<p>When the UC's list their average GPA for addmitted students, do they use the UC calculated GPA or the regular high school calculated GPA?</p>
<p>Check if Berkeley or UCLA's average GPA is over 4.0.</p>
<p>it is. the uc gpa can be over 4.00 it just has to be capped at 4.5</p>
<p>They use UC GPAs, which is capped at 4.5. For sure, Berkeley, UCLA, and UCSD are way above 4.0. I don't know about UCI. Maybe that too.</p>
<p>"Capped at 4.5" is kind of a misleading statement. UC only weights 8 semesters, so you can theoretically get a 4.5 if you take only 8 academic classes total in your sophomore and junior years, and at least half of them are AP or honors courses. If you take more than 8, your UC GPA is "capped" below 4.5. (If you take 5 academic classes a year, for example, your UC GPA is "capped" at 4.4.) But if you only take 8 courses in 10th and 11th grades the UC admissions people will veiw you as not taking a full course load, and downgrade your app accordingly. At UC Davis and UC Irvine, for example, the average number of (full year) academic courses admitted students took in high school was 23 - that's almost 6 a year. If you took 6 courses per year in 10th and 11th grade, with at least four AP or honors courses, the highest UC GPA you could actually get is 4.3. So the "real" cap is lower than 4.5</p>
<p>Could somebody please explain me what is GPA? And how do they calculate that?
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<p>Thank you guys in advance</p>