<p>I don't go to school in california, so would my honors and magnet courses be considered an honors course for the UC application?</p>
<p>My understanding is that honors credit for UC GPA is only awarded to in-state applicants. They’ll still consider that you took honors and AP courses, but you won’t get extra points.</p>
<p>[University</a> of California - Calculating GPA](<a href=“http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/counselors/q-and-a/calculating-gpa/index.html#5]University”>http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/counselors/q-and-a/calculating-gpa/index.html#5) says that “In calculating a nonresident’s GPA, UC will grant honors weight for AP or IB courses only, but not for school-designated honors courses.”</p>
<p>Note that since the limit is 8 semesters’ worth of honors points, a student at a school with lots of AP and/or IB courses may get the maximum honors points just from those courses.</p>
<p>Not to worry, however, since the app reader will recognize that you are OOS and your gpa will be compared to other OOS’ers.</p>
<p>ok, this is all helpful, but i was more concerned with how to label it in my application. Since I have taken multiple honors and magnet classes, do these count as “UC approved” honors courses, so i could label as such on my app? or are these considered not honors since i’m out of state?</p>
<p>label it honors, the system processing the applicaiton will know you are out of state, will not count it with the boost in the ‘official’ UC GPA, but the admissions readers will see that and understand the rigor of your high school courses.</p>
<p>thanks rider730!
i’m relieved my honors and magnet classes can be labeled honors. i felt kinda strange labeling then “Not honors” when i worked so hard</p>
<p>They are honors classes, that was how they were designated and you earned them. The UC system will not give them the extra ‘honor’ grade points because they cannot audit all the honors courses in the other 49 states and internationally to determine whether the rigor is sufficient to warrant honors points, while inside California they have configured the application processing software with all the classes that have been proven by each in-state school to meet the standards of the UC system. </p>
<p>Most of the UC campuses will not give you credit for them, because most have a fixed algorithm to weight and add up all the factors, producing a single numeric value and admitting EVERY student above the chosen cutoff and rejecting EVERY student below it. UCLA and Cal are two that are not constrained in how they evaluate applicants, they can look at fully weighted, fully unweighted and other variants of GPA and they can assess themselves the rigor you undertook while in HS. </p>
<p>If they have had others attend from your high school, then they have track record information of the typical courses taken by other applicants and where a student with an average and course record like you would have ranked from the transcript they received when the students came to Cal. In addition, they would have statistics on how a student with similar credentials and background from your OOS high school performed when taking classes here. Any way you look at it, you will get a fair evaluation using human intelligence and context to decide, not just a fixed algorithm handling everyone the same way.</p>