<p>The website says my UC GPA is a 4.33 weighted. I was wondering, how did they calculate this? And also, how up to date is this GPA? I'm in my 2nd semester as a junior right now. Is there a possibility it has changed, or is it 4.33 as of NOW?</p>
<p>Don’t know how CB does it or how they even have your grades. However, anyone can calculate their UC GPA: <a href=“http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/undergrad_adm/paths_to_adm/freshman/scholarship_reqs.html[/url]”>http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/undergrad_adm/paths_to_adm/freshman/scholarship_reqs.html</a></p>
<p>It looks complex but it is not too much so:</p>
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<li><p>Throw away all of your freshman grades.</p></li>
<li><p>Throw away all of your BS courses like health, vocatioal, PE, similar. Count only a-g courses – math, English, social studies, lab science, language, and art, dance, music, or drama.</p></li>
<li><p>Drop from your semester grades all + or -'s, e.g., any B- or B+ is a B.</p></li>
<li><p>For each of those a-g courses taken in each semester of sophomore or junior year (the only years that will count when you apply as a senior to the UCs), A=4, B=3, C=2, D=1 except that for honors and AP courses, A=5, B=4, C=3 (D still =1). However, no matter how many honors and APs you take sophomore and junior year you can count for the extra points no more than 8 total semester courses and no more than 4 in sophomore year. In other words if you take honors math, honors English, and honors history in sophomore year, which are year long courses, meaning 3 courses per semester, you get to count only two of those courses (or 4 semester courses total) as honors or AP in adding the bonus point for them. For example get A in honors history, math and English first semester sophomore year you get two A’s=5 each and one A=4.</p></li>
<li><p>Using the above rules add up your total per semester points in sophomore and junior year and divide by the total number of per semester courses you took during those years in a-g courses.</p></li>
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<p>Hm, that’s a strange way to calculate GPA… so if you take 4 year long honors/AP courses and get straight A’s your GPA is 4.5, but if you take 5 year long honors/AP courses and get straight A’s your GPA is 4.4? Highly illogical.</p>
<p>Yep, that is the way it works. But it is the same rules for everyone. It just means that they don’t award you for overloading on AP and honors courses but having an overload of those with A’s will defnitely be a factor considered by UCLA and Berkeley in the evaluation for admission.</p>
<p>If you’re getting straight As in a bunch of AP courses, your UC GPA is too high to matter much anyway.</p>
<p>And it’s done that way so that the comparison is fair across all California schools. If one school has 5 honors classes and another has 50, the person who goes to the latter school could obviously get a lot more +1s to his GPA. So if there’s no cap, it looks like he’s a much better student than a kid from the former school, even if they both have the exact same grades. That would be highly illogical as well.</p>