<p>First off, I apologize in advance if I come off as ignorant. I am a born and bred California kid so most of my knowledge about college is unfortunately limited to the UC system.</p>
<p>I was wondering exactly to what extent first semester senior year grades are taken into consideration for Private schools. The UCs openly say that the GPA they take is strictly from 10th and 11th grade (while they "take into consideration" 12th grade 1st semester). If I apply on Jan 1st to a private school, before my first semester grades are released, then the GPA I submit will be devoid of my first semester senior year (though Im sure colleges will request the 1st semester transcript individually).
My main question was simply how much do they take these grades into consideration? Do they recalculate my GPA with the first semester or do they merely "take my grades into consideration"?</p>
<p>Thanks in advance</p>