<p>To calculate UC GPA, do you include the community college courses you took over the summer? </p>
<p>In theory, would including them actually LOWER your UC GPA and raise your UW GPA? Is there any benefit in including them?</p>
<p>No. To my knowledge, you only include a-g courses in high school.</p>
<p>And yes, they would in theory lower your W/UC GPA but raise your UW GPA (assuming they are not weighted courses).</p>
<p>So the only benefit would be to show off that you did something during the summer besides computer games? :)</p>
<p>Also, for weighted GPA, for private colleges and such, do they count freshman year/senior year in the calculation of your grades? Do they disregard health/PE classes like UC's do?</p>
<p>I do believe you include CC courses (A-G only) into your UC GPA calculations. I think it's also a weighted course, although I can't find anything to support that. It would matter if you put these on your transcript because these typically count as beyond A-G requirement classes, which can help you net 500 pts at UCSD, and is always a plus at LA/Berkeley because it demonstrates course rigor.</p>
<p>@Private schools
No, they don't usually put that much consideration into freshman grades, but senior year matters a lot (midyear report for instance). Also, even if freshman year grades aren't considered that much, there's still the issue of class rank, which they likely won't recalibrate for special purposes.</p>
<p>@Peppers, I meant for the calculation of your W GPA.</p>
<p>You can put city college courses in admissions. If they are UC transferrable, they will be weighted with an extra gpa point. (Under where you indicate H or AP, you put CL - I think it was CL, it started with C I remember. check the instructions...) Of course, there is a limit of 8 extra semester gpa points, so in theory, it will lower your UC admissions GPA if you are already taking numerous AP courses already.</p>
<p>For more information, you can download directly from the uc admissions site the instructions somewhere.</p>
<p>^^That would depend on school I guess, if you're referring to private schools and rank. I remember what Kevin is saying about CL, so I guess that might be where I'm getting the weighted thing from (for the UC GPA at least)</p>
<p>Kevin SF90 and Peppers have it right:</p>
<p>From this year's University of California application instructions:</p>
<p>The courses must be in the following “a-g” subjects: history/social science, English,advanced mathematics, laboratory science, language other than English, and the visual and performing arts. Also, they must be certified as honors courses by the University. In these subjects, as well as in computer science, acceptable honors-level courses include Advanced Placement courses UC-designated International Baccalaureate courses, AND COLLEGE COURSES THAT ARE TRANSFERABLE TO THE UNIVERSITY. (emphasis is mine)</p>
<p>In addition to the preliminary GPA used to establish UC eligibility, campuses may look at an applicant’s academic record in a variety of ways during the selection process. These GPA variations may include a fully weighted GPA that includes all honors grade points earned in grades 10 and 11 (the GPA used to rank students at each high school for purposes of identifying ELC students) and an unweighted GPA in which no honors grade points are included in the GPA calculation.</p>
<p>This comes from page 8 of the application form which is downloadable here:</p>
<p>It seems quite logical to count the transferable community college courses as honors courses--although as pointed out above, this could actually lower your UC GPA if you have already capped out at the 8 extra grade point maximum allowed.</p>
<p>What about applying to colleges like Caltech and Stanford? </p>
<p>1) For their weighted GPA, do they count summer courses as a 5 or 4?
2) One semester or two semesters?
3) Do they count freshman year in the calculation of weighted GPA?
4) Do they count the first semester of senior year?
5) Do they count health/PE classes as part of the weighted GPA?</p>
<p>Anyone know?</p>
<p>I don't know if Stanford looks at these grades.
Stanford however does not weigh any classes (If i remember correctly from my visit there a year ago), they just see "Oh, this guy took many honors/AP classes, thats good." They don't like seeing students choosing the "easy" classes when they can take harder ones.</p>
<p>Just like everyone on here to know that you can't "choose" to send your CC transcript, it's the law that you MUST send it.</p>
<p>For CC transcripts, do you send it to your school and they put it into the HS transcripts? Or do you have to send it to each college?</p>
<p>Can you send your Letter of Recommendations before you pay the applying fee? How do they know who you are if they get your letter before your application?</p>
<p>How many letter of recommendations are required for common app? Do you need a counselor letter?</p>