Your school’s benchmark GPA will be different from other schools, so what does it matter what any other school’s benchmark GPA is set at but your own. Ask your GC.
How UC determines schools’ historic GPAs
Since the inception of the ELC program, participating schools have submitted transcripts for the top 12.5 percent (15 percent beginning in 2011) of their students, with parental permission. Using this information, we have established a historic, or benchmark, GPA representing the expected GPA for the top 9 percent of the students from each school.
Schools are periodically requested to submit transcripts so that we can monitor — and reset, if necessary — their benchmark GPA.