<p>I see quite a range of stats cited as Cal's median GPA for admitted students. Could anyone help me sort them out? </p>
<p>Cal's admissions page indicates that they look at UW/W GPAs from a student's 10th and 11th year classes only. The median GPAs cited at that page, however, are LOWER than the medians I have seen elsewhere for Cal. This might suggest that Cal later recalculate GPAs to include Senior classes (which typically have more honors programs). What's going on? </p>
<p>I am trying to roughly guess the odds of my son getting in. His SATs are somewhat on the high end (2150, evenly distributed across the three tests), but his UW GPA is about 3.7 to 3.8. He has taken rigorous classes, including AP Bio and AP Calc as a Junior. His SATs/APs were mixed (730 in SAT Lit; 670 SAT Bio; 5 in AP Bio; 3 in AP Calc). He has strong ECs, but nothing overwhelmingly so. His essays were good. </p>
<p>He wasn't orginally thinking about applying to Cal, but life changed and now we are curious. My sense is that the biggest negative on this app is his relatively low GPA (mostly due to Bs in Latin). Any thoughts?</p>
<p>That’s not what the OP is asking. I don’t know what statistics you are looking at, but I think the average weighted GPA is 4.4. I believe you are looking at the UC GPA, which is capped at 4.2. I’m not really sure, but that is what is in my memory from last year when I was applying. Also, I take it your son applied to L&S so he should have an OK chance, but his GPA will weigh his chances down a bit, and if those are the only AP classes he’s taking, it’s not very rigorous.</p>
<p>Sorry, I should I have written clearer. Yes, I am wondering about the average high school GPA of newly admitted Freshman to the L&S program. I see different reported GPAs, some that appear to include ALL high school grades (including Senior year classes which typically are eligible for extra weighting). Other reports include only Soph and Junior year grades.</p>
<p>In terms of my son’s AP classes, he had 2 as a Junior and now has 5 as a Senior. All of these clases, plus an honors Chem class he took as a Soph are entitled to UC’s extra GPA weighting. The UC adminission’s web site, however, suggests that only the Soph and Junior year’s grades are calculated in the gpa. In that case, then, I don’t see how a weighted GPA could be 4.4.</p>
<p>Looking over UCB’s site, here is my tentative conclusion: the adminssion’s committee indicates that it looks primarily at Soph and Junior years, but Cal’s reported GPA (including the over 4.0 weighted GPA) must include Senior year grades.</p>
<p>How do you conclude that the reported GPA must include senior grades?</p>
<p>UC GPA counts your sophomore and junior year on a 1-4 scale with up to eight additional points for eight semesters of AP classes (many students take AP classes during their junior year). So if you had 5 classes each semester and got all A’s then you could have a maximum of:</p>
<p>I think the 4.4 is the average is independent of UC GPA, and I’m not sure it includes senior year or not. I remember I saw it somewhere, there was a site that calculates all this stuff for you.</p>
<p>Liquidus, I was assuming that the “average” cal admit did not take 4 AP classes (8 semseters) in his/her Junior year. I assumed that the average cal admit took most of his/her AP classes in 12th grade, getting most of the bump over 4.0 from the senior year.</p>