East Coast Colleges on the level of UC Berkeley

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@tk21769

Not only Berkeley but also other UCs (UCLA, UC Davis, UC SD, UCSB) have very high average entering GPAs. (3.9 or higher). I wonder whether that is due to extraordinary levels of academic achievement in California, or to something more like the Lake Wobegon effect.

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<p>UCs report the UC/CSU-weighted HS GPA, with up to 8 semesters of +1 points for honors or AP courses (out of the usual 20 to 28 courses in 10th-11th grade that high school seniors present grades for in applications). This means that the reported GPAs are typically 0.29 to 0.40 higher than the unweighted 10th-11th grade GPAs that the students have, at least at the more selective UCs where most applicants have more than 8 semesters of honors or AP courses.</p>

<p>California is also a very large population state, and the UCs are just 9 of the 32 state universities with undergraduate education. There are also among the most selective ones (along with Cal Poly SLO, and some majors at some other CSUs). The state universities that admit the students with 2.5 (UC/CSU-weighted) HS GPA and 900 SAT CR+M are the unimpacted CSUs you probably never heard of.</p>