<p>Okay, so I was really upset to find out how lower my UC GPA is compared to my actual GPA in high school.</p>
<p>While my weighted high school GPA is a 4.72, I found out my weighted UC GPA is a 4.13. Is this good? Also, my unweighted is like a 3.8-3.9.</p>
<p>I have a lot of / enough extracurriculars, and my SAT-R is a 1970.</p>
<p>Does your school give weighted GPA on many courses? If so, many of those courses are not UC-approved weighted. Your GPA and SAT score will be low reach / reach for both schools.</p>
<p>Your SAT is low for both campuses, particularly the CR unless your are a URM. But your UC gpa is all relative to your own HS. What is your rank? A 4.13 could be high if your HS limits UC honors/AP courses prior to senior year. OTOH, if your top classmates have a 4.3, your chances are diminished, without a great essay and/or overcoming adversity.</p>
<p>Are you a junior or senior?</p>
<p>If you’re a junior, then do as well as you can this last semester and retake the SAT. Also take the ACT.</p>
<p>Flying-
Both ucla and cal look at fully weighted gpa, with the weighted grades depending on what has been awarded uc weighting on your h.s.'s a-g course list. (it includes all ap courses and some honors and precalculus). </p>
<p>They also look at unweighted gpa in a-g courses. They also consider how many weighted courses you took grades 10-12; and how many a-g courses you took grades 9-12. So the answer to whether you are academically competitive needs to consider all these factors, plus sat I and II, ap scores, and other comprehensive factors. In my experience, if the high school offers a full ap course schedule, the most significant factor might be the number of ap/honors/college sems taken grades 10-12.</p>
<p>Also, the course grades calculated into fully weighted and unweighted gpa are grades 10, 11, and the summer after 11th grade only. UC- transferable college courses are considered to be the same as year long ap courses, in that they count for 2 semesters and are weighted. </p>
<p>In the only document that cal ever made public on their process, a stack rank of students by high school was done by unweighted gpa. This was part of a balancing process after app readers had scored applications and admissions decisions had been made, and some additional admissions spots were awarded based on comparing results amongst others on the list. For example, one applicant with a higher unweighted gpa at the same school might be admitted for fall, while the one below him might have been spring, and the one below that might have been fall. They may then give a fall spot to student #2.</p>
<p>It is assumed that the ucla process is similiar to cal’s but not exactly alike either. Both are comprehensive, both use 2 app readers per app, and both have several academic and other components.</p>