<p>Hi, I'm a confused freshmen at Alameda High School, and I was wondering how is the cumulative GPA calculated? </p>
<p>Is it by semester grades? If so, would a 5.0 GPA from 1 AP class (If thats all you took.) compared to a 5.0 from 5 AP classes be the same? Or would it be all the courses you took back to your freshmen year?</p>
<p>Also, would an A+ be worth the same as A or A-? (A 5 in an AP/HP Class)</p>
<p>Not sure if this is the correct place to ask questions. Thanks guys.</p>
<p>Are we allowed to bump threads? Thanks</p>
<p>At the UCs, they only look at your sophomore and junior year’s GPA. So for example, during those two years, you took 6 classes each semester. That would mean there would be 24 “grades” to determine your GPA during those two years. If you were to get all A’s in all semesters, you would have a 4.0 unweighted GPA. Now if some of those courses were AP or Honors courses, those grades would be 5.0 instead of 4.0 and your “weighted” GPA would be different because of that. As to your question, of course 5 AP classes with A’s in them would be better than 1 A, but depending on how many courses you take in general will calculate what your weighted GPA is during 10th & 11th grades.</p>
<p>At the high school level, +'s & -'s don’t differ. So an A=4, B=3, C=2, D=1, F=0.</p>
<p>That first paragraph is kinda jumbled, but I’m sure you can make sense of it.</p>
<p>Thanks for the reply, BIGAUS.</p>
<p>Wow, I didn’t know that they ignored freshmen year’s grades. I always thought it was cumulative from 9th-11th and thats what you put on your application.</p>
<p>May I ask where you get this sort of information from? I’d like to research some of this stuff so I can better prepare myself.</p>
<p>Thanks again</p>
<p>The UC application site has tons of information about the requirements for a-g courses, the various ways to qualify to apply, how they calculate the UC GPA, etc. </p>
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<p>GPA is one of many factors considered. The top three factors considered include the rigor of HS curriculum (high number of a-g and UC-approved honors/AP/IB/CC courses is favored), weighted and unweighted GPA, and SAT/ACT/SAT Subject Test scores.</p>
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