FAQ: UC historical frosh admit rates by HS GPA (2018)

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of California - GENERAL
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From https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/infocenter/freshman-admissions-summary . Note that these admission rates are not division or major specific; some popular divisions or majors (commonly engineering and CS) are significantly more selective than their campuses overall.

HS GPA is recalculated by the UC method (often resulting in a lower HS GPA than many high schools’ weighted GPA calculations):
http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/freshman/requirements/gpa-requirement/index.html (method)
http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/counselors/q-and-a/calculating-gpa/index.html (special cases)
https://rogerhub.com/gpa-calculator-uc/ (helpful calculator)


Campus  4.20-   3.80-   3.40-   3.00-
        higher  4.19    3.79    3.39
UCB     37%     10%      1%      1%
UCLA    41%      9%      2%      1%
UCSD    70%     34%      7%      1%
UCI     75%     38%      7%      1%
UCSB    80%     41%      8%      1%
UCD     89%     52%     14%      3% 
UCSC    92%     70%     33%     12%
UCR     96%     84%     49%     15%
UCM     98%     95%     82%     45%
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@ucbalumnus Great find! Were these the Fall 2018 numbers, or a summary for multiple years?

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For the frosh students entering in fall 2018.

You can look up past years on the linked UC web page.

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@ucbalumnus - great info.
Wondering if we can somehow derive the GPA for OOS admits (in the page we can choose only one applicant characteristic: residency or HS GPA - but not both). Guess that OOS students maybe overrepresented in the group with >4.2 GPA, while in other groups its more instaters. Just speculation.

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@hs2020dad: UCLA and UCB do breakout OOS vs In-state stats for incoming Freshman on their web page.

http://www.admission.ucla.edu/Prospect/Adm_fr/Frosh_Prof18.htm

https://admissions.berkeley.edu/student-profile

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do note that for post #4, UCB GPAs is unweighted, while UCLA GPAs listed are unweighted and fully weighted.
The GPA listed at the top is the UC capped weighted GPA. So 3 totally different GPAs .