<p>The high school’s calculation of GPA is not important for UC and CSU, since they recalculate GPA (based only on a-g required courses, with limits on the number of honors points) and do not use current class rank as calculated by the high school (UC ELC uses the previous classes’ top 9% UC-recalculated GPA to set the ELC threshold).</p>
<p>Of course, if she is applying to colleges which use the high school’s calculation of class rank in admissions, then the “gaming” of the GPA by avoiding non-academic electives or taking academic electives which do not have honors versions can make a difference.</p>
<p>Students in college will likely see a lot more GPA “gaming”, at least if they know any pre-med or pre-law students trying to find the “easy A” courses at their colleges.</p>