<p>How do you calculate the unweighted GPA for UC schools?
Do you include grades from freshman year or no? I'm so confused... because I'm screwed if they don't.
This is so unfair! If you get a couple B's in tenth grade but have all A's in all your other grades... you're screwed for admission to the top UC's. I have a 3.9 UW overall. I'm out of state and applying to Berkeley L&S and UCLA Engineering
Took a class prior to ninth grade: A
Ninth grade: All A's (8 A's) (one of the A's was not in a-g)
Took a class during summer: A
Tenth: 5 A's, 3 B's (one of the A's was not in a-g)
Eleventh: All A's (8 A's, all a-g and are all college courses)
Twelfth: First semester All A's (4 A's, all a-g, and are all college courses)</p>
<p>You only calculate A-G courses (look up a list of A-G courses on Google) from your 10th and 11th grades. What classes did you have Bs in? If they were not academic, like PE, then you don’t count them. </p>
<p>AP Calc AB, AP English Lang and Comp, and APUSH.</p>
<p>No, freshmen grades aren’t counted as far as I know. This might be useful:</p>
<p><a href=“GPA Calculator for the University of California – RogerHub”>http://rogerhub.com/gpa-calculator-uc/</a></p>
<p>@YuiHirasawa That’s for the weighted UC GPA. I’m talking about the <strong><em>unweighted</em></strong> GPA. </p>
<p>Did you apply for aid? If not, that may be an admissions boost as an OOS UC applicant. The UCs are need-blind for instate (except give a nudge to low-income instate), but I suspect that they want more full-pay OOS students.</p>
<p>@mom2collegekids No, I didn’t. I’m mainly concerned about my unweighted GPA. Since the start from freshman year, my UW GPA is a 3.9. But using the UC standards, it’s a 3.81… </p>
<p>Technically you do not calculate an unweighted GPA for the UCs. You calculate only a UC GPA which is weighted in relation to the A-G courses you took in sophomore and junior year. Any + or - grades become only the letter grade, e.g., if you had a B- and a B+ in two courses, they are both given a B which is 3 points per semester course, A is 4, and C is 3. For honors and AP courses if your high school is in California you get an additonal point, e.g., an A for a semester becomes a 5. If the high school is out of state, APs (and IBs) but not honors courses get a point upgrade. You are entitled to a maximum of 8 point increases, i.e., an extra point on only 8 total semester courses or average 2 courses per semester (but they do not have to be spread evenly over each semester). You then add up your total sophomore and junior year points and then divide by total number of semester courses in those years to get your UC GPA.</p>
<p>Now you need to understand what that GPA is used for. It is, along with SAT or ACT scores, what determines whether you have the minimum UC points necessary to show you are eligible for admission to a UC. If you have the minimum UC point score needed and are a California resident, you will be admitted to “a” UC as long as you actually apply to ones that are likely to take those with minimal scores. As a non-resident, you simply pass the first hurdle toward admisison.Then the issue becomes whether a particular UC will admitt you such as the higher ranked UCLA, Berkeley and San Diergo. In that determination the UC GPA is just the beginning. Each of those colleges can look at all grades for freshman through junior year, including, for example, an F you might have gotten in a freshman course that you then retook in sophomore year and got an A. In other words, do not assume your freshman grades mean nothing. They are part of the mix that the higher ranked UCs can and will consider in determining admission.</p>