Those do not contain the + or -, they don’t include courses that are not part of the a-g categories, and they don’t include ranking. </p>

<p>The UC system can provide the UC GPA, they can also report what it would be with no weighting for AP/honors and what it would be with uncapped weighting, plus the individual scores (rounded due to no + or -). They might assume some ranking based on historically reported grades in their format, but they do not know your high school gpas</p>

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<p>They only look at UC GPA. If they look at high school GPAs, then every high school would artificially boost their student’s GPAs.</p>

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<p>So I just use the Collegeboard conversions ([How</a> to Convert Your GPA to a 4.0 Scale](<a href=“College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools”>How to Convert (Calculate) Your GPA to a 4.0 Scale – BigFuture)) for my UC GPA, and add 1.0 for every AP class?</p>

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<p>UC and CSU calculate high school GPA as described here:
[CSUMentor</a> - Plan for College - High School Students - GPA Calculator](<a href=“Cal State Apply | CSU”>Cal State Apply | CSU)</p>

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<p>Thank you!!!</p>

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<p>If I took an a-g course at a k-12 program at a university, would that be factored in as well?</p>

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<p>That is only true for eligibility, i.e., do you even qualify for admissions? But once you clear that minimum threshold, all gpa’s come into play under holistic decision-making. All gpa’s are printed out on the forms that the application readers receive. Granted, only gpa’s for a-g courses are printed, including UC gpa, unweighted, weighted-capped and weighted-uncapped… (No PE, no drivers ed, no health…)</p>

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<p>Yes, but if taken prior to starting your senior year. For example, taking a summer college course after your Junior year gets listed as a Junior-year course for UC gpa. If the college course is taken senior year, you should list it as in process, but the grade will not count for UC gpa.</p>

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<p>Really??? What happened to what everyone else said in this thread?</p>

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<p>all GPAs that they have access to - see post #10 by bluebayou</p>

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<p>Oh okay I get it now. Had me worried there for a second.</p>

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<p>Would an Animation class count as a “g” course?</p>