<p>I noticed in the website describing qualifications for admission to the University of California system, that the grades used in determining UC's bare minimum entry requirements are from 10th and 11th grade years (this in combination then with test scores).</p>
<p>However, in looking at UCLA, they seem to indicate they evaluate the entire high school performance in admissions decisions.</p>
<p>So I'm relatively sure UC does look at 9th grade performance. I have heard, though I cannot remember where, that there are schools that do not calculate 9th grade year in GPA. Did I hear incorrectly?</p>
<p>Are there any schools that calculate an applicant's GPA based soley on 10th and 11th grade years?</p>
<p>Princeton is one of them. They do take into account however your mid-year report.</p>
<p>theres a thread on this every 72 hours or so</p>
<p>My apology daman11. I did a search on 9th grade, and also on 9th, and came up with hundreds of threads that did not seem to address my search.</p>
<p>Can you link me to a thread that addresses this?</p>
<p>Stanford says they ignore freshman grades</p>
<p>my apologies tokenadult</p>
<p>Thank you for those links tokenadult. After reading them, I conclude:</p>
<p>UMich, Princeton and UChicago probably erase 9th grade in calculating the GPA they use in reviewing a student's stats, and possibly when reviewing transcript (though nobody has written this directly).</p>
<p>-Stanford used to omit them but apparently now uses all years.</p>
<p>-everybody uses them in figuring class rank</p>
<p>-UC does NOT use 9th grade ONLY when calculating eligibility for the entire UC system (they call them UC points). They use 10th, 11th year grades plus five standardized tests. This is ONLY to determine whether the student is top 12.5% of California's graduating seniors.</p>
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<li>Individual UCs DO use freshman grades when reviewing gpa, class rank, and transcripts, ECs, etc. for their own admission decision of an applicant.<br></li>
</ul>
<p>From UCLA's website: </p>
<p>"Here are some of the additional criteria we will use to evaluate your application: </p>
<p>The quality, content, and level of college prep courses you have taken throughout your <em>entire</em> high school program, especially coursework completed beyond the minimum courses required for eligibility to the University of California. " <em>emphasis mine</em></p>
<p>Is this a fair summary?</p>
<p>Dunnin:</p>
<p>small nit: According to common data sets, outside of ELC, the UC's do NOT consider class rank in admissions. (An article in the LA Times a couple of years ago indicated that less than half the public HS rank students.) However, each campus does have access to the HS elc lists, (which are uncapped btw), so a ranking is possible for those students/schools that participate in elc review.</p>
<p>You're right bluebayou... I remember now that I did read on Berkeley's common data set that they do no use class rank at all.</p>