@lkg4answers , regarding your post #1368 dated 03/20, undoubtedly, UCLA and the UCs – along with numerous other colleges & universities --only count 10th & 11th grades, and these calculations are what UCLA and UCB present on their Common Data Sets. It appears that UCSC computes uwgpa, but the other UCs don’t produce a CDS or they include UC or fully weighted gpa.
In addition, plusses and minuses are elided from the calculation. I remember conversing with a student on YT who had a good handful of A- grades and only one or two B+ grades, and I said that he should be thankful that his teachers gave him the benefit of the doubt in giving him the bumped up grades. Talking with the teacher could help in certain instances. But the UC figures that the plusses will cancel out the minuses and vice versa.
Because of these elevated-gpa factors, UCLA reported the following in its last two submitted CDSs:
| 2020-21 CDS | ||
|---|---|---|
| C11 Data | % w/Str-A, 4.0 Ave. | 47.3% |
| C12 Data | Ave. UWGPA | 3.90 |
| C12 Data | % Reporting | 98.70% |
| 2021-22 CDS | ||
| C11 Data | % w/Str-A, 4.0 Ave. | 55.4% |
| C12 Data | Ave. UWGPA | 3.92 |
| C12 Data | % Reporting | 99.90% |
Additionally, it’d be hard to produce a timely CDS with senior grades included, including recalculating, because most colleges that produce the data sets do so by the end of a calendar year. So they just give conditions for students to maintain their admission status, and monitor their senior grades, as well as their having looked at freshman grades also. But the elevated courses are generally not taken in frosh years.
The 3.90 & 3.92 averages are verifiable for UCLA with the various tiers of gpa including those from the second tier which would be range of 3.75-3.99 and straight down the list along with their percentages.
The vast majority of colleges don’t compute C11 & C12 data or they don’t do it correctly by also posting some sort of weighted gpas, but a couple which did present them were, e.g., Stanford with 3.96 average gpa, with 75.1% with 4.0s, but with only 58.4% reporting, and Princeton with 3.93 average with 60.99% with 4.0s, with 99.15% reporting.
I believe that UCLA doesn’t include International students but only domestic ones because a conversion to an X.XX form would be impossible for them.