<p>Is there any way of including your GPA in the UCAS application? I was thinking of adding it as a module under the high school diploma qualification, but perhaps there's a better place of putting it?</p>
<p>Anyone? Please!</p>
<p>Which schools do you intend to apply to/which course?</p>
<p>I was planning on putting it under the high school diploma qualification as well, but I was wondering if there was a better place to put it too. Does anyone know from experience perhaps? I’ve heard your GPA doesn’t really make a difference when appling with UCAS, and that it’s your APs that are the most important. I’m questioning whether I should even put mine (around 3.7) on my application.</p>
<p>I am applying to study history or history with international relations at Oxford, Durham, LSE, St. Andrews and Edinburgh. My GPA is pretty strong, so I was hoping to be able to list it somewhere. I guess I’ll just list it under high school diploma.</p>
<p>GPA has absolutely no validity in the UK context. Only public examinations count: GCSE, A-levels, SATs, IB, APs…</p>
<p>I never included my GPA in UCAS. I am fairly certain there isn’t even a place. Universities don’t take it into consideration.</p>
<p>Some people choose to list their GPA under the section for high school diploma or in their personal statement. Your GPA means significantly less in the UK than it does in the USA, but if it is quite high you may want to touch on it in your personal statement. It shouldn’t be the focus, though - universities will pay much more attention to things like your AP test scores. </p>
<p>Good luck with your applications!</p>
<p>The British Council have a website about the application process that you may find helpful for this and other questions. Here it is:
[Education</a> UK - Innovative. Individual. Inspirational.](<a href=“http://www.educationuk.org/pls/hot_bc/bc_all_home.page_pls_onapps_info?x=173332902212&y=0&a=0]Education”>http://www.educationuk.org/pls/hot_bc/bc_all_home.page_pls_onapps_info?x=173332902212&y=0&a=0)</p>
<p>What about class rank?</p>
<p>Class rank will have even less value than GPA. If you feel you absolutely have to have it on your application, ask your referee to include it in the reference they write.</p>
<p>Well, is being number 1 of 500 worth mentioning?</p>
<p>So do we need to submit our high school transcripts to the UK schools at all?</p>
<p>If a school in the UK wants your transcript, they will contact either you or our referee and ask for it.</p>
<p>Is there anyone who applied for a credit transfer? I have a similar problem as yours. I am currently and undergraduate student in my second and I plan to transfer my credits into the second year in a UK university and I dont know where to put my CGPA, as in the result for the part of the degree I have completed.</p>
<p>Unless your US university has a specific agreement with the UK school you plan to transfer to, I very much doubt they will accept any credits. There is no real concept of transfer in the UK. If you want to switch, you drop out and re-apply to start again in the first year.</p>
I’m on the same boat as you man. Trying to add my CGPA onto UCAS while applying to Loughborough but have no idea how to do so.
@cupcake is right- the UK doesn’t do transfers. There are a few programs that have an ‘advanced standing’ option, which will accept an AA that includes the right modules to allow you to come in as a second year, but they are really the exception.
@Derivate, your referee is the person who can note that you are the top pupil in your school, but it won’t be seen as important.
@RFK68 and @nsrini07, as others have pointed out, UK universities (except St Andrews) do not see GPA as an important number, b/c they have no way to assess what it means (though enough US students are applying that you increasingly see either a reference to things such as a ‘solid’ or ‘strong’ GPA, which is deliberately vague. Standardized testing, your PS and LoR are the key variables.