Help understanding a-g courses

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of California - GENERAL
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<p>I’m from Connecticut and interested in attending a UC school. I am just very unsure about all this “a-g” courses and UC gpas. What is an a-g course? Also I have seen on UCSB website that the average gpa is 3.99. Is that a mistake? At my school the highest you can get is a 4.0. It is also extremely difficult to take an honors or AP class. You have to first get into it and we have very few honors and AP classes because our town and school does not have alot of money for teachers. Im a sophmore and dont take any honors or AP classes like most other sophmores. If you do take one, its usually only 1 honors/AP. I think the average when a person who graduates is only 4 ap/honors. You cant just sign up a teacher has to put you into the limited classes. Will this affect my chances at all? CT also has very strict PE requirments that take up alot schedule space but you need it in order to graduate. You must take 8 quarter long gym classes. Do these count towards your UC gpa whatever that is? Sorry if this is alot im just really confused seeing as our valedictorian got a 3.9 gpa for all four years.</p>

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<p>Here's the A-G coursework:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/undergrad_adm/paths_to_adm/freshman/subject_reqs.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/undergrad_adm/paths_to_adm/freshman/subject_reqs.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>The 3.99 you see on UCSB's website is the weighted GPA, which assigns 1 point higher per grade on honors and AP classes. PE doesn't count toward the UC GPA.</p>

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<p>JLIME.........if your school's max GPA is 4.0 then that is where the UC TOP14% ELC comes into play....</p>