Need help with UC GPA calculation

Yankeedoodles
Fri, 02 Nov 2012 15:06:13 +0000

Can someone help me calculate my daughter’s UC GPA. As you may know, for GPA calculation, they consider:
a) courses taken in 10th and 11th grade only,
b) UC a-g courses only, and
c) they give extra weight to honors and AP courses to the maximum of 8 semester worth only.

Also, is it true that all UC campuses have their own way of calculating GPA i.e. UC Berkeley may calculate GPA differently than how UCLA calculates applicants’ high school GPA … and they all reach a different conclusion?

Here are her stats:

Courses taken at a local college during 10th grade summer:

World History 1 - A
World history 2 - A

Courses taken at her high school:

Course Type 1st Semester Grade 2nd Semester Grade

English 10 Honors A A
Spanish A A
Algebra II Honors B B
US History AP A A
Biology AP B A
Chemistry AP C B

Courses taken at local college during 11th grade summer:

Drawing - A
Photography - A

Courses taken at her high school:

Course Type 1st Semester Grade 2nd Semester Grade

English Lang AP A A
Spanish 5 AP B A
US Govt AP A A
Pre Calc/Calc A Honors B B
Marine Biology Honors A A

She wants to apply to both UCLA and UC Berkeley. I was looking at UCB’s last year’s freshman admission profile - Average unweighted GPA 3.89 and average weighted GPA of 4.36 for last year’s incoming class. Mid 50% ACT score: 28-33. Wow! This does not look very promising for my daughter.

While we are at that, she has 31 on ACT and she just retook it this past month hoping to do better. She has taken 8 APs so far (with all 4s and one 5) and will have 13 APs by the time she graduates high school.

Looking at the numbers, do you guys think she might make the cut?

Thanks.