<p>Hey, how do you calculate your high school gpa for the UC applications? It would be great to hear from somebody's whose done it? I'm out-of-state so I don't know what classes count for honors from my soph year and how do you count A-? Thanks, I'd really like to hear from you!</p>
<p>it's difficult for OOS to caculate a UC gpa, since the bonus points go only to those UC-approved honors courses. But, in general:</p>
<p>1) Soph & Jr grades only, no Frosh grades counted
2) Academic courses "a-g" only, not health, PE, shop, driver's training, etc.
3) Bonus points for all AP/IB courses, including if taken Soph year
4) Bonus points for other UC-approved honors courses
5) Bonus points capped at 8 semesters' worth (4 full year classes)
6) A- is counted as an A, or 4.0 (or 5.0 with bonus point)</p>
<p>Thus, if a student is taking 4 academic courses each year (yeah, I know, slacker load), the math says that the theorectical highest gpa can be a 4.50, assuming all classes were UC-approved honors or Ap/Ib.</p>
<p>Now, to attempt to guess which of your classes might receive the UC honors designation if you were in-state. In general:</p>
<p>1) No Frosh or Soph courses (unless AP/IB), no matter what your school calls them
2) Class usually has a prerequsite college prep course (for example, honors chem may count since it assumes prior knowledge of Intro Chem, but not Honors Bio since that is typically a Frosh course)
3) Honors Pre-calc & Calc count for bonus points, but Honors Alg II, Geom, Alg I do not
4) Honors Lit may count (assuming prereq) as will AP Lit
5) Honors econ or honors psych, typically do not count, but their corresponding AP course would</p>
<p>Hope that gives you an idea.</p>
<p>Comment: the UC's can be good bargains for in-state residents, but. at $38-40k/yr, they are rather pricey for OOS.</p>
<p>Thank You!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>You forgot to give college courses that extra grade point average.</p>
<p>good point, Tony. Yes, applicable courses taken at a college also receive a bonus point, but it, too, falls under the 8 semester cap rule.</p>