<p>Do they really not care at all about freshman year and senior year? My highest so far was 2nd smester freshman year.</p>
<p>Also, as for calculating UC GPA, I was required to take a PE class. I have six periods including that PE class. When i calculate my GPA, i dont add in the PE grade, but do i divide by 5 or 6 periods?</p>
<p>anyone care to answer?</p>
<p>Only sophomore and junior year grades matter for UC gpa. And you would not count the P.E. classes when you divide by total number of semester courses</p>
<p>Ok, for my sophmore year, i had:</p>
<p>English H : B
Spanish : A
Geometry H : C
Biology: B
World History H: B
Tennis (PE class): A
My UC GPA would be a 3.6, correct?</p>
<p>uc gpa counts junior year too, not just sophomore year</p>
<p>oh right, but i meant for that semester/year, it'll be a 3.6, right?</p>
<p>And i heard UC's only weigh 8 AP/honors. Does that meant they only weigh 8 semesters' worth or 8 different year long classes?</p>
<p>They only add one point for yearlong honors/ap courses. </p>
<p>All AP courses get +1 pts
Only specific approved UC Honors Courses get the +1 pt.</p>
<p>And they dont add 1 pt for any honors sophmore yr courses.</p>
<p>so when i calculated your gpa i got 3. lol im not too sure about this i'd get a second opinion</p>
<p>I've never heard that the honors course has to be year-long but it might be true. They DO give points for honors classes in sophomore year but they won't give more than 4 for that year. so you would need to take at least 2 honors/ap yearlong-courses in junior year to get the maximum 8 extra points because it is 8 semester's worth. i don't see any point in calculating the gpa of one semester of your sophomore year because it doesn't tell you much.</p>
<p>I was just using that as an example. My year-long sophmore and Junior grades are as followed:</p>
<p>Currently a senior. top 1/3 of class.</p>
<p>Sophmore Sem 1/2
English H: B/B
Spanish: A/B
Geometry H: C/C
Tennis: A/A
Biology: B/B
World History H: B/B</p>
<p>Junior Sem 1/2
US Hist AP: C/C -I got a 4 on the AP test.
Alg II C/B
Chemistry: B/B
Psychology: B/A -3 on the AP exam
English H: B/B
Spanish: B/B</p>
<p>I'm not very good at math, and struggled in it sophmore year, and even now. Outside help doesnt seem to benefit me at all, and no matter how long i study, i dont do very well. Could this "struggle" be used in my personal statement? Or is it just a glorified version of being lazy?</p>
<p>you need grades from both semesters of sophomore and junior year to calculate the gpa. and you can talk about your struggle in your personal statement.</p>
<p>Those are both semesters. The slash means semesters. For example B/B means B first semester, and a B second semester. B/C means B first semester, C second semester.</p>
<p>i calculate 3.28</p>
<p>I got 3.25.</p>
<p>now i got 3.23</p>