<p>Flopsy: The 8 semester cap on extra credit for AP and honors classes puts an effective ceiling of about 4.4 on a UC GPA. In my son's high school students with weighted GPA's as low as 3.9 got "you may be eligible for ELC" letters - i.e., they were considered close enough to the top 4% to warrant sending their records to UC for their analysis. So while there may be grade inflation at a lot of schools, I'm guessing it isn't universal.</p>
<p>Bondsfan: the exact formula differs from campus to campus. The formula you gave is used at UCSD; each tenth of a GPA point = 125 SAT points. I think Davis used a formula last year where each tenth of a GPA point equaled 100 SAT points. Other campuses are less rigid. But your basic premise is correct.</p>