Counting Honors course for Freshman admission

Gumbymom
Thu, 29 Sep 2016 21:57:11 +0000

If your daughter goes to a California HS, you can check each HS’s UC approved Honors course list. My son’s HS had several Honors HS courses that did not count for the extra Honors points: English 2, Biology and World History.

Also the HS can call any class “Honors” but it needs to be UC approved for the extra honors points in the GPA calculation and HS’s can weight their classes any way they want. What matters is how the CSU/UC’s consider these courses.
Also she can only have a maximum of 2 UC approved Honors, AP, IB courses in 10th grade that count for these points (max 4 semesters). What about Junior year? Does she have any AP/IB/DE courses?

Here is the link to look up the HS courses: https://hs-articulation.ucop.edu/agcourselist#/list/search/institution

Once you figure out which courses are UC approved, you can calculate her UC/CSU GPA using this calculator.