<p>Hey!</p>
<p>I'm an international student from an Indian school. On my transcript my grades are provided in an A-F grading system. How do I calculate my GPA from that for Berkeley?</p>
<p>A=4, B=3, C=2 etc . For accpetable honors/AP courses add 1 point per semester (up to 8 points total).
Only sophomore year and junior year courses count.
On a semester basis, each full year course will count as 2 semesters.</p>
<p>How do you know which classes are approved by UCs?</p>
<p>The classes must fall in the a-g course list. For california high schools you can check your school's approved course at:
<a href="https://pathways.ucop.edu/doorways/list/%5B/url%5D">https://pathways.ucop.edu/doorways/list/</a></p>
<p>A'right I'm really confused about the whole American school system with the sophomore and the junior year and all. If I have 5 subjects from Grade 9 to 12 with A's in everything except two B's in Physics and Chemistry in Grade 11, with only one grade per year what would my GPA be?</p>
<p>The honours system is not a part of our education system so all courses are non-honours. </p>
<p>If it helps in Grade 9 and 10, my subjects were Science, Social Science, English, French and Maths.
In Grade 11 and 12, my subjects are Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Computer Science and English.</p>
<p>From Grade 9-10, all my grades are A. Grade 11 except Physics and Chemistry which are B, everything else is A. In Grade 12, everything is A.</p>
<p>Could someone <em>please</em> take the trouble and calculate my GPA?</p>
<p>9th and 12th grade will not count in the gpa calculation so:
10th and 11th 5 courses each, 8 A, 2 B,assuming 2 semesters you have :
8x2x4 + 2x2x3 = 76 divided by (10x2 courses) = 3.8 unweighted gpa.</p>
<p>Is that upto Berkeley standards?</p>
<p>I'm not sure I totally understand about how they cap the GPA. If I'm taking 4 AP's Junior year, do they cap it? What if I took five? Also, do they average the sophomore and junior GPA together?</p>
<p>You can take 8 semesters of honors classes from 10-11 grade. Some honors classes at schools are not honors classes at UC, so be sure to check.</p>
<p>Is there any point to take more than 8 semesters of honors classes? How much more does it help to take a hard classload?</p>
<p>I'm still not clear. If they only count 8 approved classes, wouldn't it be impossible to get a 4.5 unless you take like three classes a year? Say I take one approved class sophomore year and five junior year. That's 12 semesters of approved honors courses. You can only count eight? If I get all A's junior year, I would only have a 4.27 UC GPA.</p>
<p>You're right and what's worst is that if you took more courses and got more A's, your gpa will be even lower.
When my bro applied 2 years ago, they did not cap at 8, the Berkeley gpa was around 4.3. Does anyone know what it is now with 8 honors cap?</p>
<p>Although they say they cap at 8 honors, that might be true for determining eligibility into UC. </p>
<p>The application instructions said that they also look at the unweighted gpa and the fully weighted gpa with all the honors.</p>
<p>My school uses the +/- in GPA. Is an A- same as an A for Berkeley?</p>
<p>dunno. but anyone know the berk. avg gpa with the 8 cap?</p>