UCF GPA calculation on SPARK for first year admission

NotForEveryone
Wed, 25 Sep 2024 07:18:16 +0000

Every school district decides how to award grades…but ALL of the Fla universities use their own weighting scale. That is to ensure fairness. In some states, students can have a GPA higher than 6!

Florida only allows your district to offer specific courses (can be found on the CPALMS website). Only a couple of specific Secondary courses are titled “Gifted” (no “Talented”). You can ask your guidance office what the actual course code is. Most likely UCF will interpret it as “Honors”.

Remember that ONLY CORE classes are considered for the GPA portion. So if the gifted class is an elective, it won’t be used in GPA calculation.

Now, if you are at a private school, you will likely need something written from the school claiming that it is the same level as an AP class - not easy to prove.