status of CA publics

drax12
Fri, 28 Oct 2011 21:11:56 +0000

Minimum high school GPA (calculated by UC/CSU specifications) for UC eligibility is [1]3.0 for in-state, [2]3.4 for out-of-state. However, this is largely irrelevant to the most selective UCs, including Berkeley and Los Angeles.
University of California - Admission requirements

[3]Some more information about how UC applications are reviewed:
University of California - How applications are reviewed

[4]And UC campus admission profiles:
University of California - Freshman admission profiles



I labeled some things from 1-4:

1) Should have accompanying scores for a combined index total, unless UC is changing things again – cannot link, which it might be wrt SATII scores which are no longer included in this index total.

2) I think this is just a flat UC gpa without consideration of scores in minimum qualification.

3) Sorry, but this is nonsense – nothing against you for linking … but more how UC words things.

Each UC has different criteria. For Cal and UCLA, UW UC gpa and fully weighted UC gpa are the most important; the ‘UC gpa’ part in this is just noting 10-11, a-g as opposed to all courses, but both UCLA and Cal will look at all grades and note individual course grades. Rejection to one or the other could occur because of bad-mediocre grades in just one key course.

The others including SD might weigh staight UC gpa (along with it being capped at eight weighted courses) as most important.

4) This is just the admitted classes to each UC, not the final enrolled classes. And the gpa reported is for each is (capped) UC gpa. UC websites always report UC gpa.

So for SD, since it has a yield of ~ 20%, this would significantly lower the gpa and scores reported at this link.

Also, I don’t think this link provides info on spring admits which SD and Cal both have.