<p>I am trying to transfer to UCSB for fall 2013 and have began to fill out the transfer planner on the TAG website. When I enter in all of my coursework my gpa is lower than my gpa on my transcripts. I am going to be a borderline TAG applicant due to a bad semester which severely affected my gpa. I talked to my counselor at school and she calculated my gpa if I were to get all A's in my fall classes (which I will do) and she said I would have exactly a 3.205 gpa which means I would be able to TAG to UCSB! However, my excitement ended when I put in the A's for my Fall classes into the coursework section of the planner to ensure that I would have a 3.2 gpa for TAG. It told me I would have a 3.16 instead of a 3.2? All of the classes I am taking/have taken are UC transferrable so I am very confused as to why there is a discrepancy in the two gpa's. Any ideas on what could cause it? </p>
<p>Any help would be greatly appreciated!</p>
<p>Try using this GPA calculator from Berkeley. I entered all of my UC transferable classes and made sure I compensated for repeated courses. I ended up getting the same GPA listed on the TAG application. </p>
<p>[GPA</a> Calculator](<a href=“http://academicservices.berkeley.edu/advising/gpa/]GPA”>http://academicservices.berkeley.edu/advising/gpa/)</p>
<p>Thanks for that! It gave me the same gpa as the TAG planner. My counselor must have calculated something wrong. Bad news is that unless I take 19 units and get all A’s I will not have a 3.2.</p>
<p>With the classes I am currently enrolled in I will have a 3.16 gpa by Fall. All of my prereqs and igetc will be completed and I have an upward trend in grades since spring of 2011. What are my chances of getting into UCSB with that? Im so stressed out this is killing me.</p>
<p>Slow down. UCs only use the UC-transferable GPA. What that means is that only classes you have taken that are deemed UC-transferable will be included in the UC-transferable GPA. Make sure that the GPA you were looking at on your TAG application was your UC-transferable, not your overall GPA which may include non UC-transferable classes that will not be included in your UC-transferable GPA (the only one that matters). Conversely, make sure that your counselor was telling you your UC-transferable GPA, not your overall GPA.</p>
<p>^^Correct. Be sure to only be concerned with the “ASSIST certified courses” GPA, and not the Overall GPA. The OP did state that all of his courses are UC-transferrable though.</p>
<p>Is there a way to check which classes are UC-transferable other than going to the archive of the catalogs? That GPA Calculator just relieved so much stress, found out my GPA is .2 better than I thought. Sweet</p>
<p>Basically if you’re using a TAG and the class shows up on that drop-down menu when searching for it, it’s UC transferable. ASSIST is always helpful as well.</p>