UC GPA

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Hi,

When UC’s talk about average GPA’s and what not are they talking about in terms of Weighted GPA?

If so I have a 3.5 weighted GPA and my top UC schools are:
-UCSB
-UCI
-UCSC
-UCD

Chances?

Other:
-I’ve been taking all the AP classes we are capable of
-URM (Colombian)
-First generation
-GPA was not as good as I wish it was: I got A’s and 2 B’s sophomore year - family member diagnosed with cancer
-Want to major in Computer Science (I code in Swift/Objective-C - iOS Apps, Mac OS X Apps, Javascript, Python, Ruby, HTML & CSS, and learning Java)

  • have family who attended UCD and UCSC
  • I have a job
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UC’s will look at your unweighted GPA, your UC GPA (capped- meaning using only 8 Semesters of UC approved AP and Honors classes) and UC GPA (Uncapped-using unlimited semesters of UC approved AP and Honors courses: mainly UCB/UCLA)
UC’s only use 10-11th grades for a-g courses. Freshman and Senior grades are not included but will be looked to determine if you meet the a-g course criteria and provisional admission criteria.

Here is the UC calculator for capped: http://rogerhub.com/gpa-calculator-uc/

Here is the website to check your a-g courses: https://hs-articulation.ucop.edu/agcourselist#/list/search/all

Although GPA is a huge factor in admissions, you also need competitive SAT/ACT scores, interesting EC’s and good essays.
UC’s also do not take ethnicity into consideration for admission, so being a URM will notl help you.

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@gumbymom Oh ok I understand now! :slight_smile:

So my GPA weighted is a 3.5 and my unweighted GPA is a 3.2, with those gpa’s and the other things listed above (SAT/ACT Scores not available yet) what are my chances into UCSB, UCI, UCSC, UCD, Santa Clara University, San Jose State, CSU LA, CSULB, and CSU monterey?

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Impossible to chance without test scores. With current GPA, you need a minimum of 2000+ SAT or 30+ ACT for decent chances for the UC’s and SJSU. The rest of the Cal States, a SAT of 1600/ACT of 25 should be fine. Come back when you have your scores. What was your PSAT score?

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OP - Are you a CA resident? Would you qualify for admission to a UC under their “local context” policy? They are prohibited from considering race or ethnicity in admissions, but they will consider students who are in the top 10% of their high school class, in order to bring in more disadvantaged students.

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@woogzmama Yes I am a California resident :slight_smile: