<p>So I've been reading that they only look at junior and senior year grades, and maybe put most of the weight on senior year.... Is this true for a US resident? How do they put weight on senior year without even having second semester grades? And finally I've read some stuff about pre-reqs in highschool and only looking at the top 6 grades which confused me even more. Any clarifications would be super helpful! Thanks! </p>
<p>Oh, and if i were to have had a crappy first semester of junior year (3.0) but am getting a 4.0 right now in second semester, and plan on getting close to that first semester next year. How am I looking for UBC? </p>
<p>UBC will require specific subjects at a high level such as Honors or AP depending on major (you apply to a college and in some cases to a major). Your admission is based off of the required classes, then whatever highest grades you have. Deadlines are pretty late, so that you can present senior grades and predicted grades. Your semester grades don’t matter, only your final grades. Having A’s in your required subjects and in the others subjects up to 6 would mean a pretty definite admission.</p>
<p>Thanks! So so do they average first and second semester or only look at second? And as for the APs, I had a very busy schedule and the only APs I felt confident in taking(science math) didn’t for my schedule. Will this affect me a good amount? I’ll be taking stat at cc over the Sumer as well as ap calc next year. I would take an ap science but I don’t have enough classes. Thanks!</p>
<p>your final grades are supposed to be for the year, right? If not, they’ll average. To the best of my knowledge UBC expects some APs but they’re not part of the minimum requirements.
For a good shot, a 3.5 would be a minimum.
The minimum requirements, without which they won’t even look at your application, are:
<p>Thanks again! So right now my schedule for next year will be…</p>
<p>-College Stat class over the summer
then…
-Ap calc
-Sports Medicine
-world history(I think)
-english
-jazz band
-football</p>
<p>There really isn’t any room for me to add another ap/honors class related to kinesiology(what I will be majoring in). Would you recommend me to drop sports med and take AP physics even though I want to be going into Physical therapy and sports med would be very useful? I would do honors english but I’m not great at english as it is, and during the football season I struggle to keep my grades up so I would be worried about not doing so well. </p>
<p>Finally, how much weight will the ACT have? I plan on getting over a 30 when I take it next month(based on practice tests. </p>
<p>Jazz band and football won’t count for UBC. Only ACADEMIC classes count and you must have 6. Not sure Sports Medecine would count, either. Jazz band and football are important if you’re applying to US universities (which I hope you plan on doing) so you’re in a conundrum here.
3 of your 12th grade classes need to be Ap-level. You must have English.
Are you getting an A in precalc? Or at least a B+? Because it’s a pretty hard class.
World History and English are fine.
You should take AP Bio before you take AP Physics, unless you got an A in Honors Physics.
This is from the UBC website:
[quote]
Calculation of your GPA is based on English 12 and three additional approved examinable grade 12 courses (or approved International Baccalaureate (IB) or Advanced Placement (AP) courses) as determined by the program you are applying to. In addition to the grade 12 courses used to calculate your GPA, there are a number of grade 11 required courses that you must have. (…) |/quote]
For kinesiology, the required courses are Precalculus or calculus, and/or one full year of Bio, Chem, or physics (at the AP level). The expected grades in your science classes would be A- or A (unweighted).</p>
<p>Thanks! So right now only for second semester I have an A- in regular Math Analysis(or precalc) an A in regular Chemistry(I wanted to do AP but it was 2 class periods so I couldn’t) an A- in english A in history and A in korean(foreign language). I would think I am able to maintain these for the rest of the year and maybe get the math to a solid A. </p>
<p>also, </p>
<p>“Calculation of your GPA is based on English 12 and three additional approved examinable grade 12 courses (or approved International Baccalaureate (IB) or Advanced Placement (AP) courses)”</p>
<p>Now are you sure this doesn’t mean the grade is based off of three 12th grade courses… or ap/ib classes. Instead of 12th grade courses(aka ib/ap)? </p>
<p>Thanks so much again for taking the time to help me out</p>
<p>Your grades are good, as are your choice of classes. </p>
<p>The 12th grade classes they mean would be the M/U type, which in the US are honors, IB, or AP. But email them to see if they’d accept “regular” senior classes rather than honors/IB/AP. </p>
<p>Kinesiology is a very competitive major, so what would be your 2nd choice major?</p>
<p>Thanks! I actually called them and they said that there are no requirements for AP/IB classes and that was referring to classes taken in your senior year. And I wouldn’t really have a 2nd choice. I want to go into Physical Therapy so I would prefer going somewhere else or to CC than switching majors. </p>
<p>Okay then you’re good (although a little dubious they’d accept regular classes as AP/IB/Honors). But since that’ll work for you let us not question it!
You’re required to submit a 2nd major. However you’re not required to go there if they admit you to your second major. :)</p>
<p>Jazz band and football are considered classes? </p>
<p>I don’t think jazz band would be considered for the English + 3 requirement, but it may count for the 6 class grade average. Football wouldn’t.</p>
<p>They are at my school cause they take up a class period… I was just listing my schedule though. </p>
<p>I don’t know about BC but I don’t know of a high school in Ontario that would count jazz band or football as classes. They are ECs, so Ontario universities are not going to consider them and would wonder why you chose those. You might want to get in touch with UBC and see what they think.</p>