<p>So, I really want to apply to COSMOS this year (I'm currently a sophomore), and I have a few questions.</p>
<p>1) When they weight your GPA for applications, do they use your UC GPA or do they weight all Honors courses? The only UC weighted courses I've taken are H. Precalc and DE Spanish 3, both of which I'm taking this year; however, I've taken more Honors courses. I know that most of the accepted have above a 4.0 GPA, so I'm a bit scared there; if I get all As this semester (which I believe is a very attainable goal), my overall UW GPA will be a 3.84 (UC GPA 3.94; if you weight all Honors courses, 4.36). </p>
<p>2) Will they put less weight to your GPA from the previous year versus the current year? Also, if you got a B+ in an Honors English course versus an Honors Algebra II course, would it count differently?</p>
<p>3) Does it matter that I don't have many science or math-related ECs? I'm an elementary school math team tutor and an elementary school science bowl tutor, but that's as far as it goes. If I get onto my school's Science Bowl team (and that's a BIG if), then I'll have more, but other than that, I'm just a member of a science club or two on campus. I was going to do Science Olympiad, but the regional competition conflicts with the one major sport-ish activity I do (Colorguard)--there's a Winterguard competition the same day, and I wouldn't be able to do both.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Also, my parents want me to stay close to home and choose UC Santa Cruz or UC Davis (based on last year's clusters, I'd choose UC Davis--UC Santa Cruz has nothing of interest to me), but UC Davis only has one interesting cluster that I'm eligible for, based on the courses I've taken. However, UC Irvine's clusters from last year are of great interest to me.</p>
<p>I don't know how to choose.</p>
<p>Also, do you know how selective the physics and astrophysics clusters tend to be? </p>