<p>During high school I have taken five courses at my local CA community college: Chemistry (so as to take AP Bio Sophomore year), Intro to Engineering, Intro to Object Oriented Programming, Elementary Chinese and Calculus with Analytic Geometry. I have a 4.0 for all of these courses. As I want to take advanced level courses in Asian Languages and Computer Science I am aiming for Berkeley and UCLA. I have a 2270 SAT and SAT IIs all over 750 and six APs four 5s and two 4s. The issue is I have a few B's from Sophomore year as I was adjusting to the AP Bio work load (junior year was all A's). I want to put my best foot forward grade-wise. Should I transfer some or call (can I?) of my community college grades into my high school GPA? Or do my community college grades get calculated into the UC GPA in any event just by sending my transcript? I understand that my CC work (at least some of it) can get transferred into my high school record. But then I would not have the college credit which could afford some benefits when in college. Any clarification on my options regarding the community college work relative to UC Admissions is appreciated. Thank you.</p>
<p>UC admissions GPA will count college courses taken in high school as honors courses eligible for +1 in the GPA calculation.</p>
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<p>Thank you ucbalumnus. I’ve taken the six AP classes (12 semesters) and the five CC summer classes (five semesters). And I’ll take five more AP classes senior year. I understand that the maximum +1’s I can add to the equation is 8 semesters. Since I would be long past that maximum I assume that CC classes would still count toward GPA but as just regular 4.0 grades. Correct? Another follow-on thought would be - perhaps transferring some of the classes to the high school transcript could bump me up in percentile. I’ve seen where some schools take that into consideration (top 10%, top 5% etc.) Is that part of the UC evaluation process?</p>
<p>UCs do not consider class rank per se, although some things that they do consider (e.g. achievement in context to opportunities available in your high school) can correlate to class rank.</p>
<p>But note that UCs’ admissions readings are holistic, so even though the main UC admissions GPA will only reflect up to 8 semesters’ worth of honors points, the admissions readers will see all courses and grades, and will also see unweighted and fully weighted GPAs as well.</p>
<p>Thank you very much! </p>