<p>The University of California has a way of adjusting. </p>
<p>1) Honors courses curricula must be approved by a UC oversight committee. At present, the two only Honors Courses at our suburban High School that get an extra gpa point are Honors Chemistry, and Honors Physics.</p>
<p>2) The UC admissions recomputes GPA into a “UC GPA”. 9th grade is not counted at all. For 10th and 11th grade, they cap the +1 bonus points to 8 semester grades. In some ways this protects kids targeting the UC schools like Berkeley and UCLA from over-enrolling in AP classes strictly for the purpose of looking good on college applications.</p>
<p>Anyway, most all Top 100 colleges recalculate GPA in their own way, so the way the school does it is not that relevant.</p>