<p>My counselor told me that community college courses don't get the extra point in weighted UC gpa, even if it is UC transferable (meaning according to assist.org, I would be able to skip out of the class and get units for it). But on UCLA</a> Undergrad Admissions: Profile of Admitted Freshmen, Fall 2008, it says under the fully weighted gpa section, </p>
<p>"This GPA includes an extra grade point for all UC-approved honors courses (which include AP, IB, school-based honors, and transferable college courses) in which a grade of C or higher is earned. The maximum value possible is 5.00."</p>
<p>Yeah.. so I am guessing my counselor was wrong. Can someone clear this information up for me?</p>
<p>I also heard that for each course taken at a college, I would get 2 grades for the class when my gpa is calculated. So according to my counselor, if I get an A in say Art 101 taken at a cc, I would get two A's. So is it true that a grade in a college course get populated into two grades (A/A, B/B, and so on) when they calculate your gpa? Can someone clear up this for me as well?</p>
<p>I thought I knew how to calculate my UC gpa (unweighted, weighted, and high school).. Now I am confused. I will post up my grades.. can someone calculate my UC HS, weighted and unweighted gpa for me? I will indicate UC approved honors level courses with an *. </p>
<p>10th grade (1st semester/2nd semester)</p>
<p>AP World History* - A/A
Honors Chem* - A/A
Honors Math Analysis* - B/B
Honors English - A/A (Not UC approved honors)
Korean 2 - A/A
Spanish 2 - B/B</p>
<p>11th grade</p>
<p>AP English Lang* - A/A
AP Biology* - A/A
AP Calculus AB* - A/A
AP US History* - A/A
AP Environmental Science* - A/A
Korean 3 - A/A
Art 101* - A (1 semester)
Econ 1* - A (1 semester)</p>
<p>I think your counselor is wrong.(My school counselors aren't that good either.) It should count towards your UC GPA...but there is a capped limit of 8 weighted courses...I don't know about the "2 grades for each CC class"</p>
<p>yeah the capped limit is on the UC High school gpa. I am sure the fully weighted gpa is not capped. Thanks though laserbase. The counselor said college courses will just get 4 points for an A, 3 points for a B, and so on.</p>
<p>Yeah I got that for my capped UC gpa. But if it college course grade DO get populated into two grades like my counselor said, then it would be 4.143?</p>
<p>Assuming that my counselor is wrong would my gpa be..</p>
<p>The ELC program awards a bonus point for UC-certified honors courses. UC-approved honors courses are marked with a yellow star on the high school's Doorways course list. All honors courses are used in calculating the GPA (in other words, the ELC program uses a weighted, uncapped GPA).</p>
<p>All Advanced Placement (AP) courses are considered UC-approved honors courses whether or not they appear on the Doorways course list. Community college courses (with the exception of high school–level English, Algebra 1, Algebra 2, Geometry, and Trigonometry) are considered UC honors courses if they are on the ASSIST course list for the community college.
<p>GPAx123 - Do you mean A counts as 5? I am not sure. But I think it does not matter. I guess if it's a honor course then it is equivalent to a HS AP class. Click on the ASSIST link to see if your commuity classes belong to the UC honor courses. The UC recalculates the GPA. Remember what I post here is for ELC determination (top 4%). But I think the ELC criteria would apply to regular applications.</p>
<p>nope, I meant that you get two grades for a semester of college course. theocmom PMed me and answered my question. Thanks.</p>
<p>To everyone who did not know, if you take a community college course, the UC system calculates doubles that grade. So say if you get an A in a UC-transferable course (approved in assist.org) you get two A's instead of just one.</p>
<p>fsw, are you sure? I've asked around couple of counselors at my school and a CC member whose D went through similar situation PMed me that you get two letter grades. </p>
<p>No Quarter, it depends whether you are a transfer or a senior in HS.</p>
<p>GPAx213: My daughter have taken 2 courses at a community college. Her high school transcript reported only 1 letter grade for each course taken.</p>
<p>According to my d: when you apply for UC, each college class is recorded as type "CL". You tell it what grade you got (one grade). But my d's UC application from 2 years ago when it printed after completion showed this for each college class: A/A. Could a student who was admitted this year check their app printout to see if the same was true to help GPAx213?</p>
<p>How the calif h.s. puts it on the high school transcript might be different across the state. Perhaps some schools don't give a full year's academic credit for a college class, but d's public charter school certainly did, weighted, as though she had taken a full year AP class.</p>