<p>I have a question about UCLA's GPA for admissions:</p>
<p>My UC weighted GPA is a 3.95ish, and UCLA's average is a 4.16. Yeah that's a bit low, I know. </p>
<p>Recently, I found that UCLA's average fully weighted GPA (for all AP courses and out of 5.0) is a 4.24. Mine's a 4.21, which is not that far off. </p>
<p>Would they put more emphasis on the fully weighted GPA than the UC GPA? I scored pretty high on the SAT (2100+), have some decent extra activites, a few leadership, and neither of my parents hold neither a bachelor's nor master's degees. </p>
<p>you are over thinking the matter. You are in the range of those admitted, and that is what matters. Stats aren’t everything for ucla(at least for freshman admissions). if you get rejected or accepted, there will be those accepted who have lower gpas than you and lower sat scores, but what will get them accepted over you is everything else they have to offer that doesn’t have to do with gpa and sat scores. there will also be those with better stats than you who will get rejected. you can’t predict and raise your hopes up based on simply numbers. Frankly at an acceptance rate of less than 25 percent, that means there are 3 out of 4 getting rejected. Those 3 out of 4 that are getting rejected are probably as qualified as you, more than you, or less than you. Think about that for a second, it’s not all about gpa/sat scores. Now if your class rank was no were near the top 10, I’d start to worry, as I think the majority(more than 90+) of those at UCLA were in the top 10 percent of their class.</p>
<p>It all depends on what major you’re applying to. Some majors look more at the sat than grades (engineering), some look at portfolios over both the sat and gpa (art and desma), and some probably look at grades over sat. Basically, don’t worry about it! As long as you’re in the general range, you have a good shot of getting in.</p>
<p>Saw somewhere that in reviewing applications UCLA uncaps GPA. Proved true for us, UC GPA was a tad above 4.0, UW 3.7, Uncapped 4.45. Got in. (Same w/ Cal if that matters to you.)</p>
<p>reginaldo358: I was going off the fully weighted number when I made that statement. But 3.95 using UC weighting is still very close to 4.0. I think you have to be careful estimating GPA, in general, nevertheless. It’s easy to forget to assign a point somewhere or count a CC class incorrectly, to give just two possible examples. You could have a higher number than you estimate. It could also be lower. The UCs get to see and consider all of your reported grades and will compute your GPA to their liking. I wouldn’t worry too much about it. </p>
<p>ALSO, the statistics on that website that you linked to from UCLA are defined as “new undergraduates.” To me, that sounds like people who are admitted and actually enroll rather than those just admitted…</p>
<p>samedifference: As far as admissions go for freshman with less than a weighted 4.0 GPA (and since the statistics are often in terms of UC GPA, let’s speak in terms of that here), I think it depends on what you define as “plenty.” People do get into UCLA with less than it, certainly. The school that you’re applying to, for one, can make a huge difference. General Fall 2009 statistics show, though, that 1,568 freshmen were admitted with less than a 4.0 reported as their UC GPA. That was out of a total pool of almost 33,000, meaning an admittance rate of less than 5%. And most of those were close to 4.0. </p>
<p>This is a pretty good place to check if you’re interested in data on freshman admissions. I just remembered that this site existed! Unlike the general UC publication there are UC GPA stats here, so it would make sense, as SoCalGal09 says, to say that UCLA considers fully weighted GPA (from grades 10 and 11).:</p>
<p>If you are in the top 15% of your school academically and have solid ECs and volunteering with decent hours for 3-4 years in each activity and a well-written personal statement about YOU, you have a recipe for getting into UCLA. If you lack in any of these categories, cross your fingers.</p>
<p>the only people that can tell you whether or not you’ll get into UCLA are the admissions people. I know a lot of people that should not have been accepted into UCLA and were…and I also know a lot of people that should have been accepted into UCLA that weren’t. That’s life.</p>