Checking out this article, it says that the average GPA for UCSB this past year was 4.32. My kid’s school said the same thing. https://www.news.ucsb.edu/2019/019615/top-ten-again
But if you look at the common data set for last year, on the UCSB website, it says the average GPA was 4.12.
http://bap.ucsb.edu/institutional.research/campus.profiles/campus.profiles.2018.19.pdf
What gives?
According to the UC admissions website, the average Capped weighted GPA was 4.16 for Fall 2019 admits. 4.32 was probably the Fully weighted UC GPA.
The first article linked is using 2019 data, while the 2nd linked website is using Fall 2018 data.
UCSB’s average capped weighted GPA did rise from 4.13 to a 4.16 between 2018 and 2019 admits.
Thanks @Gumbymom . What is the difference between Capped Weighted and Fully weighted GPA? Is Capped only including A-G requirement classes?
Capped weighted is a maximum # of Honors points (8 semesters) in the GPA calculation for the a-g courses taken 10-11th grades while the Fully weighted UC GPA is an unlimited # of Honors points. UC’s consider the Unweighted, Capped Weighted (which is most often cited in the UC stats) and the Fully weighted UC GPA.
I’ve noticed that colleges frequently use a fully weighted GPA when publishing their data broadly (e.g. Rankings). That is because they are comparing themselves to other colleges and no real national rule of GPA calculation exists.
I subscribe to the South Carolina GPA definition (Google it).
I’m curious when colleges in general post their freshman admit GPA data whether they typically include the last semester of senior year or not.
@sbdad12 The 4.32 in the article is the average of the ADMITTED students for fall 2019. Some of these students will choose to enroll at UCSB, and some will go elsewhere.
The 4.12 in the UCSB Common Data Set is the average of ENROLLED students, that is, those among the admitted students who actually ended up enrolling in the freshman class of UCSB in the fall of 2018.