GPA for students admitted at CAL

Ektaylor
Mon, 05 Nov 2007 01:21:22 +0000

“The GPA is one thing that the school looks at, and obviously some schools are going to prefer a higher GPA on average, but it doesn’t benefit you the slightest bit to know what this GPA is. There is no way to use the average to accurately predict your chances of being accepted, so the only purpose it serves is an emotional one: it makes you feel good if you’re above it and bad if you’re below it. If your GPA is substantially lower then the average, it could indicate that applying wouldn’t be worth it, but there’s no way to know that for certain. And the averages for the UCs are similiar enough that an individual school’s average isn’t relevant.”

I am not asserting that basing your entire opinion upon the GPA of a past accepted applicant is viable, what I said was that to know the trend GPA of accepted applicants can provide useful insight into the admissions process. And the average GPA at individual UCs vary greatly, even between UCB and UCLA there are differences; the UCs’ admissions process is no way uniform.