When people talk about the "avg GPA for incoming freshmen" of UC schools, do they mean UC GPA?

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<p>Hey all,</p>

<p>I know UC's only give out 8 semesters of 5.0 (honors) credit. So when people say the avg GPA of incoming freshmen at UCSD is 4.1, do they mean UC GPA?</p>

<p>My UC GPA is 3.8 but my weighted HS GPA is 4.3. </p>

<p>Thanks all.</p>

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<p>If the “people” are speaking in official capacity as employees of a UC, then it is almost certainly the UC-weighted version of GPA. They won’t care about any GPA weighted by whatever method your high school uses.</p>

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<p>Some of the UCs break it down better than that, telling you ‘unweighted’ or ‘weighted uncapped’ (and yeah, that would only be a-g courses but not stopping with 8 APs. UCLA does the latter. Go to each UC forum and you will see threads of stats some of which are clearer than others about whether capped is considered or not. Berkeley told us they add a point for EVERY AP when we were there. </p>

<p>I’m thinking they are using uncapped but I can’t prove it.</p>

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<p>When the admissions readers read applications, they supposedly see three GPAs:

  • unweighted
  • weighted, capped to 8 honors points
  • weighted, uncapped</p>

<p>However, any reports from UC campuses about average GPA or range of GPA for admits should be assumed to be the weighted, capped to 8 honors points version unless specified otherwise.</p>

<p>GPA weighting done by your high school is irrelevant; the UC computers recalculate the above GPAs using your self-reported courses and grades.</p>