If I take a UC/CSU approves course at my highschool and receive a B but then I take it outside of school the next year, a highscool program at BYU for example, and receive an A, how would a UC/CSU college determine my GPA or the course credit for that class. Thanks!!
For the UC application, you would have to list both grades on the application with your HS listed and the course and BYU listed and the course. UC’s will accept repeat course grades for D’s and F’s. Repeating a course with B grade will be considered grade grubbing and not a good look for your application.
CSU’s will only allow you replace a D or F grade but not a B grade. If you repeat with BYU, since it is not retaken at the HS or same school district but on-line, you will have to report both grades, courses and providers.
Keep in mind that Cal State Apply defines repeated courses as the exact same course with the exact same course title taken at the same school or school district at a later time.
Thank you so much!
Do you know if taking a course outside your highschool institution counts for your GPA if it is UC/CSU approved or what the process of calculating it looks like?
If the course and provider are UC/CSU approved, fulfills the UC/CSU GPA requirements and taken the summer after 9th grade through the summer prior to 12th grade, they will be included in the UC/CSU GPA calculation.
Thank you, this is so helpful!
By any chance do you know how colleges evaluate community college courses? I heard that it is evaluated differently depending on the difficulty of a course. How would a course like Multi-Variable Calculus weigh into credit or GPA?
The UC’s will calculate the CC courses into their GPA and give 1 extra Honors point as long as it is taken in 10-11th grades.
The CSU’s will vary and something that needs to be confirmed from each individual campus. I know that SJSU does not use CC courses to calculate their impaction index for admission. A parent posted that CSULB does not give CC courses the extra weighting so each CSU campus may handle the CC classes differently.
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Thank you! Do you know how colleges in general weigh courses taken at other institutions that are not your highscool, like BYU or UC Scout?
If the on-line Providers are UC approved like UC Scout and BYU and the courses are AP designated, then the Cal states and UC’s would weight them as Honors courses.
Seems that such varying calculations by campus differ from the CSU systemwide calculation shown at GPA Calculator | CSU , which says that college courses are given honors points (but only up to 8 honors points total can be included, so if the student already has 8 from high school honors or AP courses, the college courses will not add more honors points). CSU also counts a semester college course as two semesters and two grades when including in HS GPA recalculation.
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Very true. I do know that SJSU admissions stated they only use the HS CSU GPA calculated on the CSU application for their Impaction Thresholds but yes if a student has 8 Honors points from other eligible HS courses, then the CC/DE courses will not be used in the GPA calculation due to the cap.
When calculating their UC GPA, will they only consider the highest grade of the repeated course? Also, can an F in an AP precalc be replaced by the grade earned in the regular precalc for Cal State applications?
Thanks
For the UC’s, although you have to report the original and repeat course grade, the higher grade will be used in the UC GPA calculation.
For both the CSU’s and UC’s, a regular course cannot replace the grade for an AP course. To replace the grade, it has to be an AP Pre-calc course. If both courses are taken (AP and regular) then the regular course grade and the original AP grade will have to be reported on both the UC and CSU application as separate courses/grades.
When doing courses outside your school, do UCs use the course grade twice into the GPA (per semester) or as a single credit.
@Nemorie are you a CA resident studying at a CA high school? If so, have you asked your school counselor any of these questions?
Can you clarify your question? What type of course? Is this a repeat course or a new course? If it is a semester course, you report it as a semester course with 1 grade. If it is a yearlong course with 2 grades, you report it as a 2 semester’s with both grades.
If it is a college course on a semester system, then you report 1 course with 1 grade for the UC application. For the CSU’s, 1 college semester course gets reported and the grade is entered twice on the CSU application.
I have but my school counselor is not available during the summer
It’s is a new course. Thank you so much!!
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What if the student takes a new 2 semester course from UC Scout? Is that also calculated as two semesters and 2 grades?
It depends if they are yearlong classes or semester classes?
The bottom of the first page of https://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/counselors/_files/documents/csu-uc-a-g-comparison-matrix.pdf shows how CSU and UC handle repeated courses for frosh admission.
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