<p>I have a high unweighted GPA (3.93), but a pretty low weighted one (4.2). This is partly due to my four B's throughout highschool, but is mostly due to me taking classes that raise my unweighted but lower my weighted (over four years i have 5 bands, 3 unweighted spanishes, and was not allowed to take any weighted classes freshmen year). I was wondering whether this will look bad on paper, even though I've taken most of the hardest classes available to me at my school. Also, my GPA is a good .3 below the average admit to UCLA at my school, because my school offers many easy A weighted classes that people take (art history, music essentials, stats kind of). The school district here also allows you to start spanish in 7th grade, thereby putting you into honors spanish sophomore year, but I moved here in 8th grade and could not start spanish 1 until 9th grade, which lowered my uc gpa considerably compared to most others at my school. Will this put me at a disadvantage in admissions or will admissions officers cut me some slack? Btw I'm still in the top 9% of my class based on uc gpa according to the ELC letter I got.</p>
<p>Keep up your extracurriculars. A lot! More the better chance.</p>
<p>Maybe take summer classes at a community college for the extra weighting (and the units and GE or major credit for down the road)? I had the same problem of GPA dilution from unweighted classes when I was in high school. I know that there’s a cap for the number of semesters of honors/AP weighting you get on the UC GPA, but it is my understanding that UCLA also computes an uncapped GPA on its own.</p>
<p>Plan on taking 4-5 AP courses your senior year. You need to demonstrate that you’re ambitious enough to tackle a rigorous workload.</p>
<p>Looks like your on target for admission based on Profile of Admitted Freshmen for Fall 2013 [Profile</a> of Admitted Freshmen - UCLA Undergraduate Admissions](<a href=“http://www.admissions.ucla.edu/prospect/adm_fr/frosh_prof.htm]Profile”>http://www.admissions.ucla.edu/prospect/adm_fr/frosh_prof.htm)</p>
<p> 94% of all freshmen admitted to UCLA had fully weighted GPAs above 4.0 in 10th 11th grade with the average being a 4.4 GPA.
89% of all freshmen admitted to UCLA had unweighted 3.70 4.0 GPAs in 10th 11th grade with a 70% admit rate for students with unweighted GPAs of 4.0.</p>
<p>If your SAT Composite score is strong and you take the 4-5 AP course your senior year as mentioned, your chances improve even more. </p>
<p>As for extracurriculars, more is NOT better. UCLA is looking for leadership and depth of commitment not in the number of activities you participate.</p>
<p>Finish off with an excellent personal statement and you got it!</p>