GPA or WGPA for Berkeley (or any college, but berkeley in particular)

<p>in my sophomore and junior years, I have a 3.75 UW and 4.57 Weighted. the reason my weighted is so high is because I took 2 APs sophomore year and 5 APs junior year. My question is: Will Berkeley (or any college, but Berkeley in particular) care that my UW is so low? Or will they care about my WGPA because it shows that I took lots of APs?</p>

<p>Also, is the fact that i'm OOS gonna hurt me too much?</p>

<p>thanks</p>

<p>doubt, it are you from california, with a really good SAT score, and a high percentage, you can get in.</p>

<p>OOS will hurt you. The Common Data Set for UCB says residence is very important.</p>

<p>Many schools will recalculate your GPA using their own methodology. It is best to call the admissions office to ask how they do it specifically (wait until after the rush of waitlist admits goes through in the next two weeks). If they strip to your unweighted GPA, you will get credit for ‘rigor of study’. This means that, yes, your 3.75 with 7 APs is going to look better than the student who has a 3.8 that took no APs.</p>

<p>Thanks for the help. does it count for anything that I used to live in california?</p>

<p>The short answer is that UC will look at all of your grades, weighted and unweighted. And, UC is begging for OOS’s students to (foolishly, IMO) pay the extra fees. Buyer beware.</p>

<p>You need to calculate your UC GPA which only allows 8 terms (4 year long classes) of weighted grades and only includes certain classes.</p>

<p>UCs are indeed anxious for more full pay OOS students, but at $50K plus each for what will likely be 5 years, not many want to sign up.</p>

<p>And being a prior CA resident will not help.</p>