Shubham92

My ultimate question is: do colleges look at what my high school offers in terms of APs and honors classes?

Freshmen year I was at an awesome school with tons of honors and APs available. I took honors english and biology.

I moved to California before sophomore year started. At this school, the only AP class offered to sophomores was World History which I did not take.
This school also did not offer any honors classes.

Junior year, school offered APs: physc, us history, biology, english, calculus.
I took biology, english, calculus.

Now, my feeling is that my school did not offer very many advanced classes compared to most other schools. If it had offered honors classes, I definitely would have taken full honors.

This leaves me with a relatively low weighted GPA of 4.1 but relatively medium UW of 3.92.

I want to go to UC berkeley. (My UC GPA is 4.08)
Will they consider that I was not offered many APs or honors (which is why my UC GPA is low)?

Thanks

cbpeanut

There is a section on your counselor's recommendation/school profile form for most colleges where it asks whether you had taken all the opportunities offered to you (i.e. Exceptional courseload, difficult courseload...) - and this indicates the difficulty of your courseload with respect to your school.

KevinSF90

The UC's will consider if you took advantage of all the resources available to you. (California high schools do report their class offerings to the UC system for review and classification under the a-g category and AP/honors designation) So yes, they will know your school's number of AP/honors classes.

In addition, your UC gpa is capped to a maximum of 8 extra semester gpa points for AP/honors anyway.

I got in with a slightly lower UC gpa than yours so, if your ECs/involvements and test scores are strong, I was low income and 1st gen, assuming you're are the same, then you have a good shot for berkeley.