Chance IL resident, 3.68/4.4 1550 SAT For T-20's and Ivies for CS

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@aquapt

if someone tried to engineer the worst possible admissions algorithm for you, it would look an awful lot like the UC’s: test-blind, freshman grades don’t count, and the AP “bump” is capped at 8 semesters

I agree that the UC system is not optimal for this applicant. However, just for others who may be reading this, UC does consider all three UC GPAs: unweighted, weighted capped, and weighted uncapped. For the more selective UCs, the weighted uncapped GPA is probably a lot more important than capped, because they also want to see applicants take a lot of A-G classes.