<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>