melissaray

Is a UC GPA of 4.05 high enough for UCLA???

FixedAxel

nononononononno

melissaray

this is only including grades 10 and 11 but my weighted is a 4.3 so it makes no sense how do i calculate it properly???? i tried doing it off some website

Aureonae

its on the weaker side for admissions to UCLA...
according to the freshman profilings on their site, the average GPA was a 4.13
Try and get above 2000 on the SATs, preferebly 2100+, and you should have a fair chance.

melissaray

is the average gpa on the site the UC gpa? or the weighted gpa? because for my weighted gpa i got a 4.3 but my UC gpa said it was a 4.05 but i am not sure if i calculated the UC gpa properly....

Aureonae

UC GPAs are calculated with credit for only 8 honors classes.
Your UC GPA is prob lower than your school GPA, because you have prob taken more than 8 honors courses.

Calcruzer

To figure your UC GPA do the following:

Take all of your classes and eliminate the following:
Health courses
Physical education courses
Student government courses
Teacher assistant courses
Any courses taken during the freshmen year (9th grade)
Any courses in which you got a D or less that you retook to get a higher grade

Figure out your grade points using the remaining courses and figure out how many courses you took. (Call the grade points X and the number of courses Y)

Grade points are the number of units for each course times the grade where (A=4, B=3, C=2, D=1, and F=0)

Now, for each course you took during the sophomore and junior year, determine if it was an honors course or an AP course or an IB course. For each semester-long course up to 8 semesters, add one grade point to your grade points "X" above). For example if you took two year-long AP courses and no honors or IB courses, that's four semesters of courses, so add 4 to "X" above). If you took more than 8 semesters of honors, you only get 8 extra points maximum. Now take this number (X plus the grade points added from the honor courses) and divide by the number of courses taken during the sophomore and junior years (Y above).

This is your UC GPA.

To get into UCLA as an in-state student, this UC GPA should be about 4.16 or above, and you should have about a 2000 SAT score, with SAT II scores in the mid-600s and at least one leadership EC (extracurricular) with some other clubs, volunteer work, or honors showing in your application.

Note that the more honors courses you take, the harder it is to keep the UC GPA above this 4.16 number. So, it is actually okay to have like a 4.08 or 4.10 UC GPA if you've taken something like 6 year-long AP courses, but it should be at the 4.16 number if you took only 4 honors/AP/IB courses.

Best of luck with your application.

P.S. I graduated from UCLA myself (MBA).

Aureonae

meh. just listen to what calcruzer says

melissaray

Ohh ok that makes so much more sense. and yes i have taken alot of ap/honors courses. I will have a total of 12 ap and honors courses from grades 9-12 by the time i graduate. (total of 7 ap's by the time i graduate)