<p>Calculating my GPA the way they want me to, it comes out to < 3.00, which i think makes me ineligible for the Cal Grant A.</p>
<p>Would I be better off submitting my SAT (2270) instead? they only say to submit it if you’ve been out of school for 5 years, didn’t go to an accredited hs, were homeschooled, etc.</p>
<p>What’s the chance that they will catch it? if they don’t, then the second option i assume would be better for me.</p>
<p>Were you homeschooled? Was you high school accredited? Have you been out of school for 5 years? It sounds from your question as though the answers are: No, yes, and no.</p>
<p>Your GPA is what it is. If you attended a California high school, it is very likely that your high school electronically submitted your Cal Grant GPA the year you were a senior.</p>
<p>It seems the question you are asking is: if you attempt to defraud the State of California in order to collect funds for which you are not eligible, will you be caught?</p>
<p>The answer: yes, you will most likely be foiled in your attempts to defraud the State of California.</p>
<p>thanks for the response! yeah, you have it right. My school may have electronically submitted my gpa last year (when I was a senior) but at that time it was marginally > 3.00.</p>
<p>This year, however, my school says i need to submit the verification form, and that they will not electronically submit the gpa. (i ended up taking a gap year this year).</p>
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<p>when you put it like that it sounds like a rather exciting enterprise :p. My hope would be they would be lenient and allow me to submit my gpa if they found I had * mistakenly * submitted my SAT scores in circumstances where i should have submitted my gpa. Perhaps that is a bit of wishful thinking though.</p>
<p>It probably is wishful thinking - The California Student Aid Commission has the reputation of being VERY inflexible about qualifications and deadlines.</p>