Which is better? Most rigorous or higher GPA?

theloniusmonk
Thu, 28 Nov 2019 18:10:48 +0000

“There is little doubt that Berkeley and other UC admissions have holistic admissions.”

Again, I never said they didn’t use holistic recall - my comment above that “there is some holistic element to their process since they have to weed out the kids that make it past gpa/scores/course rigor review.”

“22. 3.78 UW GPA, 4.5 W GPA, 1.5 Read score
25. 3.9 UW GPA, 4.54 W GPA, 3 Read score”

Ok but both of those were admitted. There were 15 applicants who had uw gpa of less than 3.5, 13 had some kind of rigor because their weighted gpa were, in some cases a lot higher. All 15 were rejected because they were starting at too low a gpa for the honors/ap courses to make up. Kids that have a 3.9uw with many rigorous classes are admitted, that’s been known for a while. I"m not really sure how useful this study is as they don’t analyze the kids with 3.9 who have a 4.0 or 4.1 weighted.

The representative applicants that prove my point are these:

3.65 4.03
3.66 4.08
3.67 4.03

3.70 4.03

These had lower gpas but some rigor, their weighted gpas jumped by .35, three were rejected, one’s app was pushed to the spring to re-evaluate. The report also goes on to say: “The students with perfect 4.0 GPAs get special attention from readers”. It doesn’t say 4.0s with 10 APs.

And the ELC being expanded from top-4% to 9% meaning that of the 400K hs grads in CA, 36K are guaranteed admission totally changes the analysis from 2005.

“lower GPA in harder classes”

The issue here what is considered lower GPA, in the 2005 UCB report, it looked anything less than 3.5 was considered lower, today it’s probably 3.75.