<p>ok so on the uc gpa
specifically this one: CaliforniaColleges.edu</a> - Calculating Your GPA</p>
<p>it only has options for A's and B's.
my school sophtmore year from 90-93 was a B+ but my junior year 90-93 is an A-.
so would B+'s go under the B category? would the A-'s go under the A catagory?
why dont they have an option for pluses and minuses?</p>
<p>That is the way that UC GPA is defined. no plus or minus. B+ is B category. A- is A category.</p>
<p>thats kinda stupid…
but ok thanks</p>
<p>many schools with many different systems. Some use 5 or other numeric value for top grade. Some don’t use plus or minus. UC GPA is a normalizing method used to make GPAs a bit more comparable, but of course in the context of the school at which the grades were earned. </p>
<p>Some decisions had to be made - cut off weighting at 8 units, drop + or -, use 4 as the value for an A - and I imagine that whoever made the choice did some statistical analysis of prior application data and other sources before picking a formula they believed gave them the best overall basis for admissions decisions. </p>
<p>Fortunately, both Cal and UCLA are not bound to use UC GPA as the other UCs must, so that they can create a more fully weighted GPA or use some other approach. Because you never enter the plus or minus (nor any courses that don’t fit the a-g categories), they can’t exactly reproduce your HS GPA, but they can see various interpretations of your grades - unweighted, weighted differently, emphasizing certain categories more than other, or anything else they imagine will give them insight to make a better decision.</p>