What kind of statistics do you need to have a good chance of being accepted at UCB? For instance, what do you need a your unweighted GPA, UC GPA, ACT score, SAT score, ECs, etc.?
Does your school subscribe to Naviance? Look at the historical stats of the kids from your school who were admitted.
Take a look at the admitted student profile:
http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/campuses/berkeley/freshman-profile/
These stats also include the local area high schools that have commitments with Berkeley.
Their averages are roughly 3.9 unweighted, 4.4 weighted, and 2100 SAT.
@goldenbear2020 is the weighted according to UC’s GPA weight system or your HS’s weight system?
That’s according to the UC GPA definition, not your school’s.
@goldenbear2020 @Gumbymom it’s extremely hard to get 4.4 UC GPA though then right? Because even if you have lets say, 36 A’s, 0 B’s, 0 C’s, 0 D’s, 0 F’s, and 8 AP courses, you’d still only have a 4.22…
4.4 UC GPA is only possible if you minimize the number of overall classes you take, which does’t help much with rigor. So, if in 10th and 11th you take 5 a-g classes only and get 8 semester honors credits, that’s a 4.4. So, 4.4 can’t be the average UC capped GPA. It has to be the average uncapped weighted GPA, which UCB and UCLA also look at.
Won’t out of state students’ GPAs tend to be lower then since regular honors classes don’t count as UC approved?
If they take a total of 4 APs during 10th and 11th grade that would cover the 8 semesters for capped GPA.
Regular honors classes in CA usually don’t count as honors for UC. The usual exception is Precalculus and occasionally a 3rd year honors foreign language, though there are sometimes other granted honors. Something like “Honors English 10” or “Honors Chemistry” rarely would count as honors in California. I just checked, and a CA HS that offers math through Differential Equations does not get honors credit for any math other than Precalculus and the usual AP math classes.