<p>So I recently found out that UCs only weight a total of 8 semesters of AP classes... isnt this unfair to people who challenge themselves and take a more rigorous workload??
For example, my UC capped GPA gives me a 3.95 eventhough i have taken 7AP classes already... Am i doing all this extra work in vain... do UCs consider workload when viewing GPAs? I'm really worried about my GPA since it is not very impressive but i have consistently been taking honors or AP classes throughout my high school career.</p>
<p>La and berkeley don’t cap</p>
<p>The UC admissions readers will see unweighted, weighted-capped, and weighted-not-capped GPAs, although weighted-capped is the primary one used for eligibility purposes.</p>
<p>The weighted-capped GPA appears to be used because UC studies found that weighted-not-capped HS GPA was a worse predictor of college GPA than unweighted HS GPA. It could be that weighted-not-capped HS GPA was mostly adding the measuring the availability of a large number of AP courses in the high school*, rather than adding more of the student’s academic ability and motivation into the HS GPA.</p>
<p>The CSUs, which admit by formula, use weighted-capped GPA (although senior year grades are included if the applicant has already finished high school at the time of application).</p>
<p>*Typically, when a high school offers a lot of AP courses, many of them are “AP lite” type of courses like human geography, world history, environmental science, and others that are of very little value in getting subject credit in college, and/or give at most a semester of subject credit in college for a year long high school course.</p>