Does anyone else find that it is unfair that the UC system only gives extra credit for those taking honors/AP/dual enrollment courses ONLY as an CA resident? I am not a CA resident but I’ve taken all honors/dual enrollment my whole high school career and my UC gpa isn’t high compared to others because I have to indicate it as not honors just because I’m out of state. I’m sure that there’s not much of a difference between CA honors courses and OOS honors courses. In reality, my UC gpa should be higher! Does UCLA take into consideration that I took all high level classes and couldn’t factor it into my UC gpa because I’m OOS?
@medstu1324 UCLA accepts dual enrollment and AP and IB extra gpa points for oos. They only don’t count honors courses for oos because the school’s courses cannot be accredited and verified by UCLA.
Really? I checked the UC application page for OOS and it says that they only grant honors weight for AP and IB. There is no indication of dual enrollment…
In reality there isn’t much difference. APs and Dual enrollment work the same for in-state and OOS. The only difference is for “Honors” classes - most high schools students in CA get the extra weight for Honors Pre-Calc, and students from a very few high schools in CA for some reason get the extra weight for Honors English 11 and 12, or Honors Chemistry (not sure the rhyme or reason).
Dual Enrollment college courses have to be UC Transferable to get the extra weighting so not all DE courses for OOS applicants are UC transferable. HS course rigor is very important which will help your chances.
This is true of in-state as well.
Ok thank you guys for responding. I emailed my UCLA admissions counselor just to make sure.
If you’ve taken 4 or more AP or UC-transferable DE classes you’re pretty much at the same playing level as any other student, GPA-wise. That’s because UCs use the UC weighted capped GPA as the main GPA. (However UCLA will use the UC weighted uncapped as well, but if I’m not mistaken your peers that you will be judged against are other OOS applicants.)
So OOS students aren’t competing against cali students? It makes sense because OOS students cannot take into account the honors classes as OOS.