It seems to make no sense which classes are weighted and which are not. There’s a page sopmewhere on the UC website where you can enter your high school name and it will tell you which classes are weighted.
In any case it’s all done now since the UCs don’t look at senior year grades, so I’m not going to try to figure out how they arrived at the result – it is what it is.
Yeah, most classes available to sophomores at her school were not weighted. So little we can do about it. And she’s only applying to capped schools so 8 is max anyways.
@VickiSoCal - yes all 4 courses (10th) are tagged as UC honors classes.
No academic summer camps although so many programs are available locally (and I, unlike most parents/families, am aware of them due to my profession.) sigh. ~X(
Someone needs to write an app for calculating this UC GPA thing, or maybe someone has already.
Of course, I kept thinking the same thing as I wandered around my college reunion, missing events that would have been interesting to attend, if someone had only created an app to notify me of the events—and one that included a map because I got lost trying to find buildings that had not been there 30 years earlier.
Massive segue—when I told my son that I had been cleaning out his college email account (he set it up on my computer and has all emails go to Archive on his computer so as not to clutter his inbox)…he asked why I bothered. I explained that colleges might track who clicks through. He opened an email, looked up a couple of lines of code, announced that indeed Constant Contact was capturing click through info, and then wondered if he should write an app to click through emails of schools in which he was interested. I have not observed any action on that front yet but it is not as though I would actually know what that would look like.
Wow. Our sophomore classes are not, for the most part, uc weighted. I was told it was because a school can only designate a certain number of courses as weighted and they used v them up on the 11/12th grade courses.
@mtrosemon can much merit aid be gotten there my son’s friend goes there and speaks highly of it I guess he just got in.
@CT1417 Someone has: https://rogerhub.com/gpa-calculator-uc/ 
To see which classes at your high school are UC/CSU approved and which get the honors bump, go to: https://hs-articulation.ucop.edu/agcourselist#/list/search/institution?f=institutionTypeName%7CSchool%3B Pre-Calc H is approved as a UC honors class at our HS.
PreCalcH is now a new approved weighted course at the kids’ school. It was not in 2014-2015. So her sister will get the bump and she did not. How’s that for being dissed!?
@lkg4answers —that’s excellent! Now if someone can just get to work on that Reunion app before I return for the next reunion…
I am not a huge user of apps but when I do stumble upon a really useful one, I immediately wonder why everything has not been optimized this way.
Ha, I just looked at the approved course list for my kids’ high school, and IB Physics (reputedly a very tough class) is not given extra points but IB Biology is. :-??
Like I said, some of them are puzzling indeed.
Constant contact generated emails are data goldmines. Whoever has access on the sending side has pretty all information in terms of who opened, when and what percentage opened a specific email. So if you keep opening emails, they can keep narrowing who they send emails to. 
@texaspg --I just suggested that if he did write a program to click through to demonstrate interest, that he not upload it as part of MIT’s app.
Yes, I do some mailings through Constant Contact, and it is reasonable for that. MailChimp is even better for sorting through all the click data for your mailing list. I don’t have access to DS’ email to see what most colleges are using.
Having used both, as well as iContact I find MailChimps reporting by far the best.
I am quite sure all of the college marketing emails are both open and click tracked.
Our school doesn’t exist for look up the the UC link but it seems to only cover CA high schools.
LOL, I go away for a few hours and you folks hold a graduate seminar in UC GPA calculation. =))
The rest of you must think we are crazy. 8-} And, yes, the UC system does evaluate basically every academic and arts course at every high school (public and private), community college, online school accredited in California. That’s more than 3000 schools. They put the results for whether a course is honors and which a-g category it meets in that hs-articulation.ucop.edu database and in the UC application course selection drop-downs.
Even with all that detail, I’m still not sure what DS’ UC GPA is, because it’s not clear whether dual-enrollment classes taken on a college campus count as 1 semester or 2. His HS says 1 semester except in the case of history and some foreign language classes. The UC admissions support email people have told me it’s always 2 semesters, even for 6-week summer sessions, if you can believe it.
So, DS has somewhere between 26 and 32 semesters from 10th and 11th depending on whether you count community college and UC classes as 1 or 2 semesters. And, his capped UC GPA is somewhere between 4.19 and 4.23, with the lower GPA if college classes count as 2 semesters. Even if everything were honors and As, the capped GPA goes down if you take more classes and the uncapped GPA goes up with more classes.
Luckily, I think he can just select the classes from the drop-down lists and the UC system figures out the GPAs they need.
@Mommertons We ordered a rescore as well, maybe 2 weeks ago. Don’t even think they have cashed the check, but I will have to look.
No summer programs here. Just college tours, working and a “nose job”! My DD had a deviated septum, so she had that fixed last week along with the bump on her nose:)
State of CA just needs a BOD.
I thought I over-analyzed!
Sharing this article on ACT cheating overseas - facilitating by ACT arm:
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2016/07/26/cheating-found-act-owned-preparatory-program?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=c7c35543a4-DNU20160726&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-c7c35543a4-198194745
Investigative piece is here:
http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/college-cheating-act/
Both of my kids are ACTers. total UGH! I know there has been SAT cheating too. Who know how widespread all the cheating is and we know some tests are recycled etc - really hard to invest lots of kids’ time to prep for these compromised tests of questionable value re “college readiness”.
Summer programs for DS17- SIG at a few colleges over 3 years; National Computer Camp (Fairfield CT) - several programming languages, Stanford Engineering Institute, taking physics this summer at local college.