<p>I’m a junior in high school right now, looking at UC Berkeley. Is there anything special about the admission process that might differ from other schools? I know all UC’s only look at sophomore and junior year, anything else of interest?</p>
<p>They don’t take letters of recommendation. They typically don’t ask for first semester senior grades.</p>
<p>I keep hearing about the UC GPA? How is it different from a regular GPA?</p>
<p>it weights certain honors and ap classes.
so instead of a 4.0 you could get a 5.0 for a class. It’s just like a weighted GPA, but because many schools weight grades differently, it sort of standardizes it. I think someone else should answer this question more clearly since I suck at explaining things >.<</p>
<p>I’m not sure if you know this but, UCs have their own online/paper application and don’t use the common app which many privates do. The application is available starting Oct. 1 and the deadline is normally the end of November which means its due a month earlier than most of your other privates on Jan 1. The essay prompts are usually the same ever year, but differ from the ones I wrote for my other colleges, so it would be a good idea to look at them and get a good idea of what you are going to write, before the October. </p>
<p>I was never too clear on the whole UC GPA/ regular GPA but here’s the website that contains how many points each class is awarded depending on your school</p>
<p><a href=“https://doorways.ucop.edu/list/servlet.jsf;jsessionid=9FDD3BAFD11B2AC5E6BF886943C3FCAB?_flowExecutionKey=_cBD5EA224-BB16-7481-9C48-6664DDF69ED1_kDC7939CB-98C3-C55D-8288-93D4CCD1855E[/url]”>https://doorways.ucop.edu/list/servlet.jsf;jsessionid=9FDD3BAFD11B2AC5E6BF886943C3FCAB?_flowExecutionKey=_cBD5EA224-BB16-7481-9C48-6664DDF69ED1_kDC7939CB-98C3-C55D-8288-93D4CCD1855E</a></p>
<p>What I do know is that UCs have a certain requirement that you have to fulfill and that certain classes are given different weights depending on what your school offers. This website has more info about it</p>
<p>[University</a> of California - a-g Guide](<a href=“http://www.ucop.edu/a-gGuide/ag/welcome.html]University”>http://www.ucop.edu/a-gGuide/ag/welcome.html)</p>