<p>Hi.. In the UC system you self report your grades on the resume (you send in the transcript of course as well). Do they look at your actual grades and the classes you took (ap/honors vs regular) or do they look more at just your gpa. With gpa do they look at your weighted gpa or unweighted gpa. Do they only focus on the UC gpa? Is your UC gpa the same as your 'academic gpa' from highschool? Thanks!</p>
<p>Both courseload and GPA.</p>
<p>UC 10-11 A-G Weighted Capped GPA.</p>
<p>No. UC GPA only includes courses that belong under the A-G categories.</p>
<p>UCs look primarily at what is called the UC GPA- a weighted GPA that caps the number of classes that can receive an extra GPA point. Essentially the system is this:
1. Only courses from grades 10 and 11 count
2. Only courses that meet the so-called "A-G" requirements count towards your GPA. Thus grades in athletics, PE, and courses not approved by UC do not count in your GPA.
3. AP classes, IB classes, and classes certified as "Honors" by UC (including Honors pre-calculus, the 4th year of a language, and others, though most classes classified as "honors" by your high school probably do not count) receive a bonus point in GPA calculation assuming that the term grade is a "C" or higher. That is, instead of A=4, B=3, C=2, D=1, F=0; it will be: A=5, B=4, C=3, D=1, F=0.
4. Only 8 semesters of classes can receive bonus points. That is, if you took 5 year-long AP courses in grades 10-11, only 4 of them would receive bonus points in calculating the UC GPA.</p>
<p>If they only give bonus points to 8 semester...
So what if you take 6 AP classes and then you get As in 5 of them but Bs in just one class. Will they give bonus points to the classes you have the highest grds in or randomly pick?</p>
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So what if you take 6 AP classes and then you get As in 5 of them but Bs in just one class. Will they give bonus points to the classes you have the highest grds in or randomly pick?
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It does not matter. Think about it this way: if you had only two classes and received an "A" in one and a "B" in the other, and only one of those classes was weighted, your GPA would not depend on which class was weighted. If the "A" is weighterd, you would receive 5 points for the "A" and 3 for the "B" averaging to a 4.0. If the "B" is weighted, you receive 4 points for the "A" and 4 points for the "B", again averaging to a 4.0. Thus, where the weight is added has no effect on your GPA.</p>