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Only the grades you earn in "a-g" subjects in the 10th and 11th grades - including summer sessions - are used to calculate your preliminary GPA.
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....Honors Courses: The University assigns extra points for up to eight semesters of University-certified honors-level and Advanced Placement courses taken in the last three years of high school.
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<p>Is it just me or is that a bit contradicting? I don't understand, it's saying it only counts your grades in 10th and 11th, but also weights your senior year grades?
So it's wiser to take the 8 semesters(4 AP's) during your Sophomore and Junior year?
I'm a bit worried about that because the majority of my AP's are scheduled for senior year.</p>
<p>UC technically only uses the 10th and 11th year grades when calculating the UC GPA for admissions purposes, but it includes an uncapped GPA when crunching the numbers for statistics on admitted students, etc. Your UC GPA also includes any coursework (college level or summer school) taken the summer between the junior and senior year. So, if you do not want to take 4 AP classes each year, you can still get the maximum weighted points by taking an A-G requirement or an elective at the local community college during the summer months. The UC's also include the RIGOR of your senior schedule in their admissions decisions and that is where the number of total classes taken will help you in the admissions process; i.e. a person with more AP's scheduled, especially in A-G subjects is given higher consideration (if they attend a school that offers a lot of AP courses) then one with less. I also remember hearing that UCLA and Cal sometimes uncap the 8 point limit for admissions decisions, but I do not know if that is true or not. On the UC Davis forum there is an admissions officer that used to post on all technical UC GPA type questions and he was very informative.</p>