<p>sophmore year i took:
IB LA - B,A
AP Euro - A,A
Algebra2 2/Precalc Honors- A,A
Chem Honors - A,A
Spanish 2 (regular) -A,A
Comp Science (regular, first semester) - A
Comp Apps (regular, second semester) -A</p>
<p>Junior Year:
IB LA - A,A
AP US History- A,A
IB/AP Chemistry - A,A
Phyisics Honors -A,A
IB TOK - A,A
Calculus ABC - A,A
Spanish 3 - A, B</p>
<p>Now i know freshman/senior yr grades dont count, but what about summer school? I took Visual Arts (regular) for 2 sessions of summer school before freshman year and also took Health (regular, Required for graduation) before sophmore year. Since the UC GPA is capped at 8 semesters doesnt that mean that extra classes past the 8 semesters would HURT my GPA. If so that means IB with its TOK class actually hurt my GPA and so would the Summer school. Is this correct? Because if you have a 4.3 or watever and you keep adding 4.0s then your GPA goes down, same as getting a 100% on a test when you have 103% in the class.</p>
<p>My Weighted Cumulative GPA: 4.62 ish
Cumuative unweighted GPA: 3.971 after first semester junior year</p>
<p>I tried to calculate the UC GPA myself without including the summer school classes and came up with a total GPA of 4.26, which seems low to me.</p>
<p>Taking extra classes of any kind past the 8 semesters does hurt your GPA, 126230, but this is fully taken into account. Obviously, you need more than 8 semesters to pass high school, so your story is the same for most people. Don't worry about it. </p>
<p>Like katalinacmnacha8 said the capped weighing is accounted for already, so don't stress about it. As long as your SAT scores are as great as your GPA, then you're more than qualified for any UC.</p>
<p>These grades arent guaranteed of getting him into any of the top UC schools (Berkeley, LA). The average UC GPA for freshman admits to Berkeley is 4.28, which is higher, although very slightly, than his 4.23 UC GPA. That means at Berkeley his GPA is slightly below the average. Dont give him faulty advice. His grades are good but they are nothing special considering most who get into Berkeley have a higher GPA than he does. He has a pretty good chance if he has good SAT scores and good EC's, but nothing even close to guaranteed.</p>
<p>It is not weighted. UC does not even calculate a weighted GPA in the admissions process, only a weighted GPA capped at 8 semesters called the UC GPA.</p>